Sentences Generator
And
Your saved sentences

No sentences have been saved yet

46 Sentences With "make a gesture"

How to use make a gesture in a sentence? Find typical usage patterns (collocations)/phrases/context for "make a gesture" and check conjugation/comparative form for "make a gesture". Mastering all the usages of "make a gesture" from sentence examples published by news publications.

"The pope has desired to make a gesture of welcome regarding refugees," the statement said.
But at least a handful of lawmakers will be trying to make a gesture of bipartisanship.
Le Drian said he had asked Russia to make a gesture in releasing the Ukrainian boats and sailors.
But they will also make a gesture by launching internal preparations for the next phase of the negotiations.
It's important to make a gesture and raise your voice, even if that voice is a small one.
Usually, politicians make a gesture of reaching out to those who didn't support them, promising to represent citizens from both parties.
"The Pope had wished to make a gesture of welcome and solidarity on behalf of the refugees," the Vatican said in the statement.
While Mr. Biden had no direct role in negotiating the tourist's release, the North Koreans seized on his presence to make a gesture.
Le Maire also said that Washington should make a gesture of goodwill in particular on tariffs Trump slapped on European aluminum and steel in June.
The hand gestures are the most important because if we are even a little bit off with them, we could make a gesture that is really offensive.
"The president was very clear in his tweet that it was, you know, 'wiretapping,'" Mr. Spicer said, using his fingers to make a gesture suggesting quotation marks.
A negotiation between the administration and Congress then ensues, each side adds some conditions, maybe the Palestinians make a gesture, and the bulk of the assistance goes through.
A couple of months later there was an outcry after a religious procession in Corleone seemed to make a gesture of homage to the Riina family, though organisers denied this.
"It was important for Brazil to make a gesture in favor of trade openness with the U.S., with whom we're seeking a broad free trade agreement," Unica said in a statement.
In excerpts made available on the French radio station's Twitter account, Snowden says he would "love to see" French President Emmanuel Macron make a gesture enabling him to live in the country.
And in a new moment of "social distancing" should these two septuagenarian men who are in an at-risk age group make a gesture of doing something else entirely — like an elbow bump?
At the same time, the East Coast employee said, Everlane did make a gesture towards supporting the CX employees, sending out an email acknowledging that many people might have lost their second jobs.
This kind of scenario isn't all that rare among pro users and Apple is doing well here to make a gesture that indicates it is listening to the complaints slash needs of these users.
It was started when Erika Munson, a Mormon mother of five, thought "let's make a show, let's make a gesture to the LGBT community that Mormons don't hate them," co-founder Kendall Wilcox says.
She is not alone in wanting to make a gesture, after the election of Donald J. Trump, who was captured on audio using vulgar terms to describe women and bragging about grabbing them sexually.
What happened here is that Sanders wanted to make sure all the delegates' votes for both him and Clinton were properly recorded — but he also wanted to make a gesture of unity, in keeping with his speech Monday night.
"The Pope has desired to make a gesture of welcome regarding refugees, accompanying on his plane to Rome three families of refugees from Syria, 12 people in all, including six children," a Vatican statement said, adding that they were all Muslims.
"I am sorry that Mr. President Lech Walesa was not able at the right time to bring himself to make a gesture to Poles ... Just speak out and tell the truth," Duda told reporters from the Polish online news website wp.pl.
"The Pope has desired to make a gesture of welcome regarding refugees, accompanying on his plane to Rome three families of refugees from Syria, 12 people in all, including six children," the Vatican said in a statement provided to Reuters.
"We are continuing to ask Berlusconi to make a gesture of responsibility and help us give this country a government," said senior League politician Giancarlo Giorgetti, indicating he wanted Forza Italia to agree to sit out of a government deal.
So during any talks with the North Korean ruler, President Trump may find a moment when he sees the possibility to make a gesture or to take a step, not on the nuclear weapons themselves, but to set the stage.
We're actually saying that if you and other galleries and other gentrifiers want to be on the right side of things, if you want to make a gesture, as you say to the community, then this is not the right gesture to make.
They plan to reject her call for an immediate start to talks on a future trade relationship but make a "gesture" recognizing the concessions May offered in a speech at Florence last month by telling EU staff to prepare for talks on a transition period.
Related: Pope Francis Says Those Who Deny Migrants Should Ask God for Forgiveness "The Pope has desired to make a gesture of welcome regarding refugees, accompanying on his plane to Rome three families of refugees from Syria, 12 people in all, including six children," a statement issued by the Vatican said.
And because Trump naturally alienates women and can't make a gesture of outreach to blacks or Hispanics without stepping on it with bigotry the next day, he doesn't really have another path back to the White House if those Obama-Trump voters in Michigan and Pennsylvania and Ohio go Democratic or stay home.
It is true that this type of silent mediation with and through art exists, even if it's something of a rarity nowadays, but it's impossible to make a gesture on such a scale as "Sumando Ausencias" and not expect from the public a highly politicized reading, especially during such a sensitive time.
Aside from clarifying its opaque rules around harassment and abuse, and improving the responsiveness of its reporting system, Twitter could make a relatively minor change like allowing users to mute all replies to a single tweet, or making old tweets easier to hide or delete to deflate the opposition research for that mobs now undertake, and make a gesture that has a noticeable impact for all users.
LAAGP: They usually have some fairly specific goals in mind, including to evaluate recent changes that have been made; to become more experimental and nimble and to participate in iterative learning; to kick start a recent commitment to diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion (DEAI) and engage their staff in these priorities; to publicly communicate stated values; and to make a gesture of humility and respect for community knowledge.
When climbing, Farmer removed her coat and found herself in flesh-colored underwears, then turned to the audience to make a gesture of goodbye.Royer, 2008, pp. 319-20.Rigal, 2010, p. 155.
The next year brought uprisings in Wales, and increasing unrest among England's barons at the poor rule of King John. Marshal seized this opportunity to make a gesture of support for the king,Thomas Asbridge. The Greatest Knight. (New York: Harper Collins, 2014).
Benito Juárez is a city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the administrative centre for Benito Juárez Partido. The town and its partido are named after former Mexican President Benito Juárez; the name was chosen to make a gesture of friendship between Argentina and Mexico.
On 1 May 1691 the Court found in Salisbury's favour and ordered that he should receive a further £10,000, by way of a charge on his wife's sisters' estates. In March 1693/94, John Dryden dedicated his new play Love Triumphant to Salisbury.Steven N. Zwicker, The Cambridge companion to John Dryden (Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. xiii His intention was probably to make a gesture of defiance to the new government, of which Dryden disapproved.
At the reunion gathering, Dr. Luke instructs Rusty to repeatedly make a gesture identical to one that Phillip makes. Won over by the boy, Phillip asks Dr. Luke about adoption formalities. When a telegram arrives from Janet's agent stating that the deal for the role in the New York play is off because the producer wants a younger woman, Janet, who is shaken, goes inside. The gathered then watch as the quintuplets arrive, each in a pony-drawn carriage, and play in a fenced-in enclosure.
Varaha is depicted in art as either purely animal or as being anthropomorphic, having a boar's head on a man's body. In the latter form he has four arms, two of which hold the wheel and conch-shell while the other two hold a mace, sword or lotus or make a gesture (or "mudra") of blessing. The Earth is held between the boar's tusks. The Varaha Temple structure is one of the monuments among Khajuraho Group of Monuments, a World Heritage Site in India.
She defended this decision against the complaints of heritage groups, saying, "It seems to me that in no case do these groups make a gesture (like) a financing campaign each year to collect money to buy these buildings and conserve them. It's easy to say conserve, conserve, conserve."Linda Gyulai, "Wrecker's ball gets go-ahead: City-hall panel okays plan to tear down York theatre," Montreal Gazette, 9 June 2001, A3. Belleli supported Mayor Bourque's successful campaign to create a single municipal administration for the Island of Montreal.
In 1988, he decided to return to live with his mother and stepfather, James Brantley, in Laurel, Mississippi. Before Landis left, he wished to make a gesture that would please his mother and honor the memory of his father, so he donated a copy of a Maynard Dixon illustration he had created to a California museum as an original. This first successful attempt at art forgery convinced him to repeat the feat. For more than 20 years, Landis donated all kinds of faux pieces of art to institutions in the United States, including more than 50 museums.
He received another red card later that month, after being sent off for a second bookable offence against Dundee United. As he made his way off the pitch, Rossi was seen to make a gesture that provoked United fans. He scored his only goal for the club against Aberdeen on Boxing Day 2000. In August 2001, Rossi had his wages stopped in what proved to be a long drawn out saga which would see him leave Scotland for Morocco, only to have a worldwide ban placed on him by FIFA after going AWOL for more than a year.
On 16 July 1942 in Paris, Paul, a young student on the Left Bank, hears that the French authorities are rounding up the Jewish inhabitants of the city for deportation. To make a gesture against the evil of the German occupation and the collaborationist French régime, he goes to a Jewish quarter on the Right Bank determined to save someone. French police are there in force, herding Jewish people out of apartments and hustling them into commandeered buses. They already have the names and addresses, and can easily recognise Jewish people by the compulsory yellow star sewn to their clothes.
According to Hirofumi Hayashi, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs "accepted that the Japanese military had carried out mass killings in Singapore ... During negotiations with Singapore, the Japanese government rejected demands for reparations but agreed to make a 'gesture of atonement' by providing funds in other ways." Officially, Japan says that fewer than 5,000 deaths occurred, while Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first prime minister alleged that "verifiable numbers would be about 70,000" including Malaysia, although there isn't any evidence to prove this allegation. In 1966, Japan agreed to pay US$50 million in compensation, half of which was a grant and the rest as a loan. They did not make an official apology.
Video-refereeing is compulsory at World Championships, Grand Prix competitions and at the Olympic Games, and is used when the referee cannot decide if a touch is to be awarded, at request of a player (although only two incorrect video appeals are allowed per player in individual competitions) or if the score is tied in the last point and both lights turn on. There is an assistant official, called "video-referee", who is watching the live match and helps the referee on the decision through a slow motion replay on a monitor close to the piste. It is specially used to decide the right of way in foil and sabre. To appeal, a player must make a gesture in the form of a rectangle (monitor) to the referee.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Israel's move was "deeply negative" for US–Israeli relations. East Jerusalem is widely considered by the international community to be occupied territory, while Israel disputes this, as it annexed the territory in 1980. Obama was reported to be "livid" over the announcement. US President Barack Obama meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shortly after arriving on a visit to Israel in March 2013 Shortly afterward, President Obama instructed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to present Netanyahu with a four-part ultimatum: that Israel cancel the approval of the housing units, freeze all Jewish construction in East Jerusalem, make a gesture to the Palestinians that it wants peace with a recommendation on releasing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, and agree to discuss a partition of Jerusalem and a solution to the Palestinian refugee problem during the negotiations.

No results under this filter, show 46 sentences.

Copyright © 2024 RandomSentenceGen.com All rights reserved.