Sentences with phrase «as powerful a story»

Dreams involve us emotionally much as a powerful story does on the large or small screen.

On that level, this is as powerful a story of human perseverance as you are likely to see.

Not exact matches

Stories like Dar's are newly resonant as a wide swath of industries are confronting the powerful men who harass and abuse women at work.

Today, insecurity is just as powerful a motivator as it was when I was young and members of my family all gathered around the dinner table recounting stories about our day.

Instead, the ad tells a powerful story that feels as much like a recruitment effort as anything else, leveraging the topic to communicate Verizon's authority in innovation - related fields while showcasing the important role that women can have in shaping the future of the industry and, in turn, the company.

But as powerful as the empowerment story in a campaign is, the company story has to be just as strong.

The belief that Weinstein was so feared as to be essentially untouchable may be behind the rumors that Bob Weinstein was behind Harvey's ouster, with Page Six reporting that he may have fed sources to the New York Times: If no one could make the story stick before, the thinking goes, someone extremely powerful must have really wanted it to stick this time.

His powerful story has helped to propel Munchery's brand, as has the company's outspoken investor, Shervin Pishevar.

You know, as the owner of The Post, I know that at times The Post is going to write stories that are going to make very powerful people very unhappy.

And McDougal's story may be an indication that in the #MeToo era, it's not as easy to buy a woman's silence as it once was, or to shield a powerful man from the scrutiny of others.

COVER STORY: IN THE DRIVER»S SEAT By Anita Hawser Emerging Asia has consolidated its role as the most powerful engine of global economic recovery — but threats to the region's growing prosperity remain.

While most SaaS companies focus on growth rate as their compass metric, the Quick Ratio can actually tell a much more powerful story.

If god is powerful, as the stories suggest, then he has the power to make it so that everyone has enough to eat.

As a Child, and then as a parent, this powerful story was abhorrent to mAs a Child, and then as a parent, this powerful story was abhorrent to mas a parent, this powerful story was abhorrent to me.

I think it would be a powerful story - especially as the generation that lived through this is dwindeling, I feel it imprtnat to keep these stories alive so we shall never truly forget!!!!!! If anyone knows how I can further this story i would love to hear from you at [email protected].

The publisher's promotional material appears to build on the expectations associated with this sort of story, describing Mariette in Ecstasy as «a powerful portrayal of the disturbing world beneath the placid daily life of an American convent.»

No story in Genesis is as terrible, as powerful, as mysterious, as elusive as this one.

If you've followed my z - theory at all, you will understand that I see the story of the incarnation as a powerful metaphor that attempts to describe reality.

Consider the extensive indoctrination children receive in school about the past; or perhaps more important, consider how powerful the motion picture industry is as a source of stories about the past.

Religious stories continue to be powerful engines of meaning for billions of persons around the world, as they have been for millennia.

If you've followed my z - theory at all, you will understand that I see the story of the incarnation as a powerful metaphor that attempts to...

No being that powerful could be as petty, cruel, and illogical as the stories humans tell would require them to be.

But if God is so powerful to create my story before I was born, why wouldn't he have the power to change it as it goes along?

The new story will be more open and will renounce the powerful image of complete unification as the goal.

See, that's what I mean by muddled... you humans took a little story, mixed it with some myths from earlier religions and decided I was this all powerful god with an all powerful father (that supposedly turns hair on the head as well as beards white if you look at him) that cared about each and everyone of you.

Anthony, I've heard many similar stories as our brother Eugene's, and powerful as they are, I see them as hearing the Lord's voice and obeying it (His leading / prompting to action).

When the two despondent disciples on the road to Emmaus expressed to the stranger their bewilderment that such a powerful prophet as Jesus should have been condemned to death and be crucified, we are told that the risen Christ «began with Moses and all the prophets, and explained to them the passages which referred to himself in every part of the scriptures».6 The story implies that the Scriptures, when properly interpreted, made it clear that the Messiah was «bound to suffer thus before entering upon his glory» 7 When finally they recognized the identity of this stranger as they shared the evening meal before he vanished from their sight, they said to each other, «Did we not feel our hearts on fire as he talked with us on the road and explained the scriptures to us?»

«Not just in one country but in numerous Muslim countries, I have been able to walk in, head held high, no covert cover story and not only identify passively as a Christian but identify openly, work openly and hold serious talks about faith between Muslims and Christians, and not just at the grassroots level of poverty — people who needed my help — but also with the powerful and influential people who could have, in that moment, had me arrested and had me taken out back.»

Those stories turned out to have some viral properties, involving as they did an all - powerful God beyond our perception and a system of ultimate rewards and punishments that transcend death.

My friend, Grace Biskie, wrote a powerful all - in essay about her experience as a black woman at STORY.

A different reason, too, for the literary philosemitism of Ulysses: Leopold Bloom's bumbling personality casts him as the butt of jokes and disdain, but he's also the means for yoking the story of Odysseus with the story of Europe's Jews; a person and a people hounded by the powerful.

(Interestingly, several of these eunuchs will play important roles in Esther's story as the powerless end up controlling the powerful.)

Basically, the Bible is more immoral than moral (Leviticus 20:10 - 27; Exodus 22:18; Judges 11:30 - 40; II Samuel 12:9 - 18; Numbers 31:17; Luke 19:22 - 31; and according to the myth, God, the creator and most powerful thing ever, let his son be killed when a simple «timeout» would have been sufficient), and we'll all be better off when the Christian / Jewish / Islamic gods and stories are viewed as myths, just as today we know Zeus, Apollo, Ra, Thor, Buddha, etc. are myths.

Mehta may be as confused by Lewis» conversion story as Leah's, but the young mathematician's story is evidence that some roads to Christ involve profoundly intellectual journeys and that the moral argument continues to be a powerful reason for sceptics to embrace God.

When Christians relay their stories as if their original «conversion» moments didn't actually count, just because there was a more powerful turning point that happened later along the road that makes for a better story, the truth is being infringed upon.

While Dr. Alice von Hildebrand is best known for promoting the work of her late husband, Dietrich — the eminent anti-Nazi philosopher who barely escaped death under Hitler — her personal story, as revealed in a new autobiography, Memoirs of a Happy Failure, is very powerful in itself.

The word «God» and stories of God could then be understood as attempts to focus more sharply and linguistically the opaque but powerful feeling given in primary perception that something permanent and preservative runs through the becoming and perishing of events.

Some have even tried to tie her story in with modern - day, sex - slave trafficking as she was brought before the powerful king as part of his harem.

I understand the story as a powerful metaphor for... the tenuous...

An accessible book on hearing God today, with lots of powerful stories as well as rich biblical insight.

The brand of Christianity highlighted in this story is of particular concern to secularists becuase Focus on the Family / The Family Research Council are powerful political lobbies with the stated intention of establishing the US as a Christian theocracy.

No one will ever take that away from the man and his DNA is as powerful as that of Chapman within the clubs story.

It's time to take a look back at some of the wonderful memories, powerful stories, emotional songs and perfect times that we have all shared together growing up at what we call our home as after all, «We are Tottenham, We are Tottenham, Super Tottenham, from the Lane!»

Well, it's been rebooted with better animation, better voices (sorry, Peter Cullen), better stories and a powerful princess / pilot, as well as a female (or maybe trans - boy) scientist pilot.

Thats the sad story in «Cover UP» Cuomo's New York as applied to the «PENSIONGATE» Scandal if your are a Rich, powerful, and a «GREEDY PROGRESSIVE».

A reader forwarded a rather stunning story in today's Smithtown News, a Long Island weekly, that alleges the powerful boss of Suffolk County's Conservative party, Ed Walsh, lied about his criminal record when he applied for his current job as a corrections officer.

The swim was also a powerful photo opportunity to showcase what state officials are portraying as a comeback story.

Democrat strategists — as well as the party's most powerful elected official — hope they've read their last story about a divided party.

The statement read: «As part of the campaign of falsehood against former minister of finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala by Edo Governor, Adams Oshiomhole and other powerful and corrupt interests, another baseless story has been published by some online media.

Mayor de Blasio said he didn't see a Daily News story about how a loophole in the city's Campaign Finance Board has allowed a powerful lobbying firm to stay under the radar as one of his fundraisers.