Sentences with phrase «of rejection before»

Dealing with the waves of rejection before getting your work published was an important right of passage and a way to hone your work, as it was for Jones.

Meg talks about a writer who had 56 rejections, and another who went through 6 years of rejection before publication.

In fact, it might make you feel the fear of rejection before you've even asked a woman for her number.

Canfield faced many years of rejection before he found significant succes, but throughout the process, it was his belief that the right opportunity would eventually come along that encouraged him to continue striving.

I worked damn hard and received hundreds of rejections before finding a new agent who actually read my work and said yes.

I received scores of rejections before my books were accepted.

Until this becomes a widely understood thing, most people are still going to think that you had a certain number of rejections before you went indie and therefore the quality and value of the work is «suspect.»

I recall the old timers advising me, «It's just a numbers game — you have to get a certain number of rejections before you'll get a sale.»

Not exact matches

The blooper reel is long: the will - they - or - won't - they reality show surrounding BHP Billiton's scuttled bid for Potash Corp.; the minutes - before - midnight rejection of Petronas's bid for Progress Energy (eventually reversed); and the long - delayed approval of the China National Offshore Oil Co.'s (CNOOC) purchase of Nexen.

The president then alleged that Obama bypassed a court rejection in order to carry out the wiretapping, before suggesting that a «good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!»

(17) But indeed men before them rejected (My warning): then how (terrible) was My rejection (of them)?

«Each child who is unborn, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ, bears the face of the Lord, who, even before he was born, and then as soon as he was born, experienced the rejection of the world.»

He said that before it happens, he must first suffer many things and be rejected of this generation That rejection is what you see going on right now — with the rise of atheism and gays and with people worshipping Lucifer — once that rejection is fully complete, only then shall Jesus come....

There can not be value without antecedent standards of value, to discriminate the acceptance or rejection of what is before the envisaging mode of activity.

Many centuries before Hegel, the rabbis of the Talmud mastered the «determinate negation,» the rejection of an idea that reveals an insight about both that idea and its relatives.

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.

The reform of canon law is still far away... in short, there is nothing like a new Pentecost to be noticed, but rather quarrels and alienation among Catholics themselves, new unsolved questions in theology as well as in Christian living on which we had seemed to be agreed before the Council, the continuing silent apostasy of the masses, the rejection of faith, Christian morality and conviction in public life.

The dominant image of the Protestant ministry is of the preacher in the pulpit with an open Bible before him, which involves a rejection of certain aspects of medieval Catholic theology and practice, and results in some cases in pathological distortion of the preacher - pulpit - Bible image.

As with most of the Protestant theologians who came before him, «revelation» was a central category of his theology, but unlike them, he did not share in the rejection of a rational metaphysics that so shaped (and skewed) their work.

Einstein, before his death, I am told, somewhat relaxed his insistence on complete determinism, but never gave up his rejection of the Quantum idea.

As my American friend observed, this was present under the surface long before the scandals broke, and at the root of it is probably the widespread rejection of Catholic teaching on sexual morality, which emerged later in Ireland than other Catholic countries.

Before the end of his life, however, Jesus, facing rejection and death himself, must have warned his followers of the violent opposition they would meet if they remained loyal to him.

The Pharisees, along with some visiting observers from Jerusalem, question Jesus» rejection of the fairly recent Jewish practice of ceremonial washing before meals.

Despite its dispersal and extension in space and time freedom as act is the final commitment of the spiritual subject, event of eternity in time before God, acceptance or rejection of him who is incomprehensible love.

Her stand of solidarity with other Jews is given this spin by Carroll: «The true epiphany of Edith Stein's story is that, in a visceral rejection of Christian theology, she refused to see the Jews as disadvantaged before God.»

For those of us who came to faith later and were not raised in it, not doing so would have simply been the status quo and conversion is the rejection — of what we knew before.

Paul's rejection of the law as the source of righteousness before God (Gal.

It was only in the nineteenth century that the real became synonymous with unidealised treatments of contemporary life and the deliberate rejection of the supernatural, and yet the Realist Novel soon swept all before it.

The alcoholic, even before he takes his first drink, is a fragmented person, plagued by guilt and ever fearful of rejection.

The man he thinks he's hitting isn't the man trying to save him from drink, but a preacher from many years before, who angrily told him that the only sin from which there is no redemption is the rejection of God's love — of believing oneself a sinner who can not be changed or redeemed.

But things go awry before the end of the book's preface, in which the self - professed «good Catholic girl» makes clear her rejection of the unjust Christian god.

As if the snub and the indignity of a 4 — 12 season weren't enough, the Chargers experienced the sting of rejection just before the draft in April, when word leaked that Ole Miss quarterback Eli Manning had warned San Diego not to select him with the No. 1 pick because he had no intention of playing there.

Leaving aside the manipulation of the media and some copy cat blogs, there must be something else going on, because Arsenal's campaign to buy La Caz ambled through much the same type of bid - rejection - increased bid - rejection - successful bid before agreeing personal terms with our new centre forward.

Liverpool Twitter was struck with panic as reports of a # 72M bid from Barcelona landed last week, before being somewhat relieved to hear that it had been met with a firm rejection by those at Anfield who doth the dark suits.

If your baby is given bottles too early, before he learns to breastfeed well, he may be at risk for nipple confusion which may in turn put your milk supply at risk for never becoming fully established and result in your baby's frustration at and perhaps rejection of the breast.

It is the biggest failure of the timetable so far - a clear rejection of an idea that those in power aren't actually interested in getting the legislative ball rolling before the next general election.

I mean, remember all of these parties grew out of rejections of parties that came before them.»

Some of the mistreatments of Mr Mahama so far include the rejection of his (Mahama) request to be allowed to stay in his official bungalow which was earlier agreed by President Akufo - Addo before the highly respected and revered Ashanti King, Otumfuo Osei Tutu.

The rejection of the unity list by the frontline chairmanship candidate was done before the final collation of the elections results.

Citing reasons for the rejection of the motion, Mr Adjaho says Parliament can not undertake a parallel investigation in a matter before CHRAJ.

Details of the state's rejection were brought before the City Council Monday night during its regular session attended by a smattering of residents.

He said he would be waiting for the letter from the Commission explaining reasons for the rejection of his nomination before heading to the court to seek redress.

«Cuomo's leadership could inspire a domino effect of related pipeline rejections as other states begin to put the protection of water and our climate before flawed energy projects that do not serve the public interest.»

The Lagos State Police Command, on Wednesday, warned hospital authorities against the rejection of gunshot victims or the attitude of asking for police report before treatment...

The unanimous rejection of the proposal was intended to create a new resolution for the public to view before the Feb. 27 meeting rather than amend the original Jan. 9 version.

While this was quite a popular concept before the election, it has suffered two major set - backs in the formation of the Tory - Lib Dem coalition and subsequent rejection of AV.

What should I expect in terms of how many interviews to go to before getting a job?I hope this doesn't sound negative, but when I've previously applied for jobs I found the rejections very demoralising, so I want to be prepared in case I'm facing that again.I.B.

The investigators noted that urinary CXCL9 levels began to increase up to 30 days before clinical signs of kidney injury, which could allow doctors to intervene early to potentially avoid rejection - associated kidney damage.

Given to the patient shortly before the transplant, the infusion of antibodies theoretically reduces the host's residual T cells, minimizing the risk of graft rejection while eliminating T cells from the donor to thwart GVHD.

For example, the painful experience of endless rejection before publication that motivated Calcagno in the first place turns out to be rare.