Sentence examples for anecdote from inspiring English sources

Beyond anecdote, we know very little about what kind and quantity of information is being delisted from search results, what sources are being delisted and on what scale, what kinds of requests fail and in what proportion, and what are Google's guidelines in striking the balance between individual privacy and freedom of expression interests.

McEwan said he overheard a version of this anecdote and decided to use it, only to be told by a member of the Hay audience that a similar incident, involving chocolate biscuits, appears in Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.

Shortly before McDaniel appeared on stage at his campaign event in Hattiesburg one of his campaign officials took to the microphone to recount an anecdote.

In an attempt, during his conference speech, to emphasise the importance of long-term planning David Cameron relayed a nice anecdote about a "great hall in Oxford".

It suggested that the programme makers were "under instructions from higher up" to make "a happy story about complementary medicine"; that the production could not distinguish evidence from anecdote; even that the series producer was promoting "US-style anti-science".

Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 7.13pm AEST10:13 If you read my longer blog post from earlier today (thanks for that, given it contained a Dr Hook anecdote).. you'll know that my commentary this evening is entirely partial.

But basically it comes down to either gritting your teeth while a dotage-addled Hugh Hefner tails off in the middle of an anecdote about silicone, or gritting your teeth while Tom Cruise explains how very few hundred thousand dollars it would cost you to learn that we're all surrounded by alien spirits exiled to this planet by the galactic tyrant Xenu.

(Of course I, along with everyone else, now eye opinion polls very warily: after 7 May, anecdote and gut instinct look like a rather more reliable guide to politics than data).

No one was injured in the storm, but the anecdote served as just another reminder for caddies, who recently formed their own trade association, that they want better treatment.

Among other gems, there is an entertaining anecdote in there about his obsession with learning how replicate Juninho's free-kicks, and how he finally found the secret while sitting on a toilet.

(In the world of economists, you can dine out on a good Bernanke anecdote for at least a year).