Sentences with phrase «just recounting»

I'm not even playing the victim, I, m just recounting the facts.

The woman was so terribly exhausted that she nodded off just recounting her woes.

Bediatuo later said he was just recounting history that Otumfuor's predecessors head was cut by the Akyems and the skull is still in the Kyebi palace.

Rather than write a lengthy post that sums up all that's been going on in my life for the past few years, I will simply start blogging again — perhaps flashing back here and there, but also just recounting life as it currently is and writing, as always, about the things that matter to me.

There's the parent bringing birthday treats to school; the well meaning teacher who bought tons of Girl Scout cookies from her students who were scouts (nice) and then passed them all out to the class (not cool); my fellow soccer team parent who thinks a juice and Lay's is a fine post-game snack; etc. etc., to mention the over-the-top incidents I've just recounted here.

Based on what I saw, I would probably wholeheartedly agree as well, and caution against getting into discussions such as the unfortunate one I just recounted.

«And do you realize the significance of what you have just recounted to me?»

I will just recount one episode from the mails that Jones has never explained, that Obsborn played a role in and that culminated in the violation of Mr Holland's rights.

Many underestimate the cover letter and write it as just a formality; others write cover letters with futile marketing attempts because they just recount what will be on the resume.

Not exact matches

Research on sun storms might seem a long way from New York's 1970's punk scene, but Janvier insists that Just Kids, the memoir of rocker Patti Smith in which she recounts her relationship with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, deeply influenced her work.

This was just one story she recounted for the 600 - plus business owners and entrepreneurs at Entrepreneur's Growth Conference in Miami this week.

In the following excerpts, they recount the first of just two formal joint interviews with Steve Jobs, then running the ill - fated NeXT, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, which took place at Jobs's home in July 1991.

Today, insecurity is just as powerful a motivator as it was when I was young and members of my family all gathered around the dinner table recounting stories about our day.

In a rally outside of Trump Tower yesterday, Stein said she was hoping this recount would ensure this election was accurate, secure and just — a cause that's found support among some people in the wake of several high - profile hacking incidents during the campaign.

Goodman, whose 1998 The Mansion on the Hill is one of the definitive books on the pre-Napster music industry, recounts Edgar's rise through the ranks of the family business and his all - in bet on the music business just in time for its business model to be upended by MP3 file - sharing.

Multiple employees recounted that when a team arrived at Agrawal's apartment for a video shoot, they were told over the intercom not just that they'd have to wait, but specifics on why: Agrawal and her fiancé, trying to get pregnant, had just had sex and she needed to keep her legs up for a while.

And just in case you miss the point, he then recounts the gruesome details attending the death of an AIDS patient.

Alexandria, Virginia (CNN)-- A few hundred Mormons filed into a chapel just outside the Washington Beltway one recent Sunday to hear a somewhat unusual presentation: an Obama administration official recounting his conversion to Mormonism.

«I wanted Jesus to be my Lord and not just my Savior,» recounted one charismatic, noting characteristically that the redemption that all Christians can claim was only a first step in the «walk» of the faithful.

Typical is his recounting of a teenage moment at school in York: «I was sitting in the art room and looking through its big window across to The Minster when I had a revelation just like Saul's on the road to Damascus.

For example, one black student who asked to remain anonymous recounted a frightening story from the early 2000s just after one of the Men in Black films had been released in theaters.

Unlike some works of true - crime literature, which play up plot elements to build the story's tension, Serial isn't just simply recounting the events surrounding a murder.

Just as Winthrop thought of Moses so Captain John Smith thought of Aeneas in what Howard Mumford Jones calls the «prose Aeneid» that he composed to recount his establishment of the English Colony in Virginia.23 But it was not so much Latin myth or legend that dominated the minds of educated Americans in the late i8th century as it was the history of Roman liberty.

And I listened to my friend, full of joy, recount how he understood now what we had been trying to say but somehow this time it all just made sense.

Burge, like the other authors reviewed here, recounts the atrocity carried out by Jewish terrorists at the Arab village of DeirYassin just prior to the declaration of the Israeli state in 1948.

Here she recounts story after story of natural horror — of parasitism, of insects devouring their own eggs and of young devouring their parents — until she catches her breath and says, «Just think: in all the clean beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.»

In a speech in December 2006 proposing the creation of the Venezuelan United Socialist Party, Chávez recounted a conversation between himself and Fidel Castro in which Castro said «when I speak of Christ, it is just that I am looking for the roots, but just like I talk of Christ, I speak also of Bolívar.

So just because someone claimed to be John, the beloved disciple, recounting an eyewitness account of the life, death, and supernatural resurrection of Jesus, should we take him at his word??

Founder and CEO Sean Brauser proudly recounts how Romeo's Pizza was named Best Pizza in the Midwest in 2002, just a year after he and his staff fired up the pizza ovens in the original location in Medina, a Cleveland suburb.

Recounting the throw for reporters, Staubach said, «I just closed my eyes and said a Hail Mary.»

He spoke very softly, recounting how he was in a foxhole with a buddy who had just been hit by shrapnel.

Growing up my parents used to recount their struggles with me as a colicky infant - the sleepless nights, the long car rides and even putting me in my car seat and taping me to the dryer just so I'd stop crying!

Many people presume that infants do indeed dream during this stage, just as adults do, but since it's impossible to ask a baby to recount his dream (except for the E-Trade baby perhaps), it's impossible to know.

I recount them to my husband, my friends, my colleagues, and my neighbours, just for fun.

I'm just thankful for the community of mommy bloggers because their ideas help me out, and their recounts help me feel like I'm not alone.

It's rare that someone says «I want a recount just because I think there were statistical errors.»

A lot of people don't realize that recounts are basically audits, not just counting the votes again.

isn't this widely inaccurate because the recount is just as subject to error as the initial count?

The prime minister recounted allegations from the Labour government era and then said the opposition leader was «just a bit late» with his questions, claiming the Fox bandwagon had moved on.

The governor then reversed himself on that, saying the Senate recounts, which could continue into 2011, shouldn't impact a lame duck session because the current members of the Senate are all in office through the end of the year, although what would motivate those who are leaving to show up in Albany just days after Thanksgiving is a little hard to figure out.

14:43 - Corby is having a partial recount - reportedly because the Lib Dems are just a few votes short of their deposit.

Toby Young just tweeted: «I'm hearing Team Ken are demanding a recount.

Describing the Canadian singer - songwriter's work as «incredibly moving» he recounted his trip to see Cohen's concert in 2008 just days before the banking system collapsed.

In a dramatic night, Ukip also forced a recount in Heywood and Middleton, where Labour's Liz McInnes narrowly defeated Ukip's John Bickley by just 617 votes on a turn - out of 36 %.

Caputo goes on to recount Paladino's job creation record and also says he doesn't oppose all government, just «bloated, inefficient, expensive, non-productive, and dysfunctional government — the foolish government of Charlie King and Andrew Cuomo.»

But Buchanan leads banker Christine Jennings (D) by just 386 votes and a recount is already underway in the district — as mandated by Florida law when two candidates are separated by less than a half percent.

Now, it seems the recount between the two candidates could be just as ugly.

[8] They were just 15 votes from winning Shirley East from the Liberal Democrats, [7] while in Packwood the Liberal Democrats held on by 76 votes over the Conservatives after 2 recounts.

Just 400 votes separated the two following a recount.

After all, recounting the beginning of time is about finding not just the right words, but the right physics — and ever since the big bang entered the popular lexicon, that physics has been murky.