Sentences with phrase «often get stories»

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However, there's one thing those stories often leave out: how much startups cost to get going.

Positive stories are also used quite often, stories where individuals solve a huge menace in their life or get to where most people would like to be serve as transportation vehicles to recruiting new people to the cause.

I often tell the story of the ancient general who took his troops to battle and when they got to the foreign shore, he burned all the ships so there would be no option of retreating.

«BBQ stories» often include inflated figures or leave out the details like the payment terms and commitments the seller had to make to get the amazing selling price.

«I've got a conviction about him that I don't get very often,» he told the Chicago Tribune (registration is required to read the story) back in 2005.

How's this for a gripping corporate story line: Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s, returns in the 1990s, and in the following decade survives two brushes with death, one securities - law scandal, an also - ran product lineup, and his own often unpleasant demeanor to become the dominant personality in four distinct industries, a billionaire many times over, and CEO of the most valuable company in Silicon Valley.

Far too often startup teams bury their story in their about section or they forget to get it up anywhere at all.

Indeed, while talking about storytelling for businesses, the question I get asked most often is: «what story to tell?»

As Mann Deshi is a relatively small foundation, we often get updates and personal success stories of the incredible work they are doing and can share it with our customers.

While stories abound of scheming business owners who hide money in offshore accounts so that their long - suffering spouses will get little or nothing, it's often the hard - working entrepreneur who gets the shaft.

Even BuzzFeed, the other company that often gets mentioned as a new - media success story, is a relative pipsqueak by comparison: It raised $ 50 million in a financing last year, one of the largest rounds in the media industry, but that values the company at just $ 800 million.

Mining stocks are an extremely volatile asset class where the odds of any investor getting into a story, experiencing impressive gains, only to then take a round trip back to break - even... and finally into NEGATIVE territory are actually quite high (sadly)... In fact, that dreaded rollercoaster ride where you see all your once «hefty» profits in any single position later eviscerated into NOTHING is something that I've experienced more often than I'd like to admit...

I often read blog posts that exclaim that outbound marketing is dead, and while they lack the data to support such a claim, they've got plenty of stories about poor outreach to support what they're saying.

Too often we let such categories get in the way of how we tell the story.

Yet Kluck's chapters ¯ which share touching stories, make numerous sports analogies, and reinstate stale clichés ¯ destabilize the book because they often get tripped up on some of the same trappings that are in the emergent church.

It also taught me that clergy have to be on our guard against both parishioners and other clergy who have such disorders, particularly since we are often on ego - trips about «helping» people and get happy - clappy about spearheading redemption stories.

These people often get condemned as «church hoppers» but their stories actually show the opposite.

To be commended to your regular attention is the Get Religion site, the very useful and unique site that pursues what it calls «holy ghosts», the traces and hints of religion in mainstream news stories and analyzes the major media's treatment (sometimes good, but often clueless or biased and sometimes very clueless or very biased, or both at once) of religion and religious people.

In sum, it's an egregiously depressing story, and pointless beyond reminding us that life often feel pointlessly random, that only the Coens could get away with putting on film.

I hope that doesn't sound uncaring but as an Autistic person I often don't quite «get it», but that story is amazing.

Have you bothered to read how many stories there are of transgender men and women being killed and the killers, quite often, getting away with the act?

I haven't elevated the Bible into some fourth member of the Trinity and I believe Jesus reveals God, that the Bible is often a story of how wrong we've gotten our understanding of God and how Jesus came to clearly reveal the heart of the Father.

The story speaks to me about how we often get caught up in discussions about how we ought to properly interpret the Bible, how we ought to properly think about God, how we ought to live the Christian life.

Whether it's a story I love or a story I hate, whether it's a story that grieves me or a story that angers me, whether it's a story that inspires me or a story that sickens me, whether it's a story with a happy ending or an unresolved ending, we often don't get to decide whether or not it's right, it is simply what happened.

i know that most of the time i'm messing around on these boards, but i am sincerely sorry to hear about your story... disillusionment — I know, can be a horrible thing and often is rooted in deep pain and disappointment... i have no idea what you must have gone through to get to this dark place but — even now, i'm praying that the God of all comforts would reveal Himself to you... in my dark days and moments I take comfort from Phil 1:6 and Romans 8:28... He has not walked away from you — no matter how you feel, and will complete what He started in you.

So, I often wonder how that little story got into the gospel.

Too often, when we come to stories of the Bible that we have heard before, we think we know the story and what it is all about, and so we miss what the story is really trying to get across to the reader.

The emphasis was on getting students to read, often for the first time, stories they thought they knew without ever having read them.

Oh, and with the whole jesus thing, «he» doesn't appear in cloud formations, a piece of toast, or on your fogged mirror in the bathroom... it's nice to believe and to each his / her own, but seriously... the stories of yester - year were derived from people who were so often drunk or hallucinating and being passed down for generations, obviously got changed.

To be commended to your regular attention is the Get Religion site, the very useful and unique site that pursues what it calls «holy ghosts», the traces and hints of religion in mainstream news stories and analyzes the major media's treatment (sometimes good, but often clueless....

Every so often, we get cues whispered in to us from the wings, and occasionally, a prop miraculously appears which helps move the story along.

History is no longer understood as a collection of dates, a dry series of chronicles; it is «the story of how we got this way», as I have often quoted from my old teacher Professor Frank Gavin.

Then there are the stories of getting my biographer's job done amidst the often sluggish realities of Vatican life: stories that wouldn't have fit in Witness to Hope and The End and the Beginning, but which now retrospectively illuminate, not only my own adventures in Rome (and elsewhere), but the accomplishment of John Paul II in getting the balky machinery around him to work as well as it did under his creative, courageous, firm, and collaborative leadership.

For those of us just getting into cooking Indian foods, the photographs and stories have been extremely motivating as compared to text - only, large Indian cookbooks that often sit unused on bookshelves.

We have homemade granola basically all the time in our home, so I will often share a post or story on Instagram about it (this week, I've been loving granola + chocolate almond milk) and I always get asked for the recipe!

And I just love this story — food transforms people and it's often the first thing I bond with people over as well I'm really excited to try this recipe, I've never made a real risotto, my ability to get distracted in the kitchen makes dishes like risotto almost impossible to pull off.

I love reading stories like this - so often we «intend» to host these kinds of celebrations but life gets in the way - so glad that you and your sisters were able to celebrate this with your mom and her friends!

Eight pieces of its real estate come up so often in players» war stories that you wonder why no one has gotten beyond descriptions like «that swale, you know, at the foot of the green.»

More often than I'd like, those stories finish one of two ways: Either you get beat by a competitor or you move on and forget them.

Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

The Cardinals» third baseman and World Series MVP was an unknown outside of St. Louis when the postseason began, but the details of his story have since been told and retold so often that Freese himself hoped «people aren't getting sick of hearing about it.»

The centre - back currently plays for Stevenage in League Two which has attracted the Independent to his story, as League Two players don't often get called up for national honours.

GC often bores everyone telling his story of how it once took him 4 hours to get home once Boxing Day from Selhurst Park to his Grandparents in Romford.

Often, getting the rest of the story will give you a better appreciation for her point of view, and you'll be able to back up her actions.

But at the same time, Brian's sobering story makes clear that millions of American children live in food insecure homes, school meals are often their only dependable source of food, yet for a variety of reasons (parental neglect, stigma, etc.) they may not be getting all the food that's being made available to them at school.

Previously, I had always thought of these books as gifts for kids who have parents that are deployed, grandparents they don't get to see very often or birth families that want to share in story time.

-- I found that I was reading to them in the daytime far more often than in the evening, sometimes for an hour or more at a time if we got involved in the story and didn't want to put it down.

First, as I've learned from experience, the media can often get their facts wrong in covering these instantly - sensational news stories.

Promoted posts, column ads and sponsored stories will need to be utilized more often to get your message out, all of course with proper targeting to ensure your dollars are thrown at the right people.

In particular, local media attention matters: it's often easier to get than national coverage, it lets you leverage your local activists and it can lead to much broader distribution of your story if it gets on a newswire (even local blogs can help, since they may be disproportionately read by elected officials and other opinion leaders and can also serve as a source for national blogs — see this article for details).