Sentences with phrase «factual stories of»

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Because of their imagery, stories help us remember their general gist more easily than we remember pure factual information.

These announcements come after many companies in Silicon Valley have fallen under a barrage of criticism from users who say the companies created systems where fake news stories spread more easily than factual reports.

Using PRIME's proprietary social media analytics methods and technology, the research firm identified 13 million relevant social media posts from March 2013 to December 2013 on the subject of mobile payment innovation in the context of MasterCard and its industry peers; sentiment analysis shows the majority of posts were driven by news - story sharing 92 % positive / factual, only 8 % negative tone overall which is a reflection of the original content as it appeared in traditional news outlets.

Much of it factual that do not lend itself to understanding contextually, the connected stories taking place.

Those who take «the bible» as the literal word of god would do well to study the factual history of the compilations of ancient stories of the OT and NT that they cherish.

«Attempts now to rewrite the story of this hate crime appear to be based on untrustworthy sources, factual errors, rumors and innuendo rather than the actual evidence gathered by law enforcement and presented in a court of law,» the spokesperson said.

But regarding the creation story, it makes specific factual claims (albeit, internally contradictory when comparing the two different creation narratives) regarding the order of creation which are directly contradicted by observable, physical evidence, e.g. earth before sun, the order of the appearance of particular forms of life, etc..

A Resurrection of his physical body, such as is implied by the empty tomb and by some of the stories in the Gospels of his appearances, would point towards a docetic Christ who does not fully share the lot of men; unless, indeed, bodily corruption were to be regarded as being bound up with the sinfulness of man which Christ did not share (but, unless we accept an impossibly literalistic interpretation of Genesis 3 as factual history, it is impossible to hold that physical dissolution is not part of the Creator's original and constant intention for his creatures in this world).

The proof the at least the Bible stories are non factual are basic common knowledge of our world and how it works.

Rather, the setting of my story and the congregation's portrays my own body and that of the local church essentially in human terms, but my factual portrait of the world is darkly shaded by the tragic inevitability of God's inexorable plan.

-- if i am understanding you correctly the story of Cain and Abel is not factual and is only illustrative of relationships between men and between men and God (but only godwards?)

Lampe details why he does not take the story of the empty tomb as factual history.

(1) The stories and themes about Jesus of Nazareth fall into two different categories, those which we claim as factual and those which we do not.

In his view, readers should distinguish between stories that are both true and factual (like the story of the crucifixion of Jesus) and those that are true but not factual (like the parables of the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son).

In this companion article to God's Way of Acting by N. T. wright, the author thinks the birth stories of Jesus are metaphorically true, though not historically factual.

It never happened, it was an invented story by one of Washington's biographers (a priest no less) and yet, many people still tell the story as if it was historically factual.

There are far too many holes in the whole story, even contradictions in the different books of the new testament telling what's supposed to be the same story... and not things that could be shrugged off as just viewpoint differences but factual differences.

Now that people are more aware of how this scheme works it might be a different story, just as how more people are now aware of how the Bible was actually written and the actual age of the universe to actually accept it as completely factual and as any kind of evidence for a god.

Certain factual information is part of every story in that section.

Let us forget for a moment that Luke's story may not be a factual account of an historical moment.

Whether you believe the story is factual or not, the story itself demonstrates the risks and costs of challenging authorized norms.

But for Dawkins, insisting on the factual basis of the story only made things worse: «It may be based on a historical event, in which case it's shocking.»

A strong case can be made that historically the Christian story is not at all unique, he suggested: «This being the case, I shall not attempt to evaluate the historical reliability of the Gospel story of Jesus or argue the unique truth of the story on grounds of a true, factual «kernel» in it.

kevin, The bible has plenty of rotten apples — bear in mind that little of the bible and none of the creation stories are factual.

The critical reader will observe here (and over and over again throughout the Old Testament story) a logical contradiction, an item suspicious, if not incredible, if judged from the standpoint of factual probability.

Television presents and interprets factual and fictional stories in such a way that challenges to the integrity of the status quo are effectively managed.

We should not be overly concerned with internal ambiguities, remembering the underlying multiple sources and the relatively fluid status of the developing text; and remembering too that they who developed the story were not primarily concerned with factual details, but rather with the dominant themes and their enduring meaning in the life of the people of Israel.

«Attempts now to rewrite the story of this hate crime appear to be based on untrustworthy sources, factual errors, rumors and innuendo rather than the actual evidence gathered by law enforcement and presented in a court of law.

What these ancient Hebrew stories witness to is a confidence in the creative and providential activity of God in the world and the affairs of men, a faith which may very well be maintained even though recognizing that the factual correctness of the story may be readily called in question.

Lots of folks running around making up stories with no factual basis because they fit a certain narrative.

I feel Tough was able to join the narrative style of a novel with the factual account of Canada's work and the political climate of education without sounding like a bleeding heart story.

Factual story in regards to whopping cough - while I was pregnant, WC spread to both of my sisters families, one sis used to vaccinate her kids but stopped after one had a bad reaction, so 4 of her kids have had some v's but no boosters in 9 yrs, 2 have never had a vaccine.

And another study which makes use of automated text analysis even promises up to 97 per cent accuracy thus also showing that rumors aren't shared with the same language as factual stories are.

The real record of NPP's mismanagement of the economy does not appear in the Bloomberg story (as it was meant to be propaganda, not factual reporting).

The statement which contained the reaction of the presidency to the story, the Senior Special Assistant to president Buhari on media and publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu stated that «the piece is not only full of factual inaccuracies».

* Correction, 27 March, 10:15 a.m.: An earlier version of this story contained several factual errors.

«Election stress becomes exacerbated by arguments, stories, images and video on social media that can heighten concern and frustration, particularly with thousands of comments that can range from factual to hostile or even inflammatory,» said Lynn Bufka, PhD, APA's associate executive director for practice research and policy, in a press release.

They were also some of the most studied, researched and documented years, and Hollywood has regularly looked to this period for inspiration for countless films and stories, both factual and fictitious.

The family name is changed but the circumstances are mostly factual in the story of Lakota Sioux cowboy Brady Blackburn (Brady Jandreau), whose world is riding and training horses but whose life is threatened.

Burrough, the author of the source material, has admitted that, although the movie takes a certain amount of artistic license with history, it is the most factual telling of Dillinger's story thus far to appear on screen.

His notion of more being more always distracts and takes away from whatever current agenda or factual story he is peddling to the big screen.

The source material is a novel by David Ebershoff, which plunks The Danish Girl somewhere midway between a loosely factual historical drama and a literary adaptation; besides lopping a few decades off the story, it presents Gerda Wegener as strictly straight, whereas her historical counterpart is best remembered for her lesbian erotica, full of pale young women with speck noses, tiny feet, and chicken - leg thighs.

A robust screenplay by David Scarpa, direction by Ridley Scott as bracing as a strong belt of brandy, and an excellent cast giving it all they've got contribute dramatic heft to a riveting story of American avarice and greed behind the factual 1973 kidnapping of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty's grandson, J. Paul Getty III (aka «Paul»), snatched from the streets of Rome on a sunny July day and held for a $ 17 million ransom which the old man refused to pay.

Little Boy Blue (US Exclusive Premiere) Based on a true story that shocked a nation, this powerful four - part factual drama, from BAFTA winning writer and executive producer Jeff Pope (The Moorside, Philomena), centers on the devastating impact on a city of an innocent child's murder amid a wave of gang violence.

Plus a collection of factual short stories - Bella Bilby and the Witchetty Grub Surprise, The Crocodile Who Couldn't Stop Sneezing, The Not So sleepy Koala, Willy the Tail Thumping Wallaroo, The Dancing Dingo.

Questions in the reading section are broken into three broad categories: understanding factual information, evaluating written material (identifying the author's viewpoint, determining the main idea), and drawing inferences (inferring the feelings, motives and traits of characters in a story, predicting likely outcomes).

Second, the Times story and the response reminds us that the accountability and responsiveness that journalists ask of public officials is not something that they're always equally willing to give to readers and sources — especially when the issue is a matter of interpretation than factual accuracy.

Journalism is at the core of the whole story The exploitation of Henry Sexton's research became the tipping point for Forrest Knox Good factual journalism is often the alarm to the public, as well as authorities, that something needs investigating.

At first Anders's voice was a precise and factual counterpart to Tina's, but the story of his wife changed him into someone who...

That Mary was an actual person and that the letters and newspaper articles are factual just adds to the wonderful telling of the story that unfolds (Diane S).