Sentences with phrase «by a conversation which»

The steward having discovered, by a conversation which he heard, that it was the intention of the prize master Capt. Amiel to sell him into slavery as soon as the schooner arrived in Charleston, determined to make a desperate attempt to retake the vessel.

I was in a restaurant the other day and was struck by a conversation which I couldn't help dropping into, partly because the couple were talking loudly and partly because one couldn't help being jarred by the language that was being used.

Not exact matches

Sprout Social also furnishes social listening functionality, which allows you to perform better content topic research and market research by plugging into your key users» social media conversations.

By Sunday's end the «conversation» about Adidas and Yeezy Boost had lit up social media, with social analytics firm Networked Insights recording 141,077 related posts — 20 % more than the sum of posts about Nike (NKE), which had likewise set up a flotilla of big - dollar marketing events for the All - Star celebration.

Tinder recently acquired visual storytelling app Wheel, which allows users to have conversations by sharing and creating videos together.

A key difference is «threaded conversations,» MSPoweruser reports, which helps organize conversations by making it look more like a Facebook comment thread.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his supporters have suggested that the now - notorious 2005 conversation made public by the Washington Post on Friday — in which Trump is heard making sexually explicit comments about women while TV personality Billy Bush eggs him on — was typical of the kind of harmless «locker room talk» in which men engage in all the time.

As I meander through the pages of Drawdown - which is nicely illustrated and makes a great coffee table book and conversation piece - I am struck by how interconnected everything is.

To start a conversation about the future of work, consulting giant PwC, led by technology sector people and organization leader, Toni Cusumano, created three different scenarios for the future of work, which they broke down into worlds.

Hernandez's defense, led by Michael Fee, however, spun the conversation as proof of a close friendship between the men, which could lead the jury to question Hernandez's motive for murder, a significant element in the burden of proof for the prosecution.

Fortune and Time gathered 100 global chief executives yesterday in lower Manhattan for a day of powerful conversations about how the private sector can do well by doing good — which, as Fortune subscribers know, is the theme of our annual Change the World issue.

In 2012, social media conversations were driven by confusion over payment options and whether to use them; the following year, the conversations changed to which mobile payment option to use.

I always start by asking questions and listening to make sure Zenefits is a good fit for their needs, which allows me to really tailor the conversation to what matters most.»

A common — yet equally frustrating — conversation we have almost daily, is with clients who are determined to promote their company within the text, or use thinly veiled references which may not mention their company by name, but baldly promote their service or product and think that the editor was born yesterday and won't notice.

The short documentary above (made by a Microsoft team from the Netherlands) is a conversation with photographer Charles O'Rear, who in 1996 took the photograph «Bliss,» which became the default desktop wallpaper of Windows XP, and as a result is one of the most - viewed photographs in history.

For example, they cite Schultz's idea earlier this year that began Starbucks» «Race Together» campaign, which asked baristas to start a conversation with customers about race relations in America by writing the phrase on to - go coffee cups.

The purpose of this sentence is simply to pull people in to a sales conversation by creating a very small foundation on which to build.

Hays has been named a top employer by Glassdoor for the past three years, which has encouraged it to get more involved in the conversation about transparency.

«We have simply noted in conversation with Mr. de Voogd that without the registration required by the Money Laundering and Terrorism Prevention Act, offering financial service could be grounds for criminal proceedings for illegal economic activity, which is a standard practice for, say, pawnshops.

«(Trump's) not going to dial back from his default position, which is a reciprocal tax, but I think one by one, based on the conversations each of these countries is going to have with him, I think he'd be willing to negotiate,» Priebus said.

By this, I mean we can typically find out the answers to these questions by doing some advance research before engaging (which not only allows us to better spend our time, it also enables us to start conversations at a deeper level) or quickly after initiating a conversatioBy this, I mean we can typically find out the answers to these questions by doing some advance research before engaging (which not only allows us to better spend our time, it also enables us to start conversations at a deeper level) or quickly after initiating a conversatioby doing some advance research before engaging (which not only allows us to better spend our time, it also enables us to start conversations at a deeper level) or quickly after initiating a conversation.

If you want advice from a leading business expert, check out Clarity, which charges by the minute for conversations with business gurus like Mark Cuban, who charges $ 166.67 / minute for his time.

By Tegan Valentine Hello and welcome back to Top Five Friday Finds - the weekly series in which we share five of the business news stories that dominated the papers (and our conversations) this week.

By constructing the introduction like so, I've started what's almost like a conversation with my reader which engages them in the content, but I've also included my keyword so that my readers (and Google) are both aware that this content is highly relevant to title.

In Chasing Francis by Ian Morgan Cron, the story's narrator has a conversation with a Fransican friar, in which the friar explains that he was once a teacher and then a hermit.

They tell us that when Gadamer writes, «I sought to ground the linguisticality of our orientation to the world in conversation,» he is saying we are linguistic to the bone and construct our world by talking about everything around us (a self - image with which we rest easy, says Kierkegaard).

Wow — Perfectly in line with my facebook status for the day which was inspired by conversations on TLS.

«You try to have a rational conversation with him in which you carefully explain, point by point, how the Bible reveals that hom.ose.xuality is abhorrent and dangerous, and his eyes just glaze over,» said neighbor Alex Richardson, who told reporters he has never met anyone in his life so resistant to facts that contradicted his preconceived ideas.

The Institute was founded in 1989 by Richard John Neuhaus and his colleagues to confront the ideology of secularism, which insists that the public square must be «naked,» and that faith has no place in shaping the public conversation or in shaping public policy.

I was continuously impressed by the skill with which Drew managed to call out all the b.s. that tends to surface in well - meaning religious conversations around race («stop being divisive; we should focus on unity!»

We get some sense of that variety in the Psalms, where we learn how capacious is the conversation to which we are invited by an infinite God, who is inexplicably interested in our small selves.

We're in a conversation about spiritual abuse — the process by which people who have spiritual authority (pastors, preachers, priests, etc.) take advantage of that authority to do harm to those entrusted to their care.

[Regarding the millennial conversation, be sure to check out my post from Friday, which features Diana Butler Bass pushing back a bit on the notion that concerns expressed by myself and by Addie are unique to millennials.]

My account was based on conversations with most of the Anglicans involved and — more to the point — on the minutes of the meetings, which had been leaked to me by more than one participant.

In the meantime, Mike and Michelle, (who are Christians, as evidenced by a previous conversation in which they urge Joe and Jane to abstain from the aforementioned drinking of alcohol and having sex), go straight to heaven, where they are told by Jesus (the church pastor) that they are finally home for eternity.

Joe and Jane (who are not Christians, as evidenced by a previous conversation in which they brag about drinking alcohol and having sex), go straight to hell, where they are told by Satan (played by one of the church deacons) that they are destined to spend eternity burning in the Lake of Fire.

The reading pleasure that results from this conversation — different for different readers — is not merely the simple pleasure of hearing a good story, but the complex pleasures of strong feelings — sometimes violent disagreement, sometimes frustration and sometimes a euphoric recognition, produced by Augustine's text, of the «beauty so ancient and so new,» to which Augustine points through the beauty of his prose.

He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.

I am haunted by having left a man in desperate shape in order to respond to another who, at the level of party conversation, had evinced interest in «doing more,» yet who had created a world of work which did not allow him to step into another world.

Anonymity on the internet may be desirable often but it is necessary only rarely, and surely in 98 % of the cases in which it is invoked the conversation would be better when conducted by answerable individuals.

Released by a group called «The Center for Medical Progress,» the videos were so explosive that they led to a Congressional hearing, in which Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards faced major questions raised in the secretly recorded conversations.

A debate in which the thoughts are not expressed in the way in which they existed in the mind but in the speaking are so pointed that they may strike home in the sharpest way, and moreover without the men that are spoken to being regarded in any way present as persons; a conversation characterized by the need neither to communicate something, nor to learn something, nor to innuence someone, nor to come into connexion with someone, but solely by the desire to have one's own self - reliance confirmed by making the impression that is made, or if it has become unsteady to have it strengthened; a friendly chat in which each regards himself as absolute and legitimate and the other as relativized and questionable; a lovers» talk in which both partners alike enjoy their own glorious soul and their precious experience — what an underworld of faceless spectres of dialogue!

Sixty people from toddler age to over 80 have gathered here for family worship, which consists of old and new songs and a lively, interactive, Bible - centred message followed by refreshments and conversation.

Conversation is the primary means by which we humans know others and make ourselves available to be known by them.

my basis for this is i have read your posts and i have seen you argue for all of this in the creed... yet you don't follow it... i'm confused and before i insult — which i am in a rather insulting mood — i would be calmed by a proper conversation... please be happy and oblige me... i most likely misspelt oblige but who really cares.

Some of our friends and acquaintances put a great deal of effort into holding creatively themed birthdays and getting their kids into the right dance classes and sport programs, identifying peanut allergies and purchasing BPA - free water bottles, and having endless conversations about the negative effects of too much technology in the home, frequently interrupted by pinging phones and debates about which phone plan is best.

I love to do treasure hunts by asking the Lord to highlight someone for me to be on the lookout for that day, such as a description of clothing, or a name and then I ask God to give me a word of knowledge about that person (such as Jesus «example with the woman at the well), and then as the conversation opens up, I can share the hope to which I «ve been called.

The following facts support this belief: the participation of the churches in the theological conversations of the ecumenical movement, which perforce have had to find their common starting point and common vocabulary in biblical literature and theology; the growing body of specifically biblical theology, produced by the very vitality of fragmentary and monographic studies.

But rather than debate what Luther believed, which probably would be a long and somewhat unhelpful conversation, perhaps you might simply explain to me how your view of justification by faith (whether or not it is Luther's) is not actually just another form of justification by works (with coming to a correct belief being the «work»), as I outlined above.

The Catholic Church's irrevocable commitment to Christian unity requires that we establish and maintain conversations with all parties in the maddeningly diverse worlds of all who call Jesus Lord, which, according to St. Paul, does not happen except by the Holy Spirit (1 Cor.