Sentences with phrase «story upon story»

In these pages, you'll find story upon story of unique partnerships, innovative business models and good, old - fashioned sweat equity to make things happen, regardless of what the budget says.

... Lovett's tribute to a bygone era feels like it might resonate deeper if context and character overpowered story upon story of sexual excess.

We are talking about rumours that are fuelled by the press, who write story upon story.

And there goes on stories upon stories of the rockstar that was and is Karl Roy.

We have stories upon stories of how we have helped people, desperate after many months and years of applying, finally land their federal job.

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Indeed, this story of intrigue might be just a salacious distraction were it not taking place at the top of the ruling class of China, which will likely be the world's largest economy by the end of the decade and a place upon which Canada's fortunes increasingly hinge.

That's why it's especially encouraging for me to occasionally stumble upon a story worth sharing that suggests there are still people in our business who actually give a damn about the things that really matter.

And it often starts out a bit like a children's story: «Once upon a time...» or «Imagine a world where...»

Just as there's a wide spectrum for a medal loaded with history versus one earned in an overlooked skeet shooting competition, the prestige a medal bestows upon the winner depends on the sport and the back story of the event and its participants.

In 2017, Whande was voted as Valedictorian by her Leadership WA Signature Program Cohort, which comes as no surprise upon hearing her story and knowing the principles that drive her as a Western Australian leader.

Harrison was visiting his in - laws» home when he came upon the journals of his wife's great - grandfather, a mining engineer named William Ludlow, and was inspired to write a story.

Share their posts with friends or leave a comment directly upon the story itself.

This part of his story Scardino will always keep to himself; he choked up immediately upon mentioning the battle and couldn't continue.

«Once upon a simpler time...» begins «Our Story,» by Mission Mercantile leather goods.

Understanding where the «hero» wants to go is important and so is the way you tell the story to get them to act upon the information you're feeding them.

It's an example of the economic horror story that protectionists would visit upon Canada.»

At press time, that number continues to grow by more than 1,000 emails each day, with individuals sharing their stories and impressing upon our elected officials that a sober second thought is needed to avoid far - reaching, negative consequences.

He sees it as a quintessential Gawker story — entirely true, about a celebrity who peddled a false narrative but brought public attention upon himself, and involving sex.

Based upon research, but told through the stories of American businessman and entrepreneur Sam Walton and others, Building on Bedrock discusses the who, what, when, where, how, how much, and why of successful entrepreneurs.

BUILDING ON BEDROCK: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and Other Great Self - Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies For founders and investors — based upon research, and told through the stories of famous and not - so - famous American entrepreneurs.

Whether you're putting a fresh take and analysis upon data collected from sources such as the ONS for the UK or Data.gov for the US, or are drilling down into anything from social media following statistics to the earnings of celebrities as published in the Forbes Rich List, there are many ways which you can pull stories through data analysis.

Democratic politicians who have received campaign contributions from Harvey Weinstein are being called upon to return the money after the New York Times published an exhaustive story Thursday detailing decades of sexual harassment allegations against the Hollywood super-producer.

Benoit told Marketing N / A was inspired by the level of transparency McDonald's showed with «Our Food, Your Questions» and shared an idea on how it could build upon the campaign with authentic stories about McDonald's.

The biblical story says that Noah planned for it, that the flood covered all land, that a number of each animal (2 or 7 depending upon which chapter you believe) were saved, as were a few members of Noah's family.

Oh gee, once upon a time, an uneducated Jewish goatherd decided that he needed to make up a story to explain away all of man's problems.

So this entire story is based upon disinformation — a distortion of the truth.

Based upon this story my guess is that religion's main problem is an acute lack of self - awareness.

when the waters rose, We carried you upon the ship (11) That We might make it a memorial for you, and that remembering ears (that heard the story) might remember.

I am not saying that academics shouldn't have this discussion, or that it shouldn't be reported upon, but to run this as your too story when it is clearly not a consensus view is little more than internet trolling.

I argued that religion, as a compendium of stories, a system of ethics, and a model of behavior could be drawn upon as a popular alternative to norms and ideals of competitive consumer capitalism.

Though it was copied and read in the Middle Ages, no one felt called upon to model his life story on it.

There are hundreds of traditional creation stories that also call upon magical beings and gods to explain how the universe began.

They made up stories to try to explain what they didn't understand based upon astrological observations of the movements of the sun, stars, constellations, etc..

If once upon a time certain church hierarchies were populated with ignorant but faithful clerics, as Burtchaell declares, the story today is too often of sophisticated infidelity in the top echelons of church power.

Revelation was a sci - fi story based upon an opium trip, and can be dismissed.

If the story were that God just happened upon us instead of creating us then most people's response to claims we should obey him would be «Get lost.

The story of your god is so ridiculously unbelievable that it should lead any reasonable person to completely reject it, and the religions built upon it, with it.

And while I don't know the stories of all the millions upon millions of people who no longer attend a Sunday morning gathering, I do know the stories of a couple hundred of them, and by far, most of them have grown closer in their walk with Jesus than they ever had when they were sitting in a pew on Sunday morning.

At the end of the story the author explicitly speaks of «all the evil that the Lord had brought upon [Job]» (42:11).

Based upon the information in this story, I believe that he probably should have become a college professor of philosophy rather than a preacher.

He notes that the Soviets «hired a militantly anti-religious propagandist, Mikhail Markovich Sheinmann» — and that «Hochhuth's play... drew heavily upon Sheinmann's lies and falsehoods...» Victor Gaetan, the author of the NCR story, persisted in saying, even after Fr Gumpel's rebuttal of his «uncouth» piece, that «there's no evidence for [Pacepa's] particular story».

«And Moses» (the story continues) «hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.»

Such moments, nonetheless, appear» implicit though undramatized» throughout the Old Testament, and the story of Noah has at least two: Noah's own never - expressed response to the Lord's commission, and the late scene when Shem discloses Noah's drunken stupor to his brothers, who engage in a tortuous maneuver to cover their father's nakedness (which only alerts him upon wakening to what has happened).

Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a best - selling author whose 25 books include «Late Edition: A Love Story»; «Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War»; and «Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen.»

Upon this assumption the whole story becomes not only innocuous, but edifying.

Drawing upon recent scholarship and literary analysis, Evans creatively retells our favorite Bible stories, explaining their contexts and possible interpretations, and then connects these ancient stories to our present - day ones.

I even got questioned for detracting from the thread, though my intent was to offer my personal struggle with what the thread eventually evolved into, while feeling for genuinely for Julie (based upon her willingness to divulge to a public blog her side of the story), and while questioning all along what really happened given others» pov on all this.

Upon closer inspection, however, I notice that this parable is just one in a long line of stories that Jesus...

The modern individual has too often subjugated the spontaneous to the orderly, the possible to the necessary, the enthusiastic to the reasonable, the wonderful to the regular.9 In yet another description, Keen identifies our current «dis - ease» as our inability to view life as a «story,» to integrate past, present, and future into a meaningful whole.10 The metaphysical myths of our tradition no longer confer identity upon us today.

The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Princestories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin PrinceStories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.