Sentences with phrase «fail at writing»

If you want your application to work on your favor, don't fail at writing the following....

At times, you overdo your letter beyond what is asked and you tend to fail at writing a thank - you letters despite your sincere intentions.

This was the year I failed at writing a book and had to admit that I was beat.

I even attempted and failed at writing one in an early novel.

Because if romance is currently the hottest genre, and most of the top authors are female, women aren't exactly failing at writing, are they?

Not exact matches

US government sources tell Ankit Panda writing at The Daily Beast that only two missiles fired from Syria's air defenses took off during the actual strike, and they both failed.

Roberts wrote that the security community is pointing fingers at some device makers that failed to secure their products.

He's written at length about how important he thinks it is not to protect kids from their mistakes — to let them fail.

«After an earlier run at settling this case failed, the court observed that some cases just need to be tried,» Grewal wrote.

But we have all, at one time or another, been made to feel like if we didn't have written out our exact profit and goal strategy, we were failing as a business owner.

In a decision released by the Baltimore Circuit Court, Judge Martin P. Welch wrote that the 35 - year - old was being granted a new trial because his initial council failed to properly cross-examine an expert from the state about the reliability of cell tower data that seemed to place him at the scene of the crime.

In a paper he presented at the 2013 Master Brewers Association of the Americas World Brewing Congress (yep, that's a thing), he argues for a return to the «majestic pint,» i.e., not a shaker pint, which he writes «fails in every dimension to promote and support the product.»

In September, with Bitcoin's value at $ 5, Nobel Prize — winning economist Paul Krugman wrote an op - ed piece on the currency, concluding that the experiment was doomed to fail.

«For decades, the failed War on Drugs has locked up millions of nonviolent drug offenders — especially for marijuana - related offenses — at an incredible cost of lost human potential, torn apart families and communities, and taxpayer dollars,» Booker wrote in a Facebook post.

«Oil demand has also failed to improve at the speed required to rebalance the global oil market,» the bank wrote.

In an environment that saw Northern Rock and the Royal Bank of Scotland fail, Iceland's Commerce Ministry wrote to Clive Maxwell at Britain's Treasury on October 5 to assure him that the government would stand behind the TIF in reimbursing Icesave depositors in accordance with EU directives.

If somebody you don't even know has the power to ruin your day just by writing something, you've failed at life already.

And I will say this again, as you have still failed to address it, if you choose to treat the scriptures as timeless, willfully ignoring the context of the culture in which they were written, then you should at least be consistent in that.

I can't comment as to your point, because you've failed so hard at the written word that it's unidentifiable...

He also makes, at the end of his lengthy account of the papacy's failings, an appealing, if brief, case for reform within — not apart from — the church: «I prefer the company of Ignatius of Loyola to that of Luther, or Charles Borromeo to Calvin, Philip Neri to Melanchthon,» he writes.

But then, without fail, I get someone coming up to me after the service on Sunday, or someone who gives me a call on Monday, or someone who writes a letter or e-mail on Tuesday, or someone who comes to debate with me at Wednesday night Bible study.

In a published review of Hamburger's book, I wrote that while Hamburger «tries to convey the impression that separation represents only nativist, anti-Catholic, and ultrasecularist bigotry... [He fails to mention] that Catholic voters in Massachusetts, New York, California, and Michigan... have in recent years voted to reject attempts to remove state constitutional provisions aimed at preserving church - state separation.

What Stephen Neill failed to recognise was the possibility of a tradition existing in Edessa at the time of the writing of the Acts of Thomas that Thomas worked in the kingdom of Gundaphorus.

More than this, he was sensitive to the fact that the writing of philosophy's history can be at once technically competent and narrow He praised the «philosophical greatness achieved in American philosophy, from Peirce to Santayana, but he complained of the cultural chauvinism in failing to recognize it.5 According to Hartshorne, «One might about as easily reach great heights in philosophy without benefit of the work done in modern America as to reach them in physics without using the work of modern Germans» (Creativity 11).

So, for instance, if it is not clear to the readers of my work that my writing is done by an Episcopalian Christian, I will have failed to practice this virtue — which, of course, includes my making clear at which points the materials I study or engage seem to me false, noxious, or incomplete; just as it includes my making clear when and in what ways it seems to me that the materials I engage are true, have taught me something I didn't know before, or may be of use to me and my community in its search to apprehend and incarnate the gospel.

archeologists... she also fails to mention that it is a book written by goatherds who didn't know why the sun came up in the morning and were this god to exist, believing in him or worshiping him would have little effect as his adherents are subject to his «will» so that our needs and desires are fulfilled at an equal rate to hoping and wishing.

So many people failed to fill out that last question that it was obvious they didn't trust what I'd said; clearly, I would need to look at what they had written and decide at what points counseling was needed.

At one point Michael Phayer writes that the Vatican failed to offer leadership because «by temperament Pius did not know how to react to genocide.»

I thought that if I tried to write a review now and failed, I'd be all through intellectually but that if I tried something I had never really done before and failed at that it wouldn't be so bad and might even prepare me for the final revelation.

More than two years later, Luther had failed to answer a number of letters from Capito and Bucer at Strassburg, and Luther implied to the latter that he simply could not manage to write: «So assume that you have been promptly answered each time you write to me.

ps for the link you can find my article which I wrote in Chinese (sorry for the inconvenience), I shared my experiences with my readers that how I failed at first, then with a success at the second time)

This is a quite incredible achievement by a player who doesn't even play as an out - and - out striker, and who will no doubt have been written off by some in the Premier League after previously failing to make it at Chelsea.

I written why I thought the authors post has failed in logic, I may be wrong but I did say that a Right sided AM or a player who could play their for us would be more of a logical choice when looking at Wenger and the type of players he likes to buy.

Arsenal have written off Gnabry from the rank and file of their squad as a reliable Gunner they can reckon with after his failed loan outings at WBA and his unimpressive performances latter for our Under 21 team.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Their opinion, wrote Minter, was that Wally Butts, «The Little Spartan... was left at the gate... Bear Bryant failed to win, place or show... General Bob Neyland was not even mentioned.»

The Villains have failed to hit the back of the net in four of their last seven games as well now, so there is some high vulnerability from them at the moment and they don't have anything to write home about from their away games this season either.

Goals have been the biggest problem area, failing to score at the weekend away at Wigan, when losing 1 - 0, while the two they crated and converted at West Ham are nothing to write home about; a pently and a defensive error against the side rooted to the bottom of the table.

The best player in the world can not be written off even if his Portugal side fail to reach the knockout stages at

The best player in the world can not be written off even if his Portugal side fail to reach the knockout stages at France Euro 2016.

I set out to write this new book (How Children Succeed, 2012) to look more broadly at what was going on in the development of children and, in particular, to take on the question of why some kids succeed while other kids fail.

Ameena Batada of the University of North Carolina wrote in a 2012 report in the journal Childhood Obesity, after reviewing menus at the 50 largest U.S. restaurant chains, that at two - thirds of the chains, 100 percent of children's meals failed to meet nutritional standards for things like calories, salt, sugar and fats.

So even if you're certain you're publishing the New York Times every day — great writing, amazing photos, solid design — if nobody buys it at the newsstand, you don't just fail to get the customer — you get banned from distributing your news to 20 - 30 % of all readers.

In a final anecdote, Wolff wrote: «At Mar - a-Lago, just before the new year, a heavily made - up Trump failed to recognize a succession of old friends.»

Harvard Economist Ed Glaeser wrote a controversial article a few years ago that highlighted the multiple, failed, federal government - backed interventions aimed at saving Buffalo from post-industrial decline.

«The numerous inaccessible conditions at Liberty Plaza reflect a pattern and / or practice on Glenwood's part of failing to comply with the FHA's accessiblity requirements...» the government wrote in the suit.

As for the backdated checks that Paterson wrote to cover the costs of the two tickets he secured for his son and his son's friend (at $ 425 a pop; recall that the governor never paid for his own ticket, arguing he attended the game in a professional capacity), Kaye failed to find evidence of falsification and therefore is not recommending any criminal charges.

«We are astounded at the length of time it has taken for News International to cooperate with the police but we are appalled that this is advanced as a reason for failing to mount a robust investigation,» wrote members of the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee in the report.

Less famously, she wrote a book as a result of her failed attempt to legislate against boobs at the breakfast table.

Also: Fire may be opened to forcefully stop any vehicle that fails to stop at a checkpoint or road block when ordered to stop for search; automatic fire will only be opened as a last resort; avoid collateral damage; after fire has ceased, render medical assistance and record details of incident both in writing and using audio / visual equipment whether or not casualty has been recorded; and whenever in doubt, seek clarification from higher headquarters.