Sentences with phrase «big story work»

Kramer's trying to figure out how to make this too big story work.

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Hoover says that, unlike at the big tech websites that have to do the work of researching and writing stories about new products hitting the market, about 3,000 whitelisted Product Hunt curators simply post a link to a product's landing page, so products get publicity faster.

We all find ways to meet these — whether by working harder, coming up with a big problem, or creating stories to rationalize them.

But Wambach is also making a point that other women have echoed, in a year of major achievements for women in leadership positions in professional sports: Eventually, they hope it will no longer be a big story when a female athlete, or a woman working in some other capacity in sports, reaches new heights.

But you may not know that the traditional way we think about storytelling — to create a big, sweeping hero story — is not the most effective way to use the technique at work.

From all the stories in this book, that's the biggest insight and the true meaning of «work it.»

Everyone's work is positioned as part of a larger, big - story purpose.

For more than a decade, David has been front and center reporting on the biggest stories of our time, helping drive us forward with tireless dedication, hard work and good humor.

Story is about working with a group of people to achieve something bigger than yourself.

Some insiders say the ICIJ chose not to work with certain large U.S. media companies like the New York Times because they don't co-operate well on big stories.

Morse believes that news outlets can effectively integrate brands who understand native advertising in smart, clever, and creative ways, and Great Big Story is trying to proactively to work with brands more than ever before.

The story showed how Canadaâ $ ™ s biggest bank was using a government program to cruelly exploit defenseless foreign workers while throwing Canadian citizens out of work.

In a time when stories were passed on verbally and people had no idea of how the world worked and so wanted their «god» to be bigger and better than the next man's god, the stories just got better and bigger and more far fetched.

The assumption was on the part of the religious that what we do not understand must be the work of a god — except that over the last few centuries we understand more about creation — big bang, evolution, etc. which shows those creation stories to be incorrect.

I am sure that by this time next year, when the man gets up to teach all the amateur fisherman who have never caught a fish about the miracle - working wonders of this prayer, he will have some stories to tell them about me, and how I prayed five times a day, and as a result, caught the biggest fish the world and the most fish all in one day.

How It Worked: The Story of Clarence H Snyder and the Early Days of Alcoholics Anonymous in Cleveland Ohio (NY: AA Big Book Study Group, 1997), pp. 6, 71, 138, 157, 235; and the «Great Physician» reference to Jesus Christ was in common use among other Pioneer AAs, by their New York mentor Dr. Silkworth, and their Oxford Group friends.

How It Worked: The Story of Clarence H. Snyder and the Early Days of Alcoholics Anonymous in Cleveland, Ohio (NY: AA Big Book Study Group, 1997), pp. 58, 68 - 71; and, from several sources, the evidence about «surrender» strongly indicates it involved the following:

Just a friendly update from California that I have now spent my fifth day working on contacting all of the big free speech legal advocates in Canada and the United States (and those important organizations in Europe as well) about this story and the entire issue of Free Speech (which these public figure pastors in the U.S. who are nationally known want to silence).

It might be hard to see God at work in the small picture of that awful story, yet the big picture is astonishing; thousands of children have lived because of him, and in part, because of his tragic upbringing.

Playboy (May, 1965) commented, «It takes a lot of planning and thought to make the birth, life, work and sacrifice of Jesus Christ into a big windy bore, but The Greatest Story Ever Told succeeds almost perfectly.»

The story's overt Christian themes and big questions about suffering, the presence of God, mercy and persecution have made it one of the most challenging works of religious fiction written in the last century.

I was a journalist who worked 50 - plus hours a week, never missing the opportunity to take on the next big story.

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And I work full time my biggest guilt is that I like to go have a few drinks after work mind u I work until close which is like 11 p.m when my kids are well off into dream land and my husband has already read them their bedtime stories.

When I left my job to be a SAHM I had big plans for how much more reading I was going to get done, what new exercise routines I would pick up and how I would devote at least an hour a day to working on short stories or a novel.

We're not getting rid of our new story sliders at Epolitics.com, though — they make the site look all big - time and stuff, and ours work fine on the cell phones I've tested them on.

As political reporters count the biggest stories of 2011, the Working Families Party has a list of their own.

«The oxytocin story has come on like gangbusters, and it's certainly a big - ticket item,» says Jaak Panksepp, a neuroscientist at Bowling Green State University in Ohio whose laboratory began working on opioids and social attachment in the 1970s.

«The story told in most textbooks and museums is that as grasslands gradually took over from forests, horses got bigger, and they reduced their toes to a single digit,» said first author Brianna McHorse, a Ph.D. student working in the labs of Assistant Professor Stephanie Pierce and Professor Andrew Biewener in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.

Steve: There is a story in the book about him going back to Ethiopia after many years — the political climate there made it impossible for Johanson to do any field work in Ethiopia for a while — and when he got back and announced to the customs official that he was the discoverer of Lucy, that was like a really big deal.

The BBC had a big climate science story today probably related to Jim's work which can be found here.

-- Working with scientists, engineers and other experts, and supporting them to engage with the media; creating more opportunities for them to get their voices heard on the big science, health and environment stories of the day.

It is a lot of work and a big time investment, and I have definitely wondered if it is worth it to be a part of, and not just watch the Stories from my bed!

When the Seventeen fashion team works on our big cover stories, we always make sure to call in Nanette Lepore.

The director who is known for his earlier works like The Sixth Sense, Signs, and more recently, The Visit, is accustomed to bringing very odd and open ended stories that largely deal with bigger forces than we can control.

We put a lot of work into matchmaking and our biggest reward is celebrating the resulting love stories alongside our members.

I'm a big believer that online dating does work, but where we draw the line between exaggerating about weight, age and height is different from complete misrepresentation, such as in the Manti Te'o story.

007 Legends attempts to be a big, brassy tribute to 50 years of James Bond, but it ends up a little too ambitious for its own good, with a story that is more spectacle than substance and some new ideas that don't work together as well as they should.

I mean, there are visual aspects to this story, particularly in the contrasts between Capitol and Districts, that work even better on the big screen.

Most of the film works as a detective story and follows the day after the guys» big night on the town.

Whatever you thought of «Rogue One» as entertainment (I loved it), it managed to concoct a story with its own internal philosophy, style and feeling, and when you compare it with «Solo,» you realize that a big part of what made it work was its lack of connection to famous characters who couldn't be killed off.

It's a big story that works on many levels and tackles various issues in different guises.

As with «Shotgun Stories,» Nichols assembles a tense portrait of blue - collar life, while deepening his thematic interests and working on a bigger scale.

I'm a big fan of Stephen King's work, I've been since I was a teenager and I really enjoyed his book so I was quite happy to see that the story would become a TV show.

But the biggest of all is the story itself, which works so mightily to tarnish the queen at its core.

Throughout his Hollywood years, Burnett avoided being «typed» by tackling virtually every literary genre: if his work has any unifying theme, it's the story of the tough little maverick at odds with a big, impersonal Establishment.

This Disney animated film delivers on both, bringing together all sorts of video game characters that we know and love, as well as just being a great film with superb voice work, an interesting story, great characters, gorgeous animation, clever humor, and a great big heart.

A former child star in her native England on the long - running show «Grange Hill,» Asante spent four years trying to bring her story to the big screen, even working on the script on her wedding day and writing pickup scenes while sitting by her dying father's bedside.

Director / writer Joseph Kosinski «s story (the script is credited to Karl Gadjusek and Michael DeBruyn, with William Monahan and Michael Arndt among those who worked on the film too) cribs liberally from other more familiar sci - fi tales, including one recent cult hit which mentioning the name of would likely tip you off to the film's big secrets.

«This method of using a very personal story to ground a plot almost too big to keep track of is one of Yasumi Matsuno's most well - known tricks, and it works like a charm here.