Sentences with phrase «against books of»

Because of these large submission numbers, we are able to break down our contest into 140 + genres, and each genre is judged separately, ensuring you only compete against books of your specific genre for a fairer and more accurate competition.

Because of these large submission numbers, we are able to break down our contest into 140 + genres, ensuring you only compete against books of your particular genre for a fairer and more accurate competition.

Not exact matches

Against the conventional wisdom of continual digital progress, printed books might very well be with us for the long haul for reasons that aren't entirely logical.

The U.S. Justice Department filed criminal charges against a unit of Panasonic for falsifying financial books and records to conceal payments to sales agents.

But instead of paying for a program — as you would a book or movie on Amazon — you'd get an incentive: a credit, maybe, to be used against your health insurance premium, or a free download at Amazon, or a discounted checking account at Chase.

Daniel Klier, HSBC's head of strategy, told the FT that HSBC would «disclose [its] carbon footprint and stress test [its] lending book against carbon pricing.»

Her books included «Postcards from the Edge,» a satirical account of her struggles against bipolar disorder.

While Steel established the soundness of his suggestions in laboratories (and continues to collect data via free diagnostic tests offered on his website, procrastinus.com), he has always been his own Patient Zero, inoculating himself against his bad habits with life hacks like those outlined in his book.

Rush casts its net wide; there's a macroeconomic argument woven through the book that makes the case against taxation structures that are redistributive to the point of dampening the urge to succeed.

One alarming theme of the book for a lot of business owners is that once you reach a certain point of success or a certain point of wealth, it actually can work against you and become a disadvantage.

With the deal, Indigo has cashed out on an investment that was expected to provide a buffer against the decline of its traditional book - selling business.

But what I liked best about the book is how it engages with what I see as one of the most important and difficult social - policy questions of our time: How do we unstack the deck and, at the same time, get people to take ownership over improving their own lives and communities even when they reasonably believe that the deck is stacked against them?

Cynthia Tice found that to be the case when she and her co-founder launched Lily's Sweets in 2011, when public sentiment was turning against foods high in sugar (thanks in part to books such as Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health).

Steve's new book, Ditch the Pitch: The Art of Improvised Persuasion, makes the case against a standard sales...

When all the current bookings are measured against supply for 2017 and 2018, First Solar expects to only have 300 to 500 MW of Series 4 supply left over.

In his book «Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk» (1996), Peter Bernstein makes a good point about what's at stake in the debate:

Alfie Kohn is the author of four books, including No Contest: The Case Against Competition and the newly published Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes, from which this article is adapted.

Nearby, an elliptical trainer that someone worked out on — or always intended to — was tipped against a mound of waterlogged books and wall board.

This question and more is answered in new book, Survive and Thrive: Winning Against Strategic Threats to Your Business, featuring a collection of insights by strategy professors at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.

Peter Bernstein, author of the fascinating book on risk Against the Gods has noted that historically, low dividend payouts have a striking correlation with low earnings growth over the following decade.

It's competing against rivals Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to become — in the words of Apple's late co-founder, Steve Jobs — the «digital hub» in people's lives, the place they go to watch movies and TV shows, listen to music and read books.

Dollar claws back ground after Beige Book; Canadian dollar sells off after BOC decision Bank of Canada leaves interest rates unchangedThe U.S. dollar edges slightly higher against its main rivals on Wednesday as the British pound falls from a new post-Brexit high on disappointing inflation data, and the Canadian dollar slips as the Bank of Canada left rates unchanged.

The decision has the effect of the removing the fiduciary rule from the books, say attorneys who argued against the DOL rule.

Price - to - book (P / B) ratio is another popular tool for measuring the price of a stock or index against its per - share book value (total assets minus intangible assets and liabilities).

Although the details of Comey's contract with Macmillan aren't public, most book contracts will give an advance against royalties and then pay a set percentage of the book's list price outlined in the contract.

Hedge fund manager Seth Klarman, the value investing giant who often draws comparisons to Warren Buffett, wrote in his classic «Margin of Safety» book an illuminating parable warning against speculation:

For the same reason, British Columbia, whose minority NDP government is against the imminent expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, is in his bad books.

The FHA keeps a book of rules and says, «so long as you make loans that follow these requirements, we will insure those loans against loss.»

It features Ryan Holliday, whose latest book provides a behind the scenes look at the story of how Peter Thiel secretly funded Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker Media.

Throughout the years, films, books, songs, games and more have told the story of the men who heroically died there defending the mission against the -LSB-...]

Can't believe they allow people to make laws against a minority group based on some book that was written by men thousands of years ago (and revised countless times).

What they are threatened by are the actions and atatudes [deliberate typo due to ridiculous moderation AI] of those who do profess belief in those deities, and feel justified by their beliefs and holy books to discriminate against those of differing beliefs.

i don't need a book of fairy tales to know that violence against women is unacceptable.

Atheists are not out protesting against equal rights or basing equal rights off of a book written 2000 years ago.

im glad no - one believes in demons - the devil or god — and they try to rationalise everything — and discredit the bible — just shows me where we are at in the holy book — see if i remember, the end times come when «scorners and scoffers abound» when — wrong is called right and right is called wrong — and people would be married and given in marriage as in the daysd of noah --- sodom and gammorah had gay issues badly - im just gonna laugh and alaugh and laugh when ya «ll burn - do me a favor — at least read the bible once — see what it says before you — go against it.

People like Richard Dawkings can, instead of doing science, can produce thin diatribes against religion and make a fortune on book sales.

the abundance of purely uneducated Muslim believers, their oppressive existence in their self created repressive regimes, lifestyles, and governments, their radical inturpitations of their fairy tale book, the fact that their culture and people have contributed less to man kind than any other culture and people of all the earth, their self ritious belief system that empowers them to commit atrocious crimes against humanity, the muslim men prance around in flip flops and linen moo moo's while they lock their woman in their household prisons to be abused slave - wife's, are entirely too ignorant to even build sewer systems and even after thousands of years that other cultures have developed running water toilets, toilet paper, and effective sewerage systems, they still whipe their pood - cracks with one hand (no paper) and eat with the other, and yiddle to the sky just before detonation of their suicide bombs that murder innocent men, woman, children, and babies.

They do not follow satan in ANY way and we follow the Bible as well as the Book of Mormon, which has nothing about following satan or anything against the will of God.

Catholic News Agency: «Exorcist» author prepares canon lawsuit against Georgetown The author of the best - selling book and award - winning screenplay «The Exorcist» has announced that he is leading an effort to file a canon lawsuit against Georgetown University for failures to live up to the demands of the school's Catholic identity.

As it happens, the Times Literary Supplement gave the book to the philosopher Anthony Kenny to review, perhaps because he could never be accused of any parti pris in this debate, since he has in the past leveled his own severe criticisms against classical Christian theism for relying on an «outdated Aristotelian cosmology.»

Dreher's book is a bracing read, reminding us that the life in Christ is a communal life and that it often requires us to live against the grain of the larger culture.

Against All Odds, then, doesn't replace previous works on survivors, such as Dorothy Rabinowitz's 1979 book New Lives, which included, for example, a gripping account of a confrontation between the survivor Stella and the woman who had once guarded her at Maidanek.

In this place I could read and still think that I was part of what held up a wall against any philistinism that would attempt to violate the quiet grandeur of what the history of Galveston in its archives and rare books contained.

It is no coincidence that the American political scientist who has written most extensively on Ibero - Latin corporatism, Howard Wiarda, also wrote an exasperated book aimed at would - be exporters of American - style democracy called Civil Society, which would better have been called Against Civil Society as Tocqueville Understood It.

The summer I came to faith, my friend gave me a copy of The Cost of Discipleship [SCM Press], Bonhoeffer's most famous book, and he told me the story of this man who, because of his faith, spoke up for the Jews in Nazi Germany and got involved in the plot against Hitler.

I'm surprised she concludes this way, because the early chapters of her book poke fun at her family and church's frequent involvement in protests against abortion and homosexuality.

If you don't believe me, then you have never tried to live or work in a Mormon - dominated area — they have no compunction whatsoever against lying or by - passing laws to get ahead at the expense of what they refer to as «gentiles» and shamelessly promote their own members (they literally keep a book of apostates and people like me who are unhireable, etc. once listed there).

The most unsettling part of this book is Le Rider's gentle hint throughout that when the Viennese modernists hurled themselves against the norms and values of their society, they were chafing against mere gossamer chains and bridles of cotton.

I think it is the act of desecrating such a powerful symbol is what ticks people off which is understandable but to kill someone because of it goes against the same book they are defending!

To establish modern republican democracy the way our Founders did means to enter into a perpetual race against the triumph of crude, but home - grown, democratic mindsets (see Republic book VIII, or Tocqueville's discussions of a «desire for equality» throughout Democracy in America), and a perpetual multi-sided persuasion - battle against a host of more sophisticated but nonetheless errant democratic mindsets built upon the cruder ones.