Sentences with phrase «sets of stories in»

The predominant setting of the stories in the south, together with linguistic peculiarities which only a Hebrew scholar would detect, indicates that the writing was done by somebody in the kingdom of Judah.

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It's a different story in the U.S., where, after a five - year delay, transcripts of Federal Open Market Committee meetings — where U.S. interest rates are set — are released to the public.
Netflix description: «Two groups of high school misfits — the AV club and the drama club — collide in this quirky coming - of - age story set in 1996 Oregon.»
The film featuring an all - Black cast, and a story - line set in the fictitious African nation of Wakanda, has broken so many records in just two months on the market, Disney, the parent company of Marvel Comics, released an infographic to list them all.
Theoretically, a privately held Dell will not face such pressures although some might argue that the $ 47 billion in debt the company assumed to get this thing done comes with its own set of stresses, but that's a story for another day.
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.
As reported, the new film will be an origin story for the clown prince of crime, it will be set in the 1980s, and it will be completely unconnected with the Jared Leto version of the character introduced in «Suicide Squad.»
The Force Awakens is also set to be one of Disney's biggest priorities, as outlined in our story on the franchise's financial potential.
Along with a faster experience, Instant Articles also introduces a set of interactive features that allows publishers to tell a story in a more visual and animated way.
«I've heard stories of companies hedging their bets with some of the eurozone economies,» Langrish says, explaining that some have set up accounts to pay their employees in euros should their home country exit the eurozone and reintroduce its old currency.
One student told me that he thought college students tended to ramp up their privacy settings and change them more frequently because «we're getting closer to being in the real world and we've all heard these horror stories of prospective employers mining applicants» Facebooks.
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.»
«This novel is set in the near future and tells a horrifying story of a government takeover by an ultra-extreme religious group dominated by men and supported by their passive wives.
The story is set in Albion, going back hundreds of years before the original trilogy.
I would not use gratuitous sex and violence — as in Game of Thrones — but make sure the violence, for example, was appropriate to the story, its historical setting, and to my characters.
With British officials raiding the offices of embattled political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, Mark Zuckerberg bending the knee before congress, and GDPR set to go into effect next month, no story holds greater sway in techland.
Narcos, a Golden Globe nominated show, is set in the 1980s and follows the story of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and the DEA agents who were going after him.
Go inside a fascinating and disturbing crime story, set in one of the most lawless places on earth: our oceans, where perpetrators traffic in an illegal product and front - line workers are modern - day slaves.
Outside of some blood splatters going across the screen there really isn't much to it, other than the basic plot, which is that the story is set in post-Civil War Wyoming during a blizzard.
Lombardo's story illustrates a common misconception in setting quotas: that quotas can be fabricated out of thin air, or based off of a mere desire to reach a an often - random benchmark.
One of them was the mid-1990s hit Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler, in which the author, a Brazilian CEO, describes running a democratic, open - book company in which people set their own salaries.
He has produced an astonishing set of stories of what it is like in a major, modern economy that has simply run out of money.
The Artist, which is set in the 1920s and tells the story of a silent era film actor, was actually mostly silent itself and employed subtitles — a fact that made the movie quite unique for its era, but may have also hurt ticket sales.
Even better, the Times story set in motion a lot of other stuff — visits from users, interest from possible partners, and other media stories.
«As the market for natural and organic foods and nutritional supplements continues to grow, having a story based on a set of founding principles that have guided us throughout our 60 year history... helps when talking to investors,» Kemper Isley, co-president of the company, and son of the founders Margaret and Philip Isley, said in an email.
You could tell stories of real frictions, our stock of real and human capital was not set up to produce non-tradeables or something like that and so we may have an increase in the natural rate of unemployment for a time.
This will remove much of the confusion surrounding the two sets of projections and put the Estimates in a proper context, thereby eliminating differing and confusing stories.
If the Rule of Law committee's description is correct, then The Australian Financial Review's stories had some part in setting off the avalanche of scandals and calamity that has engulfed Malta and which may have led to her death.
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 - depictionIn 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 - depictionin his own time,» and to separate the facts about the man from the myths created by his several self - depictions.
Even though Music City is the setting of their current chapter, Paper Route's story didn't begin in Nashville — instead, it begins in a small, southern Illinois town where the band formed in 2004.
Hawthorne places his story in a cosmic setting with the intertwining of two family histories (the Pyncheons and the Maules) and their development over two centuries.
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).
Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, shortly after the massive changes ushered in by the modernizing Vatican II conference in Rome, the story quickly sets up a conflict between the old - school nun who serves as principal and runs the school like a prison (played by Meryl Streep) and the young, new priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who wants to shake things up by treating the students as fully rounded young people who deserve doses of freedom and respect as well.
Now imagine the impact our stories can have on the people around us, if we set aside our discontent and live in full gratitude for the good things God has done, speaking truth in the face of darkness and fear.
The volume is also divided into two separate stories, set a century apart: a long first - person narrative by a Handmaid in Gilead is followed by «Historical Notes on «The Handmaid's Tale,»» a fictive academic commentary by the urbane male editor of the anonymous woman's tapes discovered in the late 21st century, decades after Gilead's fall.
And Luke sets the story straight in the above «kiboshing» of the lamb and lion prophecy in Isaiah 11 and Isaiah 65.
Based on the original novel Ben - Hur: A Tale of the Christ, the epic adventure set in the first century tells the story of a Jewish slave who becomes a charioteer while seeking revenge on behalf of his family.
Set in a timeless desert unfettered by any particular time period, Habibi tells the story of Dodola and Zam, two orphaned slave children who find love and security in each other.
Yesterday, when I spotted Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdene on the cover of People Magazine with the headline «THE HUNGER GAMES» in bold white letters, I couldn't help but wonder if Suzanne Collins set all of this up to remind us of how closely our culture can resemble that of The Capitol — what with our excess, our reality shows, our glorification of violence, and our compulsive need to shove every good story through our celebrity - obsessed media machine.
Set in Boston during the events leading up to the Revolutionary War, the book tells the story of a fourteen - year - old apprentice silversmith.
Set in the turn of the century, it tells the story of a girl who is fascinated with the natural world and is trying to find her way.
When she's not writing creative non-fiction, short stories, and poetry, Erin spends her time working on her Masters of Arts in Urban Studies online through Eastern University, fighting for the last carrot in the house with her two rabbits, Bug and Sage, and enjoying mentoring time with local youth both in and out of church settings.
Another read aloud that whet appetites for more... set in 1948 in Alaska, this story of a teacher in a one - room schoolhouse inspires curiosity in art and literature and creativity.
In the present section the focus is the setting of parish story, its world view.
One should not expect to encounter fully developed cosmologies in the settings of parish story.
To see belief not as a set of beliefs but as a story, an experience of coming to belief, means that theological reflection ought itself to be shaped by the story, take to itself, both in form and content, the story.
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.
It is hard to think Luke didn't have this story in mind when he tells of Jesus» ministry in the days just before «he set his face to go to Jerusalem.»
Ever since the publication in 1903 of Wilhelm Wrede's famous book on this subject, The Messianic Secret in the Gospels, scholars have been compelled to take seriously the thesis it set forth, namely, that the whole conception of the secret Messiahship is an intrusion into the tradition, either read into it by Mark or at a late pre-Marcan stage in the development of the tradition, and not really consonant with the story of Jesus as it was handed down in the earliest Christian circles.
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