Sentences with phrase «tales told on»

A far as you're concerned, getting scammed is something that happens to other people in the cautionary tales told on the local news.

This translates as the rather admirable «the prize and the cause of our labours,» a worthy sentiment that was, according to at least one tale told on a forum, at one accidental point debased by the club.

Not exact matches

Yet in a recent Harvard Business Review article titled «The Authenticity Paradox,» Insead professor Herminia Ibarra discusses interesting research on the subject and tells the cautionary tale of a newly promoted general manager who admitted to subordinates that she felt scared in her expanded role, asking them to help her succeed.

That means all eyes are fixed on a duo of splashy summer releases — Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and Paramount's Baywatch — to hopefully make up some ground.

When I took on competitors» salespeople who'd told me tales about the great things they'd done in their previous jobs, I learned that I shouldn't have been so quick to believe them.

He told the tale to authors Jeannette Hanna and Alan Middleton for their book Ikonica: A Field Guide to Canada's Brandscape, explaining that the staffers didn't have to ask their bosses for the green light because the company's ethics - driven culture puts a premium on do - the - right - thing customer service.

There are and will continue to be death kick strategies and tell - tale signs of life; smaller more narrowly focused funds, deal - by - deal funds, and a focus on trendy categories like life sciences and alternative energy.

Also, he realized, it would make a good tale: Maybe one day he'd create a limited - edition bag with leopard print on the inside, and could tell this story as a way to explain it.

Earlier this week the Yale - educated mathematician, only one month into his new gig as a Googler, told the tale of how he snagged a coveted software engineer position at Google in a revealing blog post on The Hustle.

Therefore, it's imperative that you learn to pick up on some of the tell - tale symptoms.

They do not in fact bury their heads in the sand as the old wives» tale tells it, but the fact that most of us believe that myth to be true only makes a stronger point: if the move you choose is to burrow in deeper to protect the current nest on which you rest, the odds are high that you're leaving yourself a sitting duck (or ostrich, as it were).

But two items on the list strike a considerably less serious tone: Disney's out - of - the - ballpark animated hit Frozen, which tells the tale of two sisters, nabbed the No. 9 spot (not a surprise, if you have kids or know kids or know of anyone who has kids).

You should be cautious not to put too much emphasis on vanity metrics, as they are not the tell tale sign of success that many companies can mistake them to be.

We've always been told to be careful about what we post on the Internet, with cautionary tales stretching as far back as the «Numa Numa Guy.»

A currency - hedged take on German equities, the iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Germany ETF (HEWG D - 42), helps tell that tale, with gains of 15.4 percent in less than two months.

This weekend, over 100,000 new Coinbase accounts were opened, presumably by people who had an overzealous nephew at their Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, telling tales of unbridled riches and the wholesale changing of the world that is most assuredly imminent thanks to crypto currency.

It also typically has tell tale signs of what is really going on.

Written during the darkest days of Stalin's reign, it is a satirical take on the Soviet Union that uses a visit by the Devil as a literary vehicle to tell the tale.

You have no idea what you are talking about with your fairy tale illusion of what you THINK salvation is all about... it's a ridiculous concept based on flawed foundations right from the get go... here is my EVIDENCE... The record in Samuel tells us that it was the Lord who tempted David to do the numbering; that in Chronicles says it was Satan.

Of course you can be proven wrong... your holy book was written by man, no god involved; thus your belief is based on the fairy tales told by men who saw a gullible fool a mile away - see, how easy that is??? As for the actual number being only 1.6 billion, sorry the stats say different and your opinion on who the actual number includes is moot.

If you can't tell what is right and wrong without relying on your fairy tale, I feel nothing but pity for you.

Based on the original novel Ben - Hur: A Tale of the Christ, the epic adventure set in the first century tells the story of a Jewish slave who becomes a charioteer while seeking revenge on behalf of his family.

Based on the best - selling book of the same name, the film tells the real - life story of Colton Burpo, a 4 - year - old boy who awakens from surgery with eye - popping tales of the great beyond.

The show featured a group of young friends called «The Midnight Society,» who told campfire scary stories, which were often based on classic tales.

The «Midwife's Tale» told in Exodus begins on an ominous note.

Sure, some Christians «think for themselves» but, at least in some small degree, they rely on poems and fairy tales and, critically, what they are told by others are the «rules», to guide their behavior.

On its first telling, this little tale illustrates a point about the role of stories in religion.

During his lonely childhood on his parents» farm, his mother told him tales of their Irish past.

People do need models; we like to tell our own tales; and we like to get the scoop on everyone else.

Keep in mind that the New Testament of the Bible was written decades after Jesus supposedly died, by people who never met Jesus and relied on tales told from one generation to the next.

The Rortyan vision of heaven on earth, in which people merely tell enlightening tales and abjure the search for truth, sounds like a gathering of tipsy old sea dogs swapping dimly remembered stories of past voyages of discovery.

Believing in a system that was created by stone age men sitting around a fire telling fairy tales to scare kids and keep people in line, that was propagated by men who learned to write, and that was based on making a class of «preists» and holy men that could get money for doing nothing and that could dictate how olthers should live and molest boys and girls is stupid.

In the same way «once upon a time» tells us to expect a fairy tale and «here is the news» to expect a report on the day's significant activities, the «sui generis» approach to the gospels invited the expectation that we would learn about the early Church, not the life of a historical figure.

On Ctrl, Webb tells the tale of an unnamed character that melts the lines of physical and virtual realities until it's hard to tell man from machine.

Christians need to learn to step outside themselves and think about how difficult and annoying it is to talk to people about important issues when the only thing Christians base their «ideas» on is ancient Middle Eastern fairy tales and that they were told to believe something.

I am not on here to «argue» the FACTS of the Bible to you, just defend what the Bible says to all the fasle reasonings and False tales being told out there.

I had a blast recording the narration for this book at Paragon Studios in Nashville (in the very booth, I am told, where Larry the Cucumber records his lines for Veggie Tales productions), and would be honored to accompany you on your next road trip or morning run.

In his piece for today's On the Square, «Freeing Protestantism from Liberalism,» Peter J. Leithart would like to tell you a fairy tale:

Your blind following of tales told by farmers and goat herders has imprisoned the intellect of humans on a global scale.

Producers of literature, when they are not themselves wracked with doubts or preoccupied with taking a postmodern revenge on traditional expectations of order, speak out of a prescientific discipline of expectation — a school of faith that models the need to bracket with ironic reservation that information which, if not bracketed, would insist simplistically that life is only a bracket - defying tale told by an idiot.

For some time we seem to have been launched on a great campaign to deromanticize everything even while we are eager to insist that more or less everything that matters is a romance, a tale we tell one another.

Pi's repeated all - inclusive paeans to his private trinity of faiths detract from an otherwise enjoyable tale, which Martel achieves when he forgets about religion and concentrates on telling his young hero's adventures.

And you think it is your job to tell everybody that rejects jesus as at best a fairy tale on how to lead their lives, how arrogant!

In his On the Square post today, Wesley J. Smith has come to tell the tale of the Death of Marriage.

One tale that never grows tired of the telling is the one about how Bruce Springsteen — two albums into his career and with nothing but disappointing sales to show for it — was on his label's chopping block.

If you scroll back on blog posts from the last few months, you'll see the tell - tale red handles peeking out all over the place, holding everything from hearty soups to slow roasted pork shoulder to Bolognese sauce.

Get into a country store and sit on the cracker - box by the side of two or three Georgia «colonels» and «majors,» and they will tell any number of tales about how their ancestors bought their estates from the Indians and to close up the bargain gave the «noble red men» a barbecue, consisting of venison and sweetened hoe - cake, followed by plenty of imported rum and other «firewaters.»

Thank you too for your love on my tales I tell here, you are the best and I hope the same for you this year too!

While the wine itself is awesome (I'll never turn down fine Fiorano from Lazio with age), it was more about the chance to hear Dalton — who tends to take on the host role at these dinners — tell the story behind the wine, a convoluted tale involving an eccentric prince and his mold - covered caves.

Snowboarding's high - flying eminence makes his way to the bar, where a six - pack of his friends is telling tales on him.