Sentences with phrase «for anecdotal stories»

They are looking for moms of a distinct cultural group to interview for anecdotal stories.

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For the period from 1914 to the present, Blumhofer switches to the developmental model used by William Menzies in an earlier work, Anointed to Serve: The Story of the Assemblies of God (1971) She illustrates many of the points with fresh anecdotal material and brings into greater focus certain aspects of the history, such as the denomination's response to the New Order of the Latter Rain.

Guests listened while Ms. Lauren shared her pathway to foster, adoption through Five Acres programs and told anecdotal stories (that garnered lots of laughs from the audience) and offered advice for people thinking about fostering or foster adoption.

Both stories are touching but are of the anecdotal «it (would have) worked for me» variety.

I'm already bracing myself for the inevitable backlash of self - proclaimed experts who will share their own anecdotal stories about how it's possible to maximize performance (and burn more fat!)

This site is notorious for disgruntle low - carbers who like to come here and posting fake anecdotal stories complete with made up cholesterol numbers etc to disparage plant based diets.

I bumbled along contemplating that for quite some time, and I appreciated anecdotal stories online of people who had traded in «healthy whole grains» for flesh foods, and kept the vegetable intake about the same, and had stupendous results.

Proof isn't in the pudding; that's called anecdotal evidence and doesn't account for the placebo effect, which is 99 % of the way these unscrupulous industries stay in business, the other 1 % being the foolishness of the victims they trick into believing their stories.

Anecdotal stories like how First Class and Kingsman director Matthew Vaughn wanted to re-cast Wolverine for DoFP only furthers the notion that there is indeed creative motivation to have a new crack at the X-Men movie universe.

The awards rumor just happens to be part of the anecdotal story of «For Your Consideration,» another improvisational lampoon from the most comedically inspired movie stock company since the heyday of Preston Sturges.

Certainly from our perspective, there are some concerning anecdotal stories that schools are struggling to identify the level of provision and the costs that will enable them to make a case for access to additional funds and the necessary provision required for the child or young person.

Be open to the story's new mutations and possibilities for expanding its anecdotal limits.

For more information, check out this BBC Radio program entitled «History of Metaphor» or watch a video of Joseph Campbell telling an anecdotal story on myth as metaphor:

I've heard anecdotal stories of this for physical books, (for Eat, Pray, Love), but for - profit corporations tend to make decisions based on hard data.

The argument has been that veterinary medicine is only a fraction of the opioids abuse story, at most anecdotal, and that costs for individual practices to comply with PMP is unreasonably high.

Since a lot of these stories are anecdotal, it's impossible to say if it was the steroid that killed the dog or the condition they were being treated for.

Much of the initial evidence for this ability started off as anecdotal — based on stories of dogs acting unusually around their owners until they decided to get themselves checked out.

And Linda Givon produced a unique catalogue for her «King of the Canvas», documenting the show and replacing academic text with anecdotal letters and stories written by close friends.

Anecdotal stories provide useful information and context, and they are useful for showing that scientists and climate scientists are not immune from motivated reasoning.

However, given that the CAGW position doesn't rest on specific numbers, but is instead an unorganized collection of anecdotal evidence, coupled with heavily - tweaked computer models, unfounded assumptions about positive feedbacks, and a healthy imagination about possible future disasters, a lower warming number for the 20th century will simply be brushed over with claims about aerosols being stronger than previously thought, more warming still waiting in the «pipeline» or similar ad hoc «explanations» that keep the overall story alive.

For more on the terrestrial foods topic, see my detailed discussion in this previous post, and this recent (March 30) ScienceNews report on yet another, largely anecdotal «polar bears resort to bird eggs because of declining sea ice» story (see photo below, based on a new paper by Prop and colleagues), which was also covered March 31 at the DailyMail («Polar bears are forced to raid seabird nests as Arctic sea ice melts — eating more than 200 eggs in two hours,» with lots of hand - wringing and sea ice hype but little mention of the fact that there are many more bears now than there were in the early 1970s around Svalbard or that the variable, cyclical, AMO (not global warming) has had the largest impact on sea ice conditions in the Barents Sea).

In this global study, Randers presents a forecast for the next 40 years, supported by «statistical data, anecdotal stories, impressions from traveling the world... formal analyses of particular developments,» and short essays by a variety of experts.