Each morning Lama Lobtsul, the lama in residence at the Buddhist center Palri Pema Od Ling in Austin, enters the temple and performs the important task of arranging offerings of water, candles and incense in front of the rare statue of Guru Rinpoche.
Offerings of water, non-dairy beverages, candles, flowers and incense may, however, occur at other times of the day.
Its political cartoonist Stephff sketched bald and beefy Secret Service agents with frothing mouths and guns in hand, readily assaulting innocent waiters offering glasses of water to the president.
He did not let that fact pass without taking a not-so-subtle jab at his long-time competitor, Bill Gates, Microsoft's founder: Offering iTunes software to Windows users was like "offering a glass of water to someone in hell," Mr. Jobs said.
Susan Brown Dear Diary: Emulating those gourmets who prefer to spend their money on wine rather than on bottled water and who order Château La Pompe (tap water), in recent years many New Yorkers fended off offerings of bottled water by ordering San Giuliani.
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act would require employers to offer workplace accommodations for pregnant women, like exempting them from duties that involve heavy lifting and offering them plenty of water breaks, among other things — the same sort of accommodations offered to disabled workers.
The police finally subdued Mr. Roland with a stun gun as he approached an officer offering a cup of water.
One of the most stark showed an American offering a canteen of water to a Vietcong fighter who had survived a stomach wound for three days, holding in his intestines with a cooking bowl.
Nearby Chasewater is a prominent watersports site, with the Watersports Centre offering a variety of water skiing facilities, including the largest children's coaching scheme in the UK, and the sailing club providing year-round windsurfing and dinghy sailing.
