Sentences with phrase «general story of»

Director Rachid Bouchareb, a long time festival favorite, has taken the general story of writer / director Jose Giovanni's 1973 film of the same title and relocated it from France to a New Mexico border town.

«Although we know the general story of TB drug resistance in Russia, these new findings are still shocking,» says Christopher Dye, an epidemiologist at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

The more general story of Catholics helping Jews in Rome and Italy as a whole is outlined in the rst chapter.

The more general story of Catholics helping Jews in Rome and Italy as a whole is outlined in the first chapter.

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«So much interchange had occurred across the line by early December» that a general «issued a directive unequivocally forbidding fraternization,» writes Stanley Weintraub in Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce.

The Spitzer story featured a cast of corporate kingpins angry at his actions as attorney general, and the GOP «dirty tricks» specialist Roger Stone.

One such story Cramer noticed on Monday was General Mills» $ 8 billion acquisition of Blue Buffalo Pet Products, a high - end pet food brand.

I read the stories of our general contractors and I remember that we're solving a real problem and people are grateful for our service.

I often tell the story of the ancient general who took his troops to battle and when they got to the foreign shore, he burned all the ships so there would be no option of retreating.

Dave McClure, founder of 500 Startups, resigned as general partner of the incubator in July after The New York Times ran a story accusing McClure of inappropriate behavior.

Gall also notes that she is skeptical of other details in Hersh's story — specifically that two of Pakistan's top generals, Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and Ahmed Shuja Pasha, knew in advance about the US raid on the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden was living.

An earlier version of this story erroneously stated that General Motors plans to provide short - term leasing to Lyft drivers.

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

Maybe some freelancers will get tossed a couple bucks for a story or two, but E3 and video games in general are a far cry from being taken as seriously as other areas of technology and entertainment.

And so goes the story of both Samsung's new flagship device and smartphones in general.

Though the market for say, iPhone cords might seem to be booming, the story is different for the kind of industrial wires that General Cable (BGC) makes.

I was tired of books with stories about generals, parables about mice, and endless scientific studies with numbers that could point any which way.

It has been over a decade since Michael Lewis's Moneyball told the story of a baseball general manager using advanced data analytics to look for players with undervalued skills.

Attorneys general use the legally binding demands to collect evidence, such as documents and emails, and testimony to help «piece together any number of stories about potential competitive harm,» Moss said.

Some analysts think continued cord cutting and the general preference of younger viewers for non-traditional content like Youtube and Snapchat stories will hurt the value of entertainment conglomerates like Time Warner, NBC Universal and Disney.

As the Japanese auto invasion began cutting into Detroit's sales, General Motors, Chrysler, Ford and hundreds of auto parts companies looked outside the city to build one - story plants that could handle modern assembly lines.

«We have the benefits of having one of the world's strongest news brands,» says Andrew Morse, Great Big Story's co-founder and General Manager of CNN Digital Worldwide.

«I know a lot of people who work for fast - growing technology companies, and all of them seem to tell these horror stories of mismanagement, infighting and general chaos inside the organization.

It is a fascinating story about a very influential company that has relationships with some of the biggest names in healthcare, including: Oakland, Calif. - based Kaiser Permanente, Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, UCLA Health in Los Angeles, Arlington - based Texas Health Resources, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mount Sinai Health System in New York City and Duke University Health System in Raleigh, N.C.

Trump's swift turnaround, in particular, put Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in an awkward position, since it was Rosenstein who penned the memo — arguing that Comey erred in his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation during the 2016 campaign by, in essence, being too tough on her — that served as the cover story.

Officials believe Cambridge Analytica will only be one of the first stories of companies misusing customer data, with the conference calling on social media companies to change their business models to adapt to the EU General Data Protection Regulation.

by Jeffrey Sommers and Michael Hudson A generation ago the Chicago Boys and their financial supporters applauded General Pinochet's anti-labor Chile as a success story, thanks mainly to its transformation of their Social Security into Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) that almost universally were looted by the employer grupos by the end of the 1970s.

Among the women who joined us in 2016: Jewel (performing and sharing her extraordinary story with us), Apple Head of Global Consumer Marketing Bozoma Saint John, Making a Murderer filmmakers Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, Uber Regional General Manager Rachel Holt, Priceline EVP of Global Operations Maelle Gavet, Facebook Head of People Lori Goler, SoulCycle CEO Melanie Whelan, Accompany CEO Amy Chang, designer Rachel Roy, Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani, Joyus CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Hearsay Social CEO Clara Shih, WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon, and Lean In lead researcher Marianne Cooper, as well as top executives from leading global companies such as Airbnb, Amazon, Coca - Cola, Google, IBM, NBCUniversal, Nike, Pandora, Target, Twitter, and Walmart.

For the next ten years, Carmine held workshops and one - on - one sessions with hundreds of C - suite executives, general managers, directors and engineers to help them craft and tell the Intel brand story.

The second is that as the new legal boss, he had Mr. Trump's general O.K. and was freelancing in part and offering the latest in a series of partially baked solutions going back to Mr. Cohen's first story.

If you stop the story at the discount of bitumen relative to light oil, you'll miss the impact of WTI pricing, or mid-continent crude discounts in general.

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The story has since cemented itself as a prime example of awful social tactics in general — the company didn't acknowledge and correct the behavior for several days afterward.

The presumably unexpected benefits of WBC coverage enumerated by Mr. Jacobson in Mr. Wood's story include immunity from litigation by injured employees and former employees and payment from a general fund for the physical - rehabilitation costs of injured workers.

Sara Brand, founding general partner, True Wealth Ventures This story is part of the 2017 Profiles in Power -LSB-...]

Believe it or not, a Buyers Market can also be a good news story for a seller who now will have potential buyers considering the cost of some upgrades or renovation in their budget and taking the time to make sound decisions, providing more stability to your sale and the market in general.

Much of this, Cornell said, came out of a Cincinnatus view toward guns and defense — a reference to the legendary Roman general who, according to the story (and possibly myth), went back to farming instead of attempting to seize more power after he led the Romans to victories.

One only has to look over the past few years to see the removal of well - known names from the Dividend Aristocrat list (including General Electric and Pfizer) to understand that backward - looking analysis is only part of the story.

In a perhaps apocryphal story, Adolph Hitler recalled to his General Staff in 1939 the amnesty that outside powers gave to the Turkish officials who massacred over one million Armenians nearly a quarter century earlier, quipping «Who after all is today speaking about the destruction of the Armenians?»

Since the story requires more than a one - dimensional opinion of Islam and muslims in general, most Americans will be forced to ignore this story.

MoJ's Rob Vischer uses this story about the culture of marital infidelity in Russia to raise questions about the relationship between law and cultural norms in maintaining general public adherence to the practices constitutive of healthy family life.

The BBC's Director - General Tony Hall has publicly defended the corporation's decision to televise the raid and even put the story up for The British Press Awards «Scoop of the Year» award.

The Bible is full of stories of God interacting with His people in particular, and the human race in general.

On one page, for example, we get the story of Major General Sidney Schachnow, a former commander of the Green Berets in Vietnam.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

The story is not one of general pacification, however.

If the simplest explanation is most probable and our trust in mankind in general and this particular gentleman specifically is positive, why would you demand irrefutable proof of his story?

Unfortunately, the history books of formal education almost always overlook the more human stories of America's bloodiest conflict to focus on battles, dates and generals, which is what Uncivil sets out to correct.

A preacher narrates in dramatic detail the story of Karbala, working up the passions of the audience by dwelling on the most gruesome features of the tragedy and bringing into prominence the cruelties of Yazid and his generals.

But if the general subject matter of the novels is demonstrably congruent with Mantel's past, why does she tell the stories from Cromwell's point of view?