Sentences with phrase «about affinity»

Salespeople around the country heaved a huge sigh of relief recently after the collapse of the much - talked - about affinity marketing deal that two large independent brokerages planned with the discount retailer Costco Cos. and AmeriNet, a newly formed financial services company.

Cardholders who want to keep all their rewards from expiring need to ask both about the affinity program requirements and the rewards credit card rules, says Honig.

Can you talk about your affinity to this form?

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Newt's whole life has become about his affinity with these creatures.

Steck also talked about his affinity for door - to - door campaigning, the role of endorsements, and fundraising.

And you can read all about my affinity for that word in my guest post about packing a healthy kids lunch on Market Mommies — a wonderful site that connects moms in business with moms who need their services and products.

i'm pretty sure i've spoken about my affinity for peanut butter, but when i looked in my blog archive and found only a single recipe highlighting one of my favorite things to enjoy, i knew i needed to fix that!

Since I'm all about the stories these days (professionally and personally), I think about this affinity to books and why they were (are) so important to me.

If you've frequented this blog a bit then you know all about my affinity for breakfast foods.

The show isn't about affinities and alliances so much as it's about big egos butting up against one another.

Not exact matches

In 2009, angel investors want to hear you tell them about earnings growth, and the decision to invest is based on how much affinity they have for the business concept and the principal owners.

Many of the ads include a disclosure by Facebook about why the user is seeing the ad, which can be anything from their age to their affinity for folk music.

I've already talked at length about why I like Everlane so much, and the company's continued commitment to transparency and serving its customers first only furthers my affinity for the brand.

Erudite enough to write reviews for The New York Times and to quote Wallace Stevens from memory, he also had a strong affinity for physical labor and a history of writing stories for and about men.

To understand why graduation rates in computer science are so low for women, we only need to answer one question: Why do 74 % of high school girls report affinity for STEM subjects in school and yet, according to a report by the Girl Scout Research Institute, only about 20 % pursue STEM - related undergraduate degrees?

Dr. Zuckerberg talks about his son as having been «a good student» and having «a special affinity for math and sciences.»

Among the many events currently taking place as part of Social Media Week, Tumblr founder David Karp sat down Wednesday with John Bell, Global Manager of Social@Ogilvy, to chat about all things Karp — including his dog Clark, his affinity for car commercials, and best of all, his favorite Tumblr.

Dove's site is all about convincing you of their commitment to improving women's natural beauty and self - esteem in the hope that this will generate an emotional affinity to their brand.

The Protect Yourself Video Segments are designed to educate viewers about common investment scams such as affinity fraud, technology scams and elder fraud.

Before moving to London he was a macroeconomic analyst in Chicago, where he developed an affinity for data and statistics that he now uses to enrich — and demystify — stories about the business world.

The apparent irrelevance of distance and the importance of particular personal affinities in the more striking stories about telepathy favor this interpretation.

The affinity between the Holy See and the U.N. puzzles many Americans who have learned to have no illusions about the latter's integrity and effectiveness.

With such major centers of the new evangelicalism as Fuller Seminary now showing a good deal more affinity to neo-orthodoxy than to fundamentalism (see Gerald T. Sheppard, «Biblical Hermeneutics: The Academic Language of Evangelical Identity,» Union Seminary Quarterly Review 32 [Winter 1977, pp. 81 - 94]-RRB-, surely we must be cautious both about assuming flatly a «decline» of classic liberalism and about implying a one - to - one relation between the liberal ideologies, whatever their current condition, and the oldline denominational structures.

The latter are those which are understood only to the extent to which one has an affinity or rapport with what the utterance is about.

All the semiological systems, along with the linguistic system, must be decoded, and, as Ricoeur says, «that requires a special affinity between the reader and the kind of things the text is about» (19) What is appropriated is not a system of ideas but deep values of truth that are imposed «with such power that no further proof is needed to perceive their validity and reality».

They are of two kinds: forces of compression, which by external and internal determinisms bring about a first stage of enforced unification; and subsequently forces of attraction, which through the action of internal affinity effect a genuine unanimization by free consent.

If there is one point about this predicament that Elshtain seems to wish to stress (and one central affinity among Augustine, Arendt, and Elshtain), it is that awareness of the fallen and pluralistic nature of the world «should usher into a rueful recognition of limits, not a will to dominion that requires others for one to conquer.»

These affinities grew out of a common desire to get beyond «liberal» and «conservative» ways of thinking about scripture, mission and theology.

I knew, of course, that it made sense to teach the two writers together, but I hadn't then thought very much about influences, comparisons and contrasts, affinities, rankings in the literary hierarchy and so on.

On the other hand, self - identified evangelicals are linked among themselves by a set of elective affinities, while belonging to a potpourri of Protestant denominations that display only a limited and variable concern about their own existence in institutional separation from one another, let alone from the Roman Catholic Church.

But I thought of Bush's idealism as being like Reagan's affinity for the Thomas Paine quote about how we can start the world again.

Such a «social constructionist» conception of science might seem as menacing to Hawking as it would to Wordsworth, both of whom need to believe that, whatever ontological affinities must be conceded, the distinction between daffodils and stinkweeds is grounded not only in the human intuition about the world but in the nature of things.

True to form, Pope Francis» comments about communion for the divorced and remarried suggest affinity with both sides of the argument.

i long with you david... and i myself stumble in my own awkward efforts toward freedom, and as you said, we know the fact is that it is scary to move into freedom... because it is unknown... but i see so many on this newfound road to freedom get trapped in the liminal space of wish - fullfillment community (which actually rather looks like affinity rather than the hard - won community that comes from communitas)... i'm sure this is going to come off the wrong way, but i'm going to say it anyway: many of the comments seem to be «all about me», and truly that is what religion is... but not freedom, not the mission of Jesus where you die to yourself by taking up your cross daily... not being centered on the «other» rather than yourself...

He never tired of talking about his conversion to Jesus Christ and this gave him a natural affinity with his Wheaton classmate, Billy Graham.

She doesn't appreciate cakes — there's something about the texture of buttercream wedged between layers of sponge that she deeply dislikes — nor does she have an affinity for chocolate otherwise than in the shape of a bar or of course, an Easter egg.

But oh my gosh, I have such an affinity for gingerbread and cinnamon rolls and have never been able to make ones that I «feel good» about eating.

Maybe just me... I have an affinity for just about anything smoked.

I don't know about you, but over the years I developed an affinity for all things spicy, especially..

To be entered in the random draw for the book, please leave a comment below telling me about your favourite vegetarian ingredient and its flavour affinity (ie., what you like to pair it with).

but I enjoy how open Cj McCollum is about his wine affinity.

I've read nothing but great things about him and he has every trait that those of us on this board have been looking for in a coach, including an affinity for analytics.

Being a member is about having an affinity with the Club all year round — not just on match days!

From Men in Blazers: Rog talks with Tottenham Hotspur and England's Dele about Tottenham's noble title chase, his affinity for nutmegs, and his favorite NFL team.

As a big proponent of learning through play, I have written before about the importance unstructured play and my affinity for wooden toys.

In the interview, Catherine talks about how she found her true passion in her work, how she supports both moms and dads during the transition into parenthood, and her special affinity fora all moms regardless of the differences in experience or technique.

«We are about to undertake a grand experiment, to test whether or not we can set aside politics, to test whether we can shed our decades of old pessimism, an affinity for status quo, and instead embrace the innovative, big thinking, risk taking, progressive approach that defines the great cities of this world,» Walsh said.

Cuomo talked to Sean Kirst about his long - standing affinity for Buffalo, his relationship with Tim Russert and how his late father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, is still his best advisor.

When I asked Massey about his Red Sox affinity he described a switch in loyalty when he moved here, calling it «kinda weird» for the mayor not to root for New York teams after 30 or 35 years in New York.