Sentences with phrase «wrote a piece off»

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If you want readers to care about your story, you need to give them a reason; for instance, may like to start off by explaining why you decided to write the piece.

Make a list of the top 10 performing pieces of content and brainstorm more ideas off of those to understand what made it successful - well designed, well written and timely?

Since the web is inundated with the former, you're better off spending your time writing that one epic piece of content instead of writing lots of short, fluffy pieces.»

Imagine running a direct mail campaign by writing your own copy, individually typing that copy for each and every sales piece you plan to send, stuffing and addressing the envelopes one by one using names and addresses you got from the phone book, slapping on the stamps, and then sorting it all and carting it off to the Post Office yourself.

In GMOs most recent letter, Jeremy Grantham leads off the piece with, «At GMO these days we argue over three very different pathways to a similar dismal 20 - year outlook for pension fund returns... A problem for investors following GMO's writing is which of these three alternatives to choose»

Any time you buy a piece of equipment dedicated 100 percent to your business, you can write it off against your business using one of three methods: depreciation, amortization or depletion, generally requiring the help of a tax professional.

* After writing this piece for Bloomberg a few people wrote in to tell me some of the emerging market numbers (such as India) had to be off.

I still get emails from people who have discovered my Newtape Letters published in First Things, pieces that played off C.S. Lewis» famous Screwtape Letters, asking me when I will write more.

He handed out pieces of paper and pencils, and told them each to go off individually into a corner of the room and write down every way they had personally sinned and contributed to the conflict.

I discovered that Yoder taught not at Goshen College but rather in Elkhart at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, but in my exploration of Goshen I discovered that Yoder had written numerous pamphlets that could be bought off a rack in College Church for a dime a piece.

Maybe some other men wrote this article, because they are ticked off that they can't get another piece of meat.

I was just going to write them off, but you've made up my mind to try them again with semi-sweet pieces instead of milk chocolate and bigger chunks in the filling.

I read this piece of writing completely regarding the comparison off newest and previous technologies, it's awesome article.

And now I'm up, at 5 am, trying to write this piece about cornbread, before we take off for Colorado today.

When I wrote this piece, it was clear to me that recent draft history indicates it is folly to write off players being available later than expected, especially at the less valuable positions.

It is also why I am making the assumption that Song will go to Barcelona — as I trust this source highly (even if ANR's opinion pieces are often way off the mark)-- and writing about our team without him in mind.

I like to add a «label» by tearing off a piece of painters» tape and writing with a Sharpie.

When Tim finished his coursework, he did some soldering on a piece of PA / music equipment which Richard had written off as not worth repairing.

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.

Getting out of the technology weeds, this petition is in general a great example of taking advantage of the moment: plenty of people were really pissed off over the weekend about Zimmerman's acquittal, and NAACP (600,000 + signatures as of this writing, according to the CNN piece above) gave them an outlet.

The Evening Standard's Paul Waugh has written - in a piece headlined «David Cameron acts to head off snap election challenge of Tory Right»:

To save any further head - scratching about why this moniker suddenly reappeared, Nelson helpfully offers a clue, for later in the piece he reveals that he has been having off - the - record chats with supporters of David Miliband, he writes» As one of his supporters told me...»

When a columnist for the Wall Street Journal wrote an admiring piece about Andrew, the president dashed off a note of congratulation; Andrew put it up in his office.

The final bits and pieces completed, I jetted off to Uganda for 2 months (watching chimps and playing at being a «real» biologist... strongly recommended as post-thesis writing therapy!)

The vigorous, vehement and vexed reactions to any piece I have written that mentions climate change, combined with the power of greed on the one hand and the struggle for subsistence on the other, have convinced me there is no chance that governments will significantly reduce the output of industrial greenhouse gases in time to stave off considerable change to the planet's climate and to human habitats.

The discussion has been kicked off with an opinion piece written by Julia Lane and comments are invited.

This is a piece I wrote while weaning off (which I did very slowly).

What that means is if you indulge in a piece of chocolate cake or some takeaway food, don't write off the rest of your day by overeating or punishing yourself.

However, before writing off this seemingly trivial piece of equipment, adding some resistance band exercises to your training protocol might be the exact thing you need to increase your mobility and correctly activate some dormant muscles.

I had sort of written it off as a summer piece.

By now most of us had written the site off as a piece of early 21st century nostalgia, but it's just gotten a mobile makeover and has plans to join the booming online dating business.

The destruction of Erabor is a massive CGI set piece that reminds of LOTR, while the sequence in The Shire is almost as whimsical as you might expect, with Frodo (Elijah Wood) rushing off to meet Gandalf (Ian McKellen) as Bilbo putters about in his hobbit hole — and then, he begins to write, «In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit...» and we see the younger Bilbo being approaching by Gandalf the Grey on the matter of an adventure.

You could easily write this off as being a piece of propaganda / an FBI recruitment film, which is basically is.

The film recognizes how they've cut themselves off, but it also takes no small amount of cringe - comedy glee in just how terribly they treat others (see: Philip telling one of his creative writing students that he can't write her a letter of recommendation, but he can give her a piece of paper with some staples in it).

In March Virginia Pasley writing for Slate used Deschanel's adorkability as a jumping off point for a piece about the overuse of the term:

As such, Iron - Man 3 is a perfect collaboration to round off the character's initial trilogy, a beautifully written, insightful piece of character - driven, «proper» filmmaking that just happens to have a bunch of flying robot suits thrown in for good measure.

«It didn't test well, and they were going to write it off, but I knew once Alfonso finished his vision we'd have a beautiful piece of art.»

Upon watching the trailer, it would be easy and understandable to simply write off this movie as a ridiculous piece of junk produced merely to capitalize on the popularity of Seth MacFarlane («Family Guy» creator).

Again, this kind of film is easy to write off based on a simple description, but it's a genuinely touching, human piece of work that will also speak to anyone who fell in love with film at an early age.

Partially written, directed and also one of the producers is #JohnKrasinski — starring alongside wife #EmilyBlunt — the film starts you off at an almost agonizingly slow pace, piece by piece, building you up to describe life in the oh - so - quiet - place.

Instead, they went for Dallas Buyers Club, which many had written off as simply a solid performance piece, but clearly the Academy was a big fan of the movie as a whole.]

King of Jazz (John Murray Anderson, Pál Fejös, 1930) This newly restored two - colour Technicolor treat is a revelatory combination of Art Deco surrealist set - pieces, acrobatic choreography and démodé trick photography bouncing off extremely dated but charmingly goofy humour and jazz which could scarcely be any more trad (notwithstanding that Gershwin's glorious «Rhapsody in Blue», written for the «King of Jazz» himself, bandleader Paul Whiteman, and used prominently in the film, was a pointer to certain new directions).

While my writing them here won't do them justice, quips like «Slice me a off a piece of pie and serve it up hot, I'm next in line» dubbed over a segment of lions mating and «When a shark appears, sea lions jump ashore — luckily there aren't any tigers waiting for them, otherwise they wouldn't know what the fuck to do» voiced while watching a pack of sea lions, should give you an idea as to how idiotic these guys are.

Before that I had written a movie that Roland Emmerich is producing that became my writing sample that I got hired for Tomb Raider off of but, I also had just come out of the Transformers writers room which I don't know if you know much about writer rooms but basically, on some major pieces of IT the studio will bring together a team of writers to work, almost like they would work in a television writers room, where you work collaboratively with other writers and you come up with ideas.

The decision to engage a wide range of municipal leaders paid off in the letters and opinion pieces those leaders wrote and the individual outreach they did to their local representatives in support of the bill.

While the student is gone, he or she might move a watch from one wrist to another, unbutton a button, take off a belt, or When the student returns, students might write their names and the change they observe on a piece of scrap paper.

He replied that «the entire piece of writing is so far off» and was not sure addressing it would help.

In a piece published yesterday in Education Week, Danielson writes, «I'm deeply troubled by the transformation of teaching from a complex profession requiring nuanced judgment to the performance of certain behaviors that can be ticked off on a checklist.

Although we're kicking off the new publishing year with a piece from each author, from now on they will alternate writing duties month by month.

You see that some are consistently checking off the same areas they always do as «needing improvement» and that others are simply marking off a skill as «mastered,» scarcely glancing at the piece of writing in front of them.