Sentences with phrase «stories as a basis»

sry, if u believe in a book written by men over a few thousand years that includes all kinds of silly stories as a basis of actual history you are an IGNORAaNT MOROON...

In the case of the empty tomb story, it can be shown with some degree of probability that Matthew and Luke have used Mark's story as the basis of their own, and have elaborated it at different points in their own way.

Luke, like Matthew, used Mark's tomb story as the basis of his own, but made fewer changes than Matthew, and different ones.

The story of Sodom in Genesis 18 was about violence and domination, the same type of event that takes place in prisons and occupied countries, but it was NOT the reason for God's decision to destroy the city, and to use this story as a basis for prejudice against ho mose xuality in general is like comparing ra pe to marriage.

These class actions referred to, and relied on, the data and underlying studies cited by the Bloomberg story as a basis for their misrepresentation and false advertising claims.

Freda Cooper talked to the director about using short stories as the basis for a feature film — and why she'd never make a movie in New York.

Using these stories as a base, we've created a range of primary classroom resources on global citizenship topics, which you can use in ICT sessions and beyond.

In 2010, I used the story as the basis for my first attempt at the NaNoWriMo (Write a novel in a month).

Mozambican novelist Mia Couto has taken this story as the basis for a fictionalized trilogy about «the last days of the so - called State of Gaza.»

I've also used stories as a basis for creating compelling elevator pitches, cover letters, and backing up personal - branding statements.

The filmmakers behind the haunted flick positioned the story as based on truth, and published the home's location, a Molotov cocktail of exposition that has left the homeowners vulnerable.

Not exact matches

Correction: A previous version of this story misidentified Matt Rendall as CEO and co-founder of San - Francisco - based Otto, the self - driving truck startup Uber acquired in 2016.

Macy's has acquired New York - based concept shop Story and named Rachel Shechtman, Story's founder, as brand experience officer.

Based on dozens of interviews with insiders, the story covers Zuckerberg's slow, reluctant shift in attitude regarding the platform's status as a publisher — something Facebook refused to acknowledge until things started to go terribly wrong.

Western - based global brands such as Starbucks and Unilever have done a remarkably good job at telling their social stories — think about 100,000 Opportunities and the Dove Self - Esteem Project.

Instagram's launch of Stories has been credited by some as the trigger for a decline in Snapchat's users base, something that analysts warned about when Snapchat went public.

A company can succeed or fail based on its customer service, as shown by Virgin America's story.

Based on the best - selling book from Andy Weir of the same name, the story follows astronaut Mark Watney (Damon) as he's left behind on Mars after a storm forces the rest of his crew to head home.

As the National Post story puts it, Bell is ending throttling because of investments in its infrastructure and an «effective implementation of usage - based billing practices.»

Budweiser's spot, telling the story of Anheuser - Busch's immigrant co-founder Adolphus Busch, and Pennsylvania - based building materials company 84 Lumber's ad were among the most talked about as well.

Snapchat creates stories based around geographic locations such as Los Angeles every day, with random content uploaded by users about the city.

Another story which I think had good resonance is the cover story we did based in 2010 based on my 4 - hour interview with management guru Jim Collins, which we ran in the magazine as well as in video clips on www.FortuneChina.com.

The same could have happened to Great Big Story; and all of a sudden the user base would discuss it as a CNN app as opposed to something more.

«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.

Done right, culture should serve as a promise to your employees and your customers on how you approach your business and go beyond telling a great story to helping inform how employees actually behave on a daily basis.

Developers were planning numerous new level packs, including one based on this fall's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story movie, as well as a new line of 12 - inch figures.

Follow DiscoverOrg as we document our own Account - Based Marketing efforts in a new web series, «Inside Look: A True Story of Implementing Account - Based Everything»

Oil is just one part of the story — we are also a major producer and exporter of coal and natural gas, base and precious metals, minerals such as potash, and agricultural and forest products.

Social media accounts on Twitter reported that the park had been evacuated, and several news outlets — including Russian propaganda stations RT and Sputnik — published alarming stories based on the tweets, which escalated in hysteria as the afternoon stretched on.

As of their last reports, Instagram Stories has a user base that's more than 100 million people larger than Snapchat's entire user base, which means Instagram's version is more popular than the original.

Her co-founders are Robert Lapidus and David Levinson, principals of L&L Holding, a major Manhattan - based developer that owns such high - profile properties as the 76 - story Metropolitan Tower on 57th Street.

Core ETFs have long been a major component of the ETF growth story, but recent flows suggest the popularity of these generally low cost funds offering broad - based exposure to specific markets and sectors may be stronger than ever with investors, including institutions who may increasingly be using them as an alternative to more expensive futures contracts.

They wind up messaging buyers on factors as oppose to connecting on compelling insights based story lines.

Therefore, just as Christians do not believe that Jesus is the risen Lord because of a conviction that the story of Joseph «raised» from prison by Pharaoh is both a prefiguration and historically accurate in the details of Genesis, so also Jews do not commit themselves to observance of the law on the basis of convictions about the historical accuracy of the book of Exodus.

The bible is merely a reflection of stories from other cultures re-packaged to make them more easily digestible by the masses as things shifted to a new power base.

The story of Mary and Martha was used as the basis for thinking about the pace of our lives, whether we're naturally more commuters or contemplatives and what pace God might be calling us to.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

«As a student of theology, Martin will bring immense knowledge of the brief to his new role, and an enthusiasm to cover the broadest range of faith - based stories.»

The Jesus stories may have been based on one of many Jewish messiah claimants, if the stories are based on the life of an actual individual, though there's not even any incontrovertible evidence that he even existed, if one searches for such evidence outside the Bible and doesn't rely on known forged material, such as the Testimonium Flavianum.

The Case for Christ, as you're probably aware, is based on the true story of Lee Strobel, a Chicago journalist who set out to disprove the biblical account of Jesus and ended up doing the total opposite.

As far as religion goes they are all based on mens fears, stories, political motivations and I do not care if those fears and stories were written 10K yrs ago or yesterday they are stilly mythAs far as religion goes they are all based on mens fears, stories, political motivations and I do not care if those fears and stories were written 10K yrs ago or yesterday they are stilly mythas religion goes they are all based on mens fears, stories, political motivations and I do not care if those fears and stories were written 10K yrs ago or yesterday they are stilly myths.

We're buying it as history because the story has been sold + handed down, published + printed, drummed into everyone's knowledge base.

Could the story of the Fall be an allegory for the origins of humanity's tendency to sin based not on «original sin» but on the freedom given to humanity in Genesis 1 and the responsibility given in Genesis 1 to govern ourselves and this world as free agents, not puppets or childishly dependent on God?

It is a place that highlights all that is base (and noble — in the stories of survivors) about us as a species.

The reasons Melville should have hated New York have led many readers to imagine that he did in fact undertake an assault upon urban life in his land - based novels, Pierre (1852) and Israel Potter (1855), and such stories as «Bartleby, the Scrivener» (1853).

Of course the kerygma may be regarded as part of the story of man's spiritual evolution and used as a basis for a tenable Weltanschauung.

Often there is healing in these people as beautifully illustrated in Thornton Wilder's one act play, The Angel That Troubled the Waters, based on the biblical story of John 5:1 - 4.

Saying that you're dedicated to tearing down systemic race - based bias doesn't mean that you have to make sure that you go hug a black person, it means that you no longer find yourself as the center and most important part of your story.

Many others, who did grasp my meaning, were dismayed because, while I asserted the objective reality of God's act at Easter, I did not take the stories of the empty tomb as the basis of my interpretation of that act of God, but, on the contrary, suggested that these stories may be unhelpful to our understanding of the Easter message.

Thus I do not see the basis of the birth stories as history remembered.