Sentences with phrase «old tale of»

This means that the age - old tale of staying in a job for fifteen years to show that you have «staying power» is not as important as your father's generation thought it was.

The age old tale of girl meets boy, girl decapitates boy due to zombie infection and goes on a killing spree just warms my heart.

Breeders are still holding to the old tale of neutering preventing many type of cancer in dogs.

TABLOID By Amy Taubin Errol Morris sifts through a 35 - year - old tale of amour fou and obscure objects of desire Plus: Nicolas Rapold interviews the interviewer

With a pure heart and a hefty helping of ingenuity, the young boy tackles the evil forces that threaten his home and takes viewers along for a rollicking retelling of the age - old tale of King Arthur.

G - Force tells the age - old tale of rodents who perform impossible missions for the U.S. government.

«This case is the age - old tale of the abuse of political power to satisfy personal greed,» prosecutor Tatiana Martins told jurors in Manhattan federal court.

«This case is the age - old tale of abuse of political power,» Martins said in her opening remarks, adding that the senator would extract payments from companies with business before the state or they would «fear his wrath.»

The oldest tales of them give them armor, armies arriving in boats, cities built of stone.

We don't need 2000 year old tales of burning bushes to tell us that murder is wrong.

Sorry, but I can't buy the argument that the news media's obsession with decades — old tales of the homosexual seduction of teenagers — but only when done by Catholic priests — has nothing to do with Catholic — bashing.

A 60 - year - olds tale of losing 60000 through an online dating scam is a stark warning to others..

By the 20th century scientists, rejecting old tales of world catastrophe, were convinced that global climate could change only gradually over many tens of thousands of years.

By the 20th century, scientists had rejected old tales of world catastrophe, and were convinced that global climate could change only gradually over many tens of thousands of years.

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One of the reasons the provinces are facing such difficulty is that Oliver based his response to the downturn on the economic equivalent of old wives» tales.

«The anniversary has already opened old wounds for Camilla, people are being reminded of the fact that she was instrumental in ending this marriage that was described as a fairy tale,» said Morton, who has released a revised version of his book to mark 25 years since its release.

Do your body good and sip a warm cup of milk instead, like the old wive's tale suggests.

In other words, the young upstart who made millions by predicting the collapse of the old guard owns a property made iconic in the tale of a battle between a young upstart and the old guard, on the eve of an earlier financial collapse.

Old school tales of trudging five miles through the snow to get to class may give way to accounts of glitchy laptops and faulty interactive whiteboards.

That a 15 - year - old girl would be targeted and shot by the Taliban, live to tell the tale and then continue to fight for the education of women in Pakistan is the kind of story that cuts through cultural and geographic boundaries.

«In other words, whoever committed this act was trying to be «creative» and based it off the old, incorrect and often - taken - as - fact fairy tale of underworld cement shoes.»

It is a tale of abandonment (Shipp was left at the hospital by his 17 - year - old unwed mother), of belonging nowhere and to no one.

Ch - ch - changes are underway at some of America's oldest corporations and it's a tale of two witties.

They do not in fact bury their heads in the sand as the old wives» tale tells it, but the fact that most of us believe that myth to be true only makes a stronger point: if the move you choose is to burrow in deeper to protect the current nest on which you rest, the odds are high that you're leaving yourself a sitting duck (or ostrich, as it were).

While tales of old are no substitute for new victories and a lack of focus on the American market is a concern, manufacturers did quite well — especially given that we have a government devoted to balancing the budget.

The business world is full of old wives tales (for example, «business isn't personal»... really?)

The real point is that if all the Muslims of the Arab world could be convinced the fable of heaven is nothing more than a fairy tale, and that there are no 72 virgins or old freinds and family to greet them, then the world would immediately become a safer place

Second: The Creation tale is simply a way for early humans to explain mans creation and «fall» from God's predetermined path... The old testament is full of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and us.

Hmmmm, believe the former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics or an old fairy tale written thousands of years ago?

Quotations from a 2000 year old book of sadistic fairy tales do not count as evidence of anything.

One common rule and you can throw out that 2000 year old book of fairy tales and lies and fearful stories.

Bunch of fools, keep believing the same old folks tales, the same story keeps coming since sumarian times, there is not an original passage in the bible, new testament, koran etc, they just keep repeating and adjusting the story to their convinience.

Of course, Christianity as a whole is a fairy tale as well, but I guess even Christians are uncomfortable with Romney because the Mormon fairy tale is patently unbelievable even for people who believe in the older fairy tale.

Although she never reveals her real name (effaced now under the patronymic «Offred»), the Handmaid begins her tale in the old high school gymnasium by recalling youthful «expectation, of something without a shape or name» (p. 3), preserving, like Israel in exile, the time of hope, and returning in memory to the sources of existence as the only way forward.

Though obviously centered on the Qur» an, the Old Testament is very present and everyone within» or even outside of» the Abrahamic faiths is welcomed into the tale.

Science has a way of debunking old religious tales.

Based on the best - selling book of the same name, the film tells the real - life story of Colton Burpo, a 4 - year - old boy who awakens from surgery with eye - popping tales of the great beyond.

A simple I'm sorry for my part in the sordid tale can wrap this up, otherwise I have more stories... how about the one where the Edina police chaplain throws his wife across the room tearing her shoulder and her 7 year old helps her up and moves the furniture from off of her?

Julie McMahon September 16, 2014 at 8:39 pm -LSB-...] A simple I'm sorry for my part in the sordid tale can wrap this up, otherwise I have more stories... how about the one where the Edina police chaplain throws his wife across the room tearing her shoulder and her 7 year old helps her up and moves the furniture from off of her?

How do you explain that every tale of morality in the bible was told LONG before that book or the old testament was written?

Went through a lot of the Old Testament stories and said that a lot of them didn't happen but were legends or tales with meaning.

It's absolutely absurd to suggest that something that is inevitable in a three - body planetary system is in any way connected to a millennia - old book of fairy tales.

The reason this grim little tale so amuses me (quite apart from the magnificent pun, which one hopes was purely extemporaneous), is that the lives of philosophers are so often oppressively, obtundently dreary that any diverting story — even one as macabre as the ordeal of Schopenhauer's poor old Putzfrau — comes to the scholar as a cherished respite.

Her favorite was Das Doppelte Lottchen, a disarming tale about a pair of nine - year - old identical twins separated from infancy by an acrimonious divorce.

You're simply crazy if you think your 2000 year old book of fairy tales holds more evidence than the scientific research done on this subject, research that is within this decade.

Your old stories are the fantasy tales of ancient Middle Eastern men - creative guys, with perhaps a smidgeon of facts about their tribe's history and a few beneficial morality tales, but mainly myth, fantasy and supersit.ion.

It is indeed to be considered «free thinking» to always curiously trying to understand the origins of life and the universe through science rather than just accepting a 2,000 year old (or more) fairy tale.

The oldest version of the tale has no dialogue.

The Rortyan vision of heaven on earth, in which people merely tell enlightening tales and abjure the search for truth, sounds like a gathering of tipsy old sea dogs swapping dimly remembered stories of past voyages of discovery.

One could believe that Lewis was a theologically idiotic, reactionary old misogynist who couldn't write his way out of a wet paper bag, whose Narnia tales are a disgraceful blight on the landscape of children's literature, whose Aslan is a blasphemous parody of Our Lord, and — believing all that — one could still be a faithful Christian, even a devoted Anglican.