Sentences with phrase «as book ends»

Once your book collection is cleaned up, gather a few color - coordinated boxes to use as book ends.

As the book ends, Cha - Cha faces his ghosts and the family hosts a final birthday party for Viola.

But that said, if I get into writing and the characters don't want to be forced into the hole I've drilled for them, I let them have their way — as long as the book ends up where I want it to, so that the story arc of the series stays on track.

Billions of years later — as the book ends — milder winds, bearing perhaps an eighth of the oxygen levels we enjoy today, sweep across barren continents.

Oddly, that's how Jonah stands as the book ends.

Not exact matches

«The anniversary has already opened old wounds for Camilla, people are being reminded of the fact that she was instrumental in ending this marriage that was described as a fairy tale,» said Morton, who has released a revised version of his book to mark 25 years since its release.

And as author David Rock observes in his book Quiet Leadership, advice can be challenged and debated; that's far harder when people reach a conclusion based on their own answers to open - ended questions.

A spokesperson for First Lady Melania Trump lambasted the book, deriding it as something that would end up in a bargain book section.

She was the latest attraction on the block intended as a piece of eye candy for the onlookers to admire, but in the end, Sue Storm fell way short of her heroic comic book status.

«My brain ended up deciding that instead of trying to avenge my son's life, I wanted to give life as a result,» says Gawdat, who published his book Solve for Happy in January of this year and has given several talks on the subject through a campaign he launched to make 10 million people happy.

Zappa wrote this book as a tribute to his daughter, but the ending is an obvious nod to his late father, who was anything but a conventional dad.

When Wattpad launched in 2006 as an online — and now mobile — community for readers and writers to share free books, CEO Allen Lau and his team were working out of a drab cubicle farm in Toronto's north end, with bankers and accountants for neighbours.

It's hard to believe that an author who has made a career of the «leadership» racket — with book titles such as Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters; and Reinventing Leadership: Making the Connection Between Politics and Business — would now be calling for its end.

TOKYO, April 10 (Reuters)- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) plans to book a charge of 50 billion yen ($ 470 million) for the year ended March, as it closes or merges unprofitable domestic branches to cut costs, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Even though you probably won't end up booking this flight because you'll find a cheaper option, you'll want to identify this price to use as a comparison variable.

Few would have thought Zellers of all companies would end up in the history books as a case study for how to wind down a business successfully.

However, as he argued in his most recent book, The End of Energy Obesity, modern societies have at their disposal the technological tools, and possibly the social pressure, to consume less energy in absolute terms, not just per capita or per dollar of GDP.

For instance, Ajao discovered the best engineers at Identified all cited their favorite book as Enders Game.

At OTPP, Leech went on to have an impressive tenure in his own right, growing the organization to $ 140.8 billion in assets (as of the end of 2013) and co-authoring a book on the country's collective pension deficit before stepping down this year.

Or as Paul Shapiro, vice president of policy at the Humane Society of the United States and author of the forthcoming book Clean Meat, sums up: «It's possible that folks in this field might end up doing more good for animals than what I've done with my life.»

Goodwill is recorded as part of accounting book value, but often ends up getting written down if the acquisition underperforms expectations.

We know a lot from various kinds of evidence: a) the experience of the real estate sector, where recent studies by Macdonald Realty and Re / Max have confirmed the dominance of foreign buyers at the top end of the market especially, as stated for years by individual realtors (accounts often denigrated as «anecdotal»); b) there is the digging of several investigative journalists, and most notably by Ian Young of the South China Morning Post who has boldly and effectively raised issues native journalists have sometimes shied from; c) academic work, including the books by Katharyne Mitchell (2004) Beyond the Neoliberal Line and David Ley Millionaire Migrants (2011).

Additionally, the process of booking demos was drawn - out and inefficient, with the SDR acting as a go - between from client to AE, making introductions and trying to book and confirm appointments after the call ended, and enthusiasm waned.

As of the latest FDIC global capital index in mid-2017, the price - to - book ratio for the largest U.S. banks (the 8 designated as global systemically important banks, or G - SIBs) averaged 1.28, up by 50 % since the end of 201As of the latest FDIC global capital index in mid-2017, the price - to - book ratio for the largest U.S. banks (the 8 designated as global systemically important banks, or G - SIBs) averaged 1.28, up by 50 % since the end of 201as global systemically important banks, or G - SIBs) averaged 1.28, up by 50 % since the end of 2012.

U.S. nonfinancial companies has $ 1.8 trillion in cash on their books at the end of the second quarter, according to the Federal Reserve's quarterly «flow of funds» report (now known formally as the «Financial Accounts of the United States»).

This «end of growth» idea appears outside Canada as well — American economist Robert J. Gordon (no relation to Canada's Stephen) argues in a new book that the life - changing growth of the 20th century won't be repeated in the 21st century.

Even as the shares dipped down below the 1.2 times book value threshold during both January and February of this year, if you base it on a buyback price calculated on Berkshire's book value per share at the end of 2015.

I have made every effort to ensure that this is not simply a book, but a high - end multimedia training experience for those who have the time and interest to use it as such.

Full circle — getting everyone in a room to white board the process is just as helpful if you end up agreeing after two hours that you're going to stick with the most simple plan in the book.

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.

As a kid I used to read «choose your own adventure» books over and over, looking for the right path to the «real» ending.

My colleague Bruce Marshall has convincingly argued that starting with general possibilities Rahner never really gets to the particular as particular; and Reno at the very end of his book says as much himself.

As Bellah and his coauthors write near the end of their book, «We will need to remember that we did not create ourselves, that we owe what we are to the communities that formed us, and to what Paul Tillich called «the structure of grace in history» that made such communities possible.»

Bruxy Cavey, in his book The End of Religion, maintains that Christ never intended to start a religion, but rather saw religion as the problem.

John Wilson, editor of Books and Culture, wrote about Stern's stories as part of a year - end fiction roundup in our December 2005 issue:

These theological visions come from many sources, including: apocalyptic books of the Bible from Daniel to Revelation; a nineteenth - century viewpoint on the end of times known as dispensational premillennialism; and images of the so - called «rapture» popularized in novels such as Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth (1970) and the more recent Left Behind series.

our actions have created soooo many terrorists in muslim nations and even our own we will eventually be destroyed by them and it will be traced to how we reacted to 9/11 and in future history books GWB will be identified as the president that caused the end of america... because of his ridiculous faith... of course all faith is ridiculous but making decisions based on it is the crime...

If it was Dick Morris I would just dismiss it as an attention getting stunt from a guy who makes his living reassuring and fundraising from right - leaning voters and knowing he will still get bookings regardless of whether he is right in the end.

Though she dedicates the book to her parents and in the end praises them for their adoption of two Haitian children, her account of her religious and academic education comes off as pretty nutty.

Good illustration... we often end up worshiping the book instead of learning how to live as Jesus would have wanted us to.

@garbagemouth... A little inspired clarification for you.As far as Jesus telling His disciples «this generation shall not pass away» He meant the generation of humanity from the Flood to the Second Coming.There will be three judgements against sin and its author, Satan.The first was the Flood, the second at the war of Armageddon, and finally at the end of the Thousand years when the evil one is released for a short season... I pity the unbelievers who doubt the Word when the books of judgement are opened.

The metaphor of moving a mountain as it relates to doing the work of peace - making and justice - seeking since my first visit to Haiti crops up often in my life and work — in fact, I ended up dedicating an entire chapter of my book to this beautiful idea).

To this end, he reviews the metaphysical situation to which the discussion of abstraction, along with the book as a whole, has led him.

Creeds, the canon of scripture (the books accepted as the official Bible) and the institutional structure of the church emerged only toward the end of the second century.

The book treats of the signs that will accompany the end of the world, the Anti-Christ, the resurrection of the dead, the judgment, the state of our glorified bodies, eternal beatitude, as well as more stern topics such as the pains of purgatory and the fate of the damned.

As I was coming to an end of writing this book, I came across the advice given by Henri de Lubac, author of a classic study on Catholicism, to Fr.

So drinking blood and eating flesh, doing that all been condemned as wrong in Holy Books and in the end expect to be saved because you had killed some body to take your sins??

I think (my) point being is that you are still arguing that basically... the Bible and it's contents as to «the end of the world» via the book of revelations or matthew, etc...

Or, as a student of Middle Eastern descent put it toward the end of the discussion, «this book is only dystopic if you already believe that Old Christian Europe was something worth preserving.

The mention of the Analects and one other book occurs in the period near the end of the third century AD.11 There is in the book a great deal of what the West regards as obscenity.