Sentences with phrase «story about high»

If digital isn't your receiver's cup of tea, how about a volume of the stunningly beautiful web comic Tea House, a sweet and sexy story about a high class brothel.

Among my favorites was the title story «Miniature Wife» and the first story about a high - jacked airplane, as well as the Mall story which kept my interest all the way through.

There was a story about high rates of principal turnover.

A coming - of - age story about a high school senior in Sacramento, California, Lady Bird isn't the sort of movie the Oscars have typically honored.

«Lady Bird,» written and directed by Gerwig, and starring Saoirse Ronan, is a coming - of - age story about a high school senior in Sacramento, California in 2002/03, who acts out and searches for her place even as she prepares to take wing.

In the case of the former, writer - director Rick Famuyiwa's story about a high - school geek (Shameik Moore) negotiating life in South Central blasts its John Hughes - in - the - hood tale with a lot of Nineties hip - hop and 21st - century updates of clichés (gang members track down folks with GPS apps on iPads).

In other words, tell the story about your high - quality materials, special production methods or exemplary expertise.

Without the confines of the academic season sporting schedule, we can stretch our legs and find stories about high schoolers whose sports rarely find a spotlight from September to June.

But when you see tons of stories about high risk HB presented as normal, it gets easier to believe this is true.

And when you heard their stories about the high - rolling years of conspicuous consumption and saw legions of half - finished, semi-derelict housing developments littering the countryside, you began to see their point.

In movies, coming - of - age has become convenient shorthand for the crush of stories about the high school crowd — sci - fi, drama, comedy, horror, take your pick.

«Spider - Man is maybe my all - time favorite character, and I'm really excited to get to tell new stories about his high - school days — and to finally get a chance to work with Todd Nauck, whose art in this story is the best I've ever seen from him (which is saying a lot).»

If you've been reading the paper lately, you've been getting a lot of stories about high - schoolers waiting anxiously by their mailboxes for acceptance letters.

Not exact matches

The change included: Relaxing previous rules that prevented users from seeing multiple posts from the same source in the news feed, promoting content from friends higher up in the news feed, and pushing «stories» about when a friend has liked or commented on a post further down the feed.

When Northwestern University realized that its rankings were far higher than the public's perception, it decided to develop a new story about the school.

The smaller release «The Miracle Season,» starring Helen Hunt in a story about a girls» high school volleyball team, didn't make ComScore's Top 10 list.

Then came a story out of Zimbabwe about how the false belief in the cancer - curing properties of rhino horns has led rhino poaching to a record high.

Although Thiel implies in his essay that the Gawker story about Hogan's sex tape would not have been published by any right - thinking journalistic outlet, and that the First Amendment doesn't and shouldn't protect such behavior, two higher - court judges ruled before the Hogan decision that the Gawker piece was clearly covered by the Constitution's free - speech protections.

Free law advice: A driver once told me a story about how he had a high - priced lawyer in the back of his car during a time when he was going through a legal issue.

Revenues are off the historic high by about 40 percent and losses have largely been the quarterly story to investors.

While overall low inventory has led to competition in some markets — about a quarter of 2017 home sales yielded sales prices higher than the asking price, according to Zillow — it's a different story for some sellers.

Stories pop up regularly speculating about the likelihood of homeowners jumping ship from high - tax states like New York and Connecticut as well.

Still, the executive had some strong words for high - profile folks who don't like the stories journalists report about them.

Michael Braun, the former chief of operations for the D.E.A., told me a story about the construction of a high - tech fence along a stretch of border in Arizona.

This enormous growth and trust among the cyberspace was achieved by putting out high quality, consistent content by sharing stories about the latest happenings in the tech and entrepreneurship world.

Freund has a colorful background as a team roper in rodeos, and in the feature story he joked about his friends referring to him as a «high - tech redneck.»

A trade that had once searched high and low for negative stories about Wall Street and Big Business, devoted most of its energy to positive ones, and the touts were our best sources.»

His story about how he made Peerless Clothing into a world leader in the production of men's suits is a straight - ahead account of savvy business practice, exceedingly hard work, and fearlessness in the face of risk - both a valuable document for anyone building a company who wants to know how high - wire entrepreneurship works, and an important contribution to the history of garment manufacturing in Montreal.»

It also provides Clearwater's sales force with a environmentally positive marketing story: Their company doesn't just offer high quality seafood, but does so in ways that eco-conscious consumers can feel good about.

«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!»

Although much of the Old Testament does have historically verifiable occurances, the lead characters are heads of state or high priests or the stories are about the nation as a whole.

So many people who advocate or speak publicly for political or personal reasons aren't acknowledged as much when it comes to religion when someone is wanting to speak out about there faith a light bulb goes off and says we don't want to hear, or talk, or, air any thing that has to do with the mentioning of God but because of the high profile story and because this is the President of the United States it's ok hats off to them for not being ashamed to speak about there faith I agree with Richard some people just because they profess there faith doesn't mean there trying to push there beliefs on anyone people of faith have a right to free speech also.

Over the past few months there has been a marked increase in stories about the decline of the humanities in higher education.

So anyone writing a «made up story about an unknown called Stephen» at this point, they have it all for a story, a prophet of God telling off high priests soon after the Son of God was put to death and rose again.

But back to Stephen, the account writer talking about Stephen, builds this incredible story around Stephen being captured and then during his trial, he's telling the high priests about history leading up to Jesus, and this is contrasted against Jesus who told them nothing and then was crucified and died on a cross.

[This spirit of sisterhood can be summed up in one of the highlights of the conference: On Friday afternoon, Emily Scott told a story about how her high school band director, surprised that she had chosen as «unfeminine» an instrument as the trombone, tried to keep her from closing her eyes and swaying to the music by literally pulling her shoulders back and standing on her feet as she played.

This particular YMCA included, «a great mix of high - end yuppie fitness facility, a wonderful community resource for families, and an old - school residence for disenfranchised men,» so Fey shares a host of funny stories about working the front desk.

Yet despite the high - profile nature of Armstrong's fall from favor, there is little unique about this story.

creationism is far from an adult theory, its a child like story with fantasy elements based on myth and NO science, we always hear about these crazy people trying to outlaw evolution.But has you stated we have billions of years of evidence, thanks for helping us evolutionists out, unfortunately you have none, just a book, no science, no artifacts, no garden of eden, no bones of adam or eve or even the snake for that matter, no ark, no proof of a biblical flood, no proof of a created world by a higher power, no nothing..

Frequent news stories about scandals and lawsuits connected with priests doing naughty things with altar boys give the Roman Catholic situation high public visibility.

Glibface had opportunity to gloss the high points in the First «Ultra story as we exited the cry room and gathered about him in the middle of an enormous cavern that, once worship was over, would be instantly transformed into the coffee and fellowship area with — I had to ask — 8,000 coffee urns.

«Not just in one country but in numerous Muslim countries, I have been able to walk in, head held high, no covert cover story and not only identify passively as a Christian but identify openly, work openly and hold serious talks about faith between Muslims and Christians, and not just at the grassroots level of poverty — people who needed my help — but also with the powerful and influential people who could have, in that moment, had me arrested and had me taken out back.»

Supermarkets and other high street traders are being urged to do their «homework» about the true story of Christmas when producing their Christmas marketing campaigns.

They become apparent when Theo talks about his mother's «visitation» to him in dreams, when Hobie speaks affectionately of the Catholic Church and the Jesuit priest who protected him as a youth, when the otherwise cynical Boris admits to being moved to tears by Biblical stories, and again when Theo opens up to the higher purpose in life, despite all its difficulties and insanities, toward the end of the novel.

But the story of New York's revival isn't all about high - profile churches.

Most people who care about higher education have a handful of similar stories, projecting a dismal forecast for the liberal arts.

And yet, while many of these older stories, including Wells», are about the rebuilding of civilization, the stories of the broken - back future are about civilization's progressive darkening, often with social chaos coexisting with high technology.

It's now a World Heritage site, and I think you can see why: This is a sundial — and it's really impressive (at about 4 stories high!)

San Francisco has a lot to offer, but all the horror stories that you hear about the high rents, the tech bros, and the homelessness issues are also true.

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