Sentences with phrase «of older letters»

I have two boxes of old letters and other paperwork out in the garage, and we only recently discovered an unopened birthday card from my grandparents, from 1983.
In the process of moving, reorganizing or struggling through the aftermath of our own loved ones» deaths, who among us hasn't found a box full of old letters and pictures and gotten sucked down a rabbit hole of laughter and tears?
Hey Alana, make sure you hold on to some of those old letters.

Not exact matches

(He's also the kind of leader who took the time to reply to a 6 - year - old boy who sent him a letter asking if a Navy SEAL is quieter than a ninja.)
On the other hand, if your partner looks at old love letters often or has kept around more intimate items (like an ex's favorite hoodie or a bottle of cologne / perfume), it could indicate he or she still has feelings.»
The corporation is in the midst of implementing a $ 2 - billion program to streamline sorting and delivery, which is why you've begun to see all those cute little letter - carrier vans on the streets in some cities instead of the clunky old delivery trucks.
This week's American Inventor highlighted Michael Osayi, a 53 - year - old call center employee who had developed a version of the beloved national pastime that substituted numerals through nine for variously valued letters and called some legal issues into question.
Under the old procedures, people could be listed as being in default after only 14 days of receiving a letter of demand.
The movie is a love letter to the forgotten musical (remember, most of the Academy voters are on the older side), the creativity of the story by writer - director Damien Chazelle is incredible, and the performances by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are some of the best of the year.
That's right, Old Spice and Proctor and Gamble, who have hired Crews to act in a number of commercials, sent the actor an amazing letter of encouragement:
When the 49 - year - old owner of The Fish Market Restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama, opened a letter from a disgruntled customer demanding a $ 6.89 refund, his gut told him to check it out.
The Massachusetts Democrat ran afoul of the chamber's arcane rules by reading a three - decade - old letter from Dr. Martin Luther King's widow that dated to Sen. Jeff Sessions» failed judicial nomination three decades ago.
Old Ox, which says it takes its name from a Virginia road that dates to the early 18th century, has now responded with a letter of its own.
She quickly responded by getting the old grade of Black Angus back and appealing to the slighted customers with a letter and a coupon.
It may sound old - fashioned in this day of selfies and instant video chats, but sometimes a brilliantly written letter can show leadership at its best.
The Trump administration plans to argue the weaker rules will lead to cheaper vehicles, boost sales and employment and improve safety by prodding faster turnover of older vehicles, people briefed on the matter and Carper's letter said.
The firm, a so - called quantitative hedge fund that uses computer models to drive trading, is shuttering the eight - year old, $ 1 billion portfolio at the end of the month, according to a letter sent to investors on Tuesday and read to Reuters.
Typically, in the old days, the importer would have asked his bank to issue a letter of credit, and this would be sent to and accepted by the foreign exporter's bank.
The General Services Administration, which manages property owned by the federal government, including the Old Post Office housing the Trump International Hotel, has said the lease would violate federal conflict - of - interest rules once the Republican businessman is sworn in on Jan. 20, according to a letter to the agency from lawmakers.
The letter comes after more than 9,500 people signed an online petition started by Shannon Fest, the mother of a 15 - year - old Douglas High student who struggles to make it through a full day of school.
Mr. Kunhardt said that in the fall of 2014 he approached Mr. Buffett's son Peter before writing «an old - fashioned letter» to Mr. Buffett, which Peter placed on his father's desk.
For Netflix, the switch meant that many of the older cards on its file no longer worked as the companies gave new cards to their customers, leading to «involuntary churn,» as Chief Executive Reed Hastings put it in a letter to shareholders.
Tweedy, Browne & Company, one of the oldest and most respected value investing shops in the world, illustrated the destructive influence high turnover can wrought on a portfolio in its November 22, 1999, letter to shareholders.
His latest discussion is in Berkshire's year - old 2016 shareholder letter: Continue reading «Buybacks & the Instant Gratification of Financial Engineering» →
Old alarm clock with piles of coins and letter magnets spelling TAX on a wood table.
Did you know there is a 2000 year old letter from Pontius Pilat to Caesar confirming much of his work.
For the 85 - year - old pontiff, the three - day trip outside the Vatican walls was a break from the Vatileaks scandal, which has seen his butler, Paolo Gabriele, arrested on suspicion of disclosing dozens of embarrassing letters alleging corruption and nepotism at the Holy See.
The truths of Genesis 6 - 8 (and especially 6:7, 13, 17; 7:23) can be understood differently when we grasp the Scriptural and cultural contexts in which these texts were written, what other Old Testament authors had to say about the flood, and also what the Apostle Peter writes about it in his second letter.
On January 24, 1774, the young James Madison, twenty - two years old and two years out of Princeton, wrote an exasperated letter to his college friend William Bradford, who lived in Pennsylvania.
He said nothing of a book that would combine the old covenant scriptures with the account of His life on earth and letters that were written to people who lived under the law, that people who have never lived under the law would have to try to discern and apply to their lives until He returned, or they died.
Children were expected to write letters to family and friends once they got older, not essays on the soliloquies of Hamlet.
Don't have much else to add — I don't know where you get the idea that the Bible is not exclusive, unless you completely ignore the Old Testament and quite a bit of Paul's letters, and the parable which speak of Hell.
From the Old Testament to the New Testament, from Genesis to Revelation, from the Levitical code to the letters of Paul, there's no picking and choosing.
But, in a dream, as we know from his Confessio, which he wrote in his old age, one Victoricus handed Patrick a letter headed «The Voice of the Irish».
Of course, the evidence of Paul, at first hand, and of many others which we know about primarily through Paul (his letter to the Corinthians is considerably older and closer to the events than the earliest of the written Gospels), is open to the objection that we have no guarantee that the appearances were not hallucinationOf course, the evidence of Paul, at first hand, and of many others which we know about primarily through Paul (his letter to the Corinthians is considerably older and closer to the events than the earliest of the written Gospels), is open to the objection that we have no guarantee that the appearances were not hallucinationof Paul, at first hand, and of many others which we know about primarily through Paul (his letter to the Corinthians is considerably older and closer to the events than the earliest of the written Gospels), is open to the objection that we have no guarantee that the appearances were not hallucinationof many others which we know about primarily through Paul (his letter to the Corinthians is considerably older and closer to the events than the earliest of the written Gospels), is open to the objection that we have no guarantee that the appearances were not hallucinationof the written Gospels), is open to the objection that we have no guarantee that the appearances were not hallucinations.
But this rejection, in turn, prompted Hamann to compose and publish a piece called To the Witch at Kadmanbor, a «letter» supposedly written by Nicolai to an old sorceress, asking her to translate Hamann's Monologue from the Chinese of the «Mandarin» who wrote it» a letter that, midway through its course, suddenly becomes a delirious monologue of its own (in which the witch now appears as the Fury Alecto, but with two faces, «a calf's eye like Juno's, and the watery eye of an owl») before concluding with the recommendation that Hamann be forced like his illustrious ancestor Haman — from the book of Esther — to mount the scaffold.
Just as St. Paul's letters gave early Christian commentators examples of how to interpret the Old Testament in light of Christ, so the Church Fathers stretch our exegetical imagination by showing how other passages can be read in that way.
In the words of Henri de Lubac, the distinguished theologian and historian of early Christian exegesis: «The conversion of the Old Testament to the New or of the letter of scripture to its spirit can only be explained and justified, in its radicality, by the all - powerful and unprecedented intervention of Him who is himself at once the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last....
But as with the Old Testament Psalms and the New Testament Pauline letters, early church liturgical texts are improvisations on established patterns which are full of theological and pastoral significance.
Then, in a letter to one Canon Lougham, penned on December 21, 1882, he writes: «Few days pass without my having letters from strangers, young and old, men and women, on the subject of the Catholic religion.
Rhetorical criticism of the Old Testament makes comparisons with writings of the time, but New Testament critics can refer to speeches, letters and the instructional manuals that document the rhetorical cultures of Greece and Rome.
I talk with a 70 - year - old Red Rock Sioux, her hair white and braided, surrounded by cardboard boxes of letters, discarded magazines and papers.
After you exit the interstate and turn on a two lane strip of asphalt headed towards Wendell Berry's old Kentucky home, one of the first signs you see proclaims — with the leading word emblazoned in red letters: «Caution, Church Entrance Ahead.»
The true letters of Paul are the oldest New Testament documents (Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Phillipians, 1 Thessalonians, and Philemon).
It appears four times in Paul's letters (Rom 9:3 1; 2 Cor 10:14; Phil 3:16; 1 Thess 4:15), and in the Greek Old Testament it is used to translate an Aramaic verb that occurs eight times in the Aramaic part of Daniel (Dan 4:11, 20, 22, 24, 28; 6:24; 7:13, 22).
Now we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way of living in the Spirit.»
One representative of «old think,» which was expressed in a letter in the Times, tried to insist that there had been more efforts at bipartisanship in the Old Era, in measures such as No Child Left Behind and the Prescription Drug Benefit Plold think,» which was expressed in a letter in the Times, tried to insist that there had been more efforts at bipartisanship in the Old Era, in measures such as No Child Left Behind and the Prescription Drug Benefit PlOld Era, in measures such as No Child Left Behind and the Prescription Drug Benefit Plan.
At the time Paul wrote this letter, very little of the NT would have been written or in circulation, and so he was primarily referring to the Hebrew Scriptures, which we call the Old Testament.
Brian LePort writes a letter of advice to his 18 - year - old self about finances, faith, technology, relationships and what to know for the future.
Consider the first - person plurals of the Lord's Prayer («Our Father...»), Jesus's prayers before meals, his blessing of children, the audible prayers both in the Temple and in synagogues (often called «prayer houses»), the stories of national prayer in the Old Testament, and the communal prayers of the early Christian churches recorded in the book of Acts and the letters of Paul.
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