Sentences with phrase «writing friend gave»

Coincidentally, I was scouring Amazon last night looking for some Kindle books to purchase with a gift card a writing friend gave me.

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Milano wrote that a friend suggested writing «me too» on social media «to give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem» of sexual harassment and assault.

«If you paid full - price for the product, you might be slightly more likely to give honest feedback to your friend,» he writes, explaining that «by being a fully paying customer, it... feels right that I should get the experience a fully paying customer should get,» including offering helpful pointers on aspects of the experience that didn't go as well as they could have.

This book gives great advice for investing and is written in a very easy to read style (it was like a close friend was giving me their honest advice).

«I don't know if the reason for my anger is just my old fashioned Irish - American patriotism,» wrote the friend who sent us the link, «or the fact that I just spent a week with my father tripping and limping around with a bad leg he gave in the service of this nation, or because my mother is an immigrant and both my paternal grandparents were too, and as much as all of them loved Ireland they knew how much they owed this country and considered the precious value of their American citizenship only slightly behind that of their baptismal certificates.»

In his memoir Gift and Mystery, the Pope wrote that his friend was given the death that he had wished for.

Hauerwas and the other essayists are on firmer ground when they write of the importance of holding on to the Christian story, which gives meaning to individual stories and provides «rich resources to make possible friendship between the elderly and, perhaps most important, becoming and remaining friends with ourselves as we age.»

Van Dyke was director of the Friends Church media department when he wrote the screenplay, but his boss, Creative Arts Pastor Brent Martz (you met him earlier in this story) threatened to fire him if he didn't give him 50 % co-writer credit, the lawsuit said.

It was written after a friend, Stephen Coffey, died in a car accident — the night after Coffey told God he would give his life if it would draw more youth to Christ.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

Not only do I think this was written to share with family and friends, it gives us as the public, a uniqueglimpse of her hearts feeling of what God would be saying to her.

Professor Flournoy of Geneva gives me the following testimony of a friend of his, a lady, who has the gift of automatic or involuntary writing: --

In a letter to a clerical friend, written a few months later, the convert gives a palpitating account of the circumstances.

A good friend of mine in the American Military Government, Captain C. H. Bischoff, secured a Mercedes - Benz, painted on it the official AMG emblems and gave Martin written authorization to drive to Stuttgart, then on through the Soviet Zone.

Now, Ruddick is extraordinarily careful to write of maternal thinking not as an ontological given but as a hard - won epistemology that emerges from engaging in maternal practices, and she specifically attacks the «idealized Good Mother,» pointing out that many mothers «who live in the Good Mother's shadow... come to feel their lives are riddled with shameful secrets that even the closest friends can't share.»

In January 1588, he wrote to a friend in the Electoral service, Johann Loser, asking him to be godfather to his son «whom God has given me this night by my dear Katie, so that he may come out of the old Adam's nature to the rebirth in Christ through the holy sacrament of baptism, and may become a member of sacred Christendom.

As I write in the book, «I grew obstinate and incorrigible, ready to debate family and friends whose easy confidence baffled and frustrated me and gave me an excuse to be angry at someone besides God.

Fr Martin Bucer, OP, wrote a letter to a friend a few days after the meeting, to tell him about Luther and give him an idea of the magnetism of the friar's presence.

In a letter to a friend at Zwickau, Luther wrote about Eck's text in desperate apocalyptic mood: «The book... is nothing less than the malice and envy of a maniac... Rejoice, Brother, rejoice, and be not terrified by these whirling leaves... The more they rage the more cause I give them...»

Apart from buying one for myself, I'm thinking of giving it as a birthday gift to some of my non-vegan friends, so they can experience some vegan love and joy too (okay I confess, my motives would not be entirely altruistic...) Thank you for writing such wonderful cookbooks!

«An Indian friend of my mother's gave her this recipe for beef curry back in 1936,» writes Bill Goodhue of Chino, California.

Rupa De of West Lafayette, Indiana, writes: «Since I am originally from India, many of my non-Indian friends have asked me for a chicken curry recipe, and this is the one I give them.

I love it when friends and readers give me ideas or ask me to write about certain topics, etc. (which reminds me, a homemade salad dressing list and how to shop organic on a budget is on the books).

I have this recipe on a hand - written card, given to me a few years ago by a friend, who got -LSB-...]

I thanked her everyday, wrote her notes, gave her simple gifts, brought her lunch, and became her friend.

Please tell your friends, write an honest review on Amazon, click the Facebook like button on landing page, or personally give me your feedback.

Tell your friends, write an honest review on Amazon, click the social media buttons or personally give me your feedback.

For instance, I'd always wanted to have a close - knit group of friends, more creativity in my work, and a lifestyle that would give me the leeway to write longer articles and books.

I am now in my third trimester with my fourth baby and when I was giving advice to a friend about strange things to expect or what to do and I realized I should probably write this all down before I forget!

My trusted mom friends have given me some other great ideas I plan to use in the near future: marking the days on a calendar to show her how long I'll be gone; having her mark off the days on a calendar to countdown my return; writing a note and / or leaving a little gift (stickers, piece of candy) that she can open each day from mom.

Now Olivia has a super adorable image we can print for her room or give as a gift, or print as spring postcards where she can color and write on the other side and send to friends or family.

Those that have been in power in Iceland for a long time have been gradually been giving their friends and allies -LSB-... drops out...] So they put forward a bill for this new fishing quota that is really badly written.

If a prisoner who is seriously ill wishes to be visited by any friends or relatives, a medical officer may give an order in writing or the admission of such friends or relatives if he considers it advisable.

Banire had about three weeks ago written to step down as the party's National Legal Adviser following an investigation launched by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), into a gift of N500, 000 given to an old friend, who sought his financial assistance to defray part of the burial expenses of his late mother about three years ago.

A supportive community (either formally through your university, or informally through your friends) can give you the emotional stamina you need to make it through the last few weeks or months of your dissertation writing.

I had to learn how to write like I was writing for a friend, not for an academic audience, and how to give credit to others without disrupting the flow of the piece with all my citations.

In a presentation in January at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference, researchers Juliana Breines and Serena Chen described a set of experiments in which they asked one group of participants to give support to another person, such as writing down suggestions to make a friend feel better after causing a fender bender.

«Go to your friends in industry and say, «Can you give me examples of contracts that you've written, or can you give me some advice about someone I can call up?»»

«Einstein's ideas,» his friend the physicist Max Born wrote over half a century ago, «have given the physical sciences the impetus which has liberated them from outdated philosophical doctrine, and made them one of the decisive factors in the modern world of man.»

Its a time to breathe, move, write, visualize, connect with friends & community and give gratitude.

So useful to give to family and friends who want to know what I will actually eat - much better than a written list of permitted foods.

You wouldn't have to stick with what your friend writes, but it might give you a good starting point.

Adult Singles not only gives our members the opportunity to meet friends and partners, - we also enhance the member experience with daily horoscopes, photo ratings, free e-greeting cards, and the interactive Adult Friendfinder Magazine written by and for our members.

Friendster will give users a way to know when their friends have added new photos, written new blog postings or changed their profile and will also make its site searchable by Google and other search engines for those members that choose to make their profiles public.

So before you write someone off as «not friend potential,» make sure you've given them a chance.

It's written as if Taylor is a close friend giving priceless advice.

Written by Jay Baruchel, he also plays Doug's best friend throughout the film, and while he is just present to make audiences laugh, he does serve the purpose of giving his friend the much needed confidence on the ice.

The two key sources, however, are unpublished documents he obtained from Gloria Karefa - Smart, Baldwin's sister and literary executor: a June 1979 letter from the writer to his agent, Jay Acton, and 30 pages of notes for a novel that Baldwin would never write, to chronicle the lives and deaths of his friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. «I want these three lives to bang against and reveal each other, as in truth they did,» Baldwin explains, «and use their dreadful journey as a means of instructing people whom they loved so much, who betrayed them, and for whom they gave their lives.»

all of you people who said these movie sucked are freakin fags... especially the person who wrote this article... i give 100 out of 100... and so did the entire group of friends i was with... anyone who does nt like this movie needs to go get a sense of humor... hands down greatest movie ever..

Warren Graff's script really fits the dark tone of Sonic Forces given his writing history with Happy Tree Friends.