Sentences with phrase «point of the story as»

That theme is set into motion when Bogue first attacks the Church and remains a key point of the story as the main characters help rebuild it.

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And Lewis at one point has a character's internal monologue describe the «entire history of Wall Street» as the «story of scandals... linked together tail to trunk like circus elephants.»

It's a story sure to engender plenty of giggles, but it's also another example of a bizarre little story that serves as a pretty decent starting point for consideration of more serious issues.

As the Journal story points out, YES signed a deal with the Yankees to lock up TV rights for 30 years at a cost of about $ 1.5 billion.

Too many of the also - rans are already stuck in the proof - point pudding (moving sideways instead of forward) and finding that they can no longer sell the same old «just wait and see» story as easily to the guys that totally fell for it the last time.

As Hitched.com editor Steve Cooper put it in a rebuttal to the Facebook divorce stories, this has been the case since the times of our caveman friend Blaaarggg: «I'm sure at some point during the Stone Age a woman was frustrated because her mate wouldn't step away from the fire and come to bed.

Yet, however flawed third parties may be as they play their role in regulating the marketplace, the Theranos story points to the value of such institutions.

Yet what some moguls might seem as liabilities DuVernay turned into strengths, using her indie training to maximize her resources, telling a black story from a black point of view, making sure that women's contributions were acknowledged and writing into the script her own passionate pleas for equality (albeit in the King style).

As my colleague Matt Heimer, who shepherded this extraordinary package of stories, points out in the guide's introduction, anyone who reviewed a quick B - roll of 2016 would have seen a terrain that looked utterly inhospitable for investors.

During a panel discussion as part of the South by Southwest Festival's interactive program, Denton admitted that the Hogan story — which was about a sex tape that the wrestler made with a friend's ex-wife, and included a short clip from the tape — didn't have an obvious point to it, apart from embarrassing Hogan.

The story points out that Koum wrote in a blog post after selling WhatsApp in 2014: «Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA, and we built WhatsApp around the goal of knowing as little about you as possible.»

Third and finally, the traditional story misses the real function of private banks, which is to solve an information problem in the purest Hayekian senses. That is, banks are or should be specialists in risk assessment and risk taking. They should know their client, understand the local market and have their pulse on the broad economy. Arguably, if properly structured, they can and should do this better than other entities such as governments. In other words, the proper role of banks should be underwriting — lend money, hold the debt, and bear the risk. Which is a long - winded way of getting to the main point of this post.

In this series, we cover stories and provide insightful analysis of the digital currencies such as bitcoin with no central point of control over the money supply.

As Vox's Dylan Matthews pointed out, it's about abuse of power — according to Daniels's account, Trump's wealth gave him the ability to quash a damaging story about himself, at least until after the presidential election.

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As a person who has traveled well and studied religion, Judaism, Muslim and Christianity all worship the God of Abraham, but the story is not interpreted different but stops at different points.

The point is what the bible says happened didn't happen as the bible says, and no amount of twisting the story to fit the facts will change that.

Apologists have spent a great deal of time and effort to try and make the contradictions in the four gospel STORIES make sense, they have had some success but not to the point of establishing the STORY as FACT.

All that is being pointed out is that it likely wasn't as widespread as the stories of early Christianity make it seem.

As has been pointed out to you countless times, science has shown that the biblical myths of creation and life are not true — they are simply stories invented to satisfy an ignorant populace.

My point was more that it is possible to read even the wrath stories as a God of Love, these are not pas.sages that prove that God is necessarily a bully.

My point is that claiming the bible story of creation to be true and denying evolution is every bit as inane as denying that microorganisms cause disease.

I do find it really interesting that from the view point of some religious followers even a single point they can pick as inconsistent with their stories invalidates the entire scientific method.

THAT fact, ie the fact of the child as a sign, NOT the method of the birth, was the point of the story.

The greatness and inviolability of a subject have never yet exempted those who endeavor to find expression for it from the effort of giving their very best from the artistic point of view; and to fail to fulfill this demand when a religious subject of such a sublime nature as the story of Our Lord is involved, is not merely an aesthetic sin.

Jesus points to the story of Adam and Eve as a lesson in God's intentions for marriage.

If Jesus had been born as a Native American, He could have pointed to their legends and stories passed down from generation to generation and said, «These are the traditions that speak of me.»

To take the content of Julie's story around her divorce and use it to directly or inferentially accuse EV leaders as being complicit in extraordinary abuse — even to the point of physical harm and trying to have her institutionalized — all so they could keep their speaking and publishing careers intact.

A Resurrection of his physical body, such as is implied by the empty tomb and by some of the stories in the Gospels of his appearances, would point towards a docetic Christ who does not fully share the lot of men; unless, indeed, bodily corruption were to be regarded as being bound up with the sinfulness of man which Christ did not share (but, unless we accept an impossibly literalistic interpretation of Genesis 3 as factual history, it is impossible to hold that physical dissolution is not part of the Creator's original and constant intention for his creatures in this world).

From a modern point of view we can only regard such a story as a devout legend.

The point of the story is that God's values are not always the same as ours.

So we can use these aspects of the resurrection story as Christian Myth as long as we use them to point to and symbolize the Christian understanding that Jesus was victorious on the cross and survived death.

Just admit that the flood is a story probably written a while after a severe local flood, and that the theological point is to credit God for the saving of life as well as the promise not to destroy again.

As the story is told in Exodus both the manner of delivery and the effect upon the hearers makes that point quite clear.

We can use these stories, as myth, to help us celebrate the good news of Christmas and to emphasize the point, «Hey!

The whole of this passage of Isaiah was of great importance to Christians as pointing to the fact that the paradoxical death of the Messiah was part of God's plan, and later on this particular verse may have influenced the development of the detailed story of Nicodemus and the burial of Jesus.

For the period from 1914 to the present, Blumhofer switches to the developmental model used by William Menzies in an earlier work, Anointed to Serve: The Story of the Assemblies of God (1971) She illustrates many of the points with fresh anecdotal material and brings into greater focus certain aspects of the history, such as the denomination's response to the New Order of the Latter Rain.

Economists sometimes argue that when a society becomes sufficiently wealthy the benefits of increased wealth will trickle down to those who are now poor, but in the countries they cite as success stories, the improvement of the lot of the poor was greatly benefited by governmental action and labor unions, neither of which are viewed favorably from the point of view of the theory.

The shad, like the Concord farmers, have, as he says, a «just cause,» and when he asks what might avail a crowbar against the Billerica Dam, he is pointing, by means of a parable, to a radically new understanding of the story of human existence.

Particularly at certain points, we sense the oral quality of the stories: this, or this, or this strikes us as something told, even though we read it now.

Dominic Crossan particularly has developed this point of view; he describes myth as the form of story that functions primarily to form world, and parable as the form of story that upsets and transforms world (DI).

In the history of the building and unbuilding of these structures — particularly the most massive projects such as Columbia Point in Boston or the Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago — one can read the story of the anemic American welfare state and the profound unease with which we have met the plight of the poor.

But the Jacob stories emphasize a central point of interpretation: Israel's election is understood not as merited or earned, but as the free choice of Yahweh, for reasons known only to himself.

Since we can not survey history from some universal, purely rational point of view, narrative theologians argue, we have no choice but to operate out of the historical narrative in which we find ourselves — and for the Christian theologian that means the Christian narrative, shaped by the story (ies) of Jesus Christ as found in the Bible.

Using biblical stories told by and about Jesus as his starting point, Cox offers a series of wide - ranging reflections on everything from the ethics of in vitro fertilization to the biblical accuracy of the Left Behind novels.

This remains a strong implication of the story of the quarrel between Lot (the father of the nations Moab and Ammon) and Abraham, and Lot's free choice of the land to the east and south of Canaan proper (13) The same motive partially underlies the repeated promise of the land to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the pointed denial of the claims of others, for example Ishmael (the Ishmaelites) and Esau (the Edomites) as well as Moab and Ammon.

Aside from also starting to post more photos on my blog (which idea I see you gleaned from monitoring my brainwaves as well), Dean and I were just talking about this story yesterday and how the point is not doing vs. being, but never being distracted from being a disciple; which is really just being close to Jesus, doing what he does, listening to what he says and going with his agenda instead of ours.

A central feature of this task is to portray the «worldview» of the previous point as a «story» rooted in the creative, liberating, sanctifying love of God.

The unique person and moment can be seen as unique because the story does not have to return to a certain point; but on the other hand, the end symbolizes closure, the cessation of the intolerable new, and the little story of the believer's life is subjected to these same tensions that appear in the overall story.