Sentences with phrase «at tales told»

He always smiled at the tales I told of Alexander the Great marching across 11,000 miles of territory and conquering much of the known world at that time.

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To combat feelings of stress, anxiety or worry, let's take a look at seven tell - tale signs you're headed for a stress - induced breakdown, and discover what you can do to stop this from happening.

Average growth rates tell a more dramatic tale; here the best - financed companies at start - up pulled far ahead, expanding sales by 2,074 % in five years, nearly 60 % faster than the «less than $ 1,000» set and 82 % faster than the «$ 20,000 or less» group as a whole.

Earlier this week the Yale - educated mathematician, only one month into his new gig as a Googler, told the tale of how he snagged a coveted software engineer position at Google in a revealing blog post on The Hustle.

Clients who have become friends tell countless tales of meeting him at the end of one of his 12 - hour seminar days — Robbins exhausted from giving out as much energy as a nuclear power plant to a room of thousands of acolytes — because he wanted to help with a project or problem, even at 2 a.m. «The secret sauce with Tony is that he recognizes that he's not in the transaction business,» says Guber.

For all the misplaced criticisms aimed at lawmakers» attempts to unpack Zuckerberg's brain — or push him off script — the CEO's testimony told a chilling tale of an immature company seemingly untended and out of control, scrambling to establish mechanisms aimed at preventing the bad stuff from ever happening again.

This weekend, over 100,000 new Coinbase accounts were opened, presumably by people who had an overzealous nephew at their Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, telling tales of unbridled riches and the wholesale changing of the world that is most assuredly imminent thanks to crypto currency.

One manifestation of Finance's power has been the increasing tendency to use the tax system to deliver social and industrial policy — a quick glance at the Department of Finance's annual, ever - expanding Tax Expenditures report (first introduced under the short - lived Joe Clark government) tells the tale.

One must not forget that the scriptures tell tales of satanic crowds rising above our folds» Christian constabularies and in their controlled leveraging, they set the word's stage up for unifications of villainous servitudes all waging for totalitarianism values at the behest of an anti-Christian «demonocracies» we know to be as democracies.

However, this tale of the «drunk priest» named «Albert Marie, age 46» of Sireuil and speeding at «120 kph» before killing Mrs. Anderson has been told to LDS missionaries in France as recently as 2010 that we can validate.

In the attempt to keep their children «innocent» and «free,» parents tell their children a different type of fairy tale, a modern American story: everyone loves you because you're special, you are good at everything you try, and if you work hard enough and be a good little boy or girl, you'll be successful.

at the end of the day i'd rather have an agnostic or atheist as president than someone who believes in some fairy tale, or thinks that god tells people what to do, or that religion is necessary for morals.

Sure, some Christians «think for themselves» but, at least in some small degree, they rely on poems and fairy tales and, critically, what they are told by others are the «rules», to guide their behavior.

Laughing when the scandal of the boys» dubious parentage becomes known, Anne Boleyn says to Henry, «They could tell Boccaccio a tale, those sinners at Wolf Hall.»

If someone was born in Saudi Arabia, they would be Muslim and if they were born in the US, they would be Christian... It's up to them to figure out that religion is a crock before they waste their whole life worshiping a non-existent friend in the sky and believing in a book full of fairy tales... My favorite fairy tale is about the guy who was told not to look behind and was turned into a block of salt when he disobeyed the command and took a peak... lol... I was raised christian but I had too many doubts and questions especially after our scandalous pastor took the money that was raised to build a new church building and disappeared into thin air with the loot... lol... After I ditched religion, I had a peace of mind and I am still at peace...

In effect, Alain Besançon, the director of studies at L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, has decided in The Forbidden Image to take upon himself the task of being the one who will tell us this «moving tale.»

I had a blast recording the narration for this book at Paragon Studios in Nashville (in the very booth, I am told, where Larry the Cucumber records his lines for Veggie Tales productions), and would be honored to accompany you on your next road trip or morning run.

It's just at book about how a localized group of people tell a tale of creation.

Continue to share because although our pain never completely disappears, and the scars pull constanly at our healthy surrounding skin, we are authentic survivors and worthy to tell the tale.

I listen, fascinated, when people tell their stories at the front and I hear of their own individual challenges and joys and tales of how Jesus has touched their lives.

These tales had been preserved by the women as they gathered with their water bottles at the wells, by the men as they chatted around the campfires and as they told the stories of the great past to their young sons.

Despite these technical virtues, however, Garrow's is at best a half - told tale.

So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out — And take upon's the mystery of things As if we were God's spies...

But a look at his supporters tells a different tale.

And you think it is your job to tell everybody that rejects jesus as at best a fairy tale on how to lead their lives, how arrogant!

Michael Paterniti is a correspondent at GQ and the author of The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese.

While the wine itself is awesome (I'll never turn down fine Fiorano from Lazio with age), it was more about the chance to hear Dalton — who tends to take on the host role at these dinners — tell the story behind the wine, a convoluted tale involving an eccentric prince and his mold - covered caves.

Every time Liverpool got the ball they ran at us; count their side and back passes compared to ours, they will tell a tale.

This translates as the rather admirable «the prize and the cause of our labours,» a worthy sentiment that was, according to at least one tale told on a forum, at one accidental point debased by the club.

The offense was young, but inconsistency at one specific position told the tale.

Mora and offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone went all - in on youth at the start of the season and have lived to tell the tale.

At the end of last month, there was the exciting announcement of a new F1 documentary on Williams — telling the tale of the iconic and historic team.

Jack was nimble Jack was quick but now his ankle made him sit The crowd called out for another DM as the season flew away My Kingdom for a striker as the Gaffer told his tale I can make a silk purse from a sow's ear by casting pearls before wines and her face at first just ghostly turned a whiter shade of blue.

Ahmed Kadoim, a FIFA - recognized referee who fled Iraq in December, tells a similar tale of torture at Uday's hands after he refused to fix a soccer game last May.

Trend bible Vogue tells tales of head - to - toe parma violet on the Spring / Summer catwalk at Victoria Beckham, lemon sorbet at Hermès and extra scoops of pistachio at Sies Marjan.

In his 2015 album, comedian / writer / senior editor at MAD Magazine Dan Telfer tells the tale of «The Princess Potty» — and how it helped his children decide that ghosts were real.

About the author: Genie Gratto blogs about gardening and food at The Inadvertent Gardener, and tells very short tales at 100 Proof Stories.

When looking at dressers and shelving units, there are several tell - tale signs whether a piece has the quality to remain durable over the years.

What continues to be lost, in my view, in much of what the media has reported over the last six years about the results of autopsies conducted by researchers at the Sports Legacy Institute in Boston on the brains of athletes - autopsies which show the presence of the dark splotches of tau protein which are the tell - tale sign of CTE - which is that they provide, at most, anecdotal evidence suggesting a possible connection.

(While I tell you this little tale, I'm going to walk you through morning chores at the farm.

While you can make up a tale about anything (you can start with whatever your toddler is into at the time — superheroes, trains, princesses, etc.), you also can tell him stories about when he was a baby, just like his new sibling.

He's still around to tell the tale and none the worse for the experience — at least not unless you count people asking him about a certain part of his anatomy, which apparently people regularly do.

It can be hard to tell what's really a safety concern and what's an old wives» tale when you're pregnant and so many well intended people will hurry to dispense even more confusing information that could just be a myth and not information at all.

Although your belly may be slightly protruding and you're feeling swollen and bloated all over, you are not yet at the stage of pregnancy where you will experience a massive tell - tale bump indicating that you're expecting.

Sometimes your baby demands to be fed when you're in the middle of housewares at Target, causing your milk to soak two tell - tale circles through the front of your T - shirt while you figure out a way to casually nurse standing up behind the hanging shower curtain samples.

«What this simply meant was that at least an amount of GHc3.6 billion would be provided for in the budget to cater for the needs of an estimated 840,000 SHS students due to be in school in the 2016/2017 Academic year.Paragraph 575 of the Budget Statement however paints a completely different picture and tells a tale of total deception.

Dozens of supporters, including numerous Democratic candidates at national and local levels, celebrated 100 years of Planned Parenthood yesterday, telling tales of its impact on them and promising continued support.

The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo told the tale of the toad at the Asiwaju Bola Tinubu Colloquium recently in Lagos.

His reputation for eloquence was secured at the 1984 Democratic National Convention when he delivered his «Tale of Two Cities» keynote address, in which he told of the lessons he learned as the son of a grocer in New York City.

«The tale of two cities is still true today — that the wealthy and the powerful have one reality, and the poor and the voiceless have another reality,» Cuomo told worshippers at God's Battalion of Prayer Church in East Flatbush.