Sentences with phrase «set of stories about»

You should, too: it's a terrific telling of an important set of stories about how Democrats came to dominate digital politics (for now).

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Use it or lose the opportunity to tell your story visually and set yourself apart from the crowd — of about half a billion LinkedIn users.

What it's about: Set adjacent to the story of Jesus, a Jewish prince named Judah is sent to slavery by a Roman friend, regains his freedom, and plots revenge.

In February, scare stories about potential defaults set off tidal wave of selling.

In retelling the story of Kierkegaard's short career, Garff set himself two goals: «to reinstall Kierkegaard in his own time,» and to separate the facts about the man from the myths created by his several self - depictions.

Jesus foreshadowed the emotional pain of a loss even though you may «know» someone is in Heaven with the story about Lazarus and his sisters; being the one who set the ball in motion for Jesus» crucifixion wore heavily on Judas (if their beliefs were correct, he still had to do with the physical loss of Jesus; had they been wrong about the «divinity» of Jesus, he helped get his friend killed).

There is a story about Davy Crockett the frontiersman opposing the house of represenattives setting up a pension fund for the widow of a distinguished navy officer, saying «this is not the job of government.

She's inviting apologies, or what most likely would be a set of counter-accusations and justifications, or at least explanatory context that would likely invite scrutiny into her behavior at the time because again divorces are competing clashing stories about pain and betrayal and rage and brokenness.

That faith, plus other perceptions about our personal lives and the course of human history, provided a dimension to our stories that I call their setting: the world the story sets in which story's plot can credibly unfold and its character develop.

The settings of the stories told about my illness can be seen in relation to the same circle of interpretation.7

Taylor sets out to construct the beginnings of a story about the movement from the porous self to the buffered self.

Concentrated information about the setting of the congregational story can be obtained through such conversations.

When I used to attend (evangelical christian) church there was always a vocal strain of folks who wanted to think they were persecuted, they told made - up stories about christians being persecuted in various parts of the world (at the time a lot of them were set in the U.S.S.R.)... it was so obvious that they LOVED thinking of themselves as some small group of martyrs, that they NEEDED to imagine themselves to be a persecuted minority... holding on to some secret truth that the rest of the world had turned its back on.

Julie Tomlin and Lou Dawson crafted the words that would explain the context and story of each Station, while Marksteen set about creating response packs that included wristbands, prints, a newspaper and other resources, which were sold at the exhibitions and online to raise money for refugee relief.

Some attention to the story form in apocalyptic can show us some of the reasons why the narrative form is in trouble, while process theology has some fundamentally useful hints about how we may re-imagine the story, or grasp a new narrative vision of the world, which will enable us to set the new into a meaningful framework and respond to it with hope.

But beyond all of its memorable visuals, huge set pieces and bold creative choices (it's four hours long and takes some liberties with the text), The Ten Commandments is at its core a compelling story about a man's calling from God and his struggles with his own humanity.

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

It used the incident, as it used everything else that was given it in the oral tradition about Jesus which preceded the setting - down in written texts the story of Jesus, as a way in which the importance of the originating event was declared.

Jesus Feminist is really a story — a story about how I am learning to set up a little outpost for the Kingdom of God in my real right - now life, as a sign and a foretaste of what it means to be human in God's kingdom.

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

The thing about Star Wars, as with all great cultural phenomenons, is that the setting and mechanics of the story are incidental.

These success stories also show that many victims themselves don't really embrace this view; instead of agitating for — or despairing over — political deliverance from their plight, they set about changing it through individual, nonpolitical striving.

One of the most remarkable parallels is the story concerning Sargon I, king of Assyria about 1200 years before Moses, who was said to have been set in a basket of rushes, its lid sealed with bitumen, and cast into the river, from which he was rescued by a «drawer of water.»

When we recognize the original point as that of the contrast between the handful of seed and the bushels of harvest, and when we set the parable finally in the context of the proclamation of God acting as king in the experience of men confronted by the message and ministry of Jesus, what is the significance of a story about a Palestinian peasant who sows handfuls of seed and, despite all the agricultural vicissitudes of that time and place, gathers in bushels of harvest?

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

These role models will share stories from their personal and professional journeys to leadership, provide insights on future trends impacting the food industry, as well as talk about skill sets necessary for current and future generations of female executives to advance to boardrooms and the C - suites.

About Grimmway Farms: The story of Grimmway began in 1968, when brothers Rod and Bob Grimm set up a roadside produce stand and planted that would blossom into today's Grimmway Farms.

The sweetest part of this meal is not only the Panna Cotta with Frutti Di Bocca dessert, but the stories and memories they share as they reminisce about their times on set together.

It has never really been about how much you spend or how much of a genius you are, it takes sustained competitiveness at the highest level and / or that extra bit of luck to have a shot at it hence my [previous] happiness at being in the top four [lots of clubs would do almost anything to get in that league], however even that can get stale, to be realistic, I think progress would be aiming for the top two now, enough of these top four stories, it ran its course now we need to aim higher, when the top two is our priority, it becomes inevitable that whoever might be in front of us is bound to slip up on a few occasions ala Bayern and Dortmund, we should now set our sights on the top four of the champions league lol

Because of a story in the New York Daily News on July 30, 1981 that reported Martina, admitting for the first time that she was bisexual, she and Lieberman felt compelled to set the record straight about their own relationship.

Set primarily in hardscrabble Canadian and New England towns, the stories are less about the particulars of the game and more about the moods that envelope the characters.

When the directors of the 1959 Pan American Games set about buying a track for installation at Soldier Field in Chicago two years ago they not only found that there were no major track builders, as such, in the country, but that the few good U.S. tracks in existence seemed to be the result of pure luck — the Los Angeles Coliseum, for example, got its ancient but revered brick - dust track, the story goes, because a building was being demolished nearby and a Coliseum official suddenly had the bright idea that the crushed bricks would make a good running surface.

Bryan claimed he was not the weak link of Team Hell No, and set about proving this by destroying every single competitor he met up with, most notably Randy Orton, who has a larger part to play later in Bryan's story.

Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.

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Just this month, the latest salvo — Leslie Bennetts's book «The Feminine Mistake,» a call - to - work warning women about the long - term costs of staying at home — hit the shelves with a bang, setting off another round of news stories, talk shows and cyberspace debates about the progress on the battlefront.

This is a story about the dwindling health of free speech on university campuses and why we set up a website to challenge it.

He will spend only two days on set, he doestnt care about the length of the story line, he won't allow you to shoot his scenes at night and he decides which actors and actresses you feature in the movie.

Another Sunday and another set of papers full of stories about MPs» allowances and expenses, on the back of last week's revelations about Jacqui Smith's husband's taste in films and the publication this week of MPs» allowance claims for 2007 - 2008.

«What's appealing about the current growing body of evidence on right - to - carry laws is that different researchers using different methodologies and different data sets are coming to similar conclusions... We are all coalescing around the same message, and that's the best that science can do: Look at the imperfect data in different ways and see if a consistent story emerges.»

Set in the not - too - distant future, without overt preaching or much scientific exposition, Gattaca uses the youthful dreams of Vincent Freeman (Ethan Hawke) to tell an affectingly human story about the consequences of putting too much faith into DNA, genetic destiny, and stereotypes.

During my survey, the top of the headline charts included a story about an attempt to set a world record for toppling dominoes that was foiled by a wayward cockroach.

This is a deeply disturbing story about loss of identity, which draws together the less attractive side of eco-awareness and contemporary fears about designer drug research, in a setting of art research and deception, the history of the Hapsburgs, and what might or might not be dark magic.

The story about another hint of the elusive Higgs boson amounting to nothing (7 May, p 6) set me thinking.

GREG GIBBONS, managing director of Australian Biotechnological Resources, is fond of telling the story of the best way to set about building a house.

From our Narrative Medicine Program, a story about two strangers who share a set of transplanted lungs, become bonded like brothers.

I wrote about this unique use of SETI data in a feature story last year, so I was happy to organically meet an astronomer who takes advantage of this massive, free data set!

For question 2), I'll share some of the stories I've picked up about vegan muscle builders and general athletes who have been improving their performance and setting world records after going vegan.

If there's one thing I learned at the Muse and the Marketplace writer's conference in Boston last weekend, it's that every story is, in its essence, The Odyssey (yes, the Homer one you read in high school), and has to be about a journey in which the protagonist (in the case of the following story, that would be me) yearns for something, sets out to find it, and ends up in a different place from where she started.

You have heard about the epic love story set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, Brokeback Mountain tells the story of two young men — a ranch - hand and a rodeo cowboy — who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love.