Sentences with phrase «anecdotes at»

You want to have anecdotes at the ready to show your interviewer that you're competent, knowledgeable, and well - prepared to join their staff.

However, the market turmoil was in stark contrast to industry anecdotes at the Solar Power International industry conference.

He was attentive and on the mark with answers to all our questio... ns while throwing in pertinent anecdotes at appropriate times.

He recalled how his fellow priests had in many cases become very casual, and how in Rome «I heard, among other clever and coarse anecdotes at mealtimes, members of the papal curia laugh and boast about how some said Mass and with reference to the bread and wine spoke these words: ««Panis es, panis manebis; vinum es, vinum manebis» — «Bread you are and bread you shall remain; wine you are, and wine you shall remain» — and with these words they elevated the host and the wine in the usual way.

I use it as an ice - breaking anecdote at women's retreats, I wrote about it on my blog, I use it as a sermon illustration when I preach at Christmas: I have all my jokes down pat.

And I loved the anecdote at the beginning of your story... it made me nostalgic for a past I never even lived.

There was no atmosphere - lightening anecdote at the beginning.

I post a daily cute, funny, thoughtful anecdote at my desk.

Not exact matches

These anecdotes suggest at least several different connections between failures of ethics and plain business incompetence.

Sebastian recounts this anecdote on stage at a glitzy event space in downtown Toronto.

A story might be something as short as an explanation of how you arrived at a particular statistic or an entire five -» «minute -» «long business anecdote.

As the above anecdote suggests, my language at a young age made longshoremen blush not because I was learning the words on The Electric Company.

But it turns out those oft - repeated anecdotes are bunk, says Elizabeth Semmelhack, senior curator at Toronto's Bata Shoe Museum.

And though Bay Street types might chafe at the comparison, Ferrante's anecdotes from life in La Cosa Nostra make as good a framework as any for conveying maxims about getting ahead in the business world.

This reminds me of an anecdote I recently heard related by an executive at Disney, about the customer - service orientation of the Disney employees responsible for picking up trash and emptying trash bins at the company's amusement parks and resorts.

My client at the computer company wasn't wholly mistaken in her request for anecdotes.

I haven't tried them out for myself, but from the stories at the expo, along with anecdotes on This Dog's Life, I am not opposed to it.

But anecdotes from the U.K., where the phone launched last week, suggest the new BlackBerry is selling at a steady pace.

There are only a few anecdotes about Bushnell's interaction with Jobs at Atari and about those meetings around Silicon Valley.

One New York philanthropist she interviews writes anecdotes on index cards and sneaks peeks at them in quiet moments at events, to help him navigate the cocktail chatter of the fundraising circuit.

And he offers anecdotes aplenty about booze, drugs and sex — the latter of which he encouraged at his own agency, because «nothing got creative people to come in early and leave late better than the prospect of sexual adventure.»

But at a certain point, anecdotes aren't enough.

Among the anecdotes are some great lessons you can use if you're looking to turn some heads at the next show.

At present, he's hung up on how to incorporate a slew of personal anecdotes.

«Our first Tesla slid off some ice late at night up at Lake Tahoe, and we ended up in a snow bank,» Wozniak said in a Q&A session jam - packed with anecdotes from his life.

At this point, though, I'm reminded of a great anecdote from Nathaniel Popper's recent profile of Goldman Sachs» chief information officer, Marty Chavez.

Anecdotes found online at first seem unbelievable: floor staff cheerfully accepting unabashedly damaged returns, no questions asked; Nordstrom employees helping mall shoppers carry purchases from other stores to their cars; and an often - repeated tale about a customer in Anchorage, Alaska, who returned a set of tires to a Nordstrom location — despite the fact that the chain doesn't actually sell tires.

At times, lawmakers relied on slightly clunky metaphors, revealing anecdotes, and corny jokes.

If you tire looking at tables, and prefer more discursive arguments giving anecdotes rather than facts, this book is not for you.

This anecdote is sure to raise the ire of some folks who feel that Corporate America has become far too adept at avoiding taxes.

Though the time spent with participants during a Keynote is brief, Jack Canfield is a master at using illustrative examples, humorous anecdotes and proven research results to present the most important highlights in a way that stays with the audience even after they've proceeded to their next program session.

At least you effectively invalidate your own argument early on by pointing out that it's based entirely on anecdote, and clearly anecdote informed through bias.

Not only is there no extraordinary evidence for angels, there isn't any evidence at all (personal anecdotes aren't evidence, by the way).

I would challenge not only the anecdotes in the story, which I don't think are anything but lies or half - truths at best, but also the numbers, because the resurrection and the rapture are two entirely different things — although they're both equally ridiculous notions to posit.

I suspect that it derives from an observation found at the end of his collection of anecdotes titled From My African Notebooks, where he expresses his amazement at the great contrasts between Europe and Africa.

Your anecdote is both false and ludicrous at it's base.

They respond to the response over David Cameron's article for the magazine, hear Archbishop Justin Welby's evangelism anecdotes and reflect on Martin Saunders» final column after 5 years at the helm of our Culture section.

I am close friends with a stay at home mom in TN, and we text each other with comments and anecdotes about us and not just our kids.

I shall use their anecdotes to probe at greater depth the various actions of plot.

Cherry - picked anecdotes, easily disproven false statements, and selective omission: is this what passes for «a stunning investigatory story» at Slate?

Anglicans will probably not find these anecdotes amusing, and a few years ago ecumenically minded Catholics would not have laughed at them either.

The messages I received throughout my pregnancy, in literature, at classes and even from friends» anecdotes, was that childbirth should be kept «natural» It's all right to treat pregnancy like an embarrassing disease, but childbirth has been built up to be some kind of quasi-mystical experience that might be ruined if the naughty men with their machines and drugs are allowed to interfere.

An anecdote - we lived around the Bangor area for eight years or so, and so I chuckled at the title of your blog.

With stunning photography and food styling, as well as charming personal anecdotes, Green Kitchen at Home sets a new standard in modern and inspiring vegetarian and gluten - free recipes.

Tess» extra anecdotes about life at the Mill make you feel like you're a part of the family and draw you into making her wonderful recipes, like this one here about their bees.

The memories of Pat's former players, an anecdote from a newspaper article, the reply to a brave question she might throw at Pat.

Bradburd, a former assistant coach at UTEP under Don Haskins (for whom Richardson played), rounds out his story with humanizing detail, including a hilarious anecdote about a pizza delivery that Richardson intercepted on its way to weighty Razorbacks star Oliver Miller.

But while I'd have loved for Florida to end up ahead, just for the sake of my email inbox, I can at least justify this ranking with personal anecdotes.

Velez smiled in anticipation of all those Canadians chuckling before their tellies at his anecdote and began to speak in a lilting Puerto Rican accent: «I'm glad you asked that question.

A week after the release of that Parnevik anecdote, Tiger backed out of a planned return at the 2016 Safeway Open (h / t Eamon Lynch for the reminder).