Sentences with phrase «second act did»

The second Act does away with the water in the stage and turns it into a gel.

Not exact matches

For now, MacMillan seems to be enjoying his second lease on professional life: he may be pursuing a grand vision of the future of digital media, but he doesn't act like a guy in a hurry.

But second acts by corporate leaders don't always work.

Second, there's the «in advance» part, suggesting that not only is the thanks for something you're going to do in the future, but also that it's a foregone conclusion that your next act will be to earn the gratitude of the email's sender.

Ultimately, second acts can and do happen — and they come when one least expects them.

It could be just enough to «turn off the sequester,» the second tranche of across - the - board cuts that will take effect in mid-January if Congress doesn't act, says Steve Bell, a former staff director of the Senate Budget Committee now at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

In a teaser trailer debuting Wednesday, Dos Equis gives customers a first glimpse at the second act, replacing its older, gray - bearded icon with more of a rugged, James Bond-esque character.

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 now - endangered fiduciary rule is based on a simple — and seemingly unarguable — principle: that in giving advice to clients with retirement funds, stockbrokers, registered investment advisers and insurance agents must act in the best interests of their clients... It simply doesn't seem like a good business practice for Wall Street to tell its client - investors, «We put your interests second, after our firm's, but it's close.»

RE the second point: if someone can explain to me how the Futures Market (which is cash settled) will affect the actual Market Ill stand corrected on that point... having said all this I do believe BTC is overvalued on a «fundamental» basis because there has not been enough adoption and the transaction cost is too high but it is acting more like gold 2.0 and there will have to be a better method of lowering transaction costs and increasing speed or using an alternative coin.

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.

I second the comment that if baptism for the dead is ineffective, then it is just a misguided but compassionate act of service that does no harm, and actually has played a role in the massive collection of geneologic materials around the world that everyone benefits from.

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.

So discipleship is learning the virtues of Jesus so that when the time comes that we are called to act then we can act out of our second nature to do what King Jesus tells us to do.

Second, do you think it is impossible for good to come out of the result of an evil act?

Second, in what way do I act out?

Highly significant for Christology are these two quotations from Hartshorne's The Divine Relativity10 In the first he refuses to allow «paradox» to cover up illogicality: «A theological paradox, it appears, is what a contradiction becomes when it is about God rather than something else...» In the second he applies this to the relation between God's power and our human decisions: «For God to do what I do when I decide my own act, determine my own concrete being, is mere nonsense, words without meaning.

He agreed to put in the baffling «Thor Cave» scene (which makes no more sense now than it did then) and they let him have an extended second act with the Avengers hanging out on Hawkeye's farm.

2 - 3), and whether it is apt to celebrate communion in the morning when Jesus instituted the Eucharist after supper (16.1 - 17.1), the pastor in Cyprian returns at the end of the letter to assure forgiveness to those who may have erred in good faith in the past (18.4), and requesting his people to recognise that since Christ's «second coming is now drawing near to us,» (18.4), it is incumbent upon them to act so that «He may find us upholding what He has counselled, observing what He has taught and doing what He Himself has done.»

Whether you believe in that or not, which I'm sure Jews do not, I think the Mormon Church has acted maturely and respectfully in «postponing» baptisms for deceased Holocaust victims until after Christ's Second Coming.

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.

You don't have a second act without a first and he certainly has put on a heck of a first act.

The second group reduces kingdom to redemptive power and therefore it becomes a spirituality or personal salvation or healing or a charismatic moment or a social act that breaks through with God's will or a cultural good that evokes God's will now done on earth — and like the former view — out goes Israel and the church and we lose the dynamic of the kingdom.

A second stage in the act of imagination called for has to do with our relations to those who are our ancestors and offspring in loving response to the God into whose death we Christians have been baptized.

After the Second Vatican Council, the impression arose that the pope really could do anything in liturgical matters, especially if he were acting on the mandate of an ecumenical council.

I always fall for that, and usually the second bag gets forgotten in the abyss of my freezer until the following August, at which point the berries are severely frostbitten because I didn't wrap them up properly, thinking I'd use them so quickly that the act of even freezing them would seem silly.

To alleviate this problem, the best thing to do is separate the chickpeas into two batches, puréeing one with a bit of flour and baking powder (to act as binder and leavener), and roughly chopping the second batch.

He goes into a home World Cup qualifier, lines his team up in a formation and lineup that his team didn't practice, loses that game, then loses the second game, gets fired, and when his successor can't dig out of the hole he dug them into, he has the nerve to act like everything was under control!?!?

I sometimes wonder after listening to Arsene Wegner if he was at the same game, because for him to believe that before the second goal the game was close is clearly ridiculous, he then went on to say, he doesn't understand why people are acting like we lost to a team at the bottom of the league, someone should have reminded him of the team losing to Nottingham Forest in the FA cup, really sad that the embarrassment under this delusional old man continues without anyone responsible enough to stop him.

I am not going to question Gobert's defensive instincts and act like I can second guess what the best defensive player in the league should do.

A second DM IS a good signing — but I'd prefer someone who can act as cover as opposed to actually displacing coq — someone with a bit more passing scope would be nice but honestly in the games we NEED a DM, we probably don't need our deep lying player making inch perfect passes either.

Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend, like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it like he sees it... much like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden by simply changing the formation or bringing in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly believe that either they don't know how to proceed in the present economic climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest assets... it's time to get things right!!!

But it is also about what Wenger does next, and whether he can show that there is a second act to a great life so far.

And I don't doubt that some women have been inspired by the «Eat, Pray, Love» life or, what AskMen calls the Second - Act Syndrome: After raising a family and tending to the home and baking brownies for the Boy Scout fundraiser and volunteering to drive on who - knows - how - many field trips while doing paid or non-paid work (and, yes, being a stay - at - home parent is work), it's finally «me» time.

Thankfully, I did a lot of intensive work to understand what I did to contribute to the demise of my second marriage, and I learned how to act differently although it's a work in progress.

The second function is to assist the child into the adult toilet; to be able to do that, the potty acts as step stool for kids.

Baby monitors act like your second pair of eyes which lets you do your chores and do other things while still making sure that your baby is safe.

around midnight i began to question my decision to have a home birth, & maria was getting tired... she called in a second midwife for support & my doula arrived from another birth... i was afraid of the power - i hadn't felt it like this in kayenn's birth... i was afraid that i would come apart - even though i had to - i know now that coming apart is a part of the process... someplace in the middle of this birth i realized that i did not know how to do this - i was acting against the birth process - literally & emotionally... i had a mental idea of what it should look, sound, smell, be like... after some hours maria checked me again, i had been at 9 cm for 4 hours... she said to me, «some babies can come through at 9 cm, but yours will not, sokhna... sokhna, you are going to have to fight to bring this baby out... go into the bathroom, get in the shower & work it out... «so i did... i went in the cold bathroom alone & remembered every cold detail of kayenn's birth... i wondered if i could get to the hospital on time to have an emergency c - section & i began to cry... & as i cried i had to go to the bathroom - i sat on the toilet & the rushes came down like nothing i can explain - but they didn't hurt - it was just POWER!

Thankfully, I did a lot of intensive work to understand the role I played in the demise of my second marriage, and I learned how to act differently although it's a work in progress.

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.

However, you don't need to be acting as a mother every second of the day.

When my second child was born I started photographing my favorites, then throwing them away outside in the dark of night so my kids don't catch me in the act and throw a fit.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday threw out the 2015 conviction of former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on honest services fraud because the charge to the jury did not comport with the Supreme Court's 2016 decision in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, which narrowed the definition of an «official act.»

«We were just joking in our office that everyone on the second floor should resign and become a volunteer paid by the campaign, because we don't know of any laws that prohibit volunteers from acting on behalf of an elected official,» said John Kaehny, executive director of good government group Reinvent Albany.

A spokesman for Acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim declined to comment on the request, as did Second Circuit Executive Karen Greve Milton.

The Speaker can not vote in a division in the House unless the numbers are equal, and then he or she has a casting vote.146 The provision for a casting vote also applies to Members deputising for or acting in the position of Speaker (that is, Deputy Speaker or Second Deputy Speaker, or another Member as Acting Speaker).147 The provision for a casting vote does not apply to members of the Speaker's panel in the Chair, unless specifically appointed by resolution of the House as Acting Speaker, as it has been considered that the standing orders providing for the nomination and duties of the members of the Speaker's panel do not fulfil the requirements of s. 36 of the Constitution, which refers to the House choosing a Member to perform the duties of an absent Speakacting in the position of Speaker (that is, Deputy Speaker or Second Deputy Speaker, or another Member as Acting Speaker).147 The provision for a casting vote does not apply to members of the Speaker's panel in the Chair, unless specifically appointed by resolution of the House as Acting Speaker, as it has been considered that the standing orders providing for the nomination and duties of the members of the Speaker's panel do not fulfil the requirements of s. 36 of the Constitution, which refers to the House choosing a Member to perform the duties of an absent SpeakActing Speaker).147 The provision for a casting vote does not apply to members of the Speaker's panel in the Chair, unless specifically appointed by resolution of the House as Acting Speaker, as it has been considered that the standing orders providing for the nomination and duties of the members of the Speaker's panel do not fulfil the requirements of s. 36 of the Constitution, which refers to the House choosing a Member to perform the duties of an absent SpeakActing Speaker, as it has been considered that the standing orders providing for the nomination and duties of the members of the Speaker's panel do not fulfil the requirements of s. 36 of the Constitution, which refers to the House choosing a Member to perform the duties of an absent Speaker.148

The Speaker is a Member of the House and upon election to office becomes its principal officer.6 He or she is supported and assisted by the elected Deputy Speaker and Second Deputy Speaker who act as Speaker in the Speaker's absence and relieve in the Chair as Deputy Speaker whenever requested to do so.

For the second time in two years, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has raised the specter of a Moreland Act commission in hopes of scaring people into doing his bidding.

«The SAFE Act has done little to keep Western New Yorkers safe and has taken away the Second Amendment rights of law abiding citizens,» Collins spokesperson Sarah Minkel said in a statement responding to our findings.

Mr. Cuomo did not appoint anyone to become district attorney; the role of acting district attorney is being filled by her former second - in - command, Madeline Singas — despite there being considerably more time left in the term Ms. Rice vacated.