Sentences with phrase «so in hock»

But isn't the greatest disadvantage of all being written off by those so in hock to a culture of low expectations that they have forgotten what it's like to be ambitious, to want to transcend your background, to overcome circumstance and succeed on your own terms?

Not exact matches

Worship and work go together, as the American religious philosopher William Ernest Hocking so well put it in his book The Meaning of God in Human Experience.

He was big all over — ham - hock arms, huge feet, a melon head so large that when he decided to change his game ensemble, switching from a ten - gallon hat to a baseball cap, he had to split the cap in back to get it comfortably on his head.

As we wrote at the time, this example makes the point that authors already have a lot of the tools for marketing their work, and in some cases — as with Hocking, Locke and other self - publishers such as J.A. Konrath — this can make them so self - sufficient that they no longer need the support of a traditional publishing deal.

Heck, even Amanda Hocking threw in the towel and signed a four - book deal with St. Martins... so you're in excellent company.

I do almost all of my own promotion with the smaller houses so I do understand the onus that Hocking refers to in relation to hiring a staff to deal with the communication and work that goes into it.

It's so important to realize (1) that in this brave new world of publishing, all options are open and (2) that success is rare, there are very few Amanda Hockings in the new tsunami wave of self - pubbed authors!

Being able to follow the decision making process (through interviews and blog posts) of people like Joanna Penn, Hugh Howey, Amanda Hocking, and so many others seems to show that traditional publishing will continue to have an important place in the industry, although not nearly as important as it used to be!

All the people (Konrath, Hocking, EL James, Hugh Howey) who dominated the best seller lists in their categories did so by publshing multiple books one after the other.

It happened only once so far, in March, as a result of Hocking - Locke hype.

I am so proud of and happy for Amanda Hocking, but there were still many typos and grammatical errors and some trouble with sentence structure in her books.

After a couple of extensions, the hapless borrowers may find themselves so deep in hock that they are soon making payments on nothing but the interest.

I don't give a rip what your dog looks like stacked, if he is standing ringside with his hocks nearly flat under him just so he can put his feet where they need to be, your breed is in serious trouble.

There are many (American - line GSDs, especially) that appear in stance to be so over-angulated in the rear (thigh - to - tibia - to - metatarsus) that you'd think they would not be able to adequately extend the hock.

Some horses initially resent wraps on their hind legs, especially over the hocks, so it's best to apply these while in a safe position in case the horse kicks out.

The occurrence of stress fracture in the Shiba is probably very rare (mine is the only case I have in my files so far), while hereditary OCD of the hock is common enough so that an owner of a dog with rear - leg lameness should have this possibility checked by a team of radiologist and orthopedist, probably at a veterinary college.

The locked - hock phenomenon is not very uncommon in German Shepherd Dogs of American bloodlines — the so - called «AKC type.»

Property Location With a stay at Sofitel So Singapore in Singapore (Chinatown), you'll be minutes from Thian Hock Keng Temple and Raffles Place.

As I understand the situations you describe, you'd be running into lots of «ad - hock» movements, so a lot of the route - planning abstractions you see in games of this genera would take some adapting before they could be used.

A bigger problem, it seems to me, is that the national leadership in this country is so pathetic, and in hock so far to lobbyists and major industries, that we will be lucky not to continue to increase our CO2 emissions, let alone reduce them.

That's why so much of Big Climate's behavior is cultish in nature, including its conspiracy - theory paranoia, and its savage treatment of heretics and blasphemers — they're not shy about comparing skeptics to Holocaust deniers or 9/11 truthers, as seen in the Daily Beast's hyperventilation over the story of skeptic Wei - Hock Soon's corporate funding.