The colonists, jubilant at the repeal of the Stamp Act, drank innumerable toasts, sounded peals of cannon, and were prepared to ignore the Declaratory Act as face-saving window dressing.
I cleaned it with a blank expression on my face, trying to act as nonchalant as possible, before walking off and finishing the rest of my work.
And in its final act, as the face of anguished heroine Kelly Reilly becomes a wraith-mask of mud, blood and despair, she starts looking like something from a very English Apocalypse Now.
The lobbying firm in turn set up a nonprofit front group -- the Campaign for a U.S. Afghanistan Partnership -- on Wardak's behalf to act as the "face" of a campaign for increased U.S. engagement in Afghanistan.
Draw a circle around your the dots and curved line to act as the face.
Senior councillors believe the council needs to act, as it faces competition from Bristol, who are already looking at their own plans.
Mayor Reed partnered with Georgia Governor Nathan Deal to act as the "faces of the pro-TSPLOST campaign", TSPLOST standing for "transportation special purpose local option sales tax", which would have levied a 1% sales tax for ten years, from 2013 until 2022, to fund transportation infrastructure projects.
Maguire took that recommendation a step further, suggesting officers can act as peacemakers, advocating face to face for calm sorta like the armed militiamen who took that task upon themselves in Charlottesville.
Helmick, a Colombian-born entrepreneur who has lived in San Francisco for the past 13 years, has acted as the face of the operation so far.
Birmingham city council, the largest local authority in Britain, lists 89 active accounts, including one for Chris Moose, a joke-telling moose who acts as the face and voice of the city's Christmas market.
In fact, all year long Stewart, who acts as the face of Balenciaga's fragrance Florabotanica, seemed to be wearing exactly the right thing at precisely the right moment, sporting nearly every major runway trend from of 2012: sheer fabrics (Zuhair Murad; Jason Wu); the bra top and bare midriff (Balenciaga); pajamas (Roberto Cavalli); and graphic black and whites (forthcoming from Louis Vuitton).
