Sentences with phrase «watch television from»

Because most people watch television from a seated position, TVs were once much closer to the floor.

Most of our people can now watch television from West Germany and they see all the goods available there and expect us to make them available here.

The adopted, secretive Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) is unhappily married to a respected neurologist (Bill Murray), from whom she hides by watching television from the tub of a locked bathroom.

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I used to watch The Mighty Ducks with my hockey gloves on, acting out the scenes in front of the television with my hockey stick in the living room, my mom yelling from the kitchen reminding me to be careful and not break anything.

Given the enduring popularity of television medical dramas, other researchers have wondered about the accuracy of depictions of medical care and illness in these programs, and what key messages viewers might take away from watching them.

TeleXitos is the Telemundo Station Group's national multicast network that serves as a destination for viewers who want to watch their favorite action and adventure television series and movies from the 1970s to 2000s in Spanish and without subtitles.

«It can pick up that behavior just from the shapes and the movement of the people and generate an alert even if nobody is watching that television feed.»

We use Apple TV to watch television shows from iTunes.

You might never exercise when you come home from the office because part of your daily routine involves opening the mail on the couch, which leads to putting your feet up, which leads to watching two hours of television instead of putting on your sneakers and going for a run.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a startup Internet company has to pay broadcasters when it takes television programs from the airwaves and allows subscribers to watch them on smartphones and other portable devices.

And though his track record is more complicated than what can be gleaned from watching him on television, there is one indisputable fact in his story: Kevin O'Leary is excellent at selling Kevin O'Leary.

The move comes as advertisers are increasingly shifting budgets from television to online as more viewers prefer to watch their favorite shows on their smartphones and tablets.

Underlying that change is a shift away from watching television with ads to streaming television on services like Netflix that have no ads.

The announcement touched off a wave of speculation about what the new company might do, especially given Amazon's extensive reach into the daily lives of Americans — from where they buy their paper towels to what they watch on television.

Streaming shifted television from a world based on scarcity — there are only 24 hours in the day times however many channels there are, and a channel can only show one thing at a time — to one based on abundance: you can watch anything you want at anytime and it can be different from everyone else.

«You could see the television from the little dining room table and he was watching Shark Week and he was watching a special about the U.S.S. something and it sank and it was like the worst shark attack in history.

The only way Rogers could be in any deeper is if it made the televisions themselves, or perhaps even the couches that people watch from.

He turned CBS from a faltering broadcast network into the most - watched channel on television.

As they look over your shoulder at what you read, as they sit down on the couch next to you and watch what you watch on television, as they drive in the car and listen to what you listen to — what are they learning from you?

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

For the hundreds of thousands who were there during those six memorable days, and for the millions who watched on television, I expect that was the question that lingered long after the airplane dubbed «Shepherd One» took off from Kennedy Airport.

Only a few cities have drop - in centers where one can retreat from the elements, shower, wash clothes and watch television.

From years of watching television, I can recall only one TV series which dealt with corporate sin.

It's well established through research that when people get up from two hours of watching television — and there are similar results with people playing Nintendo games or working on a computer for two hours — they don't feel well.

The ease with which many disconnect their individual faiths from institutional belonging is revealed in a study of the unchurched in Appalachia: 80 per cent engaged in religious activities every week — activities ranging from prayer to reading, from watching religious television programs to conversations with others or visits to ministers (David H. Smith et al., Participation in Social and Political Activities [Jossey - Bass, 1980], p. 222).

For the rest of us, who are too small or too clumsy or too old to play and have to watch from the stands or before television screens, it is not unlike a Latin high mass performed by professionals for the edification and instruction of those deemed by the Heavenly Commissioner unworthy to participate personally.

At one outdoor café, Italians gather near a glowing flat - screen television to watch a soccer match and sip espresso, while a handful of young African migrants cheer along from the outer edges of the café.

From a national population sample, the poll found that those who watch religious television programs compared to those who don't watch religious television programs are more likely to have had a conversion experience, to believe that the bible is free of mistakes, to believe in a personal devil, to read the bible more often, to talk to others about their faith more often, to attend church services more frequently, and to hold to or engage in beliefs and practices characteristic of evangelicals as a whole.

A second implication of the uses - and - gratifications research for understanding why people watch religious programs on television is the insight that uses made of the media and gratifications derived from these uses change over an individual's life span.

Given the present uses made of television in the United States, much of a program's audience is drawn, not from people who intentionally watch television to see a particular program at a particular time, but from people who have committed themselves to watching something at that particular time.

Costs of such programming, like taxation, are borne by all, whether or not they use the products advertised, he points out, adding that the television «tax levy» on an average family in l980 ranged from $ 80 in Atlanta to $ 29 in Wilkes - Barre - Scranton, Pa. «You pay when you wash, not when you watch,» he told the committee.18.

This country has suffered greatly from scrotum heads in business, the military, and politics, and we are forced to watch them on television and in the movies as well.

I had no clue my grandma watched regular primetime television until she would bring up the storylines from the Gilmore Girls episode that had just aired and want to chat about it.

The atmosphere will be ideal for watching football games and other sporting events, with towers on each side of the bar housing dozens of high - definition televisions, which offer premium views of the game from any seat.

The NBA grew from 23 teams to 30 on Stern's watch, and television revenues continue to skyrocket.

Bill Daniels, who wired up a multimillion - dollar fortune in cable television, drove over the Rockies from his home in Denver to Salt Lake City the other day to watch Manigault try out for his ABA champion Utah Stars.

A good test to see if you're spending your television time wisely is to imagine describing an event that you're watching to a guy who's on vacation from a different country.

While the television coverage is a bit out of whack, viewers will be able to watch live golf, thanks to an online stream from NBC Live Extra.

The men huddle around televisions to watch replays from the first half, critiquing Roma's play.

My advice for the Bengals after watching yet another meltdown on national television is to move on from Andy Dalton.

THE SAINTS OPENED THE 2005 season at Carolina, and senior writer Lee Jenkins watched from Houston, on a small television in Hall C of the Reliant Center, with about 200 Hurricane Katrina evacuees.

«I think nobody would want to buy tickets and go to watch a race or watch on television Lewis disappearing from us when the lights go off and probably lapping the field a couple of times.

Watch him do something ludicrous on screen and it's only a few seconds until the television shows it to you again, first a bit slower, then again from behind the goal, then one more time from overhead.

The Lakes didn't have a television back then, so they borrowed one from Tom's grandfather to watch the Braves» comeback win in the NLCS over Barry Bonds and the Pirates.

When they lost 68 — 62, a lot of people cried, including Richard Demak, now SI's chief of reporters, who was not from Philadelphia, had never heard of Villanova and was watching on television in Michigan.

Still buoyed by his easy win, Holyfield returned to his hotel room from Botany's and watched television until morning.

Later that night, after a 2 - 1 victory over the Royals that left the second - place Mariners 10-1/2 games out of first place in the American League West, they lingered in front of the clubhouse television set, watching scores and highlights from other games with the intensity of horseplayers at an off - track betting parlor.

Given the windfall coming into the club from the EPL, merchandising, television rights, sponsorship, exorbitant season ticket costs for the calamitous shambles that we all paid so much to see, when we could see more sense watching the Keystone Cops.

I walked to my uncles house an hour and a half away every weekend to watch my team play and win or lose it was worth it because for 90 mins I screamed my little heart out for my team as if somehow they could hear me through the television set all the way from a little African country called Namibia that I know they would never have heard off but that didn't matter to me... not one bit!

To most of the thousands at track - side and to millions watching on television, the result came with the shock of a chilling summer downpour from blue skies.