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Telling in sentence

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Directing – telling people exactly how to do something – is micromanaging when they can do it themselves.
And I began the speech by telling them the story of what had just happened the day before in Nashville.
Come to think of it, knowing when you're wrong without a teacher, or your mother, telling you, is a very hard problem.
So the next time you pass a jewelry shop window displaying a beautifully cut teardrop-shaped stone, don't be so sure it's just your culture telling you that that sparkling jewel is beautiful.
A Congolese woman, who was telling me about how her children saw their father killed in front of them and saw her raped in front of them and mutilated in front of them, and her children saw their nine-year-old sibling killed in front of them, how they're doing okay right now.
And I'm working very hard with my colleague, Arnold van Huis, in telling people what insects are, what magnificent things they are, what magnificent jobs they do in nature.
We also believe in straight-talking, telling it as it is, using simple language that people understand, telling people about the downsides as well as the potential upsides, and even telling the bad news that no one wants to utter, like our lack of belief in the sustainability of the Icelandic financial sector that already we had months before the collapse hit us.
Now that we've had all that happen, and we have all this data out there telling us that it's much better to have diversity around the decision-making tables, will we see business and finance change?
Not by preaching, not by telling, not by reading, but by addressing your mind.
He was telling them they no longer had any moral authority, that nobody needed them for emotional support anymore, and they were not really the providers.
And I said, "Are you telling me that I am the only woman to have pitched a deal in this office in a year?"
But that very fact is telling.
I was at a conference of 60,000 people in breast-imaging last week in Chicago, and I was stunned that there was a heated debate as to whether we should be telling women what their breast density is.
When I was growing up, my dad used to love telling the story of his first day in Canada.
And one friend of mine was telling me a story: not only did they get there and have to wait, but then the engineers, when they finally did get there, for the third time, they had to call somebody.
What's wrong with writing?" "OK, what is she telling you to write?" "Poems.
Our leaders barrel into wars, telling themselves happy stories about cakewalks and welcome parades.
The last thing I remember was lying on a white blanket, telling my surgeon that I needed to see my mother again, and to please try and save my voice.
We had our mothers, our aunts, our cousins, our sisters, and of course, the ever-present media bombarding us with images and words, telling us how to be.
And there was something incredibly profound about sitting down with my closest friends and telling them what they meant to me.
He said, "I don't see the wall," and I'm telling you the same, Don't see the wall.
And when I sat down next to him, he was telling me about a company he formed, and he was building some robots for automobile factories to move things around on the factory floor.
I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
I'll get your ex-lover telling someone else, "Good morning."
Basically, a human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die, and when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.
This is what they were telling.
They started telling the West, "Be aware of Al-Qaeda.
Actually, I had this taxi driver telling me, "Listen, I am breathing freedom.
And there's no way of telling anybody about the light at the end of the tunnel.
It's a little bit of a different story, this health aspect of light, than what I'm telling you today.
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