Sentences with phrase «not stories of career»

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Although we've known one anoehtr for many years and have worked together on numerous stories you as writer, I as publicist I didn't realize the scope of your writing career until now!

Pu (1640 — 1715) belonged to the ranks of the gentlemen - scholars (shi dafu) who constituted the civil administration of China for centuries, but was apparently too bored by his career ever to prepare for and pass the second level of imperial examinations; instead he devoted his energies to the stories he loved, thus becoming not only a benefactor to future generations, but also a moral exemplar for them to emulate.

But the earthly career was important not primarily because of what it was in itself but because of the place which it, considered as a whole, had in a great story of salvation which began in heaven, had its center in the human life of Jesus, and returned to heaven for its ending.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Because while I may envy the fact that there are university peers who have been able to buy their own houses and cars by age 30 thanks to fast - tracked banking careers; or the fact that some of my close friends are already engaged or married; or that others get to stop working for a year and take off traveling — these aren't my stories to tell.

For a guy who had been such a great story of perseverance, working his way up from having been cut three times by the Steelers and playing in the World League early on in his career, all the way to being named Defensive Player of the Year after the 2008 season, Harrison's journey was not supposed to end anywhere but in Pittsburgh in a Steelers uniform.

wenegr is in the twilight years of his arsenal career now he might or might not see out the full term of his contract, i would image he wont give up but if he do nt get a big prize this season or next his desire might dwindle even more the board have seen what a shambles man united have gone through and the expense of failure, if they do nt get the next appointment right the board is trying to give themselves as much time to identify a replacement and in the correct time unless wenger leaves at short notice, i think if he had won the c / l all thought years ago we would be looking at a different story i think he would have left at the end if that contract as he would be at the peak of his powers and could of gone anywhere he like across europe, but he didn't win and here we are now, i respect the man for what he has done for us and english football a modern day herbert chapmen he is but even old chappy had his end of and era and wenger will have his end its just how will it play out hopefully a winner

Don't know how useful it is, as it won't tell the whole story - they are in different leagues & the quality of opposition will be different, they're in different teams with different teammate abilities, & they are at different stages in their career, plus there are other big aspects to their games not considered - but it definitely gives you an idea of their eye for goal & their finishing ability:

For Colin Kaepernick, who will turn 30 on Nov. 3, having already passed for more than 12,000 yards and run for more than 2,300 yards since arriving in the NFL in 2011, the story of his football career seems to have veered into one about what athletes can say, or not say, or do, or not do.

Sanchez's training camp tells the story of his value at this stage in his career: The eighth - year pro wasn't good enough to beat out rookie Trevor Siemian for the Broncos» starting job, but he was signed as a safety net for Prescott almost immediately by Dallas once Denver cut him loose.

i again toure is one of the last 2 of the invincibles and a world class player who has the ability to play in various places and is better than both gallas and senderoloser i am sorry but biachin at toure does nt help the stories are all lies u would think that fans would know toures personality by now this is the same guy who said that he wanted to finish his career at arsenal

What I liked best about this format for presenting information was the «360 degree» perspective it offered: Casey gave the issue a framework, with useful advice on how to persuade principals and administrators to implement in - classroom breakfast programs; Nora followed, sharing her personal story with using free / reduced programs when her children were young, and stressing the importance of taking care of «the whole child»; Rosario charmed the crowd with her experiences implementing in - classroom breakfast in her district, sharing a story about how excited her kids got about breakfast after a power outage — not how excited they were about the return of electricity, but about getting breakfast; Barry inspired the group by explaining how he took his successes as a school food director as a springboard to a new career as a consultant, replicating and spreading that success in other classrooms.

Setting aside Ed's natural desire to tell a positive story of his political career, the achievements of the Blair / Brown governments, and a defensive if not protective account of Gordon Brown, this memoir is an interesting and easy read — unlike many such memoirs.

I mean we've given ownership of one of our largest ports to the Chinese on a 99 yr lease FFS, and the only reason they don't own a majority of our Telco is the media got wind of it and ran the story and the politician who originally signed off on it realized that it's not a very smart career move that close to an election

The administration handed response duties to Rodney Capel, executive director of the State Democratic Committee, who said in a statement that CREW was «not a credible organization on this topic» and included a link to a 2011 story about Executive Director Melanie Sloan's flirtation with a career in corporate lobbying.

Paradoxically, in a country where women had to bring dowries to get married and where stories of wife abuse in villages were not uncommon, Pereira - Smith says, women nonetheless could pursue their own careers.

In this feature, Science Careers identifies some of the good — and not - so - good — opportunities for Western researchers in China, recounts stories of individual researchers working in China, and offers practical tips for Western scientists considering a scientific exchange experience in the world's most populous country.

However, for me the funniest aspect of this story is that, in retrospect, it is highly illustrative of my career to date: thinking up something new, working out how to achieve it, organising everything down to the finest detail, not working alone but in cooperation with others, persevering until you reach your goal, and above all else, doing something useful.

\ nSo it seems the usual story of someone who did not believe that her career would survive telling unpleasant truth, like she needed more time to do the experiments (was tired, needed a life outside the lab, whatever else..)

Hey Doc I started training at the age of 13 and literally never stopped ever I have had major knee surgeries 5 or so years ago I have had countless stressful jobs I could not stand I finally said enough is enough and pursued by Personal training career I have an unbelievable passion for the fitness / nutrition lifestyle I'm 26 now at the age of 22 - 23 I achieved body fat percentage of 2 percent while working a back breaking job and literally sleeping 2 - 3 hours a night due to my hormone imbalance I didn't have a spoil meal in 8 months I was finally achieving the look I've been longing for for the 10 years I was already training and it was due to proper training times and nutrition little did i know I was already deep in a over trained zone for years before that I used to spend 3 - 5 hours a day in the gym from the age of 14 through 19 years old i just loved it so much and though more was better as I got older I got smarter I studied non stop this all leads to my decline at age 23 I look back and I know every little thing I did wrong basically al all started at work 3 years ago to make a very long story short I had continued dizziness lack of sex drive for years insomnia all of the above to the 10th degree I know I've abused my body not many can say they have done the work i have done in gyms over all these years I left work one night with sharp pains in my abdomen got blood work done got called back a week or so later and was notified in A very unprofessional way that at the age of 23 I had a testosterone level of 73.6 I have all the blood work to prove it from then on I was treated horribly by doctors none believing what I havenput myself through in the prior years basically going into every appointment and teaching each person endos euros physicians etc..

Most of the stories were actually funny, there were some that certainly were perilous where people did not represent themselves accurately, and we're not talking about height and weight and age and things that people just tend to lie about online, but we're talking about careers, martial status, and things of that sort.

I will learn Russian for you... - A true Life story of S.Clark: «Most marriages fail because American or Foreign men wouldn't do the right thing for Russian woman...» She sacrifices her career, family and friends to be with you - what sacrifices are you prepared to make?

Critic Consensus: De Palma may not make believers out of the director's detractors, but they'll likely share longtime fans» fascination with his career's worth of entertaining stories.

This is not another Hollywood story, but a fascinating portrait of an extraordinary friendship that lasted through war, marriages, children, careers, and everything else.

Critics Consensus: De Palma may not make believers out of the director's detractors, but they'll likely share longtime fans» fascination with his career's worth of entertaining stories.

It doesn't quite get the success of his career across the viewers, but it does give you insight into his prolific comeback, which deserves in its own right a story to be told.

The main reason to see Enter the Dragon isn't for the story, direction, or anything one normally associates with the worth of your typical movie; you watch it to see the greatest martial arts figure in the history of cinema, Bruce Lee, at the peak of his career.

Though many stories have described him as a near unknown, it's not for want of trying in his career.

Interestingly, NBA Live 18's career mode doesn't seem to have a story — but does have heaps of other cool stuff.

As the fictional story of Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman, never finer), a 1950s cult leader who mentors disturbed World War II Navy vet Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix in the performance of his career), The Master doesn't flinch at taking on the business of religion.

Can't Stop, Won't Stop: The Bad Boy Story (Unrated) Gangsta» raptrospective chronicling the career of Sean «Puffy» «Puff Daddy» «Diddy» Combs, as well as story of the hip - hop label he founded in Story (Unrated) Gangsta» raptrospective chronicling the career of Sean «Puffy» «Puff Daddy» «Diddy» Combs, as well as story of the hip - hop label he founded in story of the hip - hop label he founded in 1993.

While anthology films are rarely made and rarely seen as commercial enterprises, New York Stories grossed a respectable $ 10.8 million in theaters, which inflation adjusts to $ 21.5 M today, a sum that would be appreciated by Allen and both generations of Coppola, if not Scorsese who has been enjoying the biggest returns of his career in recent years.

There is a frustrating side - story where Wilson's father, John Lithgow (not as pleasant a father figure as Daddy's Home made out), pops up, a career criminal and bit of a scumbag.

by Walter Chaw A very small story set on a very large stage, Phillip Noyce's affecting Rabbit - Proof Fence is perhaps the most visually beautiful film of the director's career, proving between this and his other movie from this year, the Graham Greene adaptation The Quiet American, that not only is it possible to go home again (as in Noyce to Australia) but also that it's often wise.

Not a biography by any conventional definition this is a freewheeling Bob Dylan portrait where his name is never spoke, his life and career is represented by six different actors representing various personas, and the songs and stories (real and imagined) and mysteries of the artist are as important as any historical record.

Not only is the Best Actress lineup ridiculously competitive — including the many (arguably) career - best performances from majority - film actors like Frances McDormand («Olive Kitteridge»), Maggie Gyllenhaal («The Honorable Woman») and Queen Latifah («Bessie»)-- but the contending productions themselves reach far and wide in terms of the communities being represented and the stories being told.

Then again, last year's winner, Searching for Sugar Man, told the story of Rodriguez, a folk artist who, contrary to rumors, wasn't as short - lived as his American career.

It's a role that Liam Neeson would have played had there not been a recent hue and cry over yellowface and whitewashing, and so Chan, in the twilight of his action career, is forced into somewhat thankless service in a film that wants to be more like The Fourth Protocol than like Police Story.

That's an awesome story, of course, but it has been reported as «Clark Gregg owes his post - «Iron Man» career to Samuel L. Jackson not appearing in «Thor,»» which I think is a bit misleading.

Romance isn't exactly something Deadpool has really concerned himself with over his comics career, so it will be interesting (to say the least) to see how they work a romantic story into Deadpool's particular brand of superhero movie.

The story follows a group of friends: Grover (Josh Hamilton) is shell - shocked that his girlfriend is leaving him to study in Prague; the acerbic Max (Chris Eigeman in a career - best performance) is a 50 - year old misanthrope in the body of a 20 - something undergrad; Otis (Carlos Jacott) works a dreary job at a video rental store and can't bring himself to actually read for his book club; and bartender Chet (Eric Stoltz), for whom alcohol is a literal philosophy.

With «Stories We Tell,» which evades both the pitfalls of overly personal filmmaking and those of fiction - documentary hybrids — not to mention the philosophical trap of making a film «about narrative» instead of simply telling a story — Polley has delivered the first masterpiece of what promises to be an important career.

I, Tonya, the new movie about Harding's life and career, knows what you think of Harding, and though sympathetic to her side of the story, it isn't entirely here to dispute the less savory nooks of her public image.

We all hope that Toy Story 4 is not the equivalent of posting career lows on a losing team.

I also think there's still an interesting story here about how the process of television news broke down in such a way that people stopped asking if the story that ended Rather's career was true or not, focusing more on the political slant on both sides of the issue.

But we're here not to bury Sandler — he's years, if not decades away from a career - long obituary — but to praise him in writer - director Noah Baumbach's (Mistress America, While We're Young, Frances Ha, The Squid and the Whale) latest exploration of love, life, and failure among New York City's social, cultural, and artistic elites, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected).

Co-writer (with Michael Wilmington) of the 1975 career overview «John Ford» and the massive tome «Searching For John Ford» in 2001, McBride treats Ford as a man and not untouchable genius, nor dissects the film using highbrow terminology which inherently ignores the average film fan; there's great insight regarding one of America's greatest directors, and his exhaustive research is well - used in pointing out common themes, autobiographical references, and placing cast / crew / story subjects in context with early and later film projects.

Cam Weber, the head of studio for EA Sports Tiburon, has long said Madden needs a story campaign, not just a single - player career mode, going back to his time with EA Canada, which introduced the concept in 2011's Fight Night Champion.

The strong central friendship between Frances and her best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner) keeps a center of emotional truth that the movie can revolve around; Frances gets to be flighty, sure, but also principled and wounded and talented (it's a minor miracle that her chosen career of modern dance is not only not ridiculed but ultimately allowed to help tell Frances's story) and kind and fun and funny.

The twenty - seven bones of the title story are the bones in a boxer's hands; once broken, they never heal properly, and the fighter's career descends to bouts that have less to do with sport than with survival: no referee, no rules, not even gloves.