Sentences with phrase «writer of letters of»

Not exact matches

At the meeting, Balsillie chose to focus on the actions of the letter - writer as opposed to the content.

The movie is a love letter to the forgotten musical (remember, most of the Academy voters are on the older side), the creativity of the story by writer - director Damien Chazelle is incredible, and the performances by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are some of the best of the year.

The writer of this article, a FORTUNE senior editor - at - large, is a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder, a long - time friend of Warren Buffett's and the pro bono editor of his annual chairman's letter.

Relying on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to the writer's papers and letters, Max paints a picture of a complicated, often - flawed man.

There were also bank statements, reserve estimates by an independent American geologist and historical records of dividends paid out to shareholders — which would have been improbable if, as the letter writer claimed, the company's mine in China was losing money.

Was this particular way of portraying a successful business woman exploitative, as one letter - writer suggested?

For example, 37signals admits to spending less than 30 seconds scanning a potential hire's application, honing in on the cover letter because of Fried's and Hansson's insistence that remote workers need to be excellent writers.

Instead of typewriters, the several hundred employees involved in composing or disseminating letters, memos, documents, or reports use a typewritersized Apple II with built - in keyboard, a pair of add - on disk drives, a video monitor, and Apple Writer, the company's own disk - stored word processing software.

But the letter writers and their allies argue that at the very least the Fed's lack of representation could be skewing the way policymakers view the economy.

[Presumably the letter - writer meant «subornation» of perjury, meaning inducing someone to lie under oath.]

Warren Buffet: One of the world's richest men, perhaps its greatest living investor, a global philanthropist, sage, paragon of modesty, and a damn fine letter writer to boot.

Michael Lewitt writes the HCM Market Letter and is one of my favorite writers and truly deep thinkers.

«It is appalling that women's contributions continue to be ignored in the history of our country, including on our bank notes,» said one writer to Carney on Dec. 12, 2011, among many emails and letters obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.

Editorial Note: This is the first of six posts in the Life section that is a collection of letters from writers as varied as the choice of topics.

Russell Kirk, a mystery writer and «Bohemian Tory man of letters,» in one variation of his «canons of conservatism»:

The writer of the letter to the Hebrews tells us in chapter 10: «Let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.»

• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: Speaking of books in Portuguese, one might as well add one by the towering genius of Brazilian letters, who did everything that would be attempted by «surrealist» or «magical realist» or absurdist writers a century later, and did it all much better; The Posthumous Memoirs is as fantastic and exuberant and hilarious as any of his works, and is also surely the best novel written in the voice of a deceased narrator.

Remember the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews chastised his readers for being immature and not moving on from elementary teaching.

As a member of the Freedom Writers program (http://www.amnestyusa.org), I write letters to officials in countries that detain prisoners of conscience (as determined by Amnesty International).

Early Christian writers mention an Elder John of Ephesus, who was a follower of Jesus but was not the apostle of that name, and they sometimes refer to him simply as «the Elder», just as the writer of these letters calls himself.

What did Paul and the other writers of the New Testament try to impress upon the readers of their letters?

I have no problem with people using a pro forma or template, or even an editor (professional letter writer) to help someone structure their ideas to meet the conventions of the day.

It seems that maybe what John, Peter, James, and Jude did was go to a professionally trained letter writer and provided them with the basic ideas, arguments, and points they wanted to make in their letter, and then let the professional letter writer compose the letter according to the letter writing standards of that day.

Now it is no longer «men of God writing Scripture as they were moved by the Holy Spirit» but rather, something like this: «Men of God having inspired ideas which they provided to a professionally - trained letter writer, who then composed the letter according to standards and guidelines found in a letter - writing manual before getting the approval of the man of God to send the letter out to its intended recipients.»

There were books in use at the time which instructed letter writers in the art of writing letters, even down to suggestions for which words to use in your letter.

As the writer of the Letter to the Hebrews puts it: Jesus «is the author and perfecter of faith», or, as the New English Bible has it, on him «faith depends from start to finish».

Perhaps some notes of Paul's were incorporated, somewhat as the Gospel writers drew on earlier sources, but it is practically certain that these letters in their finished form stand at or near the end of the New Testament writings.

Above it all is the picture of Runciman the tease, the inventor of his own image, the deliberate player of parts, the disengaged audience to his own choreography, but also the man of letters, a consummate stylist who used historical events to explore ideas about people and the world, a writer of epics and romances.

If the writer of the letter claims to be a Christian, however (and it seems that he does), all I see is a Christian who is unrepentant and selfish.

I just wanted to point out a couple of things to the writer of the letter.

In the Letter to the Hebrews there is a direct echo of this when the writer speaks of the Temple in Jerusalem as being «a copy and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary», and when he recalls how Moses was instructed to make everything according to the pattern shown to him on the heavenly mount (8:5).

No one could honestly read the letters of the New Testament without becoming aware that not only the writers themselves but scores of other people were looking at life and death in a way in which they had never been looked at before, and were experiencing a contact with the living God unprecedented in human history.

Although a devout Christian, the writer of that letter had undoubtedly felt the influence of hellenizing thought that was dominant in the civilization of which he was a part; and that kind of thought made just such a distinction between soul and body.

The same writer, in the same chapter of his letter, goes on to say, «Herein is love, not that we loved God».

The beautiful passage from the Letter to Diognetus, quoted in the last chapter, spoke of the soul, and had the entire passage been quoted we should have seen that the writer contrasts the soul as imperishable with the body, which is perishable.

Matthew knew what John knew — John did not have a higher evolution of understanding of who Jesus claimed to be than the other apostles — it is just in the wisdom of God as He used each writer to convey understanding to the folks who received the letters and for our benefit in the ages to come that Matthew focuses on different things than John.

The only major point of contention I would bring against Gioia's essay is its suggestion that, during the postwar Catholic boom in American letters, Catholic writers forged a visible community.

Doty suggests that because of political intrigue and the vulnerability of the postal system, the letter writer was careful to entrust the real message of the letter to the carrier, not merely to the text of the letter itself (45 - 46).

Further, in the letter to the Hebrews the NT, the writer appears to relate the Sabbath to entering the «promised land» presumably an analogy for The Kingdom of God.

In an interesting statement reflecting the ultra-conservative theory of inspiration of the book, a Mohammedan writer declares that the whole of the Koran may be found in the Bismillah, that the whole of the Bismillah can be found in the initial letter and that the whole of this can be found in the vowel point placed beneath the initial «B.»

Writers should familiarize themselves with the magazine before sending their submission, and include with it a cover letter giving their thesis, an explanation of why it's an important thesis to argue in this magazine, reference to any similar articles the magazine has published recently, and a short biography.

The writer said that his spiritual journey made a huge turn when big questions about the NT (specifically Paul's theology) started emerging, especially in light of the fact that Paul started his series of letters (to the Galatians) with words very similar to what many ignorant Christians (Jeremy's term) use today: «I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preach is not something that man made up.

These letters form a diary beginning in 1948, after her graduation from the University of Iowa's School for Writers, until her death in 1964.

More incidental references are found in all four of the Gospels, in Acts, and in the letters, whether of Paul or other writers.

Every pastor and every congregation today can learn from the encouragement of the writer of the letter to seek unity in the Body of Christ, to grow up «to the measure of the full stature of Christ» (Eph.

And the various documents, themes, and purposes of the Biblical writers have been leveled in a near word - magic use of the Bible that violates both spirit and letter of all Scripture.

I suggest that a reading of scripture gives us the clues, that John was in fact the last Levitical priest whose task was to inaugurate the» handing over» of the priesthood to the new High Priest, in the new order of Melchizedek (as the writer of the Letter to Hebrews explains it) So Jesus came to John the Levite, John gave Jesus the ritual bath of the High Priest, then Jesus emerged from the bath not to be anointed with oil as the old Levites, but to be anointed with the Holy Spirit and then Jesus» distinction was announced to the people by the voice of God Himself.

Some early Christian doctrinal docuuments rejecting abortion are the Didache and the Letter of Barnabas and the works of 2nd - century writers Tertullian and Athenagoras of Athens.

Mr. Martin is also a talented writer» as his lively, well organized, and admirably chivalrous letter complaining of my treatment of his book amply demonstrates.

One of the letter — writers was prompted by my article to reflect bitterly that «the French people, dying for lack of the Bread of Life, have been offered instead of bread, stones, if not serpents».