Sentences with phrase «mean by stories»

And so we actually included five examples from other games of what we mean by stories.

So, if it is difficult to say what actually happened, it is easy to say what is meant by the story: the new life coming from God in Jesus» person and work is powerfully present now.

This is a fair description — if you're a little loose about what you mean by story, and if your ambitions for musical instrument fall considerably short of the iPhone Ocarina.

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The core of any argument about stories of this kind is that they are protected by the First Amendment because there is a clear public interest in having the information released that outweighs the fact that it was classified, or may have been obtained by illegal means.

There are two primary ways to get your message out there: One is by marketing, meaning getting your name out to people by writing blogs and guest blogs for industry publications, as well as press releases to get journalists and reporters to work you into their stories.

«We're creating a lot of structure that wasn't there before, but it is by no means a long - term solution,» Dalton Hesley, a scientist working on reef restoration in the Caribbean at the University of Miami, told Business Insider for a recent story on coral restoration efforts.

Leaders who master the practice of good listening will be more apt to intuitively understand the other person's story by searching conversations for depth and meaning, digging deeper than casual listeners, and getting to the root of an issue in order to come up with the right solution.

It seems counterintuitive to define your own success, when you're bombarded by ads and stories all day long of what success means.

By no means is that colleague obligated to educate you by telling their storBy no means is that colleague obligated to educate you by telling their storby telling their story.

Our sense is that in light of the oil shock and weak economic growth recorded in Canada this past year, the SEPH is likely telling the more accurate story, meaning we could see employment as measured by the LFS slow significantly during the first half of 2016.»

The creators of new TV miniseries «Waco» always meant for it to show the whole truth of the 1993 Waco siege, by telling the story from multiple perspectives: especially those that weren't told by the media.

One of the most well - established ways to hear from readers, the NYT public editor pointed out — although not the only one, by any means — is through comments on news stories.

And its leadership believes that «investigative and deeper enterprise stories are good for the brand and the business» — not an expense that has to be subsidized by lighter fare, but a means to sustainability in themselves.

There is hardly a crime you read or hear about today that doesn't involve some element of technology, whether it is a part of the story or the means by which the story was captured.

«The Canadian component of the story is salt in the wound, but it is by no means the wound,» said Jim Danahy director of the Centre for Retail Leadership at York University in Toronto.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

Because mining provides the means by which bitcoins are created, it comes as no surprise that the story that garnered the most interest in October was one that addressed the question, «Is bitcoin mining still profitable?»

(For instance I'm fairly confident that promiscuity is sinful, especially when it comes from a place of lust, but I'm less convinced that my committed same - sex friends are sinning by expressing their love physically any more than I am sinning when my wife and I express our love physically — even though I think we can be if we are acting out of lust or as a means of asserting power over one another, but that is another story).

This means that we do best not to defend doctrines as abstract truths but rather to testify to others by telling the story of our own faith journey.

What i mean by this is that if u read the creation story in the bible, there is no mention that god created the solar system with the sun in the center, with the other planets, with us in the milky way galaxy, and all the other billions of galaxies.

Gee, does that mean that this Bible story like so many others in the Bible was just a myth spun by a bronze age dictator to control his subjects?

But «liturgy» literally means «the work of the people,» and the people of God have been sustained through the centuries by rhythms and practices that help us remember our story, remember our saints and sing the eternal song that echoes around God's throne.

I take it that by «negative», you mean either disagreeing with the story's point of view, or your own point of view.

who defines what that means is another story... believe what and why and for who??? By the way there NP — being outside the constraints is so freeing!!!!

Do tell us, what did the Sumerians mean by that when they came up with the story long before it was plagiarized by the Hebrews?

Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year Without Sex by Hephzibah Anderson Viking, 288 pages, $ 25.95 A «year without sex» doesn't mean what you might think it means.

Occasional horrific news stories hint at the me - first legacy of Maoism: A toddler was run over by a car, and no one stopped to help; a greedy company put melamine in milk destined for baby bottles; a Red Cross worker apparently pilfered funds meant for victims of the Sichuan earthquake, spending the money on designer bags and fancy cars.

The actions and events in this story should not be construed to mean promotion or approval of those actions in real - life situations by the author.»

The story of the raising of Lazarus is prefaced by a statement of its purpose: it is not only for the glory of God but «that the Son of God may be glorified by means of it» (V. 4).

A sign story consists of a miraculous act of Jesus usually surrounded or followed by a theological discussion of its meaning.

He tells the story of a conference he was at where he asked a Catholic priest what Jesus meant by «unless you hate your mother and father you can not be my disciple» and the priest waffled and said he wasn't prepared to answer such a difficult question.

This is by no means not the only abusive story I've heard.

I love the way CS Lewis explained that ``... He (God) sent the human race what I call good dreams; I mean those queer stories scattered all through the heathen religions about god who dies and comes to life again and, by his dead, has somehow given new life to men.»

To see belief not as a set of beliefs but as a story, an experience of coming to belief, means that theological reflection ought itself to be shaped by the story, take to itself, both in form and content, the story.

The supernaturalism is ingredient in the story; the manners convey the mystery, a mystery which is worked into the story, is the story, by means of the manners.

In fact, we may rightly claim that the preaching of the gospel and the administration of the sacraments must necessarily go together; to put it in language used by Professor Whitehead in Religion in the Making, the «cult» (by which Whitehead meant the social action of worship) and the «myth» (by which he meant the story which explains a society's worship) can never be separated.

But, in my experience, sometimes the best way to keep communication healthy and open is to go to bed angry and then talk about it the next morning when you've had enough sleep to know that leaving the milk out in the car probably wasn't a veiled act of aggression meant to symbolize every problem in the relationship, but rather just the sort of mistake anyone would make while distracted by a fascinating story on NPR.

Then he tells a story to illustrate what he means by this statement, which he repeats at the end of the story.

If one's dis - ease is in part an existence without a meaningful story by which to integrate present, past, and future, then a prescription for wholeness will also include a means by which to write anew one's story.

A more moving portrayal of the meaning of child sacrifice to a good father could hardly have been written than this story furnishes; the profound loyalty involved in child sacrifice, holding nothing back that religious obligation might require, is recognized; and the story's obvious objective is reached when «Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt - offering in the stead of his son.»

However, by making it clear that we do not mean these stories as literal truth we should minimize the likelihood of these results.

What we mean here is myth in its everyday, nontechnical sense as understood by you and me: a story that is told as if it were literally true, but which is no longer accepted as factual, and which explains or symbolizes a belief or insight.

It was rather that whether you take the story literally or as a mythical description of what we mean by the Resurrection (namely, that the living presence of the crucified Christ is present with us now), the idea is better forgotten, or rather is better not entertained at all, that the Resurrection is parallel to the raising of Lazarus from the grave in the Fourth Gospel.

Not that such a principle was the whole story, not by any means.

But if they are good in themselves, and if by a «point» you mean some truth about the real world which one can take out of the story, I'm not sure that I agree.

The conclusion, then, that one of these narratives is legend is by no means intended to detract from the value of the narrative; it only means that the one who pronounces it has perceived somewhat of the poetic beauty of the narrative and thinks that he has thus arrived at an understanding of the story.

A Christian theology that respects the meaning of the biblical narratives must begin simply by retelling those stories, without any systematic effort at apologetics, without any determined effort to begin with questions arising from our experience.

They tell their stories less by way of well - plotted action than by wry reflections on the meaning of their lives and times.

The shad, like the Concord farmers, have, as he says, a «just cause,» and when he asks what might avail a crowbar against the Billerica Dam, he is pointing, by means of a parable, to a radically new understanding of the story of human existence.

Rauschenbusch's story of the true meaning of Christianity is archetypically Protestant: The original purity of faith was lost and obscured by later corruptions, only to be discovered anew in our age.