Sentences with phrase «writing a promise of»

When I started writing A Promise of Fire over five years ago now, there was a good chance this manuscript would end up like my other works of fiction: perhaps unfinished, never seen by anyone but me, definitely never presented to agents or editors and using up space on my hard drive in a folder with a misleading enough name that hopefully no one would ever open it and stumble upon my first (and sometimes hilarious) attempts at writing a novel.

The platform will accept a very short employment history, or even a written promise of employment.

Not exact matches

«This promises to be a tax - grab budget that would have made the likes of Herb Gray very proud if he was still alive,» Rosenberg wrote on March 13, according to a subscribers - only report in the Globe and Mail.

For example, Ray Kurzweil, who writes often about the coming merger of man and machine as part of his «Singularity» thesis, says «both the promise and peril are deeply intertwined.»

Late Friday, he sent a copy of what he said was a resignation letter to The Federalist, writing in part that «it is clear to me that forces that do not support the MAGA promise are — for now — ascendant within the White House.»

«The longer I use it, the more regularly it inspires the same sense of promise I felt when I used the first iPhone — a sense this machine is opening up a vast new realm in personal computing,» writes the Times's Farhad Manjoo.

«The promise of virtual commodities and their impact on the future will be profound — but individuals and institutions need to feel safe and secure when transacting,» the brothers wrote in a statement.

«While we believe many of the growth initiatives highlighted by «new» CEO Jack Dorsey are promising, it remains less clear whether these will translate into more active user growth and engagement,» Baird Equity Research analysts wrote.

«We are living in an unprecedented time, one in which we are witness to the conscience of our country, and the promise of the American Dream, being called into question,» CEO Howard Schultz wrote in a letter to Starbucks employees about the plan.

«To us, [the iNova bids are] another disappointment in what was promised to be $ 8 billion worth of asset sales that so far has only been approximately $ 2 billion,» writes Wells Fargo's David Maris in a note.

So he writes Marko a $ 100,000 check and promises to speak to a few of his Instagram and Facebook friends about the deal.

The gene - silencing strategy, in the form of RNA interference, has also showed promise against an uncommon neurodegenerative disease called hereditary ATTR amyloidosis, as my colleague Sy Mukherjee wrote about in Fortune's year - end Investor's Guide.

«When the central bank promises a smaller payment, reserves are a less attractive investment, so banks will... move away from reserves and into loans,» Reis, an academic at the London School of Economics, wrote in the paper.

Glacier Media, wrote Tyghe in an August 2012 report, has promise because smaller communities rely on these newspapers for information, while business owners and employees stay on top of sector news via its trade publications.

Ahead of the hearing, entitled «Beyond Silk Road: Potential Risks, Threats, and Promises of Virtual Currencies», several government agencies wrote to Committee outlining their views on the currency.

«The action of «moving things from A to B» or following through as promised builds a surprisingly rare reputation that can be leveraged in a number of ways as it builds the confidence of others,» write Pfeffer and Walker.

Investors are trading Telegram tokens even before the private sale is over, and before a single line of code has been written for the promised Telegram Open Network (TON) that the ICO is funding.

«This promises to be a tax - grab budget that would have made the likes of Herb Gray very proud if he was still alive,» he wrote.

While many DLT firms showed promise, the FCA wrote, «Through the sandbox we have observed that execution time uncertainty, volatility in the value of digital currencies, liquidity requirements, transaction fees and the availability of exchanges have all proved to be limiting factors to the success of tests in this area.

«Executives from Cambridge Analytica, hired by the Trump presidential campaign, have been caught on tape promising an extraordinary package of strategies to potential clients including filming opponents in compromising situations with Ukrainian sex workers,» The Daily Beast writes of U.K. station Channel 4's documentary.

Recently, CLC President Ken Georgetti sent the following letter to Jim Flaherty: May 8, 2007 Honourable Jim Flaherty, P.C., M.P. Minister of Finance House of Commons Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6 Dear Minister: On behalf of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), I write to express our support for your promise, in Budget 2007, to end the -LSB-...]

In 1991, Apple Corporation cut a deal with the Irish government so that only a certain bracket of its earnings would be taxed, giving it, writes Business Insider,»... a dramatically lower tax rate than it would have to pay in the U.S.» In return, Apple promised jobs, lots of jobs, which it provided.

The Ontario PC leader's misguided promise to allow development in parts of the Greenbelt was «a huge thing to have kept quiet about,» writes Heather Mallick.

A few months ago, I wrote about the intriguing trend toward «re-launching» biotech startups that had been recently acquired by Big Pharma or Big Biotech — minus, of course, whatever promising drug candidates had prompted the acquisition in the first place.

What followed, he writes, was a campaign of promises from the company — many of them broken — designed to ensure her silence.

Newly minted Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras campaigned on the promise of seeking a write - down on the country's debt, a «haircut» so to speak, which many European finance and government officials have dismissed as out of the question.

As of this writing, we have yet to see the profits that they promise on their sales page.

But pressure is being brought to bear on the government from various sources, including People's Bank of China governor Zhou Xiaochuan, who toured the FTZ on April 10 and urged his Shanghai office to step on the gas in writing detailed guidelines to promised financial reforms.

«FTC should immediately investigate and sanction apparent breach by Facebook of its 2011 agreement guaranteeing protection of consumer info — now a hollow promise,» Blumenthal wrote on Twitter.

Since gaining power, howerver, Syriza has not been able to deliver as much as it had promised, such as adding thousands of jobs to the economy and writing off most of the country's debt.

Writing in Commonweal, he takes on the favored shibboleths of those who contend that Christianity «privileges» the male, and along the way has some important things to say about movements among Christian men such as Promise Keepers.

The man who wrote the original work was a promising young scholar in his early thirties at All Soul's College at Oxford; the person who issues the new edition is Rollins Professor of History at Princeton, the most renowned student of Augustine in the world, and one of the most respected historians of the religious history of the later Roman Empire.

I was eventually laid - off to due to «lack of funds» (which I have in writing) it seemed as though people in our congregation began fleeing contemporary church and we couldn't pay me and the Lead Pastor (who sat in his office day in, day out)... I won't settle for another stagnant «building - pastor» gig, I promise.

The purpose of my writing is to bring God's treasures out of life's dark places, as promised in Isaiah 45:3.

John's baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins was the Jewish baptism of repentance which I wrote a few posts about, and which has nothing to do with receiving eternal life, and everything to do with the repentance of Israel as a nation so that she can be restored to her rightful place among the nations as God promised in Scripture.

He did not inform these places of employment directly that he was performing an experiment that made him unable to fulfill his duties (such as helping believing dissertation - writing students through a difficult time of life and faith) anymore or agree to the belief statement he promised to adhere to anymore.

So what — lots of other gods have lots of other promises written in lots of other books.

Writing in The New York Times, Ross Douthat urges Amazon to think outside the box and select a city not on the basis of empty promises and publicity, but on the basis of what's good for the region and the country.

Paul was writing to Christians whom he had never seen, but expected soon to see, and he sets forth the common faith which he is sure they already hold — «the gospel of God, (See Mark 1:14 — though the text may originally have read, «the gospel of the Kingdom of God,» as in the A. V.) which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the sacred writings,

Just admit that the flood is a story probably written a while after a severe local flood, and that the theological point is to credit God for the saving of life as well as the promise not to destroy again.

Wright notes that «Israel was thus constituted, from one point of view, as the people who heard God's word — in call, promise, liberation, guidance, judgment, forgiveness, further judgment, renewed liberation, and renewed promise... This is what I mean by denying that scripture can be reduced to the notion of the «record of a revelation,» in the sense of a mere writing down of earlier, and assumedly prior, «religious experience.»

Thank you for writing this — I have been yelling at God today — I am so mad at Him for something He lead me to do but now Izam in the desert instead of the paradise He promised.

At the time, CEO Howard Schultz wrote: «We are living in an unprecedented time, one in which we are witness to the conscience of our country, and the promise of the American Dream, being called into question.

In reflection on the promise in Revelation that on the day of shalom «there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away,» Wolterstorff writes: «I shall try to keep the wound from healing, in recognition of our living still in the old order of things.

The problem you have is first this Bible was written by the people that it is promised to first be scattered because of their rebellion, and then the promise of restoration.

I could spend a lot of time dispelling the notion of a «prosperity gospel» and many of you readers might very well write me angry letters with specific scriptures pointing to God promising actual prosperity.

«Think of your «promised land» as a thin body,» writes one author.

When the full light of YAHWEH came upon Gerhard Tersteegen, he wrote; «I promise with your help and power, to rather give up the last drop of my blood, than knowingly and willingly in my heart or life be untrue and disobedient to YOU.»

«The hope of salvation,» Lee writes, «is the promise of a world remade, all the diversity and complexity of creation enfolded in the one pure, uncontaminated beam of light.

This situation is nowhere more clearly described in modern literature than in the novels of Franz Kafka: «His unexpressed, ever - present theme,» writes Buber, «is the remoteness of the judge, the remoteness of the lord of the castle, the hiddenness, the eclipse...» Kafka describes the human world as given over to the meaningless government of a slovenly bureaucracy without possibility of appeal: «From the hopelessly strange Being who gave this world into their impure hands, no message of comfort or promise penetrates to us.