Sentences with phrase «first piece i wrote»

I have supported PR since 1990, and wrote in favour of electoral reform in the first piece I wrote on joining the Fabians in 2003.

This was the first piece I wrote for the Union - Tribune this year: «Pulsating with «Energy»»

Not exact matches

According to the chart below — not to mention every single piece of research written by Hussman over the past year and change — the first qualification has been more than met.

«Writing pieces for free / trade got my foot in the door and gave me a great working portfolio,» says Laura Viviana, copywriter, «which helped land my first agency gig.»

The first comes from Shakespeare who wrote this well - known piece of advice: «To thine own self be true.»

To avoid the crushing mistake of writing content that doesn't connect with your prospects, you must first identify your target audience before writing any piece of content.

I also wrote a quick piece that tries to explain to non-fans why the series — and first - person shooters in general — are so popular.

«All trade is mutually beneficial or they wouldn't have engaged in the transaction in the first place,» he says, pointing to a protectionism piece written in 1986 by Murray Rothbard of the Mises Institute, a libertarian organization of Austrian economics.

A few years ago, I had my first piece of writing go «viral.»

One of the first pieces I read on the slope of the yield curve, which continues to influence my thinking to this day, was written in the 1980s by economists Arthur Laffer and Victor Canto.

As an editor, it's rare to collaborate with someone who simultaneously aces a piece of writing on the first try and accepts feedback with the utmost graciousness and willingness to iterate.

I first used that phrase (which I have since grown to detest) back in 2009 when I determined that the TSX Venture Exchange at 737 was quite cheap relative to its 2006 high at 3,300 so I wrote one of my first pieces for Streetwise Reports entitled «Sell in May and Make Some Hay» after which the TSXV peaked at 2,400.

I'd been chewing on the first two chapters of Proverbs for a few weeks before I began writing this piece, and when I reached this line again, it hit me like a ton of bricks: The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.

The first piece in the collection, the title essay, was written in the days immediately following the attack, and Amis himself expresses reservations about it in his author's note: It «indulges in... a reflexive search for the morally intelligible, which always leads to the chimera of «moral equivalence.

We have first to examine an actual piece of historical writing (something that critics don't do very often) and then describe a typical event in its historical context.

I still get emails from people who have discovered my Newtape Letters published in First Things, pieces that played off C.S. Lewis» famous Screwtape Letters, asking me when I will write more.

* — there goes your «God» character down in flames, since Moses also wrote every other piece of alleged god - specific info in those first 5 books, beginning with Genesis — and Moses can not be trusted to tell the truth.

In order to write a piece about Christian beliefs, you must first, be a Christian!

After its first performance, the San Francisco Chronicle called the opera «something of a masterpiece» and the Manchester Guardian wrote that it «makes the most concentrated impact of any piece of American music theater since West Side Story.»

I was mad at first, but then I realized that the woman writing the piece, and the readers chiming in in disgust, were simply defending against what they perceived to be an attack on their lifestyle and choices.

It was probably inevitable that questions about written sources, pieces of oral tradition and the editing or redaction of it all would be raised and addressed first.

«The first complete copy of the Odyssey we have is from 2,200 years after it was written... The earliest piece of the New Testament that has been discovered is a fragment of a papyrus codex containing a part of John's Gospel, chapter 18, now in the John Rylands Library, Manchester.

The piece left such an indelible image in the minds of the media and the public as it led network newscasts and became a staple of Jay Leno monologues and Saturday Night Live skits that it would be possible in the future to say and write and broadcast any crazy thing about the first couple and get away with it.

Some of my real life friends have laughed at how I write on my blog but it is how I talk — maybe they just don't realise until it's written down but «write how you talk» was one of the first pieces of blog advice I read and its so true!

Its first projects this year are a motion picture (a new comedy written and directed by Glauco Della Sciucca), a theatre piece and an iconic porcelain cup.

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

In December 2015, I wrote a piece about Brighton «flying» and whether they would make it to the English Premier League for the first time in...

A word of advice Mr Attwood — if you're going to write a piece condemning Manchester City Football Club, I suggest you get your facts straight first.

Nothing like an honest unbiased little rant is there — like Brendan methinks — in fact except for the first line it sounds like it good be jolly old Brendan writing that piece.

When the German first took over at Anfield, I wrote this free piece for The Tomkins Times about how consistently impressive Dortmund's shots on target ratios were under Jürgen Klopp.

The Monthly Contributor writing sample should be an original piece of writing you hope to have published at PALS as your first article, between 600-1000 words.

In this piece from 2010, I wrote of right wing hostility to Michelle O's efforts: «Absent pre-existing political animus toward the Obamas (which of course is at work here), that view seems about as rational to me as attacking former First Lady Laura Bush for «meddling in my child's education» or Lady Bird Johnson for «thinking she can tell us what flowers to plant on our highways.»

But as Malkan writes in her piece, the community considers the pilot as just «the first step to show what's possible.»

Since this is my first post, I thought I would use a piece I wrote when my son, Matteo was just a couple of months old.

«Ecstatic Birth was the only piece of reading I did at all for the birth of my first baby... Thank you for writing something so sensible, so believable and so life changing» - Julianne

Or, make it a favor or advice shower, where each guest writes down a favor she's willing to do for you while you're busy with the baby or a piece of advice that will help you get through the first few months.

Katherine Stevens has been writing since 2000, ranging from her first published piece about small birds in «Companion Parrot Magazine,» to her more recent mothering articles in local parenting zines.

«Until recently having or not having nuclear weapons appeared to be and was treated as a question of yes or no», wrote Thomas Schelling in a piece called «Who Will have The Bomb», written in 1976 following India's first use of a «peaceful» nuclear explosive (PNE).

As Frances Crook wrote in the piece which sparked the row: «Prison libraries are supplied and funded by local authorities and have often been surprisingly good, but so many libraries are now closing and cutting costs that inevitably the first service to feel the pinch is in prison.»

This piece written by a member of the local party, suggests all may not have been as it first seemed.

While it wasn't the lede in many of today's SOS stories — many of which were written by male political reporters — it could be a defining agenda piece of Cuomo's first term.

As I write this piece, the Party School is ready to roll out its first ever batches of one - day Programmes aimed at giving new and deeper meaning to the NDC's running philosophy of Social Democracy, and to also shape the energies of the teeming youth who have come under the NDC's Umbrella.

The paragraph above is part of a piece I wrote immediately after Ed Miliband's first Shadow Cabinet appointments.

This particular piece has repeatedly passed the Assembly and we are committed to passing it again,» Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, wrote in an e-mail to members that was first posted by the Daily News.

Then MP for Witney, Cameron wrote a piece for the Guardian, in which he said the drugs report was the most interesting and satisfying achievement of his first year as an MP.

As I wrote in the first of these pieces, polls show people increasingly think the cuts are unfair and many still see the Tories as a party that puts the rich and affluent first.

So during his Ph.D., he started writing articles for the general public, publishing his first piece in the prestigious science magazine La Recherche.

► «[A] novel analysis finding a link between how U.S. graduate students in the biomedical sciences are funded and their first job after earning their Ph.D. turns one piece of conventional wisdom on its head: Students supported on a research grant are more likely to take a research job than those funded by other mechanisms,» including training grants and individual fellowships, Jeffrey Mervis wrote today.

In the first, they held a real piece of chalk and wrote the word «CIAO» (goodbye) on a virtual whiteboard, which they saw through a computer screen.

James Watson's frank, and often frankly rude, account of his role in discovering the structure of DNA infuriated nearly everyone whose name appeared in it, but it nonetheless ranks as a first - rate piece of science writing.