Sentences with phrase «hundreds of stories told»

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Thurston, a onetime professional cyclist who maintained MapMyFitness's position as a top fitness app from the iPhone's earliest days, tells the story in his new office in downtown Austin, in a brand - new building where giant images of Under Armour athletes adorn the walls (amid, of course, motivational mantras) and several hundred new engineers and other tech employees work.

He tells this story, among many others, to the hundreds of newly minted, twentysomething second lieutenants who come under his care and feeding each year.

As famous for his death - defying stunts as for successfully running hundreds of companies over the past 50 years, Richard Branson has one of the best stories in business — which he tells in his new book, Finding My Virginity.

One of our favorite parts of Shake Shack — a story that is infrequently told — is how it has served as a jobs training program for hundreds of first - time employees, many of whom have then gone on to become managers and leaders in our company.

For the next ten years, Carmine held workshops and one - on - one sessions with hundreds of C - suite executives, general managers, directors and engineers to help them craft and tell the Intel brand story.

Every Starbucks store has a story to tell through its art, including hundreds of one - of - a-kind works by local artists.

that's why I said oldest some bible stories tens if not hundreds of thousands of years old.I can tell you about hurricanes that struck here years before I was born because of older families telling what happened.thank God or who ever you want for weather satellites I do.

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

Statistics tell part of the story: In 1979 church attendance had reached 160 at two services, A hundred children were coming to Sunday school.

But the book's greatest achievement is preternaturally good discretion in distilling hundreds of cases and copious scholarship and centuries of good stories to tell.

He tells the stories of hundreds of lives in order to bring home in a way that outstrips any ideological explanation the complex meaning of what has taken place.

Citing Donniel Hartman's «Putting God Second,» — A teacher of mine used to love to tell the story of a famous Hassidic master who was walking along a cobbled street in Eastern Europe some two hundred years ago, when he heard the cry of a baby coming from his student's house — a cry that pierced the night.

Personally — I don't belive a word of religion (based on hundreds of conflicting stories, told by word of mouth for hundreds or thousands of years, revised by committees, with supernatural claims, conflicting claims, interpreted differently by every «scholar» — yet every religion claims to be the «truth».

We told our story to many many thousands of souls and many hundred made professions of faith.

Certainly the circuit riders became consummate storytellers, as witness Peter Cartwright's Autobiography — the bulk of which appears to be made up of stories he had told hundreds of times in the more than fourteen thousand sermons he is alleged to have preached.

One hundred plays for 100 degrees may be a record that even Hollywood can not top, and it tells the story of the game.

I could tell a hundred stories of struggling families with babies in crisis.

Her extremely helpful book tells her story, compiles research, and provides hundreds of doable suggestions.»

The stories we are getting are in the tens, not in the hundreds or thousands,» Philip Nelson, chief executive of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), told a House of Lords inquiry into the effects of Brexit on science on July 19.

Sure enough, hundreds of customer reviewers told stories of their own, and hailed Dr. Sarno's book as changing their lives.

Since The Whole Soy Story came out, hundreds of allergic people have told me that they live lives of angry desperation.

Rather than rehash the story you can read on hundreds of other sites, I'd rather tell you about how to be sure red yeast rice works for you for lowering cholesterol without any red yeast rice side effects such as muscle pain and memory loss.

I have hundreds of patients where I've had this story, literally had this story they literally told me over and over again.

In the June / July edition of AARP The Magazine, the group demonstrated the ease with which online dating con artists currently operate, telling the story of one victim, who was robbed of hundreds of thousands of dollars in a romance fraud.

But as hundreds of films are produced each year, directors need to grow clever with how they tell a new story.

And when potential dates are clicking through hundreds of different profiles, you want to make sure that the story your photos tell is an honest one.

But obviously the real stars are the hundreds of artists and technicians who get this story told with so much visual accuracy and wit.

To accurately depict the genocide, Jolie hired Cambodian actors and gathered hundreds of survivors to tell and re-create their harrowing stories.

The film tells the real - life story of one working wife and mother who became a hero to hundreds during World War II.

Since this form of story - telling has been around since the 1960s there are hundreds of characters to choose from for inclusion in this game.

Featuring never - before - seen Coltrane family home movies, footage of John Coltrane and band in the studio — discovered in a California garage during production of this film — along with hundreds of never - before - seen photographs and rare television appearances from around the world, Coltrane's story is told by the musicians that worked with him including Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, Reggie Workman, musicians that have been inspired by his fearless artistry and creative vision like Common, John Densmore, Wynton Marsalis, Carlos Santana, Wayne Shorter, Kamasi Washington, along with Coltrane's children and biographers, in addition to well - known admirers such as President Bill Clinton and philosopher Dr. Cornel West.

There were hundreds of films on the father - son relationship, including some excellent ones by Baumbach, but she struggled to think of stories told from the female perspective: James Brooks's Terms of Endearment (1983) and Mike Leigh's Secrets and Lies (1996) were among the rare inspirations.

In an epic tale that fully deserves every one of its one hundred eighty - eight minutes, «Margaret,» filmed in 2005, tells the story of an adolescent who is emotional to the point of neurosis, a neurosis that proceeds full flower when she observes the sudden, accidental death of a middle - aged woman.

There is, believe it or not, somewhat of a precedent for telling stories in a less than naturalistic manner... as in, the entire history of storytelling by human beings until a few hundred years ago.

It's a treasure trove of information, and it tells hundreds of stories.

A Google search from just the past couple of years pulled up hundreds of stories with headlines like, «Parent furious over school's plan to teach gender spectrum» and «Maine school under fire for reading transgender children's books to kindergarteners without telling their parents.»

In the course of the research, I've listened to hundreds of students tell their story about how they made the college — or any postsecondary education — decision.

Here he tells the story of this remarkable car / Auto - biography: Colin Crabbe — Matthew Bell hears from Colin Crabbe about his life and career as an adventurous hunter of historic cars from the four corners of the globe / One hundred years of cussed motoring — In the centenary year of Leslie Hounsfield's singular design, Gerry Michelmore explains the peculiar joys of the two - stroke Trojan / Moretti 750 — Its enticing looks have always threatened to outshine its performance, but the tiny Moretti is now getting the recognition it deserves, explains Karl Ludvigsen / The Paris - Ostend race of 1899 — Nick Jonckheere tells the story of the gruelling long - distance road race, and the plucky Brits who took on all comers / Invicta's Baby — The 12/45 was meant as Invicta's saviour, but only a handful were sold.

Body language — Mike Worthington - Williams guide to body styles / Brighton bound — Hundreds of cars manufactured before the end of 1904 made the annual pilgrimage from London to Brighton / Almost a Royale — Toby Ross concludes his story of Jean Pierre Varin's amazing creation / Lon - life Fiat — Bill Boddy tells the story of the indestructible Mephistopheles / The Freehollow Flyer — Chris Edwards found the last remaining Gordon England Austin Seven Sunshine Saloon in a barn in America / The last of the invincibles — The 1935 Show - stand Talbot 110 is alive and well and living in Kent / Swiss engineering Italian workmanship — Tom Threfall describes a rare 1913 Zust forerunner of the OM / They've been together now for 50 years — Harry Field still has the Morris 10 he bought new in 1937 - and still does his own maintenance / A good car made badly?

Quietly telling a dramatic story in words and pictures, this picture book offers a stirring tribute to a courageous young woman who rescued hundreds of Jewish children from the Nazis during WWII.

Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred years - their travels across North America, to Europe, China, and New Zealand, under stunningly brutal conditions - the revenge of rivals, accidents, pestilence, Indian attacks, and cultural annihilation.

It makes little sense to pay hundreds of dollars to ultimately be told you really don't have a story.

One hundred and eight of children's literature's finest authors and illustrators tell both the historical and human stories of a beloved national landmark.

From hundreds of rejections, to hundreds of thousands of sales, the numbers tell the story.

Every night, Baba tells Nour a story, whether it's about the fig tree in the backyard of his childhood home in Syria, or about Rawiya, the girl who disguised herself as a boy so she could learn mapmaking from the master, al - Idrisi, hundreds of years ago.

Tells the stories of the great fortunes made and of great fortunes lost by hundreds now forgotten by history; and reveals the profound effect of the Gold Rush on the way Americans viewed their destinies, as the Puritan ethic of hard work and the gradual accumulation of worldly riches gave way to the notion of getting rich quickly.

As this is a story seldom told, Ruta wanted to give a voice to the hundreds of thousands of people who lost their lives during Stalin's cleansing of the Baltic region.

There are hundreds (possibly thousands) of essays and articles online attempting to differentiate between writers who tell stories and storytellers who write books.

Novellas # 23 is one of a series of books that tell more than one hundred unrelated stories about people in challenging situations.

The Green Belt Movement tells the story of how an organisation grew from one woman's idea to a network of hundreds of thousands of men and women who have planted tens of millions of trees throughout Kenya.