Sentences with phrase «as this letter writer»

There were also bank statements, reserve estimates by an independent American geologist and historical records of dividends paid out to shareholders — which would have been improbable if, as the letter writer claimed, the company's mine in China was losing money.

It sounds like Tara may be a little awkward during visits, as the letter writer says «she avoids us when she's visiting.»

So, if we imagine, as the letter writer does, that many of these disabled students were denied access to public education, then the addition of teachers was roughly commensurate with the addition of disabled students.

Each student had 1,000 points to spend however she chose: 50 points on 20 employers, 100 on 10 or 1,000 on 1, for example, as this letter writer had done.

Not exact matches

Slant hit 4 million readers in a month, published 9,000 stories from 1,400 writers, its editor Amanda Gutterman said her farewell letter in April announcing Slant was being shut down, as reported by Politico.

At the meeting, Balsillie chose to focus on the actions of the letter - writer as opposed to the content.

Was this particular way of portraying a successful business woman exploitative, as one letter - writer suggested?

Editorial Note: This is the first of six posts in the Life section that is a collection of letters from writers as varied as the choice of topics.

In a 1959 letter to the Catholic monk and writer Thomas Merton, Milosz wrote, «As to my Catholicism, this is perhaps a subject for a whole letter.

In another work, after quoting Ambrose and Jerome, Mather refers to early Christian writers he treasured as «Red - Lettered Father [s].»

The writer of the letter to the Hebrews tells us in chapter 10: «Let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.»

• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: Speaking of books in Portuguese, one might as well add one by the towering genius of Brazilian letters, who did everything that would be attempted by «surrealist» or «magical realist» or absurdist writers a century later, and did it all much better; The Posthumous Memoirs is as fantastic and exuberant and hilarious as any of his works, and is also surely the best novel written in the voice of a deceased narrator.

As a member of the Freedom Writers program (http://www.amnestyusa.org), I write letters to officials in countries that detain prisoners of conscience (as determined by Amnesty InternationalAs a member of the Freedom Writers program (http://www.amnestyusa.org), I write letters to officials in countries that detain prisoners of conscience (as determined by Amnesty Internationalas determined by Amnesty International).

Early Christian writers mention an Elder John of Ephesus, who was a follower of Jesus but was not the apostle of that name, and they sometimes refer to him simply as «the Elder», just as the writer of these letters calls himself.

Now it is no longer «men of God writing Scripture as they were moved by the Holy Spirit» but rather, something like this: «Men of God having inspired ideas which they provided to a professionally - trained letter writer, who then composed the letter according to standards and guidelines found in a letter - writing manual before getting the approval of the man of God to send the letter out to its intended recipients.»

As the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews puts it: Jesus «is the author and perfecter of faith», or, as the New English Bible has it, on him «faith depends from start to finish»As the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews puts it: Jesus «is the author and perfecter of faith», or, as the New English Bible has it, on him «faith depends from start to finish»as the New English Bible has it, on him «faith depends from start to finish».

Perhaps some notes of Paul's were incorporated, somewhat as the Gospel writers drew on earlier sources, but it is practically certain that these letters in their finished form stand at or near the end of the New Testament writings.

In the Letter to the Hebrews there is a direct echo of this when the writer speaks of the Temple in Jerusalem as being «a copy and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary», and when he recalls how Moses was instructed to make everything according to the pattern shown to him on the heavenly mount (8:5).

The beautiful passage from the Letter to Diognetus, quoted in the last chapter, spoke of the soul, and had the entire passage been quoted we should have seen that the writer contrasts the soul as imperishable with the body, which is perishable.

Matthew knew what John knew — John did not have a higher evolution of understanding of who Jesus claimed to be than the other apostles — it is just in the wisdom of God as He used each writer to convey understanding to the folks who received the letters and for our benefit in the ages to come that Matthew focuses on different things than John.

I suggest that a reading of scripture gives us the clues, that John was in fact the last Levitical priest whose task was to inaugurate the» handing over» of the priesthood to the new High Priest, in the new order of Melchizedek (as the writer of the Letter to Hebrews explains it) So Jesus came to John the Levite, John gave Jesus the ritual bath of the High Priest, then Jesus emerged from the bath not to be anointed with oil as the old Levites, but to be anointed with the Holy Spirit and then Jesus» distinction was announced to the people by the voice of God Himself.

Mr. Martin is also a talented writer» as his lively, well organized, and admirably chivalrous letter complaining of my treatment of his book amply demonstrates.

The writer was a lawyer and Episcopalian, and his open letter — making arguments Smith refers to as being taken from «this limbo of defunct controversies» — was published in The Atlantic and thereby carried the weight of the authority of the WASP establishment.

Certain of her correspondence, particularly a series of letters to her friend Maryat Lee withheld from publication until 1994, exposes a disturbing facet of her identity as a mid-century white Southerner: a taste for racial jokes and a visceral distaste for the very blackness of black people which seems irreparably out of joint with her identity as a believing Roman Catholic and a writer of theology - driven fiction.

In the New Testament you can find quite a few warnings against such lack of integrity, so itâ $ ™ s not as if the writers of the letters that ended up in the Bible had no idea.

Tom, the writers of the Old and New Testaments never claimed to be lying, do them the common courtesy of reading them as you would a letter from one of your family members.

In short, there was a creative, peculiar Christology in Paul, and it is part of Paul's greatness as a missionary and a letter - writer to have articulated it.

The «canonical» history of Hebrews is somewhat confused by the fact that while it was used by many early Christian writers, some of them were aware that as it stands it can not have been written by the apostle Paul (see Chapter xix) We first encounter clear traces of Hebrews in the letter of Clement to the Corinthians, written at the end of the first century; but Clement does not say what he is quoting from.

She was as charming and supportive as ever, although I am not sure she connected me at the time to the burgeoning food writer who had written her fan letters during the previous decade.

I have kept every letter and card I received as an enthusiastic pen pal writer in the 80's, including letters from my pen pal from Japan and Costa Rica.

This letter is submitted in my personal capacity, as a parent of two children in Houston public schools and as the writer of The Lunch Tray, a blog focusing on food policy issues relating to children.

In response, Labour came up with a letter of its own, signed by what it described as «a true cross-section of British society» - actors, business leaders, writers, nurses and low - paid workers, including those who work on zero - hours contracts.

Trying to look back at yourself from 50,000 years in the future is like looking down at home from 50,000 feet; it may give you vertigo, as an early letter writer has put it, but it certainly gives you a different perspective.

When I graduated without medical school acceptance letter in hand, my interest in finding employment and their interest in adding a second science writer to their staff came together in the form of a job offer as public relations assistant, responsible for publicity in the engineering school and most other scientific disciplines outside the medical school.

Usually «the letter writer will have a name,» but if the situation merits, «an editor will agree to publish a letter with the byline as «name withheld upon request.»»

And the postcard enabled the writer to escape from the formal and conventional letter writing of the day to present a much shorter, snappier style of communication — just as social media does today.

«Wulf's often - vivid re-creation... a reminder of what a glorious writer Humboldt was... Among the many delights are the quotations taken directly from Humboldt's letters... Wulf properly seeks to reclaim him as the progenitor of modern climate science, as the first to realize the interconnectedness of nature.»

Also as usual, I'm with Susan — to compare your blog to Blair's or any of those so - called «fashion blogs» is for the letter writer to entirely miss the issue, in my opinion.

So agents hired writers to type the kind of letters that would keep men «on the hook and paying» for as long as possible.

His latest movie, Baby Driver, is the writer / director's love letter to the great car chase films from the likes of Walter Hill (The Driver), William Friedkin (The French Connection) and George Miller (Mad Max), all driven by a non-stop soundtrack that features both popular and obscure tracks of such diverse genres as rock»n' roll, punk, soul and hip hop.

The two key sources, however, are unpublished documents he obtained from Gloria Karefa - Smart, Baldwin's sister and literary executor: a June 1979 letter from the writer to his agent, Jay Acton, and 30 pages of notes for a novel that Baldwin would never write, to chronicle the lives and deaths of his friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. «I want these three lives to bang against and reveal each other, as in truth they did,» Baldwin explains, «and use their dreadful journey as a means of instructing people whom they loved so much, who betrayed them, and for whom they gave their lives.»

Writer / director Joe Begos has fashioned Almost Human, his debut feature, as a love letter to 80s horror / sci - fi schlock.

Writer / director Kent Jones gives this documentary a similar treatment as he did in A Letter to Elia.

Despite dutifully following the suggestions delineated in Writer's Market, widely accepted as the bible of struggling authors, all I have to show for my efforts to date is a big pile of rejection letters from publishers and agents.

Los Angeles Times writer Tre» vell Anderson described the film as a «love letter about blackness.»

For those unaware, famous Marvel man Stan Lee awarded letter - writers the No - Prize as part of each comic book's letters section.

The film is set in the distant future of Los Angeles, with Joaquin Phoenix cast as Theodore, a shy writer whose profession is to produce love letters for other people.

Anton Yelchin stars as Brian Bloom, a fledgling writer in New York City dealing with the frustration of rejection letters and of the well - meaning nudging of his parents to go to law school.

These letters form the basis of «Trumbo,» a documentary about the writer's life based on the play «Trumbo» by his son Christopher and featuring powerful staged readings of the letters by such performers as Brian Dennehy, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane, Liam Neeson, David Strathairn, and Michael Douglas — whose father, Kirk, interviewed in the film, helped break the blacklist in 1960 by insisting that Trumbo be credited as the screenwriter for «Spartacus.»

Based on a true story, McCarthy stars here as author Lee Israel who, when her book sales declined, turned to forging letters from more prominent writers.