Sentences with phrase «almost gave this post»

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She felt really good about the presentation: «When we told Larry, Sergey and Eric how many publishers we had added over the previous months, Eric almost fell off his chair and asked what resources they could give us to help continue this amazing success,» she said in a recent blog post for First Round Capital.

The symbolism of the almost biblical presentation gave it gravitas, and when the document was posted throughout the company, it became an object of pride.

posts on ALMOST FAMOUS, two on the SCHOOL OF ROCK, and an epic one on THE DOORS, I do think that among my list of pop - music films, THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO is the standout in terms of sheer cinematic achievement, with only AMERICAN GRAFFITI giving it a run for the money.

I was almost ready to just give up... and then I found your post today.

This part would not post previously... Since we did not have the Bible given under one cover for almost 400 years after Jesus» resurrection the Apostle's taught by Tradition and did so until the First Catholic Bible was published in the 1400's or so, when the printing press came into being.

I thought I'd share my latest findings with this recipe that continues to be a staple in our home almost give years after I wrote this post.

Facebook contest in August 2011, it has given away almost $ 25,000 to consumers who have posted entries to the Facebook page.

Second, for the overwhelming majority of the season almost all outlets gave Dalvin Cook markedly better published odds of winning the Heisman than Francois, so when you say Francois «had odds posted.

But i thought that id give him a break because i criticize him in almost every post.

The Rossoneri made a strong start to the game, with Ignazio Abate going close to giving his side the lead as his cross almost crept inside Gianluigi Buffon's near post.

Bailly almost gave them a gift - wrapped equaliser as Gimenez read his sloppy pass and sent a shot onto the post.

She was my birth photographer and has an almost 2 year old and knew she was up getting ready for work, so I wanted to give her time to plan for the birth and would keep her posted.

I refuse to be ashamed for loving my children and giving them affection when they are little and need me most, and posts like yours are such a boost in a world of parenting «advice» which goes against almost every instinct I have.

I can also tell my hon. Friend that it would cost almost # 1.7 million to repaint the nation's 115,000 post boxes, and given that Royal Mail has 300 litres of red paint in stock I think he can sleep easily in his bed at night about the colour of our post boxes.

Given how the First Past The Post electoral system works, concentrated support can translate into huge gains in seats (the PCs came third in the popular vote — in fact, they almost came second — but a distant fifth by seat count, which is all that matters).

He almost never gave significant on - the - record interviews, reneged on a campaign pledge to post online his private schedule of meetings with lawmakers and lobbyists, and eschewed the public meetings with legislative leaders favored by his predecessors.

She recounts one almost farcical encounter with Brown, in which he asked her to defend him publicly against charges of using women as window dressing, while refusing to give her, his elected deputy leader, the cabinet post that would make her title meaningful.

At the Washington Post, Anne Hornaday noted, «Therein lies the touching subtext of «Battle of the Sexes,» which is almost remedial in its timeliness, given last year's political grudge match.

This last point, which according to the judge «shock [ed] the conscience,» came almost entirely thanks to the testimony of Thomas Kane (see prior posts about his Bill and Melinda Gates funded research here and here) and the testimony of Raj Chetty, Kane's colleague at Harvard who has also been the source of many prior posts (see here and here), but whose research at the source of his testimony has also been recently (and seriously) scrutinized given how bias in his study actually made false this key assertion.

So, I went to the one location that almost always gives me fodder for a blog post.

And then I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog post.

I've also tried giving my ebook away at BookLikes (7 people requested it after a month of trying to give away 20 kindle gift copies), through Goodreads blog posts & group giveaway posts, Twitter, Facebook, LibraryThing etc. and almost no one wants a free ebook from an unknown author (even with lots of awards AND a Publishers Weekly Starred Review).

Given I am using a new data provider (Premium Data), it has been almost two years since that post and there have been other articles on this recently, I figured it was time to check again.

In the course of writing this post I did find a great example flight which was $ 398, using almost the full Max Effective CB rate, but that was mostly pure luck, and the Jetblue flight would have given a lower effective CB rate as well.

Given that the source is an 4chan post, now deleted, there's almost nothing verifiable about the source of this information.

The nine colossal stone figures in Human Nature adapt Stonehenge and Easter Island to Rockefeller Center, but the strict post and lintel design (well, make that two lintels apiece plus a head) gives them an almost Minimalist architecture.

VP: «Whereas people have found Peter Lang to have been habitually dishonest on a hundred previous threads, given that he posts on many blogs whereas I post almost exclusively on Climate Etc..

Whereas people have found Peter Lang to have been habitually dishonest on a hundred previous threads, given that he posts on many blogs whereas I post almost exclusively on Climate Etc..

And in an earlier post you almost seemed to want us all to give around of applause to «the community» for finally getting round to something that should have been done years ago.

[134] On the other hand, another post gave almost the entire standard citation for the case, including the Latinate extension «Clark et ux» in the case name.

Increasingly, in this «Internet age», employees are asking employment tribunals to anonymize their names, given that almost all decisions are now posted on the Internet.

wow, having given a reading to the original post, it looks like almost anything most bloggers do is in violation of the copyright law.

Given the amount of negative posts here, contact with the Attorney General's Office seems almost guaranteed.

I posted an «in search of» message on Facebook and someone I know who works at a Verizon store offered to give me almost all of the boxes I needed.

Meanwhile, wall posts will be less prominent given they will almost certainly be strangers.

ohh melissa, this post really tugged at my heart and tears almost welled up as I imagine how it would be like when I give my little girl away one day....

Your posts not only showcase your work or an event but they elicit an emotion or a response — I love the almost daily chuckles you give me!