Sentences with phrase «telling time»

The waqfs were created for a great variety of services, such as the building and upkeep of water conduits, fountains, wells, roads, sidewalks, bridges, kitchens for the distribution of free meals, guest houses, homes for widows, schools, libraries, mosques, tekkes, cemeteries, open — air places for prayer, caravansaries to lodge full caravans of men and animals, clock - rooms for telling time, bakeries for distributing bread and cakes to the poor, dispensaries, hospitals, public baths, shaded land on the roadside.

When it comes to explaining nature, religion is like a drawing of a clock for telling time.

Joking aside, Apple CEO Tim Cook knows just how important telling time is for an expensive timepiece.

This might be something useful like telling you every time your stock goes up in value to something completely ridiculous like making farting sounds.

And in addition to telling time, users can also use Apple Watch to respond to messages, read stock information and communicate with friends by sending sketches, audio messages and even recordings of one's own heartbeat.

On Tuesday, Apple (AAPL) is expected to become the latest to push into smart watches, essentially tiny computers people wear on their wrists for checking email, tracking how far they jog and, of course, telling time.

By late 1982 he was forced to change his tune, telling Time magazine that «I don't suppose that I had anticipated that there is... a structural part of the deficit that has nothing to do with the recession.»

Microsoft has HoloLens, a prototype for an augmented reality headset that's still in development, but Xbox boss Phil Spencer calls HoloLens an «untethered» experience, telling TIME last summer that «it's a standalone device that all of the computing power is in the head - mounted display.»

Howard Rowen, a financial adviser at Bank of America in Los Angeles, told the Times that Snap's employees should think of this moment as a «once - in - a-lifetime» opportunity.

Tsarnaev's great - aunt told Time that his mother «won't listen to reason» and help convince Dzhokhar to fire his lawyer.

ISIS - K turned their sights on Tora Bora after the US hit their previous hideout with the MOAB, Hazrat Ali, a member of the Afghan Parliament, told the Times.

While the watch comes with many traditional faces, I found it fun to try some of the more whimsical ones which include jellyfish, butterflies and the ever popular Mickey Mouse, who tells times with his hands and taps his foot every second.

Sources told The Times that Facebook's communications team wanted Zuckerberg, who rarely speaks about Facebook's operations in such a public forum, to avoid being defensive and try to answer questions as directly as possible.

Nonetheless, Suster tells the Times he's confident that «those employees recycle their capital back into the ecosystem.»

No complications in this watch, just a sleek piece of wristwear to tell you the time.

His aunt told Time: «Why do we even need defense attorneys if they just tell the jury he is guilty?

«What we have not had is our Google moment,» Blaine Lourd, founder of wealth management firm LourdMurray, told the Times.

«Once you own the router, you own all the traffic, to include the chance to harvest credentials and passwords,» Howard Marshall, deputy assistant director of the cyber division at the FBI, told the Times.

A Snap employee told the Times that the company was looking at ways to educate employees on financial management before the IPO, such as bringing in professors from Stanford to talk about how employees» lives can change after working for a company that goes public.

One tribal elder, Juma Gul, told the Times that «the Taliban escaped from the area last night and left us to ISIS with our women and children... there was no resistance by the Taliban against ISIS, and local tribes had no way to fight them anymore, so we just escaped.»

«People talked about the demise of physical books as if it was only a matter of time, but even 50 to 100 years from now, print will be a big chunk of our business,» Penguin Random House chief executive Markus Dohle told the Times.

They're attempting to either seek control of the device or to hack into homes and small businesses, Ciaran Martin, the chief executive of Britain's National Cyber Security Center, told the Times.

But in practice, Bock tells the Times, «They don't predict anything.

Engineers could leave Salesforce, and it would send the stock down 30 or 40 percent,» Joel Fishbein, managing director at financial services firm BTIG, told the Times.

Surely nobody wears a watch to actually tell time.

spokeswoman Lizz Harmon told the Times.

«And then he really did it,» Goodman told The Times.

She told The Times that he repeatedly asked if he could masturbate in front of her and that she had agreed.

Trump has often used that phrase in private, White House advisors told the Times.

As he told the Times, he does not mean for this to be a political statement against Trump, but rather he wants to push back against the «dark forces that have been awakened» by the election.

«I love getting up before the sun's up,» he explains, telling The Times that he starts even his Sundays with «50 sit - ups, in bed.»

Abby Schachner, a writer, illustrator, and performer, told The Times that in 2003, while on a phone call with the comedian, she could hear him masturbating.

Goodman and Wolov told The Times that they soon told others about the incident but that they got backlash.

Even if you primarily use your smartphone to tell the time, that's no excuse.

His office told The Times this year that he was not involved in the American properties connected to his stepson and to Mr. Low.

One of the woman's coworkers on «The Chris Rock Show» told The Times that she told him about the incident shortly after it happened.

«It doesn't take a lot to jump to the conclusion that constant banging in the head is not going to be in your best interest,» commissioner Roger Goodell told TIME in a 2012 interview.

In an email, Cox told The Times she felt «outrage and shock.»

Fitbits, Jawbones, Nike Fuelbands and the rest all tell time, so users are already pretty well covered in that department.

«Gastronomy and science, meeting together,» Bouley tells the Times.

Enright told TIME that her team is looking at other potential suspects in Hae's murder but can't name them because they are still living.

Paul Vaughan - France, owner of the farm, told The Times: «I will take the images as good feedback and will do everything I can to work on every aspect of my husbandry.

Enright told TIME that her team identified another potential suspect, Ronald Lee Moore, who was released from prison 10 days before Hae was murdered.

And since Amazon does rank its employees, the Anytime Feedback Tool is more than just a way to gossip about your coworkers — it could have a real effect on your standing at the company, though an Amazon spokesperson told The Times that feedback generally tends to be positive.

You develop confidence, you're able to handle the knocks a little easier,» she tells the Times.

«No one «revealed to anyone that there were tunnels,»» Livni told The Times of Israel in a statement.

Mr Hogg told Time that he had attempted to flee the shooting, but was ushered into a classroom with several other students to hide out.

A Faccenda spokesman told The Times that an «external vet» was sent to the farm to investigate workers kicking chickens and approved it, described by the spokesman as «shepherding» birds out of the way.

Even if you no longer use them to tell time (isn't that what your BlackBerry is for?)

«I love Fidel Castro,» Guillen told Time magazine this spring, the quote appearing just a week into the season.