Sentences with phrase «summoning is about»

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«I was summoned to a working - man's cafe in London, and all around me, people were eating bacon and eggs and beans and chatting about the football scores, and I put these headphones on and I was transported into another world where Diana talked about her eating disorders, about desperate cries for help, about her loneliness, about her childhood, about her royal life, about Prince Charles.

An air - rescue helicopter was summoned and was over the track about eight minutes after the crash.

According to a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable, in January 2007, the company's representative in China, a U.S. citizen, was summoned and interrogated by the State Security Bureau about NTDTV staff reporting from its New York offices.

Google was even summoned to address the U.K. parliament about what it planned to do about the problem.

Weiss Ratings has warned investors about the dangers of Tether, the high - profile cryptrocurrency startup that has been summoned by U.S. regulators to appear in court.

Twitter's stock is down about 8 percent this week for several reasons, including the prospect that Twitter might also be summoned to Washington about its data practices.

If I was laying there waiting to die and I summoned my chaplain, and I wasn't allowed to talk about the things I most wanted to get off my chest before dying, the things I needed to make sure were said before the last drop of life in me was gone, what is the point of calling anyone in to talk to?

But sometimes we earthlings can not get much further in our thinking about such things as love, fidelity, commitment and caring than to summon forth the image of some mama somewhere who will always be for us the concrete human experience of such divine ideas.

Indeed, the epic is «very much about its own writing,» a writing that at every moment threatens to turn into what it purports to condemn: «Milton must summon the devils into poetic being in order to warn a reader... but he runs the risk of fascinating the reader with that very poetic creation.»

My concern was that Wilson could not establish the moral ground of his position; that he ran the risk then of fostering confusion among his own allies about the ground of their opposition to abortion; and that the allies who made themselves suggestible to his arguments were risking a serious erosion in the conviction that they summoned to this issue.

In the United Kingdom, the broadcasters were summoned to Downing Street office and were cautioned about their screening of Al - Jazeera broadcasts.

It is an infectious joy in Christ which best summons and convinces, and you must be able to say «if I had my time over again, I would make the same choice again, only with less hesitation: I can not be so sure the good Lord would say the same for his part, about me».

John Thorne warned about the commercial blends: «Ordinary chili powder is a predetermined mixture of powdered chile and seasoning; its familiar stale flavor and musty odor summons nostalgia and indigestion in equal proportion.

What impresses me most about these nostalgia pieces is the vivid memories they clearly summon up for many here.

When I was in about P3, she knew from my teacher that I got 13/20 for a math test, «summoned» me and went through my corrections one by one.

Dr. Noble described how many times a mother would be just about to nurse the baby, when she would be summoned to see her own doctor.

A frozen yogurt store worker was burned on the arm when a «furious» customer threw hot caramel on him, but he later overheard the woman bragging about it at a Wicker Park Blue Line station and summoned police who arrested her, officials said.

The Second Deputy Majority Chief Whip and MP for Banda, Ahmed Ibrahim, has suggested that the Minority leader's lack of knowledge about the summons was an indication of a rift within the opposition MPs.

In about 1864 (during American civil war between the Union side and the Confederates), President Abraham Lincoln, through an executive order / decree, suspended the legal «writ of summons», made a law that was back - dated (retrospective effect) and used it to try some detained saboteur suspects, and those convicted were executed within days after the review of the judgment.

The order will unseal just the narrative statements written by cops on the more than 850,000 dismissed summonses — and not identifying information about the person it was issued to or the cop involved, which will be redacted, according to the ruling by Manhattan federal court Judge Robert Sweet.

My editors had summoned me back from book leave to interview the PM before his first official trip to the US and I was pretty grumpy about being there.

A former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, has been summoned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to explain how about $ 250 million of...

We get an incredibly high profile not just on phone hacking, we've done the BBC as well, I've got the chairman of the trust and the director general coming in and that's going to be a huge hearing as well... Because we have this power of summons, if there is a scandal, the great thing about a committee is that they can say «right I want every person who is involved in this in public, in front of this committee, answering why this has happened and what we're going to do about it».

«Partnering on informational events like this one in Flushing Queens gives OATH the opportunity to provide residents and small businesses with important information about the hearing process and the many options that are available to them should they or their business receive summonses from the City's various enforcement agencies.»

«It is not uncommon for my office to receive complaints from constituents about unfair decisions or summonses by enforcement agencies,» said New York State Assemblymember RON KIM.

Two days after Christmas, he summoned reporters for a final time and singled out just one story as the best that was written about him of all the thousands produced in the 12 years he ran the state.

«It was Senator Clinton who first summoned me to the Hill to talk about our strategy for defeating the federal marriage amendment,» he said.

Mr Collins said Mr Cummings had been issued with a formal summons to appear on May 22 and answer questions about the conduct of the Vote Leave campaign.

But sources familiar with the subpoena said the commissioner was not happy about being summoned and grilled.

Johnson's office did not respond to a question about whether he did or did not try to call Bratton or O'Neill, but said the councilman was «fully cooperative and promptly paid the $ 75 summons» in a statement.

Questions in the off - topic portion of the Q&A included the role of Mayor de Blasio's wife, Chirlane McCray, and her having City staff, Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos» criticism of de Blasio's involvement in recent senate elections, whether de Blasio supports a tax on grocery bags, an update on the recent change in NYPD practice on marijuana possession, why the average person should care about conditions on Rikers Island (an on - topic question, but posed during this off - topic portion of the press conference), whether de Blasio is troubled by Al Sharpton's tax troubles, what the expected executive action President Obama on immigration will mean for the City, an update on the City's municipal ID program, preparations for a rally being organized by Al Sharpton upon the completion of the Ferguson grand jury, a possible mail - in response for marijuana summonses and whether mayor supports regulating costumed characters in Times Square.

Summons were down about 70 percent the first full week in January, compared with 2014, according to CompStat numbers.

Isabel Hardman at Coffee House says Tory candidates are angry about being summoned by Grant Shapps to a meeting in Newark on Sunday.

Prior to his application, the man had been arrested for forgery, received about 10 moving violations and about three vehicle - related summonses, and had been the subject of at least four domestic violence complaints — including one in which he was accused of threatening to kill someone.

«However, I am concerned about the due process rights of those who are given marijuana summonses, which for Brooklyn, will be addressed at a location in Manhattan that is already overburdened.»

O'Neill said that over the past four years, top charge marijuana arrests citywide are down 32 percent, while the issuance of summonses is up 57 percent, and that overall calls for service from the public about marijuana are up 26 percent.

«How color is imparted and how we characterize it in fossils are important, because they inform us about a very specific aspect of the history of life on our planet,» Summons said.

Three previous studies investigated the average effects of ride - hailing services on crashes, providing clues about the possible overall impact of the technology, which allows riders who've been drinking to summon a lift home from the palm of their hand.

Those reserves that are summoned when you are so tired, all you can think about is your pillow, and then you find out you just won the lottery, and you're bouncing off the walls.

The plot is rather simplistic, in where the actors appearing in a film about ancient Rome are summoned by Hollywood «fixer» Eddie Mannix to go out and find recently kidnapped main star, Baird Whitlock.

How about discussing the stalker ex after which it has taken you six years of therapy and all your courage to summon the effort to trust another human being enough to go on another date.

After your mother receives a letter from a relative taunting her about your lack of a love life, she is so enraged that she summons you immediately and demands you start dating.

The Ritual may start on familiar footing, but trust in David Bruckner's ability to summon some nasty tension and a third act that horror fans will be talking about all year.

Arguments about core mechanics of how summons are intended to work aside, it appears that gothic horror adventure title will be getting a patch next week to make matching easier and, more intriguing, to scale the stats of lower level players to the host.

But if there was ever a time for Marvel to bust out the Zack Snyder - style, heavy - metal gloom and slap the smirk off its own face, it's here, in a film that's mostly about summoning the courage to fight battles that you know you can't win, and accepting the likelihood of dying on your knees with your head held high.

a) it's about something in the real world (not the director's or the characters» beset egos), namely: revolutionary courage and how it's summoned and sustained.

It's a pity the answer is couched in formulaic terms that summon up remembrance of The Parallax View, All the President's Men, Capricorn One and just about any episode of Lou Grant in which all reporters are crusading heroes acting in the public interest, all corporate executives are money - grabbing, conscienceless villains, and all public relations people are sanctimonious toadies.

The child actors are terrific little Duracell batteries of rambunctious energy, and as the trio cuts an unsupervised path of mischief across the property — spitting on cars, roughhousing in abandoned buildings, chattering nonstop — The Florida Project conjures a sense of carefree everyday adventure that lesser films about childhood only wish they could summon.

His way of going about this is to summon Dormammu and to drag Earth into a dimension beyond time which is unfortunately where his evil comes out.

A Monster Calls (Dec. 23): Liam Neeson is the monster in this special - effects - laden modern fable, about a bullied boy who can summon a monster to help fight his battles.