Sentences with phrase «point of the story in»

Aatishb: True Ed, but ledes also tend to summarize the point of the story in the first paragraph.

Yager's vision for multiplayer suggests that they have thankfully done away with Dead Island's backwards requirement of two players being in the same point of the story in order to play together.

I started running through the story missions, and although players were exposed to a larger backstory of Celebrimbor, I still never fully understood the point of the story in this game.

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She credits a mentor who gave her a fundraising «compass» — or the four points of one's «story» to keep in mind, and to convey clearly to investors.

Founders and early employees have already cashed out of $ 350 million in equity, the story points out.

The story points to Care - A-Van, a mobile clinic, which recently set up shop in a parking lot among BMWs and Teslas to battle this epidemic of advanced aging in Silicon Valley.

(At one point, the elder sister mentions a documentary that compares P.J.'s succession woes to the story of Job in the Old Testament.

But Wambach is also making a point that other women have echoed, in a year of major achievements for women in leadership positions in professional sports: Eventually, they hope it will no longer be a big story when a female athlete, or a woman working in some other capacity in sports, reaches new heights.

«In responding to this incident — indeed in responding to this election — we need to hear each other's stories, not slogans, we need to work towards understanding, not scoring points, and we need to find a way to move forward that respects and values each and every member of our community,» Superintendent Shawn Lewis - Lakin said in a statemenIn responding to this incident — indeed in responding to this election — we need to hear each other's stories, not slogans, we need to work towards understanding, not scoring points, and we need to find a way to move forward that respects and values each and every member of our community,» Superintendent Shawn Lewis - Lakin said in a statemenin responding to this election — we need to hear each other's stories, not slogans, we need to work towards understanding, not scoring points, and we need to find a way to move forward that respects and values each and every member of our community,» Superintendent Shawn Lewis - Lakin said in a statemenin a statement.

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.

When a VC asks a founder why they made that part of the product red, or why this button works in this particular way, that founder has the knowledge of 30 user stories and 10 data points that inform them and have colored all of their decisions.

The event was a breaking point in the community's resentment of L.A. police chief William Parker «and what they considered his double standard toward [African Americans] and whites,» according to LIFE magazine's editorial prefacing its Aug. 27, 1965, cover story on the riots.

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.

There are many interesting lessons in this story, but one main point that the reader is invited to take away is that part of America's opioid problem has to do with patient expectations.

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.

Let's just say that in a crowded Fall market for IPOs, a lot of investors are making a point of coming out to hear our story.

This is the point in the story where I'm supposed to tell you that I've been involved in similar feuds over the decades, but we were always mature enough to work things out before they reached the point of no return.

«Part of the reasons active measures have worked in the US election is because the commander - in - chief has used Russian active measures at times against his opponents,» Watts said, pointing to Manafort and Trump's citations of fake - news stories pushed out by Russian - linked entities last year.

Neuroeconomics professor Paul Zak explains: «Character - driven stories with emotional content result in a better understanding of the key points a speaker wishes to make and enable better recall of these points weeks later.»

Mr. Wang recalled a story of how on a long drive near his hometown years earlier his father pointed out all of the tunnels and bridges in China built using his cement.

«A big challenge in PR — and this doesn't happen in every case — is getting a client to understand the story from the audience's point of view,» Philadelphia - based PR agent Alexandra Golaszewska told CareerCast.com in an email.

In his book «Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk» (1996), Peter Bernstein makes a good point about what's at stake in the debatIn his book «Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk» (1996), Peter Bernstein makes a good point about what's at stake in the debatin the debate:

«The real story of this memo is that despite our legal restrictions on issuing a blanket ban for all employees, our chairman has made the point that anyone at the agency involved in oversight of bitcoin futures products should not own the underlying asset, bitcoin.»

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.»

This alone doesn't tell the whole story and in order to make the point, it's more helpful to look at the distribution of returns.

In this episode he shares his story of how he got started, landed his first clients, and built his business up to the point where it is today.

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 posin 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 posin 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 posIn 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.

«The point of this story was not in my view sufficient to offset the embarrassment to the subject and his family,» Denton wrote in a lengthy statement issued on Friday afternoon.

For example, my experiments show that character - driven stories with emotional content result in a better understanding of the key points a speaker wishes to make and enable better recall of these points weeks later.

This point has been covered in this site, time and time again — and it's the same story regardless of whether you're involved in passive investing with index funds, active investing with mutual funds or ETFs, or even investing in penny stocks.

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.

Finally, this one isn't quite an overtly negative call on gold itself, although these types of stories, in retrospect, can signal an inflection point during a speculative mania.

These inspiring stories from some of the most successful family businesses in the world provide key learning points for other family businesses.

From that point, Bazan has done just that, releasing albums that have challenged his listeners with stories of deception, murder, infidelity, suicide and chauvinism, all the while presenting an undercurrent of faith in God that can't be denied.

I only raise it to point out that there is much more to the story than the growth of demand, and the role that monetary policy plays in it.

Case in point... remember the story of Job?

«In the famous story of the blind men and the elephant... the real point of the story is constantly overlooked.

What would be shocking however is if this alien race had an incredibly similar story to that found in the bible complete with a single god, a jesus, some miracles, some parables, etc.... It would be the similarity of religions between alien races in this hypothetical that would truely shock me and at least make me question if that would be a solid point of evidence for the religious.

Interestingly, the Times story does not mention the North American Man - Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), an organization that has the merit of being utterly straightforward on a subject about which the Times, at least at this point in its political evolution, feels compelled to be somewhat coy.

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.

My instructor — a realist in the mold of Hemingway — patiently pointed out to me that I was writing a story, not an account.

For me, this story is touching and at a point in my life where I am very confused about a lot of things with the Bible, religion, Christians, and pastors.

She clearly links God and Love in many points of her story.

Theodoret makes a similar point in his story of Maesymas, a Syriac - speaking peasant with no education.

Now, I'm in no way saying that those pieces of evidence prove beyond doubt that any of those three religions are true, just pointing out that saying there is «no evidence» of any of the stories is a bit off.

Although some commentators claim that the encounter with the hemorrhaging woman simply occupies an interlude in the story of Jairus's daughter, her healing points to the faith necessary for new life.

Martin points out, for example, how Evans argues «on faith» that Jesus possessed foreknowledge, but then endorses an interpretation of a New Testament story in which Jesus expected something that did not happen.

This is the story of the Battle of Lepanto, which marked the end of the Crusades and was a turning point in the history of Christianity.