Sentences with phrase «at first their letters»

At first their letters had been tentative and skeptical, but now their correspondence, which was carried out in a daily flurry of letters and notes, had suddenly taken a very intimate turn.

When I took out a student loan, I paid it off in full at the first letter I received (because, at that time, I had money!)

Not exact matches

«You don't get the letters saying thanks for the first 20 billion in sales,» he said at one point.

«The first thing you would want to do is take a look at your offer letter or employment agreement,» advises Reeve.

Maybe they were tight on money at that time, maybe they hadn't had a chance to try your first product yet, or maybe they were just busy and didn't get around to reading your letter.

The first two signatures on the letter came from Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, faculty members at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

The phone does a decent job at guessing what word you're going to type next, then displays it over the first letter of that word.

I have an ongoing beef with a professor at Texas A&M who teaches that you shouldn't pay your 30 - day bills until you get your first collection letter.

And one of Royal Caribbean International's first video streams was disrupted by a viewer posting the alphabet one letter at a time, in an attempt to clog the comment feed.

First, just type in your seed keyword with a single letter of the alphabet and take a look at the highly relevant Wikipedia suggestions that show up.

«The first Solar Roof installations have been completed recently at the homes of our employees, who we chose to be our first customers to help perfect all aspects of Solar Roof customer experience,» said Tesla in a Q2 Update Letter.

The key to why the earnings aren't good enough and the stock is falling is this line in the company's shareholder letter: «Revenue came in at the low end of our guidance range because brand marketers did not increase spend as quickly as expected in the first quarter.»

One of the first things White tackled at the SEC was (drum roll) Section 404 of Sarbanes - Oxley, where he achieved much of the wish list that he had outlined in his 2005 letter to the SEC.

And one of Royal Caribbean International's (RCL.N) first video streams was disrupted by a viewer posting the alphabet one letter at a time, in an attempt to clog the comment feed.

At first she explained that I opened too many credit cards in the last two years (just like the letter said.)

Warren does the same thing at Berkshire, and he always started his letters with the mistakes first.

But the Christians in the churches at Ephesus, Colossea, and Asia Minor who first heard these letters read aloud would instantly recognize Peter and Paul's version of the household codes as a sort of radical Christian remix of familiar Greco - Roman philosophy.

«In so ruling, the Administration has cast aside the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, denying to Catholics our Nation's first and most fundamental freedom, that of religious liberty,» the letter continued and was read at all English and Spanish language Masses, the diocese said in a stateFirst Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, denying to Catholics our Nation's first and most fundamental freedom, that of religious liberty,» the letter continued and was read at all English and Spanish language Masses, the diocese said in a statefirst and most fundamental freedom, that of religious liberty,» the letter continued and was read at all English and Spanish language Masses, the diocese said in a statement.

I'd been invited by some friends to a fall youth rally at the First Baptist Church, and in the fellowship hall one night, the youth leader passed around neon blue and pink postcards that included a form letter to God promising to remain sexually abstinent until marriage.

It was there in Manhattan he was unhappily schooled, first at the Male School on Crosby Street and then at the Columbia Grammar School, and there he returned thirty years later to spend the bitter, dark end of his life — a misemployed customs inspector turned drunkard, possibly a wife - beater, and the forgotten man of American letters: a minor author who'd written a scandalous sea - tale or two early in life and hadn't had the sense to quit writing.

Of course, the evidence of Paul, at first hand, and of many others which we know about primarily through Paul (his letter to the Corinthians is considerably older and closer to the events than the earliest of the written Gospels), is open to the objection that we have no guarantee that the appearances were not hallucinations.

In comparison to the New Testament where Paul's letters were written starting 15 years after Jesus» ascension, the first gospel, Mark written 25 years after (Peter was the source of Mark), Matthew who was an eye witness at 35 years, and Luke 35 years as a careful Roman / Greek trained historian who interviewed living eye witnesses such as Mary, mother of Jesus.

In the words of Henri de Lubac, the distinguished theologian and historian of early Christian exegesis: «The conversion of the Old Testament to the New or of the letter of scripture to its spirit can only be explained and justified, in its radicality, by the all - powerful and unprecedented intervention of Him who is himself at once the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last....

Attention must be paid to the telling reversal of ordinary concepts of power that Paul presents in his first letter to the church at Corinth.

At the time, I welcomed the dean's letter; yet, this spring, on the first day of my seminar on the history of European secularization, I trigger - warned.

Don't wait for someone else to make the first move towards calling attention to what needs doing... write letters, make phone calls, demand officials look at your neighborhood, too.

The scholars at the forefront of the revolution — E.P. Sanders, James D.G. Dunn, N.T. Wright, and others — have been pioneering a new approach to the letters of the first - century apostle to the Gentiles, Paul of Tarsus.»

«God is Love», says the first letter of St. John, summing up in that simple three - word phrase the conviction to which the primitive Christian community had come when it thought about, meditated upon, responded to, and in profound acceptance came to grasp what indeed God was «up to» in that crucial event which took place at a given moment in history.

Later, when Dora and I were married and we had a first pregnancy that went wrong, he wrote us a deeply consoling letter: the shadow of the cross, he said, hung over the stable of Bethlehem; and when the Martyrology listing the feasts of the Church is chanted, at the mention of the Nativity the tone switches to that of Passiontide.

In the same letter, we read that the Gospel message «was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard, while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will» (Hebrews 2:3 - 4).

Dear Jonathan: I appreciate your letter about experiences in your first parish, and I want to respond to your remarks about the tension between feeling «at home» and «not at home.»

Christian theologians explore their faith within a particular community and tradition, though «keeping faith with tradition... is not at all being bound by the letter of the law; it is more a matter of the company you keep — or the books you reach for first — when you want to do your best thinking.»

Let me call to mind the central ethical statement in Paul's letter to the church at Rome, chapter 12, and in particular the first two verses of the chapter.

At one time, collecting letters, manuscripts, first editions, and other artifacts and ephemera was a slow process that depended upon visiting faraway places with strange sounding names.

I have read your letter about this with sympathy, for when I decided to become a minister, I intended at first to be not a preacher but a teacher, preferably in the field of Comparative Religion.

The letter said in part: «Ten children of color went missing in our nation's capital in a period of two weeks and at first garnered very little media attention.

In the first part of my letter I wish to deal with some characteristics of our present era at the end of the millennium.

As I mentioned on Monday, the Christians in the churches at Ephesus, Colossea, and Asia Minor who first heard these letters read aloud would instantly recognize Peter and Paul's version of the household codes as a sort of radical Christian remix of familiar Greco - Roman philosophy regarding household structure.

«[B] ecause Professor Hawkins is the first African American woman tenured at Wheaton College, the actions taken against Professor Hawkins will raise questions about how Wheaton College treats minority and female professors,» they wrote in an open letter to Wheaton's president and trustees.

Still, as the minutes floated on and floated by, he kept lying there, trying to remember the first name or at least the first letter or first syllable of the woman — a guess, a hazard, a Matteo Ricci way of trying to remember, trying

Neuhaus» «While We're At It» in the June / July Issue of First Things quoting Elizabeth Marquardt's Letter to the Editor in the New York Times, and general conversation floating around the First Things office.

Ten years later Martin included him in an invitation to the first Mass he would celebrate as a priest, in a letter written to the rector of another church at Eisenach, the Rev. Johann Braun, a Franciscan friar with whom Luther kept up a friendship for many years.

In unfolding it, in order to show his own cleverness and reading, and satisfy itching ears, he proceeded with a new method, expounding letters, syllables and proposition, the harmony of noun and verb, and that of noun substantive, and noun adjective... At last he... demonstrated the whole Trinity to be represented by these first rudiments of grammar, as clearly and plainly as it was possible for a mathematician to draw a triangle in the sand.»

At the same time, he reveals that he himself is the true sacrificial lamb, destined in the Father's plan from the foundation of the world, as we read in The First Letter of Peter (cf. 1:18 - 20).

«We have to start somewhere, and at least opening the door is a critical first step,» said Scott Moreau, a Wheaton College mission professor, who did not sign the letter.

The very earliest of the letters we have was his first letter to the church at Thessalonica.

The «canonical» history of Hebrews is somewhat confused by the fact that while it was used by many early Christian writers, some of them were aware that as it stands it can not have been written by the apostle Paul (see Chapter xix) We first encounter clear traces of Hebrews in the letter of Clement to the Corinthians, written at the end of the first century; but Clement does not say what he is quoting from.

Starting at the near end, fold the rectangle in thirds as you would a business letter; this completes the first single turn.Wrap in plastic wrap; place in refrigerator 45 to 60 minutes.

The name of the salad came about in a fun way; since the cook had no official name for the salad she took the first letter of the names of everyone at the table and tried to make a word with the letters.

While the hedge fund made clear in its letter that it's thinking long - term with Nestle, setting targets on margins to reach by 2020, the first test could come sooner than that: Schneider has promised to reveal his strategy at an investor day in September.