Sentences with phrase «public affection for»

Inspte of the lingering admiration for Mugabe, there is little public affection for 52 - year - old Grace, a former government typist who started having an affair with Mugabe in the early 1990s as his first wife, Sally, was dying of cancer.

Many US action heroes are surprisingly popular worldwide, so this pleases and flatters other world leaders who exploit (or pander to) public affection for the genre.

Not exact matches

This kind of public display of affection for an oil company is, shall we say, rare.

The complaints about these stories are similar to complaints about people «flaunting» their homosexuality in public by holding hands or showing affection for their partners.

Instead, let her set her own pace for public displays of affection.

It is at least plausible that events since 1992 have had the same effect on the public's image and affection for the Conservative Party as the «winter of discontent» and the internal splits had on its image of Labour 10 to 15 years ago.

His brother, Scott, a public affairs consultant, is played by Andrew Buchan.Within the series» narrative, he attempts to balance his affections for Kirsty MacKenzie (Andrea Riseborough), his intern, while trying to prevent Porter's imminent decline.

Young guys are often very nervous about public displays of affection, so make sure the setting is comfortable for him.

Nearly everyone (95 %) think that «holding a door open» on a date is romantic, 93 % say «public displays of affection» brings the heat and 82 % still think «paying for your date» is romantic.

I'm looking for that special lady that like's affection, holding hands in public.

The good news for me is that living in Toronto I'm, for the most part, in a welcoming and accepting place where I haven't had to worry too much about public displays of affection.

We can accomplish this by making our love for our partners more visible by showing public displays of affection and being unapologetically ourselves like our heterosexual counterparts have always been able to do and take for granted.

I am well Groomed, good mannered and a gentleman So if you are looking for a man who will open the door and treat you like a Lady, plan candlelight dinners, show some affection even in public, walk down the street holding your hand, cuddle on the sofa watching a good movie and having a glass of...

Marji ends up on the streets of Vienna, returns to Iran, drifts into a Prozac cloud, and unhappily marries in order to be able to show affection for her boyfriend in public.

The intimidating President Snow (Donald Sutherland) pays a personal visit to Katniss, reminding her that her for - show romance with Peeta is the only thing keeping the two of them alive, and that she had better step up their fake affection while in public.

When Helen throws an engagement party for the bride at a swank country club in Chicago, the two rivals fight for the PA microphone and continuously one - up each other's public declarations of affection for Lillian.

By now Honda's reputation for building extremely well - built, reliable and long - lasting cars was common knowledge, and sales of over 360,000 units for 1988 confirmed the public's affection for the Accord.

Clearly, any realistic plan to control community cats must recognize the magnitude of the cat population, the need to engage in continuous control efforts, and the significance of the public's affection for the cats.

She's just not one for public displays of affection.

Fund is intended to mobilize community affection for these parks and public generosity for their long - term benefit and stewardship.

Although her overall affection for nature is clear in everything she creates, Marcel is quick to recall the public reaction to the celestial animal that presided over 2008.

For instance, flicking through the tube and suddenly going back a couple channels to observe a random movie scene of a man bleeding profusely as he crawls across a factory floor, or walking through a park and noticing a young couple gazing into each other's eyes along with the inevitable public display of affection.

In a post here in May, «The Courtship of Jonathan Zittrain,» we described Dean Elena Kagan's very public display of scholarly affection for Zittrain during a conference to mark the 10th anniversary of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, which he cofounded in 1996, just one year after graduating from the law school.

Fault is irrelevant to the law of injurious affection, the usual way in which compensation is provided for damage from construction of public works.

Compensation was first allowed for those who physically lost property to the public work, whether by sale or expropriation, including for «injurious affection» to the remaining lands.

Modern law on injurious affection, the proper balance between public benefits and private costs, has been developing for nearly two centuries.

In this they seem to have fallen upon a very good expedient for their own happiness and safety; for since the good or ill condition of a nation depends so much upon their magistrates, they could not have made a better choice than by pitching on men whom no advantages can bias; for wealth is of no use to them, since they must so soon go back to their own country; and they being strangers among them, are not engaged in any of their heats or animosities; and it is certain that when public judicatories are swayed, either by avarice or partial affections, there must follow a dissolution of justice, the chief sinew of society.

Their post-Douglas affection for public schools is a sign of desperation, not commitment.