Sentences with phrase «by anecdotes»

These numbers are backed up by anecdotes I've heard from many, many clients — from military veterans to women returning to work after their children began school — that they've achieved incredible success in their professional careers with the federal government.

Can we please not go into the engineer thing again — I am extremely unimpressed by anecdotes that seem no better than «we had a cold winter here, so AGW is false.»

The hints and tips are interspersed and supported by anecdotes from the author's personal travel experience in Europe, North America and elsewhere.

My personal experience, verified by anecdotes from others, is that ivermectin has considerable action against ear mites and ticks (which are non-insects) but not against fleas (insects).

Mechanically, it's exceptional, as evidenced by the anecdotes, arguments and videos of its players.

Also enticed by anecdotes of shattered weight loss plateaus, I decided to «go Keto».

The problem with Slide Mountain is that Steinberg's arguments are put forward clearly and concisely in the introduction and thereafter are scarcely advanced by the anecdotes that fill the rest of the book.

I guess that's the trouble with going by anecdotes because all the anti-vac people I know are left wing nuts.

Church doctrine is defined by corporate texts and traditions, not by anecdotes.

But buyers, bolstered by anecdotes and overtures from pro athletes, began to come around.

Either by anecdote, or by asserting that c - sections harm bonding, and nuff said.

«So it could be that the polls have not been picking up on the true feeling on the ground but there's also a very good chance that people are being blinded by anecdote and posters in windows and that kind of thing.»

He went on to accuse the Beecroft report of» propos [ing] policy by parable and legislation by anecdote».

At this point, the movement of charters into more affluent areas is registered more by anecdote than evidence.

I don't like to stretch ideas to excessive length and magazines often want everything to be driven by the anecdote, which doesn't really fit here.

As always, I remain open to the possibility that new evidence may emerge to document benefits from such diets that might justify the risks they present, but for now this feeding approach appears to be simply another form of CAM mythology supported only by anecdote and unsound logic.

Resonances is the second chapter of the project All Of Us Have Sense Of Rhythm presented at David Roberts Art Foundation (DRAF), London in 2015, which title was inspired by an anecdote by Langston Hughes, a seminal figure of the Harlem Renaissance.

The collection betrays something of an insider's club, a who's - who of the»60s and»70s art scene and of Hockney's colorful coterie, as though each drawing is best served if accompanied by an anecdote.

At this stage my opponents and I are arguing by anecdote (we each tell stories that support our views), and that is never wholly satisfying.

By anecdote, Tom Curtis knows of 5 - 10 examples where discussion occurred.

At 12:59 PM on 2 September, Carrick had written: «By anecdote, Tom Curtis knows of 5 - 10 examples where discussion occurred.

Ironically, I'd been very impressed by the anecdote about short sellers in Eichenwald's book and connected this incident to proxy reconstructions in an early CA post:

There are two aspects of the recent presentation Great Lakes Vineyard Confronts Climate Change that need to be considered: scare mongering by anecdote and Bandolini's BS principle.

Not exact matches

Anecdotes of thousand - dollar bonuses by big companies sharing the wealth of their tax cuts haven't shown up in the data.

With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step - by - step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity — principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

He continued his anecdote by sharing his surefire way of get over his stutter, which is to say his favorite word.

As part of the series — produced by Darren Aronofsky and narrated by superstar Will Smith — several astronauts give personal anecdotes and perspectives about the planet based on a place few humans who have actually visited outer space.

This reminds me of an anecdote I recently heard related by an executive at Disney, about the customer - service orientation of the Disney employees responsible for picking up trash and emptying trash bins at the company's amusement parks and resorts.

«For the past week, Sam has kept our clothes clean and has fed us and kept me distracted by telling stories of her life and humorous anecdotes about her family.

Cook stressed the importance of that message by sharing an anecdote from his meeting with Pope Francis last year.

One study conducted with students in a statistics course found that adding three or four funny anecdotes related to class topics increased grades by 10 %.

Fix: Grab the audience by asking an interesting question, making a controversial statement, or telling a short personal anecdote.

From the birth of computerized ticketing on Broadway in the 1960s (originated by a company bankrolled by Edgar Bronfman Sr.) to the ascendancy of Live Nation, Ticket Masters manages to be both thorough and surprisingly readable — even the end notes are full of interesting concert - business anecdotes.

Start by approaching your local media with interesting facts or anecdotes about yourself, your product or service and how you started the company.

This suspicion is confirmed by Warren Buffet's amusing anecdote:

Consider the below anecdote from the latest weekend notes by Eric Peters — Josh

While there is plenty of room to explore this topic in future studies, the data confirms the intuitive claim, backed up by countless anecdotes, that potential drunk drivers will choose other options, like rides with Uber, when they are convenient, affordable, and readily available.

By every indicator, statistic and anecdote, Canada's housing market is wildly overvalued.

Autopilot prevents serious injury or death of a pedestrian in NY (owner anecdote confirmed by vehicle logs) pic.twitter.com / NceuqckqCK

A lot of people say so based on myths and anecdotes, but an authoritative background study for the Mowat Centre Report on EI by Day and Winer found that «there is no evidence in the empirical literature that regional variation in the generosity of the employment insurance system has altered internal migration patterns in Canada in a substantial manner.»

At least you effectively invalidate your own argument early on by pointing out that it's based entirely on anecdote, and clearly anecdote informed through bias.

Second the anecdote, I have linked to an interview of Charles Templeton by Lee Strobel.

Not only is there no extraordinary evidence for angels, there isn't any evidence at all (personal anecdotes aren't evidence, by the way).

Little by little Pope Francis has understood this point, as this anecdote may show.

Finally, if one goes by texts and not anecdotes, the UCC Constitution and Statement of Faith represent who we really claim corporately to be, not to mention the seven recent volumes of The Living Theological Heritage of the United Church of Christ, tracing our lineage from the ancient creeds forward.

She would later recall in a letter to her niece an anecdote about tearing up her own arm with scissors after being rebuked by her mother.

For early Christianity was in its origin a Jewish movement, and the records of the lives and teachings of Jewish religious leaders in that period were invariably preserved in the form of scattered sayings, parables, and anecdotes, handed down by their disciples, quoted and requoted in the schools, and not committed to writing until long after.

Based on anecdotes about Britain and his own travels, Hitchens extrapolates the premise that countries surrounded by oceans, mountains, or deserts «tend not to be partitioned or carted off into captivity» and that «[no] great civilization has grown and endured» without those assets.

Ellison and I regarded ourselves as being the heirs and continuators of the most indigenous mythic prefigurations of the most fundamental existential assumption underlying the human proposition as stated in the Declaration of Independence... Yes, it would be the likes of him... and me... the grandchildren of slaves freed by the Civil War, betrayed by Reconstruction... who would strive in our stories to provide American literature with representative anecdotes, definitive episodes, and mythic profiles that would add up to a truly comprehensive and universally appealing American epic.

Shen Kua was perhaps the greatest of early Chinese scientists, but his writings have none of the conceptual integration of Aristotle or his Muslim and Christian successors: «Notices of the highest originality stand cheek - by - jowl with trivial didacticism, court anecdotes, and ephemeral curiosities.»