Sentences with phrase «such extraordinary people»

It's a thrill to be named alongside such extraordinary people.

«It's such an exciting time in our industry, and at FMCA, and having such extraordinary people and industry leaders on our team empowers us to set ambitious goals — and then exceed them.»

I had the pleasure of getting to know Elliot personally, starting about two years ago, when I interviewed him, about not only his scholarly accomplishments but also his extraordinary life, and his extraordinary history as such an extraordinary person.

Donna was such an extraordinary person.

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Having a number is going to make such a dramatic change in so many of the decisions you make, habits you cultivate and people you associate with that the benefits will be so extraordinary, it won't matter if the original method of getting to a number had a technical flaw or two buried in it.

Among the women who joined us in 2016: Jewel (performing and sharing her extraordinary story with us), Apple Head of Global Consumer Marketing Bozoma Saint John, Making a Murderer filmmakers Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, Uber Regional General Manager Rachel Holt, Priceline EVP of Global Operations Maelle Gavet, Facebook Head of People Lori Goler, SoulCycle CEO Melanie Whelan, Accompany CEO Amy Chang, designer Rachel Roy, Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani, Joyus CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Hearsay Social CEO Clara Shih, WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon, and Lean In lead researcher Marianne Cooper, as well as top executives from leading global companies such as Airbnb, Amazon, Coca - Cola, Google, IBM, NBCUniversal, Nike, Pandora, Target, Twitter, and Walmart.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

Paul had one of the more extraordinary spiritual experiences a person could imagine, being «caught up in the third heaven,» but he never considered praying for such a thing, and after it happened he kept it to himself.

This could happen only if the guilty person were by nature endowed with extraordinary stupidity, and presumably by shouting in antistrophic and antiphonal song every time someone persuaded him that now was the beginning of a new era and a new epoch, had howled his head so empty of its original quantum satis of common sense as to have attained a state of ineffable bliss in what might be called the howling madness of the higher lunacy, recognizable by such symptoms as convulsive shouting; a constant reiteration of the words «era,» «epoch,» «era and epoch,» «epoch and era,» «the System»; an irrational exaltation of the spirits as if each day were not merely a quadrennial leap - year day, but one of those extraordinary days that come only once in a thousand years; the concept all the while like an acrobatic clown in the current circus season, every moment performing these everlasting dog - tricks of flopping over and over, until it flops over the man himself.

We who sacrifice fabulous resources to fatten the most inhuman form of violence so that it will continue to protect us, and who pass our time in transmitting futile messages from a planet that is risking destruction to planets that are already dead» how can we have the extraordinary hypo crisy to pretend that we do not understand all those people who did such things long before us: those, for example, who made it their practice to throw a single child, or two at the most, into the furnace of a certain Moloch in order to ensure the safety of the others?

One is to be more confident of the good things that they're doing and make it clear to people who are gathered for worship what an extraordinary thing this is and how such gatherings are suffused with grace.

Looking aside from all the other problems in this justification for God's permission of evil, we can again simply note that most people led to atheism because of horrendous evils such as the Nazi holocaust do not say that God should routinely intervene but only that God should have prevented these extraordinary evils.

Perhaps it's why there are more than 32 million people living alone — a statistic some are celebrating, such as Eric Klinenburg, author of the new book «Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone.»

It is certainly an odd world we live in where the views of a decent but not extraordinary footballer such as Barton are more interesting to people than those of a potential prime minister.

And most of the people expressing such outrage at the very idea of foxhunting will then go to a café or a supermarket and actively participate in a meat industry where the most extraordinary level of suffering takes place, without for a moment considering the contradiction.

«I am privileged to welcome such a diverse group of extraordinary talent to help our Administration take on the challenge of restoring our state government and making it work for the people once again,» Cuomo said via press release.

«I am privileged to welcome such a diverse group of extraordinary talent to help our administration take on the challenge of restoring our state government and making it work for the people once again,» Cuomo said in a statement.

Aside from the arts, the food, the parks, and the neighborhoods, it is the people — hard working, down - to - earth, good, kind folks — that make Buffalo and Western New York such an extraordinary place to live.»

The stories you'll read here feature some extraordinary women whose passion for discovery, and compassion for our planet and its peoples, fuels their search for answers to difficult issues such as global climate change, famine, drought, and epidemics.

Now I have the friendship AND passion of an extraordinary man, one who wanted more but was willing to be patient and respectful until * I * was ready, and has told me he is blessed and thankful to have such a special person in his life - and I can not express how lucky * I * feel!

Sunday afternoon, President Trump tweeted an extraordinary threat — extraordinary even by the standards of Donald Trump's norm - busting use of Twitter and abusive conduct toward the Justice Department and federal investigations: «I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI / DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes — and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!»

These extraordinary people include some of the best child «performers» I've seen since the films of Truffaut, as well as a wondrous, comical Sign teacher whose everyday utterances automatically place him in the pantheon of character actors occupied by such figures as Walter Brennan, Michel Simon, and William Demarest.

Leaders, such as Fannie Lou Hamer, and major events, including the 1964 Summer Project in Mississippi, are briefly covered in this Extraordinary People series volume that chronicles the civil rights movement from 1954 to 1968.

You felt privileged that someone with such an extraordinary story would choose to confide in, of all people, you.

But will agents consider this a negative when I approach them with one of my new completed titles such as «The Joy of Being Retired: 365 Reasons Why You Will Love Retirement» or «Look Ma, Life's Easy: How Ordinary People Attain Extraordinary Results»?

Hmm... it's amusing, and extraordinary, how rapidly most people lose interest in such a dull recommendation!

The diversity of Africa is extraordinary and includes the African bush, mountains, beautiful colors, diverse tribes and people groups, exotic large animals such as Zebras and Elephants and some of the most exquisite wonders including the Egyptian pyramids.

The excavation of sites, such as those at Cuello, Cerros, Altún Ha, Xunantunich, and Lamanai, has shown the extraordinary persistence of Mayan people in Belize over many centuries.

What is the secret sauce that lets these otherwise quite ordinary people like Jiro and the tailors, lead such extraordinary lives?

Presenting the work of some 40 photographers including such influential figures as Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, Lisette Model, Alfred Stieglitz and Cindy Sherman, the exhibition features both the city and its inhabitants, from its vast, overwhelming architecture to the extraordinary diversity of its people.

It was extraordinary to be in such a barren landscape because really I'm a city person.

There are plenty of arguments in favor of such exhibits, which engage urban audiences with an extraordinary species and educate people about the threats gorillas face from deforestation, disease and poaching.

«Some people sympathized with the need to protect such an extraordinary natural area,» he explains.

How disgusting that a person of such prejudice is allowed special influence at Wikipedia — this explains that encyclopedia's extraordinary one - sidedness on the subject.

Persuasion to the Real Climate point of view is possible only if those who write there, and here, remember that people are suspicious when reasonable questions about disputed science are met by an extraordinary exhibition of affronted pique and wounded amour - propre such as the one above.

Nevertheless, the fact that a person, below the low income cut - off, has his or her income largely consumed by those basic necessities obviously means that they do not have sufficient income to allow for extraordinary expenses, such as the fees necessary to retain a criminal defence lawyer to provide representation in a criminal jury trial.

Cengiz says: «First Names Group is a unique organisation, where the emphasis on its clients and people is evident in everything it does and I feel extremely lucky to be part of such an extraordinary global team.

Generally, it must be demonstrated that the person who provided these «extraordinary services» experienced an economic loss (such as income loss) because of the time and effort spent providing the services, or that the person provided services for which the injured person would otherwise have incurred an expense, such as the hiring of a housekeeper, nurse or care attendant.

A good rule might be «no disappearing message may be used for official purposes save for extraordinary cases, such as communicating with persons whose government would execute them if the message became public».

Most people looking at the initial coin offering (ICO) trend see extraordinary sums of money coming in — $ 8.84 billion as of February, according to the CoinDesk ICO tracker, and no doubt that's why U.S. regulators, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have raised so many questions about this new industry.

In all the cities of Canada or the world that I have traveled through, no where else will you find a wider range of people who represent such extraordinary character.