Sentences with phrase «rich story in»

Colin Barnett's election victory in September 2008 against all the odds is one of the great rags to riches stories in Western Australian politics.

In the right hands, time loops have motivated some of the richest stories in sci - fi cinema:

Are there any rags to riches stories in the indie publishing community?

DeGeneres drew links with the stock market while explaining the functioning of cryptocurrency market which has paved numerous rags to riches story in the past.

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Barbara Corcoran was a dynamo on stage — sharing her rags to riches story starting out as a waitress in pigtails.

«Your individual biology, your health history and ever - fluctuating state of well - being, where you go, what you spend, how you sleep, what you put in your body and what comes out» — that rich - but - messy heap of information, more than anything else, is what's driving these companies together, write Erika Fry and Sy Mukherjee in their terrific cover story for Fortune's April 1 issue («Big Data Meets Biology»), which we're posting online today.

To say the rich live differently than we do doesn't tell the full story of life in many of these wealthy enclaves across the country.

Neither is geologist Liz Hajek, but she makes an exception for this book: «I don't generally gravitate toward fiction, but this collection of short stories, set in a variety of compelling places and time periods, is so creative and rich, it's been really fun to read.»

In a recent talk at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum, he explained that while IQ is certainly helpful, and EQ is also beneficial for getting ahead, his rags to riches story was possible only because he possessed another extremely valuable quality — LQ.

The documentary will tell the story of how Buffett transformed himself from a boy who struggled academically to become one of the richest men in the world.

(Despite America's love of a good rags - to - riches story, the data backs him up that social mobility is actually lower in the U.S. than in many other developed countries.)

The server investigation put such political strain on the FBI in large part because of the environment of ethics stories that surrounded it — the business and philanthropic empire that arose out of and was hopelessly intertwined with the Clinton political operation, the high - dollar paid speeches, the political aides who were somehow getting so rich off this enterprise that one of them just bought David Rockefeller's mansion.

Stories abound of people emptying their bank accounts and putting all of their available cash into the cryptocurrency in the hopes of getting rich quick.

In truth, the stories we most greedily devour are about people who are born rich.

Considering that many rags - to - riches stories have been a cornerstone in our culture for generations now, there is real power in the employment of the right success habits.

Tyee Victoria bureau chief Andrew MacLeod broke the story of a local revolt against Tory Resource Minister Gary Lunn's million dollar «green» grant to rich homeowners in his Saanich - Gulf Islands riding.

«The Richest Man in Babylon» offers guidance on personal financial problems through a series of stories.

HAWAI'I Magazine seeks to bring Hawai`i's beauty, places, culture, food, people and stories to life in a way that makes the visitors» experience deeper, richer and more authentic.

Whether you're putting a fresh take and analysis upon data collected from sources such as the ONS for the UK or Data.gov for the US, or are drilling down into anything from social media following statistics to the earnings of celebrities as published in the Forbes Rich List, there are many ways which you can pull stories through data analysis.

«Some people following the Thiel story appear to be surprised that these weapons can be used by rich and powerful people in order to get their way,» Olson tells me.

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See the story of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16:19 - 31.

As you read the story, we pray that God will touch your heart and open up places where you might be stuck, and help you see the way he loves you in richer and deeper tones and colors and sounds.

This is a story of an anonymous rich man and of a poor man whom Jesus bothers to name, the only named person in all of Jesus» parables.

The scriptures are rich with stories of new or renewed life, In the passages for this Sunday, we encounter several people who were «as good as dead» — one was dead — but with whom God was not yet finished.

Rich with vulnerable stories from Ann's life, this life - changing devotional makes space for you to breathe, sit with Scripture, and reflect in ways that lets you not only freshly see your own soul and your way to the abundant life.

Both drinks, however, come from the same cup, the one we share with the Bridegroom who takes us as his own for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, and in whose arms we shall rest when death comes to close off all our other stories.

In Jesus» story of the rich man and Lazarus there is no wiggle room.

The story of the Rich Young Man tells us that we must be prepared at any moment to share what we have, even to the last penny, with others who are in need.

The greed of man for property and profit is here shown to be as absurd as in the story of the rich farmer.

Perhaps he intended the story of the rich ruler and the camel to be understood in the light of his teaching as a whole: It is what is in one's heart, rather than the external trappings of one's life, that makes one clean or unclean.

Learning the meanings of the stories and symbolism in religion and otherwise can make one's life infinitely rich.

Although it comes up early in almost every open discussion or Q / A session concerning final punishment, the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus says nothing about the nature of hell or what happens to those who finally go there.

In Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis portrays the simple character of Zorba — a man who is simply complex, a man of rich experience whose life is so full of stories that his crude philosophy is full of wisdom.

Some while back, Robert Jenson wrote «How the World Lost its Story «(FT, October 1993), and it has provided rich grist for many intellectual mills, including Steven D. Smith of Notre Dame Law School in an article in the Wake Forest Law Review.

Jeremy thanks for your comments alot of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to give it away and be a follower of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some of you are getting fidgetty.

Jesus frequently talks in terms that should frighten the wealthy: the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16) or the story of the Parable of the Rich Fool (Luke 12), to whom he said: «life does not consist in an abundance of possessions» (Luke 12:15).

Remember the story in the Bible of the RICH MAN who asked Abraham if he could go back to his relatives and warn them about the true path to salvation.

Most of the stories and illustrations in such books deal with how to handle crowds of adoring fans, multi-million dollar budgets, and rich CEOs who try to push your church around.

The more prosaic minds have not been happy with it, and some of the philosophers of language, in spite of their use of stories, have difficulty with the rich, mythic, paradoxical imagery.

Timpson follows Pope John Paul II in using the story of Tobit as a biblical base for his argument, but does not discuss the Pope's theology of the body with its rich idea of sexuality as a gift.

Every face in the room was nuanced and intricate, rich with story.

And yet the novel that followed The Junkers, Monk Dawson, was about a monk: a simple story of a boy from a school not unlike Ampleforth, who on graduation joins the community, then questions its commitment to educating the sons of the rich, and applies his own idiosyncratic «preferential option for the poor,» providing shelter for a homeless family in the school theater.

Whether it involves a memorial in Little Rock, Arkansas, to a victim of the Trail of Tears, the Hawaiian tradition of pono (righteousness and balance), California New Age groups borrowing Indian rituals or New Mexico tribes arguing for the return of their sacred sites, the story of regional religious culture has to acknowledge these rich (and often contentious) roots.

There is a story about a wealthy farmer who was probably one of the richest men in Africa.

Once we take into account the capacity of the ancient Jewish mind to create a story as a way of expounding and showing the relevance of a Biblical text (this practice will be described in Chapter 9), it is not at all difficult to see how the story of Joseph of Arimathea could have been partly shaped by Isaiah 53:9, «And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death,» found in the famous chapter on the suffering servant, which was certainly interpreted by the early Christians as a prophecy of the death of Jesus.

Mothers in India know no better theme for imparting wisdom and instruction to their daughters, and elderly men know no richer storehouse for narrating tales to children, than these stories preserved in the Epics.

«St Asaph is rich in historical, cultural and religious treasures and this support will enable us to share our story with many more people.»

The story of the rich man and what follows it raise searching questions for Christian life in our world today.

I'm reminded of a story in the bible where Jesus lauds a poor man for giving a small amount instead of a rich man who gave a moderate amount.