Sentences with phrase «newspaper accounts»

A few figures and facts picked at random from newspaper accounts of these festivities will give some additional idea of their size and nature.

, says that major studies and anecdotal newspaper accounts both show that unemployment does not rise when the minimum wage increases.

The author draws on a trove of public documents, including newspaper accounts and court documents, to offer a portrait of a relentlessly driven man.

Also, I read in newspaper accounts that the Marriott family is expected to own 21 % of the spinoff.

The evidence Andy and Sara provide in footnote 27 consists largely of newspaper accounts from Washington, D.C..

-LSB-...] this week I linked to a Huntington, W.VA newspaper account of school food one year after Jamie Oliver's «Food -LSB-...]

Some students wrote stories; others wrote newspaper accounts or letters; others created dialogues.

Students use library or provided online resources to create a museum exhibit or a fictional journal or newspaper account about life during the Civil War era.

It also declares that «several violent actions motivated by religious intolerance against non-Catholics have been committed» in Bolivia» giving as its only example a stoning incident from 1949 that was, according to «some witnesses» left unnamed in a local newspaper account, instigated by a Catholic priest.

Based on newspaper accounts and family interviews, Amy Stewart replays history and creates a gripping story along the way.

A workmanlike but vividly acted courtroom drama dealing with what one 1941 newspaper account called «the most sensational sex mystery in history,» director Reginald Hudlin's «Marshall» takes the narrow road in biopic terms.

Unlike Ivan, Alyosha does not clip newspaper accounts of suffering children and then offer anti-theological arguments about them; instead, he actually seeks out the insulted and injured, identifying himself with them.

The author relies too much on old newspaper accounts, and his hand on the prose tiller is occasionally unsteady.

SI reported — incorrectly, on the basis of a circumstantially detailed newspaper account — that Chicago police had questioned Gibson about Alex Greenberg after the murder.

«Such insistence on proceeding despite newspaper accounts questioning the process does nothing to help assuage the perception of conflicts at play in Community Board 9, and warrants a higher level of scrutiny.

Chronicling a potential advance by a team of Canadian scientists, one newspaper account warned readers: «Hold your nose and don't spit out your coffee.»

Bill found his students would rather read an exact newspaper account of an event on the day the ink dried rather then read a description of a famous person or an event in a textbook.

Newspaper accounts say the investigation was quickly closed, though the Secret Service has no official comment, said Tom Mazur, an agency spokesman.

I got the idea about buying a healer from an antebellum newspaper account (from Maryland I believe) about a slave who had reputedly discovered a cure for a poisonous snake bite.

Constance, the oldest of the three, who according to newspaper accounts stood six feet tall and weighed close to 180 pounds, decided enough was enough and teamed up with the local...

[12] Fair enough — newspaper accounts indicate that James first floated the idea in 1998, a year after Akron considered licensing cats.

The lithograph and newspaper accounts suggested that Sewally's cross-dressing, theft, and sexual conduct were sensational in 1836.

Robert J. Sharpe reconstructs and contextualizes the case using archival and contemporary newspaper accounts.

Where can I find a The Architect's Newspaper Account Executive resume example in Brooklyn, New York?

From a local Detroit newspaper account:

I have been reading newspaper accounts of the late Chicago mayor Harold Washington's legacy marking 25 years since Mayor Washington died.

The «cat ordinance,» as it's typically called in newspaper accounts, made it illegal for cats to be «off the premises of the owner and not under restraint by leash, cord, wire, strap, chain, or similar device or fence or secure enclosure adequate to contain the animal.»

Earlier this week I linked to a Huntington, W.VA newspaper account of school food one year after Jamie Oliver's «Food Revolution» filmed in the so - called «fattest city in America.»

Life During the Civil War Era Students create a museum exhibit or a fictional journal or newspaper account about life during the Civil War era.

The author uses quotes from wildly varying sources such as Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin; Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House, by Elizabeth Keckley; private letters written by Civil War soldiers to their families; newspaper accounts of events; and even quotes from watchman Jack Manders from the Oak Hill Cemetery logbook, taken from the night of February 25, 1862, when Abe Lincoln visited his son's body.

This is the image of greatness that recurs in countless fairy tales, histories, case studies, and newspaper accounts: One person has such power to grant favors that others come and kowtow.

Let us pass over, as too familiar, the reflections which come to mind when we tally up the newspaper accounts: dope - addiction among adolescents, bribery of college athletes, the power of organized crime, the corruption of government officials.

«Win or lose, this was just a game,» Chen told the court, according to newspaper accounts.

Pavel had been in the country only three weeks when he was married in a civil ceremony to a mysterious American fashion model — in newspaper accounts her first name has been variously spelled Jimy, Jamie, Jimmy; no last name was ever given — whom he had met in Seattle during the 1990 Goodwill Games.

Edward Uhlir, a landscape architect for the park district, said the employees also have discovered a volume of lithographs of parks in Paris believed to have been compiled between 1880 and 1890 and newspaper accounts of the era «s big events, including a bad storm that hit in 1921 and the construction of Lake Shore Drive.

Hall said an official of the Cook County Department of Development contacted the district after reading a newspaper account of the bid's acceptance.

Hey Fact Free Phil... here is another newspaper account describing how your boss, and your party's candidate for governor have fought to protect child molestors...» Why are legislators like GOP Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, and some of their cohorts fighting so hard to keep the Child Victims Act from becoming law?

But Bower is a tenacious researcher and writer and he has mastered over thirty - six books on Blair and his government, TV interviews and documentaries and newspaper accounts.

After five days of watching from afar — through television sets, social media posts, and newspaper accounts — a moment for community members to pause and honor officer Craig Lehner.

Newspaper accounts of the avalanche duly noted that Moore was luckier than Homer and Langley Collyer, two pack - rat brothers who for four decades crammed their Harlem mansion with heaps of debris: newspapers, old Christmas trees, sawhorses, perhaps a dozen pianos, even a dismantled automobile.

Duwe has spent more than two decades combing through federal crime records and newspaper accounts to track trends in mass killings.

(The local police have found this inconspicuous record - keeping handy in implicating or exonerating suspects in criminal cases and have even used it to trace notorious fugitives such as Peter Braunstein, who sexually assaulted a woman after pretending to be a fireman checking for smoke damage in her building, according to newspaper accounts.)

He discovers that information while browsing the newspaper accounts of his tightrope walk between the towers of Notre - Dame Cathedral.

The movie sneers at the journalists covering the trial, but for those of us who followed it at the time, the newspaper accounts were a lot more engrossing than this film.