Sentences with phrase «stories of the year so»

Five games are on the NBA docket Tuesday night, including a matchup from last year's playoffs and the NBA's favorite story of the year so far, the struggling Lakers taking on a streaking Rockets team.

We'd be remiss in not mentioning the biggest movie story of the year so far, Joss Whedon «s «The Avengers,» which isn't just the third biggest movie of all time at this point, but also a tremendously entertaining summer blockbuster, one of the better examples of the form in recent years.

So particularly the snow events that we had were the story of the year so far.

One of our top stories of the year so far has been about the words that you should cut from your resume in 2016 (and forever.)

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«Yesterday, seeing Sonny Boy for the first time in 20 years, it was incredibly overwhelming, and I went to bed last night, just thinking to myself, that often we tell the story that in the last 30 years (that) extreme poverty has halved, but in some ways, I think that masks the present reality of suffering for so many people living in extreme poverty.

Black Friday is so named because it is the first day of the calendar year that many retail stories start to make a profit, or move from the «red» to the «black.»

«Often we tell the story that in the last 30 years, extreme poverty has halved, but in some ways, I think that masks the present reality of suffering for so many people living in extreme poverty.

The Dells control a fortune of some $ 20 billion, so this story will be unfolding for many years to come.

After a not - so - impressive debut in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Mirzya, Harshvardhan Kapoor is back after a hiatus of two years with a hard - hitting story of superhero Bhavesh Joshi.

Remember, the vast majority of the world thinks it's impossible to consistently make more than 10 - 20 % / year returns so everyone eats up boring, conservative, diversified mutual funds and long - term investments, at their most speculative being in giant companies like Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG)... viewing inspirational stories like this turning $ 1,500 into $ 1 million and and this international trader and this teenager with skepticism...

(MIT Technology Review) • LeBron James Reveals Ambitious Plan to Build Hollywood Empire: «Winning Is the First Thing That Matters» (Hollywood Reporter) • Why science is so hard to believe (Washington Post) • Neurologist Oliver Sacks on Memory, Plagiarism, and the Necessary Forgettings of Creativity (Brain Pickings) see also Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer (NY Times) • The Mysterious, Murky Story Behind Soy - Sauce Packets: How Chinese takeout, a Jewish businessman from the Bronx, and NASA - approved packaging have shaped the 50 - year reign of a well - loved American condiment (The Atlantic) • Who is the Brian Williams of Fox News?

'» Asked to paint a picture of the company in 20 years, the executives mentioned such things as «on the cover of Business Week as a model success story... the Fortune most admired top - ten list... the best science and business graduates want to work here... people on airplanes rave about one of our products to seatmates... 20 consecutive years of profitable growth... an entrepreneurial culture that has spawned half a dozen new divisions from within... management gurus use us as an example of excellent management and progressive thinking,» and so on.

If you can't interpret the bible, or at least some parts of it (that Noah story still has me reeling for the sanctuary of sanity after these so many years), then what do you have in any of the mono - theistic religions?

Your story of genesis attempts to explain the world as people 3000 years ago would have needed it explained, and so you treat scientists as trying to give you the same type of story.

Dimitri Cavalli, source of many WWAI items over the past few years and author of the Washington Examiner story from which these quotes are taken, explains the change this way: Back then, Lynn was defending progressive causes, but now that «the so - called Religious Right has eclipsed the influence of the Religious Left in American public life,» it's time to shut down religious influence.

So where was this good Shepherd during the 60 years of child ana - l violation that the story talks about?

It sounds like you want to believe in the 2,000 year - old Bible fiction story of Jesus, but like so many before you, you think there is some different and more enlightened way to do it?

So in addition to the Top 10 of the year, I wanted to share a couple more posts — these are the posts that I actually liked or feel represent my year of writing, even if no one else liked them or tweeted about them, even if they are an out - of - fashion style of blogging like story - telling or moment - capturing.

Suzanne Collins» trilogy was the first foray into fiction I enjoyed after a year of research and writing for «A Year of Biblical Womanhood», so I surrendered myself totally to the unfolding stories and, like so many others, lost a lot of sleep as I worked my way through The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and The Mockingyear of research and writing for «A Year of Biblical Womanhood», so I surrendered myself totally to the unfolding stories and, like so many others, lost a lot of sleep as I worked my way through The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and The MockingYear of Biblical Womanhood», so I surrendered myself totally to the unfolding stories and, like so many others, lost a lot of sleep as I worked my way through The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and The Mockingjay.

The common «creation story» emerging from the fields of astrophysics, biology, and scientific cosmology makes small any myth of creation from the various religious traditions: some ten billion or so years ago the universe began from a big bang exploding the «matter,» which was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense, outward to create the untold number of galaxies of which our tiny planet is but one blip on the screen.

actually you do nt have to prove the many deities or Gods that they really exist, because they really had existed in their times, They are part of the evolutionary process for us humans to transcend to higher consciousness.To simplify the analogy, when we were young and we are in the lower grade school, we were taught simple subjects not advance literatures but simple stories even mythicals, The same with religion, thousands of years ago when there was no science yet, primitive people had a religion, of course man made faiths to conform with their state of mind or intellect.But later atfter thousands of years we evolve into a more educated people and so new concept of God again was presented to them, another man made concept, and this go on and on, until a few thiousand years ago.monotheism, Judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism, etc also evolved, But with the accelerated evolution, these faith again is threatend with obsolesencs because of of scientific developments and education.In panthroteistic faith, the future religion needs to conform to evolutionary process, This proves that God is always there guiding the change.And it his will that made this a reality in history since the begining of the universe 13 billion years ago, and this will continue to exist until He will completely fulfill His will to infinity, Thats PANTHROTHEISM, the futue, man made religion under His guidance through scientifiic evoluition after the Bi Bang

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

So far, in the thousand of years that people have believed in this god, this hasn't happen except in legend and hearsay stories.

And so what better place to teach persons personally than in a congregation where you have access to everything that makes up their personhood — their families, their work, the weather, their neighborhood, their sins, their stories — and over a period of years, sometimes decades.

Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess, most likely an iteration of an older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.

So just how incensed can you be that hollywood ripped off your Noah fable, when your religion ripped it off thousands of years earlier from the stories of Gilgamesh?

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.

Gods came to set the captive free.God is always in control he calls the shots not Satan he is in control his motives and purposes we can not understand but we do know his character is always for good and he always has a plan.It is spiritual lesson from a real life situation.I am jumping way ahead here but at the time the people sent Jesus away the demoniac man was sent back to his family when you read later because of his testimony the next time they visit years later to those towns many people are saved because of him so again yes some pigs died one man was set free but that man went and told his story and many were saved and added to the kingdom so to God be the glory.brentnz

Do all you idiots really believe in those fairytales written hundreds or even thousands of years ago... I like the reading the bible and now starting with the Koran... at times the stories are way funnier than my sunday comics... so far both seem to be full of % $ # @t

However, sci - fi and fantasy lit is full of stories about how tragic being immortal can be, so I'd guess that most would opt out of eternity after a few hundred years, or more.

Please don't listen to these people on here they have so many different views and ideas of their own but don't listen to them they have closed their heart to God and are doing Satans work of misleading people away from the Almighty they look for men who like to have their ears tickled so don't take mine our anyone else's word for it look it up for your self history attests to the bible as true and The writings of Moses is far older than anything they have ever found thats right Moses wrote the first parts in the bible 3,500 years ago The scriptures weren't inspired by Pagan stories Pagan stories was inspired by actual events just like those in the bible because if you notice that a lot of the stories found in the bible have a lot to do about people worshipping false Gods.

In the twelfth century, William of Malmesbury told an advisory horror story: «Othbert, a sinner» refused to stop dancing to his outrageous carols, so was cursed to keep dancing for a full year — till he danced into a pit.

«So there were some connections there that were personal to me, and I really felt responsibility to take the story in my hands and deliver this classic that has been around for 60 - plus years and try to tell it with kind of every ounce of my heart.»

So, the next time you proudly proclaim that you know the secrets to life, death, the origins of life on Earth and the origins of the Universe, because your parents or priest taught you some comforting stories from late Bronze Age Palestine as a ten year - old, you might like to consider where your beliefs fit into the bigger picture.

So - called American Catholics use birth control; mis - quote the bible to the point that Protestants laugh at them; dismiss most of the creation, garden, flood and babel stories as myth; and attend mass 8 weeks out of the year, if that.

My dad still brings up the stories of a 12 - year - old me going out of my mind about this, wondering how «Christians» could support something so evil.

Nothing was written about jesus until 30 - 40 years after he died, so any account of who he might have been would have been taken too far out of context to make the stories accurate.

Now that so much data is available to make the unexplained less frightening... and that the historical record has shown that most church doctrine was made up and that even the Jesus birth story / son of god born of a woman etc etc has been recycled in numerous different religions for over 4000 years... preaching Faith in a fairy tale is a losing proposition.

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!

Few of us live near each other so we rely on social media and the phone for our daily connections but once a year, we gather at a lake to reconnect, tell stories, laugh until we weep and cry until we laugh.

It's about convincing people that «Oh, this is all off the top of my head», when actually it's several years» worth of material... I've got a couple of stories that started off with just one little line and then over two, three, five years I have built on that, and so now it's a five, ten - minute piece.

Becky and her sons symbolize the final lines of the poem that prefaces the story: «Superstition saw / Something it had never seen before / Brown eyes that loved without a trace of fear / Beauty so sudden for that time of year.»

So instead of making it this 3,000 - year - old story, it felt like you really know this guy and you're walking with him.

Oh, and with the whole jesus thing, «he» doesn't appear in cloud formations, a piece of toast, or on your fogged mirror in the bathroom... it's nice to believe and to each his / her own, but seriously... the stories of yester - year were derived from people who were so often drunk or hallucinating and being passed down for generations, obviously got changed.

there was a story a few years back, when i was in the army, when the army sent 100 soldiers behind enemy lines to bring back body pieces of israeli soldiers, just so the parents could have a place to bary their child.

Stories of recent martyrs could easily be multiplied: monks were murdered in Algeria in 1998; an American nun was shot defending peasants» claim to land in Brazil in 2005; Baptist missionaries from the U.S. were shot in northern Iraq last year, and so on.

Oh... forgot you Proving... I wasn't referring to what he said... on the surface, it's fine to have a point of view... whether I agree with it or not... but when you are A) in a position of influence and B) spending money to fight the opposing view... and it's to stop two people who love each other from wedding in the eyes of their Lord, then it is hate... if your ignorance allows you to think my comments are stupid... so be it... and one last point about slavery... whether it was Democrats or Republicans who supported, or fought against slavery... many justified slavery because of their perverted interpretation of the bible... most people can't tell a simple story from one person to the next... but so many foolish Christians think they know exactly what the bible is saying w / o any doubt... forget the fact that it's been translated and passed for 1000s of years... yup you must be right that God is against two people loving each other... He must have made a mistake with those folks huh?

It isn't possible for me to go into these stories in any detail in such a short time, so I thought, instead of doing that, I would like to devote my time this morning to addressing some of the main questions people have asked me repeatedly over the course of the last two years, when I was working on the book, and after the book had come out.

The movie is the brainchild of retail mogul Mart Green, who heard Steve Saint and Mincaye speak at a conference in 1999 and was so moved by the story that he decided to turn it into a film — two films, actually; the companion documentary, Beyond the Gates of Splendor, released last year.

so that among other long stories tells you that the Roman catholics know very well that the major truths of the relationship of the Jewish prophet Jesus were totally altered in the very early years of the Roman church and often in total conflict with the French Jews for Jesus...