Sentences with phrase «story points do»

Unlike the second generation sections of the game, the third generation's story points don't differ much depending on who you control.

Not exact matches

Traditionally, Burkeman points out, news organizations had a simple way to do this: they waited awhile before publishing a story to see if it had legs.

Sanders praised the writer of Toy Story to Catmull, but Catmull was keen to point out the the beloved film didn't spring fully formed from anyone's head.

Even people that are great at telling stories to family and friends somehow in their content marketing don't manage to capture the imagination and attention to get their point across with resonance and impact.

There are many interesting lessons in this story, but one main point that the reader is invited to take away is that part of America's opioid problem has to do with patient expectations.

However, Columbia University's Katherine W. Phillips and others mentioned in the HBR story on women directors point out that while diverse boards that are not properly managed may «create distrust and dissatisfaction,» homogeneous groups don't come to any better solutions.

There is an endless supply of business statistics (proving most any point you want to make), research and studies (many with surprising results), and interesting real - life stories (of business success and failure), all available within seconds by doing a simple Google search.

Swift, the subject of the magazine's latest cover story, admitted coming to a revelation about Spotify that she simply «didn't like the way it felt» having her music so readily available at such a low price point.

But his story does point to a universal truth:

During a panel discussion as part of the South by Southwest Festival's interactive program, Denton admitted that the Hogan story — which was about a sex tape that the wrestler made with a friend's ex-wife, and included a short clip from the tape — didn't have an obvious point to it, apart from embarrassing Hogan.

You may wish to do some clean up then as sites such as Bloomberg Business news are pointing directly at your current website and business activities in stories about the bankruptcy filing: http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=146030718 This is what leads people to believe that the current company filed.

Wired has called gamification an enemy of great support, and while dissenting opinions often point to cases like Microsoft and the increased productivity they saw when implementing gamification, the numbers don't tell the full story — a lower response time does not mean your team is doing a better job of taking care of customers.

«A big challenge in PR — and this doesn't happen in every case — is getting a client to understand the story from the audience's point of view,» Philadelphia - based PR agent Alexandra Golaszewska told CareerCast.com in an email.

This alone doesn't tell the whole story and in order to make the point, it's more helpful to look at the distribution of returns.

I make this research digression to make the point that real long - term investing success rests more on investment discipline and company - specific research than it does on compelling stories or themes.

Third and finally, the traditional story misses the real function of private banks, which is to solve an information problem in the purest Hayekian senses. That is, banks are or should be specialists in risk assessment and risk taking. They should know their client, understand the local market and have their pulse on the broad economy. Arguably, if properly structured, they can and should do this better than other entities such as governments. In other words, the proper role of banks should be underwriting — lend money, hold the debt, and bear the risk. Which is a long - winded way of getting to the main point of this post.

Expect Zuckerberg to point to all of the announcements the company has already made since the Cambridge Analytica story came to light — things like rewriting its terms of service and cutting ties with outside data providers it doesn't know if it can trust.

By not releasing Schiff's account, the public can only verify Nunes's story (which, as Vox's Zack Beauchamp pointed out, didn't add up).

Rule 1: You Can't Make Them Up Rule 2: Don't Confuse a Buyer Persona with a Customer Profile Rule 3: Get the Right People with the Right Attributes and the Right Skills Involved Rule 4: Buyer Personas Are a Translation of Goals Rule 5: A Buyer Persona Offers Insight into the Unarticulated and the No - So - Obvious Rule 6: Buyer Persona Development is Not a Quantitative Process Rule 7: Avoid Building a Wire Mesh of Data Points When Developing Buyer Personas Rule 8: Goal - Centered Qualitative and Experiential Analysis is the Foundation of Buyer Persona Development Rule 9: The Purpose of the Buyer Persona Development Process is to Inform on Goal - Centered Customer Strategies Rule 10: Buyer Persona Development Serves as a Communications Platform to Tell the Story of Customers and Buyers

From that point, Bazan has done just that, releasing albums that have challenged his listeners with stories of deception, murder, infidelity, suicide and chauvinism, all the while presenting an undercurrent of faith in God that can't be denied.

The point is what the bible says happened didn't happen as the bible says, and no amount of twisting the story to fit the facts will change that.

Interestingly, the Times story does not mention the North American Man - Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), an organization that has the merit of being utterly straightforward on a subject about which the Times, at least at this point in its political evolution, feels compelled to be somewhat coy.

@Chuckles «For my first point, I would like to ask, where exactly does the bible say at the beginning or end that it is all true and gives it's bonafides like a good non-fiction story should?

For my first point, I would like to ask, where exactly does the bible say at the beginning or end that it is all true and gives it's bonafides like a good non-fiction story should?

I will not enter that debate here, except to say that the reflections on memory that dominate Book X have everything to do with the story that Augustine has been telling to that point.

I do find it really interesting that from the view point of some religious followers even a single point they can pick as inconsistent with their stories invalidates the entire scientific method.

It is clear you did not read it with an eye towards finding out the truth of what was written, or you wouldn't have bothered reading all those made up stories only to proclaim you were a christian at a later point.

Martin points out, for example, how Evans argues «on faith» that Jesus possessed foreknowledge, but then endorses an interpretation of a New Testament story in which Jesus expected something that did not happen.

It's so tempting to take one person's story and use it to make a point while simultaneously dismissing another person's story because it doesn't line up with my assumptions.

A Resurrection of his physical body, such as is implied by the empty tomb and by some of the stories in the Gospels of his appearances, would point towards a docetic Christ who does not fully share the lot of men; unless, indeed, bodily corruption were to be regarded as being bound up with the sinfulness of man which Christ did not share (but, unless we accept an impossibly literalistic interpretation of Genesis 3 as factual history, it is impossible to hold that physical dissolution is not part of the Creator's original and constant intention for his creatures in this world).

I don't think this is how it really happened, but the point of the story is that no Jewish person would ever expect a non-Jewish person to obey or observe all of the Jewish laws, either the 613 of the Torah, or the 6000 + laws of the Oral Torah.

But if the general subject matter of the novels is demonstrably congruent with Mantel's past, why does she tell the stories from Cromwell's point of view?

In an especially astute bit of exegesis, Hays points out that the story of Jesus walking on the water (6:45 — 52) does not recall Moses and the Exodus sea - crossing but rather the peerless God of Job 9:4 — 11, the Lord of creation who triumphs over chaos.

at what point do you say, «this story is crazy.

The point of Shaun's story really has very little to do with him being gay.

Our point is not to argue the validity of each story in the bible, but to accept its lesson, on what to do, or what not to repeat!

Case in point: I have actually had the Lord SAY things to me that some other person I met somewhere else had an exact same story of the Lord saying the exact same freaky thing to them — and I KNOW this person didn't know my story, and now I'm feeling I'd be illegitimate to tell him that the Lord spoke the exact same thing to me, because he shared his story first.

no, I didn't say that's all there was — but much of what is left is not verifiable — some of it may very very well be true and some may be fiction; some may be a best attempt to retain truth where erroneous transmission kept the true story from being relayed forward; but how can it be verified at this point?

I would only point out that CNN didn't invent this story: it got posted because the YouTube videos became so wildly, instantly popular - viewed by hundreds of thousands of people.

I don't see the point to this story, other than it was published on a Sunday... btw what kind of Christian is Romney?

Every news story will point to that moment... and say that Southern Baptists don't take abuse seriously.

A very sad story with a tremendous amount of pain and anguish turned positive... doesn't change the fact that this is simply adults playing make believe to the point that wishes become full on beliefs

Aside from also starting to post more photos on my blog (which idea I see you gleaned from monitoring my brainwaves as well), Dean and I were just talking about this story yesterday and how the point is not doing vs. being, but never being distracted from being a disciple; which is really just being close to Jesus, doing what he does, listening to what he says and going with his agenda instead of ours.

Why do some people continue to insist that the creation story in the Bible is more scientifically plausible than all the evidence pointing to evolution?

We recognize that Jesus is telling a story to illustrate a moral point, and that such stories often don't claim to correspond to actual events.

The unique person and moment can be seen as unique because the story does not have to return to a certain point; but on the other hand, the end symbolizes closure, the cessation of the intolerable new, and the little story of the believer's life is subjected to these same tensions that appear in the overall story.

Ch 2 is a retelling of the story to make a specific point about man's dominance over women, but it has to change the order of things from Ch 1 in order to do that.

Gay «No» campaigners Keith Mills and Paddy Manning pointed out that such was perfectly possible without undermining family structures completely since extensive Civil Partnership legislation was already in place, and they did make a difference, but the softening up of the electorate by years of sob - stories would have taken far more time and effort to overcome.

the belief on the existence of the devil was concieved by theologians of the past thousands of years, there was no other way of explaining the bad experiences of people in the past because we were not educated yet to the kind of what we have now, Why this happened because that was part of the learning process that God wants us to know, in pathrotheism, we are part of God, and He himself is evolving because He is the universe, We are now the conscious part of Him, our destiny in accordance to his will also be His destiny because it is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality of the universe ahead of us, The experiences for us humans including the supernatural is just part of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point of not believing the practices of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part of their learning process.

One of the things I really appreciated about Jeff's book is that he points out through story after story that finding others to love and serve does not require us to go to a different country.