Sentences with phrase «fits the story of»

The music from Jose Feliciano and Elvis Costello is terrific and comfortably fits a story of love and aging and illness, while also reminding us... once a starlet, always a starlet, even when the star has faded.

Not exact matches

The gesture is fitting — Bouchard's transformation of Alimentation Couche - Tard from a single convenience store into a $ 35 - billion retail empire is one of the country's more successful business stories of the past 40 years — but 2016 has not been without its trials.

Avenatti told CNBC on Monday, «Even if you're the president of the United States, you can not simply fabricate a story in order to fit your strategic purpose.»

Al Gurg says that the Baidu story is a testament to the type of foresight that Dr. Tan has, including his approach to being focused on the scrupulous curation of potential investees to ensure that they are the right fit, as Toubayly explains and adds, «He doesn't go around investing in startups and then seeing which one will work.

Watching the video below, from Great Big Story, I couldn't help think of how many people want to become more fit but accept physical limitations others get past.

«Long story short, the punishment of Amazon's stock doesn't fit the non-existent crime,» he said.

If oil is all that really matters in the economic story of the Harper years, I'm not sure how to fit certain staggering sums into the narrative.

Still, the story matters because it fits into a broader pattern of payoffs, including from AMI, being used to cover up stories about Trump sex scandals.

Our site is made up of many pages, but ultimately, this one page shares what's most important — the real stories of people using FlexJobs to successfully find jobs that better fit their lives.

This story fits in so well, what you said Stalin did, was exactly what Blockstream people did, they all kicked out the real people that supported and promoted the actual original idea and system (in this case Bitcoin system) and then using censorship, propaganda and army of USEFUL IDIOTS to fight their dirty wars, try to take out the original idea, and replace the system with some other shit that will benefit them.

The leaders sort through a mass of ideas to find the ones that fit into a coherent whole — that support the story — which is a very difficult task.

Bitcoin, with no intrinsic value of its own, fits Shiller's definition to a T. «There are lots of cryptocurrencies, but none of them has as good a story,» he says.

@ jack3 no you have the right to believe what ever you want, but we might mock you for believing in something that has talking snakes, a story about the world flooding and being able to fit all the animals on the planet on one boat, that believes in magic, that believes a person lived in the belly of a whale, and that people coexisted with dinosaurs all without any actual proof.

The point is what the bible says happened didn't happen as the bible says, and no amount of twisting the story to fit the facts will change that.

Or did some 1st century evangelists make up a character who fit and fulfilled the fantasy story of those primitive men.

As a 600 AD, Muslim traveller noted, the Hindu Brahmins, who were the keepers of the faith keep changing their histories and stories to fit their needs.

This story about the Hajj does not fit that model well - so most of the rabid posters can not understand what it is about.

And in the nicest possible way, this is what you are doing ALREADY... you are trying to «spin» this story and to «justify» it to fit with your current belief schema instead of just recognizing the overly obvious that it isn't real.

A profoundly moving story of simply very decent people refusing to change the scope of their humanity to fit the times they were living in.

It's a picture made to reference the essence of the story and in this case fits it perfectly.

The «fulfillment» of old - time stories was contrived to fit the «prophesied» scenarios.

Summary: Christians see themselves as persecuted because the myth of their persecution fits into the story they are told in the bible.

People of God have a way of trying to fit everything into a «perfect little box», when the real story may be different from what they believe to have happened.

Since the stories of the Bible remain so central to who we are as a culture, even today (and even for those who dismiss it), it seems entirely fitting that we should be equally interested in the ancient people who composed them.

By executing murderers, we are trying to tell a different story: a story with poetic closure, a tale of punishment that fits the crime.

With some variations we have first a story that fits the situation confronted by Jesus in his ministry, reflects the social customs of Palestine in his day, and illustrates a point characteristic of his teaching.

The Bible is trying to tell us a story, and when we try to make all the details fit our preconceived notion of what really happened, we end up losing the force of the story.

In fact, it used to frustrate me that the story of Jesus contained no one - size - fits - all method of evangelism.

Unlike Hollywood, the Christian media does have a spiritual directive to tell the whole truth, rather than alter a story to fit the preferences of an intended audience.

Experienced speakers know that there is no better way to make a point than to use an apt illustration, and a good story that fits the point is the most effective kind of illustration.

«One of the most striking recent trends in the American religious landscape has been the growing share of the unaffiliated, and this study allows us to see where Latinos fit into that story,» said Cary Funk, a senior researcher at the Pew Research Center and one of the co-authors of the study.

It's a collection of stories handed through generations, finally written and rewritten countless times, changed by scribes to fit their own preconceived ideas, and so forth.

This is fitting because Innocent's heart could so easily be embittered but instead it exudes a story of God's love.

And that's really the sad part... if you just accept them as the stories they are... of humans trying to understand what this life is all about and making answers to fit their environment and circ.umstances, then the contradictions simply confirm just how wonderfully human we are... There are some great stories.

Dan Wooding tells the amazing story of how a physically fit, but spiritually... More

In his books, The Last Word and Scripture and the Authority of God, N. T. Wright uses an extremely helpful illustration for explaining how God's story functions, and where we fit into the plot.

So the account of Noah in the Bible gets retold over and over again among many different cultures and societies and by the time you get it, the gist of the story is the same but some of the details have changed because someone somewhere decided to add an angle to the story that fits their belief in their god.

To them the Bible seems to be full of miracle stories which have much to say that can not be fitted into a scientific way of looking at things.

We learn to grasp the plot of God's story, and how we might fit into this ongoing narrative of heaven.

rogerb12b, instead of listening to your parents, you decided to listen to liars tell you stories about the big bang or evolution that you are the survival of the fittest.

To see our existence as some kind of coherent story, we have to be able to relate it to a larger story — our «little story» has to be fitted into a «big story» just as archaic men and ancient apocalyptists both saw.

But another aspect is precisely the question of how God and man can fit into the same story.

(those in the southern hemisphere, please reverse the dates of the Jesus story to fit your seasons.)

He has been missing for four days, and Wendy found him perched 30 feet up in the air on a telephone pole, and... well, take all the events I described above and fit them together into some sort of story (any crazy story will do) and you pretty much have what happened today as she tried to rescue Christmas.

Even if one might suppose such a purpose for the Chronicles, does that explanation fit some of Lewis other stories, such as The Dark Tower and That Hideous Strength?

It has been necessary to see what may be made of the «resurrection» about which the New Testament speaks, both in respect to Jesus Christ as the decisive event in the story of that divine - human relationship and also in respect to the human side of the matter, where you and I may fit in and have our part and place.

This fits with Keel's and JW's theology of salvation: «What if instead of seeing salvation's story as one of creation - fall - redemption, we saw it as creation - incarnation - re-creation?»

We need a God we can manage, perhaps, one that fits into our story instead of orienting ourselves around how we fit in the bigger story.

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We could guess at exactly how loss of limbs fits into that picture but that is why we have the story of Job.