Sentences with phrase «with stories of people»

The newspapers of the day were rife with stories of people who'd been swindled and taken advantage of by real estate «sharks.»

U.S. history is filled with stories of people sharing their thoughts in the public square.

In recent weeks, the news has been saturated with stories of people in positions of power attempting to use their influence to cover up accusations of sexual harassment and assault levied against them.

Here is a rich variety of small homemade shelters, with 1,300 photos, along with stories of people who have chosen to provide their own roofs overhead.

Littered with stories of people quitting their jobs and packing up to travel, these seven travel blogs have us wishing we could do the same.

Every year we're overwhelmed with stories of people not being able to get through to the hotline because it commonly gets mega-busy.

Refreshingly easy to read and peppered with stories of people who have successfully used its methods, The Willpower Instinct is a new kind of self - help book.

In this «biography» of ginkgos, Crane interweaves aspects of the tree's biology and evolution with stories of people who have helped establish the species in cities around the globe.

What follows is an overview of scientific research and historical testimony, combined with the stories of people who have experienced the healing powers of hot peppers for themselves.

So while Gladwell himself isn't a character in the narrative, its construction proved to be a remarkable personal journey for him.Aside from the section on David, three chapters of the book deal with the stories of people who drew on the extraordinary reserves of their Christian faith to defeat seemingly insurmountable odds.

The Bible is littered with stories of people who waited on God, sometimes for a lifetime, for His promises to be fulfilled.

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I don't want public attention because I don't want the story to be about me... I want it to be about what the US government is doing... I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.

Of course, it's a classic bit of political opportunism, and gives the PM a well - timed «I'm a man of the people» story to tell: instead of hobnobbing with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos or decamping to Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane CanucOf course, it's a classic bit of political opportunism, and gives the PM a well - timed «I'm a man of the people» story to tell: instead of hobnobbing with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos or decamping to Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane Canucof political opportunism, and gives the PM a well - timed «I'm a man of the people» story to tell: instead of hobnobbing with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos or decamping to Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane Canucof the people» story to tell: instead of hobnobbing with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos or decamping to Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane Canucof hobnobbing with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos or decamping to Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane Canucof Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane Canuck.

But, thanks to our one - on - one meeting with Forleo, we realized there's a heap of potential we've not yet explored — especially because our business helps people write their own incredible stories!

The narrative transportation theory, as it's called, states that people may feel like they have been teleported to the world of their character in a story they can identify with.

What you see as a couple lines on your resume is actually thousands of hours spent with a group of people with values, stories and institutional memories.

Leaders who master the practice of good listening will be more apt to intuitively understand the other person's story by searching conversations for depth and meaning, digging deeper than casual listeners, and getting to the root of an issue in order to come up with the right solution.

Successful people have stories of the challenges that they overcame with creative solutions.

A Human - Voiced Resumebrands you as a person with a path and a story, not a disembodied bundle of skills.

People want me to review their travel videos, but it's just a series of beautiful landscapes with no story or personality.

Well, to make a long story short while referencing a great episode from Seinfeld, we employed a special team of people to «retrieve» the reports for us, and «yadda yadda yadda,» we appeared at pretrial with these ultra-damaging reports in hand.

He said he would be inviting «leading conservatives» and people from all across the political spectrum to talk with him and share their points of view about the issues raised by the Gizmodo story.

Also, when you spend a lot of time with people you tend to notice patterns in how they tell stories and what was reassuring to us was to hear a source tell the same story the same way months later, as opposed to the facts always changing.

A classic example of this idea is that you'll have an easier time remembering a story about someone who bakes than a person with the last name Baker.

We never asked them to write a story; we simply organized a great meal and shared some drinks with a group of people interested in what we were up to.

They can keep in touch with friends, look at photos of their vacations, read news stories they suggest, play time - wasting games, invite people to their parties and speak and be heard.

The headquarters could be between 70 and 75 stories, depending on how wide its footprint is, said a person with knowledge of the company's plans.

Almost 49,000 people are diagnosed with the disease every year, and every one of them has an equally sad story to tell about the diagnosis.

Take my word for it, if you're not out there and in control of your story, to the extent that it's even possible any more, the vacuum will readily be filled by any number of other people — employees, ex-employees, competitors, advocates for a million causes, etc. — with their own good and bad axes to grind.

Just ask Farhad Mohit, founder and CEO of Flipagram, an L.A. - based content platform that enables people to create and share visual stories using their own photos and videos and pair them with legally licensed music on their phones.

LA is a city of 16 million people, with a lot of success stories.»

Reese's list of the top 20 grammatical errors people commonly make was one of Inc.'s most popular columns last month, with readers sharing the story on social media nearly 90,000 times and offering plenty of their own pet peeves regarding how others use the English language.

Today's must - read story is from Fortune «s Leigh Gallagher and it features an exclusive interview with Maren Kate Donovan, founder and CEO of virtual assistant startup Zirtual, who talked about flawed financial projections and what caused her company to lay off 400 people earlier this week before announcing that Zirtual will be acquired by Startups.co.

On Thursday, Facebook announced a plan to deal with the proliferation of fake news: Third - party fact - checkers will flag what they think are false stories, and then Facebook will decide whether or not to demote them in people's News Feeds.

According to a story in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, his reasoning goes like this: «Call me opportunistic; I thought I could get better people with less competition because we were willing to understand the skills and capabilities that many of these women had.»

Dr. Betsy Kennon of Pittsburgh also contributes the story of Scooter, who was almost killed by a car but now brings joy to people also dealing with disabilities.

Trump initially thought Flynn could survive the controversy, according to a person with direct knowledge of the president's views, but a pair of explosive stories in The Washington Post in recent days made the situation untenable.

Journalist Robert Zimmer with The Atlantic says, «An increasingly familiar and seductive story has been circulating about young people who, drawing inspiration from billionaire entrepreneurs and computer giants, consider dropping out of college a fast track to business success.»

Effective communication isn't just about talking; leaders who master the art of listening authentically will have uncanny, X-Men-like ability to listen intuitively to the other person's story, asking questions, and searching conversations for depth, meaning and understanding with their needs in mind.

Logo, which alongside MTV presented Cox's Daytime Emmy - winning 2014 documentary The T Word spotlighting the stories of seven transgender young people, will again address the issue this fall with the doc Gen Silent, zeroing in on a group of LGBT seniors confronting discrimination as they encounter health care issues.

Invariably, when we tell the story of how the band survived 10 years in the New York and New Jersey bar scene while struggling to get a record deal, people want to hear war stories about shady club owners and how we dealt with the implied «mob scene.»

Cover Story The U.S. Marines are looking for the few, the proud — people who can scale walls, strike hard with lightning speed, and make life - or - death decisions in the heat of battle.

«It's the human condition to want to help people with stories of our struggles and also to hear stories about people who've overcome the odds,» she says.

Story is about working with a group of people to achieve something bigger than yourself.

Assume that when people think of you, they will store your name, a mental picture of you, a few words they associate with you and a few stories about your behavior.

With more people blending personal and business relationships online, and more companies reaching out to customers through social networks (see this month's cover story on Zappos's strategy), it feels to me that the definition of what's considered «professional» is changing.

And many people Fortune spoke with for this story say that many of the challenges that black men face in corporate hallways begin here — in childhood.

When someone tells a story, the brain of the other person may be in sync with the storyteller.

This toolbox should consist of relevant and thought - provoking stories that you can tell at any time when you're with people.

A copy of the local Chinese magazine Global People with a cover story that translates to «Why did Trump win» is seen with a front cover portrait of US president - elect Donald Trump at a news stand in Shanghai on November 14, 2016.