Sentences with phrase «by dead letters»

Both thinkers saw texts as constituted not by dead letters but by living words.

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What I found is that Facebook is doing OK, but not great by any means — see one Forrester analyst's recent open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, pointing out that Facebook comes dead last on a satisfaction index of digital marketing channels.

I was stopped dead in my tracks by the pop quiz» «Can you name any of his great speeches or written works without citing «I Have a Dream» or the «Letter from Birmingham Jail»?»

The key phrase in Paul's Letter to the Ephesians is this: ``... even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have you been saved)» (Eph.

This man» a former official of the Second Republic (the previous civilian government, overthrown by the military in 1983) who was once imprisoned by the current regime» told me that in many places in the north, where he often tries cases, Nigerian civil law has become a dead letter: judges regularly turn cases over to the sharia courts even if only one party to the case is a Muslim.

Have we not ignored the Holy Spirit by placing the dead letter / Bible AS our God?

A letter written by a now - dead Canadian bishop shows church officials knew of se.xual abuse allegations involving a priest before his promotion to a top Vatican post and then discussed with Vatican officials how to keep the scandal from becoming public.

In fact, the mainline churches are perceived by many to be a part of the problem — which is why they are called «dry, unfriendly, cold, dead, or dying,» while the electronic church ministers are perceived as those who care because «they answer my letters.»

simply by replacing the popular definition of «faith» and «belief» — the one that includes irrationality and James calls «dead faith» in his letter — with an alternate definition that does NOT include rationality and that James calls «living faith.»

But religious people have used and continue to use some of this language; it appears not just in funeral liturgies but also in greeting cards and in obituary pages, where letters and poems addressed to the beloved dead by the bereaved are standard fare.

In his thick collection of Waugh's letters, Amory starts off by commenting that the art of writing letters has been «pronounced dead as often as the novel and with more reason.»

It is supported by the British Armed Forces Federation, who argue the covenant is «now a dead letter».

Bartleby (Crispin Glover) is a former employee of the dead - letter office hired on by The Boss (David Paymer) to perform menial tasks in a nondescript public - works office.

Relying on a combination of archival footage, the prison letters of the doomed dead men walking (as read by impersonators Tony Shahloub and John Turturro), the reflections of sympathetic lefties like Professor Howard Zinn, and the folksinging of Arlo Guthrie, the movie does a decent job of convincing any open - minded viewer that Sacco and Vanzetti were indeed framed.

Costner's semen is fine, thank you, as befits a self - adoring hero who finds a dead postman, steals his uniform and heals a nation's wounds by delivering letters of hope on horseback.

After absorbing her rejection, Chris allows herself a mischievous act: She packages her risqué letters to Dick in a box adorned by a dead moth and places them on his desk.

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe by Jenny Hollowell Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides * Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride I Now Pronounce You Someone Else by Erin McCahan Life Would Be Perfect if I Lived in that House by Meghan Daum Lives Like Loaded Guns by Lyndall Gordon ** The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender Weeping Under Water Looks A Lot Like Laughter by Michael J. White Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom

Between the re-publication of Mein Kampf and the revelation that Osama Bin Laden liked to keep up on his correspondence (which at least explains all those missives to the Daily Mail signed «Outraged of Abbottabad» that were uncharacteristically gay - friendly by the paper's usual standards), this is very much shaping up to be the summer of the dead megalomaniacal tyrant in the world of letters.

Despite a total disaster befalling my main marketing plan (Basically I got screwed by a then - new Homeland Security rule about packages over a pound and a politically hostile small town postal manager who evidently sent ALL of my carefully prepared hundred copies of pre-pub review mailings off to a dead - letter office somewhere.

She has been dead for years but he clings onto hope that she is alive after he finds a letter written by her.

Exploration bits are complemented by intense combat arena scenarios in which insectoid enemies bombard the screen from all corners while you quickly have to type out the letters or words overlaying each enemy to zap them dead before a single one is able to breach your central position.

Two drawings from the Jane Creep series, and mixed media piece, This is a Letter Bomb, You Will Be Dead in 15 Seconds by Karen Kilimnik.

Dead Letter Men is a new book by British artist Nicola Tyson (1960), composed of a series of letters to dead artists — Picasso, Bacon, Manet, Gainsborough, Ensor and BeckmDead Letter Men is a new book by British artist Nicola Tyson (1960), composed of a series of letters to dead artists — Picasso, Bacon, Manet, Gainsborough, Ensor and Beckmdead artists — Picasso, Bacon, Manet, Gainsborough, Ensor and Beckmann.

In 2011 she published in limited edition, in conjunction with Petzel Gallery, New York and Sadie Coles HQ, London, with design by Peter Miles, a collection of satirical letters to famous artists titled «Dead Letters Men».

By the time a Knoxville merchant turned over the Blount letter to authorities, the plot was all but dead.

Without such access, laws are liable to become a dead letter, the work done by Parliament may be rendered nugatory, and the democratic election of Members of Parliament may become a meaningless charade.

The resume is NOT dead, but it needs to be supported by an on - brand online presence and additional brand - reinforcing documents (biography, covering letters / emails, etc.).

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I have seen articles posted by a few career professionals who think the cover letter is dead — something that is no longer necessary; nothing could be further from the truth.

She has contributed chapters, case studies, resumes, and cover letters to more than 60 books and periodicals, including «The Expert Resume Series», «Knock»em Dead Resumes», «Resumes for Dummies», «The Federal Resume Guidebook», and others, has written numerous articles and blogs regarding career coaching and resume writing for such organizations as Job-Hunt.org, Workforce50.com, and others, and has been quoted in major national newspapers and articles written by such organizations as AARP.

Metes and Bounds: By Marty Douglas — In the spirit that there's no such thing as a horse so dead that it doesn't have one more flog in it: I recently received a letter from a reader of my August column, in which I frankly discussed my attitude toward the non-voter — those of us with the right to vote in a Canadian election, who, for a variety of reasons ranging from feeble to fervent, choose not to vote.