Sentences with phrase «story about failing»

I have never heard a funny story about failing to try.

In fact, FH invites us to laugh at their pathetic little lives holed up in cheap hotel rooms, passing the time with sex and drugs, or telling long stories about their failed love lives and immediate goals of getting wasted.

The gaps introduced by the warped light covers have led to electrical system horror stories about failed electrical systems due to shorts.

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WSJ writer John Carreyrou reportedly spoke to four former employees, none of whom are named in his story, including one who «accused the company of failing to report test results that raised questions about the precision» of their tests, which could be «a violation of federal rules for laboratories,» the Journal article said.

The stories are about how people fail to respond in the proper way.

Landing a major customer: Describe how you changed your sales process to allow you to compete with heavy hitters in your industry; share three stories about major sales that got away and what you learned from failing to reel them in; detail the steps you took to quickly ramp up capacity while ensuring current customers were still taken care of.

It's a story almost exclusively about a small, personal thing: Fathers who have looked at their lives and realized they have failed their children.

James told a personal story about how she failed spectacularly by attempting to build cloud - based services 10 years too early.

In a recent story in The Irish Times, McCann opined that Ireland as a society has failed to educate children responsibly about technology.

Because of the extreme leverage, the Federal Reserve and Wall Street investment banks had to bail the fund out in order to prevent widespread financial havoc.If you want to read a fantastic story about LTCM, we recommend you check out When Genius Failed.

But, a bit intrigued, a reporter for another major news agency, having failed to get her editor's authorization to pursue a story about gold, called the Fed on her own and did ask about the gold swap arrangements.

This is essentially the story of QE, which not only failed to bring about economic recovery, but also failed to stop asset prices from falling well into 2003.»

«Sometimes I fail to understand,» Ravi continued, «how men with such high levels of intelligence fail at such petty things as the stock market, even when you hear of investment stories about individuals who've made fortunes because of exceptional insights or sheer genius!»

Harold Camping, the radio evangelist whose failed end - of - world predictions became a widely talked about story in 2011, was the top vote getter.

It's a story about everything we strive to fill our lives with, everything that fails to make us whole.

Esther is a story about a time in Israelite history when it seemed God was not at work, and His promises to Israel had failed.

Many of these stories are about some of the best and brightest leaders in the public and private sectors who nevertheless have failed.

That time God brought two perfectly matched people together in a strikingly sovereign way; the story of the couple who received a life - giving promise where IVF had failed, or that young entrepreneur who heard God speak about an idea that led to resounding success.

Lots of comments coming in on our story about a prominent American Muslim scholar who says the proposed mosque near ground zero may be dangerously misguided and that American Muslims have failed to grasp how deeply the 9/11 attacks shook the U.S.

Every time, without fail, this is the story I tell about myself as a mother.

Harbona fails — maybe intentionally (because remember in chapter 4, he is the only one who knows the whole story)-- to notify the king that Mordecai and Esther are related, and that Mordecai not bowing to Haman is what brought about these events.

A little story about my cookie experiences — I have made so many failed attempts at cookies, of all kinds... especially when I have decided to be brave and try my own recipes.

There are so many stories out there about baking fails in high altitude, and I didn't want to risk a deflated cake.

pretty please, its true stats don't lie but it could be manipulated to tell different stories, the simple fact and bottoml line is Ozil created over 190 chances and ONLY 19 was put away by our misfiring duo of Giroud and Walcott, and the fact he had half of the season to match and eclipse the assist record and failed says more about Giroud's and Walcott woeful woeful finishing abilities and nought whatsoever to do with Ozil, am can only do so much, what's next, blame him for number of goals we conceded?

The player in question has apparently attempted to get a gagging order issued, but has failed to extend the terms of said gagging order so is apparently about to have the whole mucky story plastered over the tabloids.

It is quite rare to see many positive stories about Arsenal in the football media, especially at the moment when we have finally failed to make the Champions League under Arsene Wenger and have started the news season poorly and sit down in 12th place in the Premier League table.

obviously this plan has failed and with seattle allready in the super bowl, the leauge made up the story about the patriots deflading balls to remind everyone of all the cheating they used to do.

I could share stories about accountants and even business managers that thought because we were working on the outside edge of professional norm that they could embezzle or fail to follow professional standards because we certainly aren't a credible practice that would care.

Often news stories talk about «another baby dying while cosleeping» but they fail to distinguish between what type of cosleeping was involved and, worse, what specific dangerous factor might have actually been responsible for the baby dying.

While no system is absolutely fail safe, and occasional stories will continue to occur about child pornographers or sex offenders found to be working around children, the truth is that most child care providers are increasing measures to protect children in their charge.

The story is about two people's struggle and ultimate failure to beat the system and their realisation that the people who they think are the guardians of the system are simply people who have struggled and failed to beat it in the past.

This is interesting: there's a tricky editorial decision about whether it's better for the BBC to be perceived as failing to give enough coverage to an important Conservative policy announcement, or to be perceived as ignoring a story which involves major criticism of the BBC itself.

In the top spot this week was a shocking story about an American academic who was arrested and thrown into a detention centre after the Home Office failed to inform him that his application for leave to remain had been rejected.

His story continued about keeping the abuse contained, turning to drugs and alcohol to try coping with his pain, how it resulted in a failed marriage and continued estrangement with a daughter.

«Every legislator has a story about how they tried, and failed, to get their attention.»

«On every placard is a story about an actual case in New York, where the public defense system failed a person's right to counsel,» said Bob Perry is the New York Civil Liberties Union legislative director.

The remarks came in response to questions from reporters about a New York Times story earlier this week which reported that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office is digging into a decade's - worth of payments the legislative leader has received from the real estate tax firm Goldberg & Iryami, P.C. — payments Mr. Silver failed to report on his financial disclosure forms as required.

High earners are always in denial about how exceptional they are, while Labour over the years has colluded by failing to tell the true story about the distribution of wealth and earnings.

«On every placard is a story about an actual case in New York, where the public defense system failed a person ’s

Minsky, who was heavily influenced by Jack Williamson's The Humanoids, and Isaac Asimov's robot stories in his youth, tried to program Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics into the primitive computers of the 1960s at MIT; he failed, but learned a lot about hierarchical programming in the process.

Narrative exercises serve to strengthen what we already know about ourselves, thickening the preferred identity stories that either fail to get told or get drowned out by the dominant stories of negative labels and personal failings.

Look at the forums and message boards: They're filled with posts from people about to start these programs, dreading the initial phase and wondering if they'll be able to hack it (and with people telling war stories about how they survived it... or tried it and failed).

It's crazy how despite all the websites and blogs, like Dr. Axe, etc. going on about the dangers of peanut butter over aflatoxin, all of these very scary stories fail to mention the origin of this concern and that it's been resolved.

I think of it more as a funny story about my own human failings, than anything particularly profound.

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The film never transcends its subject matter to be more than an information dump: it fails to tell a meaningful story about either the family, the time period, filmmaking, or North Korea.

There are times when you might question whether six hours was necessary to tell this particular story — I often wonder that about Netflix productions — but there's never a moment where Olson or Morris fail to fascinate.

Spark Unlimited tried something different with Lost Planet 3, but failed to create an immersing world where the player truly cares about the story, and on top of that, the game suffers from many technical issues.

Whilst Jane Campion has a tradition of making films about women in a men's world, I felt this film failed to be a hard hitting feminist discourse, mainly because the story was so ordinary.