Sentences with phrase «second act as»

And then, even if her second act as president was to open up every single viable region around the nation, all of Alaska's coastline, the entire Gulf of Mexico, and so on, she'd still only manage to bring the price of gas down a few more cents per gallon — and that's after a few years of exploration, development, and distribution.

Has he lost his way as a painter, or discovered an important second act as a sculptor?

Pollan himself has had a major second act as a life coach, following a stressful corporate career which ended with the good news that he had tuberculosis.

McCourt's long - awaited book about how his thirty - year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer.

Now, here at last, is McCourt's long - awaited book about how his thirty - year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer.

Hart's War spends its second act as a fairly conventional prison camp / courtroom intrigue complete with surprise witnesses, stunning reveals of new evidence, and heated soliloquies protesting innocence and corruption.

The story becomes a little more engaging in the second act as two interrelated mysteries take shape, but the story careens wildly off the rails in the third act.

The only real standouts are Bill Nighy, who appears during the film's second act as Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths and sculptors, and Pike, whose cuteness makes up for the lack of chemistry with her male co-stars.

A little more than a year into his second act as the leader of the largest police force in America, Bill Bratton is just coming off a season in which he was forced to watch the profession he loves endure a nightmare.

If you read Marie Kondo's first book, The Life - Changing Magic of Tidying Up, and you are reading this parenting blog, you probably have as little appetite for Kondo's second act as I do.

Second you act as though you are a know it all yet you have nothing to substantiate your own belief that there is no God.

The second acts as the final proofreader / editor of my Kindle books.

Not exact matches

The second type of threat is from traditional acts of crime or terrorism, such as bombing or sabotage.

When he retired and sold his two practices, his daughters, Whitney and Mary Alison, convinced him to look into franchising as a second act.

Well, that brings up the second surprise: The presence of armed guards tends to dramatically increase the likelihood of violence and injury during a robbery, as the Center for Investigative Reporting found when it analyzed detailed FBI crime incident reports from 2007 to 2011 — which the group got through a Freedom of Information Act request.

As the Supreme Court gets ready in June to rule on the issue for the second time in two years, conservative states have rushed to enact so - called Religious Freedom Reformation Act (RFRA) laws that would allow businesses to object on religious grounds to serving LGBT people and same - sex couples.

«I am pleased to announce that I intend to nominate highly respected Admiral Ronny L. Jackson, MD, as the new Secretary of Veterans Affairs,» Trump tweeted, adding in a second tweet, «In the interim, Hon. Robert Wilkie of DOD will serve as Acting Secretary.

Second, insofar as the sequester is acting as a cap on overall economic growth, it is, in some measure, putting a lid on private sector hiring as well.

One of Chris Christie's last acts as governor was to approve tax incentives that could total about $ 7 billion if Amazon decides to put its second headquarters in Newark.

Although I expect business fixed investment to begin to grow again in the second half, it will likely remain soft as profits have stagnated and election year uncertainty could act as an additional depressant.

As Wall Street nervously awaited a second vote four days later, he acknowledged that many Americans could lose their jobs and homes if Congress didn't act.

The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2018, subject to receipt of required gaming approvals, termination of the waiting period under the Hart - Scott - Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, and other customary closing conditions.

Similarly, as we expect Apple to launch a larger 12.9» iPad, it would offer an enhanced viewing experience for an Apple pay tv service, or act an improved «second screen» to an Apple UltraHD television.

And the second, to which the SEC made reference in its DAO paper as well, is Section 5 of the Securities Act, which states

Brexit (as the act of Britain leaving the EU is commonly referred) is non-binding, so some people are pushing for a second referendum.

Today these P2SH scripts are 2 of 2 multi-sig scripts with Abra acting as the second signature.

As part of the company's quest to change, Gurley led the search for a COO to act as a steady second - in - command to KalanicAs part of the company's quest to change, Gurley led the search for a COO to act as a steady second - in - command to Kalanicas a steady second - in - command to Kalanick.

This represents NEC's second affiliation with North Sky Capital having acted as a manager to North Sky's $ 207 million Alliance Fund I in 2012.

As previously mentioned, we do not expect either of those second - round effects to fully materialise but the case remains for the ECB to act pre-emptively.

They later defended their participation in his death as an act of love, telling the media that their son «was not prepared to live what he felt was a second - class existence.»

All religions for obvious reason (male domination) shows extreme hatered for females with islam as the center of these haters, but christainity is only second due to strong men such as Aams, Franklin, handcock, Jefferson and Washington acting with reasoning in creating the declaration of independence that created this country.

If someone acts as if they have the final say about you «getting to heaven,» remember first that «getting to heaven» isn't even the point of Christian faith, and second, that anybody using a carrot on a stick to manipulate your behaviors doesn't follow the God who gives grace with crazy generosity.

No longer is it 11:00 a.m. as it is in the «serious» world, but it is the third round, the fourth act, or the second kiss.

Second, many associate «faith» indissolubly with «God» and hence can not understand the denial of God as an act of faith.

The first part depicts the father as acting completely contrary to the expectations of the hearers; the second part brings their (from their point of view) legitimate protest to expression through the elder son.

Because they were thinking and acting as Republicans or Democrats first and Mormons second.

The second important episode in the present arrangement of the narratives, following immediately upon the account of, Abraham's call, response and consequent journey to Canaan, shows the great Patriarch, who has just acted with exemplary faith, behaving as if the divine promise had never occurred at all.

On Apel's account, these rights articulate the valid meaning that can be given to the second formulation of Kant's categorical imperative: «So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only» (46).

That celebration is a bit premature — though as Justice Scalia feared in his dissent from the Court's invalidation of the Defense of Marriage Act's definition of marriage, the second shoe may indeed drop shortly.

Whereas BAIPA protects the right to life of the child who survives an abortion, the Pennsylvania act protects the child who could survive an abortion, making it criminal in most cases to abort the child and, where an abortion is permissible within narrow limits, requiring doctors to treat the child as a second patient who should be brought into the world alive and unharmed if possible.

And the specific act that self - perfects — that secures the First Good — is the choice of the Second Good as the reason for specific behavior.

Locke — the first philosopher of liberalism — on the one hand acknowledges in his Second Treatise on Government that the duties of parents to raise children and the corresponding duties of children to obey springs from the commandment to «honor thy father and thy mother,» but further claims that every child must ultimately subject his inheritance to the logic of consent beginning in a version of the state of nature, in which we act as autonomous choosing individuals.

Theology is the «second act,» which Gutiérrez defines as «critical reflection on praxis in the light of the Word of God.»

Those who are looking for the insidious presence of Karl Marx as normative for the «second act» will look in vain; he is not cited even once.

The second, insofar as it springs from no willful or deliberate act, seemed to him not a moral matter but an inescapable feature of all societies and of nature itself.

The first act as well as the third of the great drama takes place «in the heavenlies,» but the second takes place upon the earth and partakes fully of the character of the earthly.

Second, the rigidity of his hierarchy as an ontological plan for creation might sometimes lend itself to the idea that the Incarnation of the eternal Word was superfluous — all grace flows naturally through the ranks, from the divine Word at the peak on down to the faithful: the Incarnation of the Logos does act as a theophany — arevelation of God — but it seems hardly necessary for salvation.

The importance of the second and third issues is obvious for decisions about a written constitution, which later was interpreted as involving judicial review of acts of Congress, and for a federal union of states having partial autonomy under a national government.

This is indispensable if there is to be knowledge of the physical, as the history of philosophy of the last three centuries has made clear.10 The second is that mental acting is required by the physical in the process of physical acting.

The story is a precisely ordered piece, with each of its six creative acts rounded out with the same refrain: and there was evening, and there was morning, one day, a second day, a third day, etc. (in ancient Israel as in the practice of Judaism now the course of a day is marked from evening to evening).