Sentences with phrase «start each of our meetings in»

Each week, there is a passage given for Lectio Divina, and so we now start each of our meetings in this way.

So we are in the situation where councils hold prayers at the start of their meetings in England, but not in Wales.

Not exact matches

When Bob Goodson first walked into the San Francisco space that would become the offices of Quid, the text - and data - analytics start - up he co-founded in 2010, he was met with a blank canvas.

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. met in 1997 on the set of «I Know What You Did Last Summer «but didn't start dating until 2000.

The report also points out that Dreamers start businesses at more than twice the rate of the general population, in large part because they are used to making ends meet without help from the government.

It's very common that low or mid impact issues are discussed at length at the start of the meetings and key issues are rushed in the final 20 minutes of a board meeting when people are tired or in a hurry to get to the next board meeting.

Instead of obsessing about the broken printer in the kitchen, you start focusing on the great job your admin assistant just did in that all - staff meeting.

During the meeting, after pleasantries were exchanged, as I had done in many of the meetings I had and would have with foreign officials, I stated our desire for a fresh start in relations.

So, he started using more metaphors and analogies and sharing more of himself in status meetings and casual conversations.

The euro, which in the aftermath of January's meeting rose to a new three - year high, started the year surging against other currencies, including the U.S. dollar, as the region's economy improved and political risks dissipated.

The most recent estimates provided at the two - day meeting that started Tuesday suggest that up to 15 per cent of jobs in the G7 could disappear because of automation over the next two decades.

This week starts with a meeting of the world's top leaders in New York City and ends with a look at how the U.S. labor market fared in September.

I almost could have jumped on this one until I started hearing people overuse it in the most mundane of places, including talking about «pivoting to the next meeting topic.»

Officials from the U.S. Federal Reserve meet for two days this week, starting Tuesday, to discuss fiscal policy and the trajectory of the U.S. economy in the wake of a weak employment report for the month of May.

Right from the start, the founders of San Franciscobased nonprofit Social Venture Network wanted a «safe harbor» where social - activist entrepreneurs could meet to commiserate, coinvest in deals, and share best practices.

In an early staff meeting, when we first decided to start this project, I explained to the team that we wanted to build our tribe, because we truly believed that the world of books was falling behind the overall virtualization that publishing and other industries were going through.

Italian stocks fell at the start of this morning's trading, after populist parties won almost half the vote in Italy's Sunday elections, and early results suggested the country is heading for a hung parliament due to no party or coalition of parties meeting the 40 % threshold for stable governance.

Speaking in Sicily before the start of the G7 summit, Juncker — who had been in Brussels meeting with Trump — said reports of the President's conduct were exaggerated, Reuters reports.

Start by attending as many events as possible, business clubs, angel investor meet - ups, chamber of commerce events, and any event someone might be interested in your business.

In 2014, just days before the start of student - led democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong, he traveled to Beijing and met with President Xi JinpinIn 2014, just days before the start of student - led democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong, he traveled to Beijing and met with President Xi Jinpinin Hong Kong, he traveled to Beijing and met with President Xi Jinping.

She meets with a diversity of small - business owners — some well - known and others just starting out — who specialize in lifestyle and creative industries.

The survey found that people who started out with negative reactions to an airline in the first leg of a journey would change their opinion drastically if they felt their needs were met during the second leg.

French energy giant Engie SA bought the cargo to meet high gas demand during freezing weather in the northeast U.S.. Although not completely unheard of (Norway has previously sent LNG to the U.S.), this would have been the first time that the country imported a cargo from northwest European storage tanks, some of which undoubtedly came from the $ 27 billion Yamal LNG plant Russia started a month ago.

We started thinking about how the typical conference room setup — what would happen if we pulled the chairs and tables out of the room and had people hold that same kind of meeting in a non-sedentary space?

She once told me a meeting started 30 minutes later than it actually did, just to reprimand me in front of the whole room.

«If you invested in a very low - cost index fund — where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years — you'll do better than 90 percent of people who start investing at the same time,» Buffett said at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.

While men start businesses primarily for growth opportunities and profit potential, women most often found businesses in order to meet personal goals, such as gaining feelings of achievement and accomplishment.

On the issue of NAFTA negotiations, Cornyn said he and others advised Trump not to issue a notice of termination, which would start unraveling the free trade deal with Canada and Mexico, after the president suggested the action in a meeting.

You may also start to live in the future and mentally enjoy the benefits of achieving goals that are yet to be met.

A chance meeting with New York developer Stephen Ross led to the founding of The Related Group, which started off making affordable housing but today specializes in high - end condominiums.

In a cramped, cluttered conference room adjacent to Langer's office, Reynolds and Pritchard start their meeting by discussing the timeline for publishing the results of InVivo's primate studies.

In the interim I'd worked for a couple of magazines, but among them I had been the managing editor of the Village Voice, and I had met a man there named John Evans who started out as the classified - ad director, became the publisher.

On the day before Henderson was to fly to Madrid for a meeting of BCG's European vice presidents, Bain and a colleague, Patrick Graham, showed up in his office to tell him they were quitting to start a software company.

I've met twenty - somethings who are worth millions of dollars, investing in VC, starting tech companies and disrupting industries.

«Extroverted thinkers are happy to get new information in a meeting and to start making sense of it by talking through it.

In that meeting of CEOs in New York, by asking the convener of the group to start the exercise, her response gave the rest of the group permission to be vulnerablIn that meeting of CEOs in New York, by asking the convener of the group to start the exercise, her response gave the rest of the group permission to be vulnerablin New York, by asking the convener of the group to start the exercise, her response gave the rest of the group permission to be vulnerable.

In Washington, D.C., employees made the dreams of fans come true when they were able to meet the starting quarterback of their team.

If you can't donate a portion of your profits while still making ends meet, or you aren't in a position to add flesh to the bones of your skeleton team, start slowly.

The change had been a long time in the making — starting abruptly on a day in September 2006, when Jim Cornelius flew to New York City from his Indianapolis home for a meeting of Bristol's board of directors.

I'm grateful to have so quickly formed a friendship that's been so equally fun and productive, all the more for having started from a creative interaction in [where we met] that, had we not paid attention to some amount of clicking, might not have started, or even gotten to practicing storytelling in a Japanese bookstore.

Such policies might include providing more incentives for companies (both large and small) to invest in R&D and capital infrastructure, encouraging post-secondary institutions to better tailor their programming to meet market demand in terms of subjects and skills, and making Canada a more attractive country for foreign or start - up companies to invest in by deregulating industries that have no business being as regulated or as protected as they are, such as telecommunications, airlines, and broadcasting.

«Menswear is starting to develop its own legs, and we're only in the second or third inning of where it's going,» says Hil Davis, co-founder of J.Hilburn, which has brought custom - tailored clothing into the digital age, disrupting retail prices with a blend of in - person style - advisor meetings and a direct - to - consumer distribution model.

President Donald Trump delivers remarks to reporters at the start of a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, U.S., December 20, 2017.

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Bill Gates was the most public face of Microsoft, but of course the company started as a partnership with the kid Gates met one day in a group of students crowded around a teletype machine in a Seattle high school.

The rebuff comes weeks after Zuck revealed plans to visit and meet people in 30 states — a move many believed was the start of the entrepreneur's political career.

If you're just starting up and have been using out - of - pocket expenses to travel for work, you're in luck — you can deduct that time logged going to sales calls and investor meetings.

Of each graduating class, which usually comes to about 100 companies, about 10 start - ups are selected to receive an additional $ 100,000 in equity - free financing as long as they meet certain requirements and agree to keep their business in Chile for at least a year.

THE start of the month saw State Government Ministers in Derby for the fifth and last regional Cabinet meeting for this year.

Day's lessons from the coffee chain will be necessary to guide Lululemon through the second stage of growing pains in the coming years, starting with Lulu's ability to meet consumer demand for their products.