Sentences with phrase «in the company of friends with»

In the company of friends with whom no other subject is avoided, we circumvent the spiritual life like quicksand.

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Someone can see what they feel is the greatest advertisement in the world and be dead set on buying from that company, but if a friend tells them good things about another company that offers the same goods or services, most of the time they will take their friends advice and go with the alternative company.

So in 1999, again on the advice of the board and with the help of wealthy New York friends, Hollender bought back his struggling company for $ 1.30 a share.

She had been renting in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside for ten years, during which time she'd built a successful local theatre company, a strong community of friends, and had had two children with her husband who also works in the arts.

«Alibaba's existed for 18 years, and we are so influential in China — but nobody in America knows about us,» says Ma, who founded the company with 17 friends and family members in 1999, in his hometown of Hangzhou.

Before going into the diverse funding alternatives available, we want to remind you to be careful with the way in which you choose to finance your company, to get comfortable with the fact that its valuation will be determined by others, and to reconcile with the idea of going to your friends and family for the first round of capital.

«We encourage all people playing Pokemon Go to be aware of their surroundings and to play with friends when going to new or unfamiliar places,» Pokemon Company International and Niantic said in an emailed statement.

An obituary published in The New York Times Thursday recalls the early days of the company, when three friends from Brooklyn began experimenting with tea and juice — despite having little experience in the field:

In our digital world, with our uber - savvy digital consumers, all a company needs to earn the curiosity of 100 or more friends and followers is one heartfelt post on social media.

«The experience that individuals have with a company and then what they hear from friends and family influence their perception of and likelihood to do business with a company,» says Megan Burns, a senior analyst at Forrester Research, a Massachusetts - based research firm that specializes in customer service.

«The use of the medicines in lethal injections runs counter to the manufacturers» mission to save and enhance patients» lives, and carries with it not only a public - health risk, but also reputational, fiscal and legal risks,» wrote the companies in a friend of the court filing.

Since then, Patti has reunited with her estranged father, was investigated herself for possible illegal kickbacks, got fired from her job at a nonprofit, ate a tarantula on a reality TV show in her husband's place, got her insurance licenses and started her own company selling coverage to business owners, and saw a number of friends desert her.

Developers, in turn, created apps that became emblematic of the Facebook experience — apps such as Farmville, a farming simulation game played with friends on the social network, which was made by the gaming company Zynga.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

Andrew Smithers, one of the few other analysts who foresaw the credit implosion and remains a credible voice now, concurred last week in an interview with my friend Kate Welling (a former Barrons» editor now at Weeden & Company): «The good news so far is that the stock market got down to pretty much fair value or even, possibly, a tickle below it, at its March bottom.

Burnie Burns, cofounder of Austin - based Rooster Teeth, a production company with 300 - plus staffers that produced the made - for - YouTube sci - fi comedy Lazer Team and its upcoming sequel, still remembers being dumbstruck almost a decade ago, when Rooster Teeth consisted of little more than a handful of friends, by what the service offered: «They completely changed the game in terms of the ability to monetize video with pre-roll advertising.

A PayPal spokesman said in a statement that the company «welcome [s] any development that encourages people to address the awkwardness of dealing with cash when paying friends or family back.

But when the company approved $ 1,000 for Kogan to experiment with his app, he produced data on 1,000 people who downloaded it and roughly 160,000 of their friends — all in a matter of hours.

She held a top level position in a private Company, she would pad her expense claims — instead of working, her time was spent soliciting for her charity, shopping and having tea with her friends..

if an exceedingly dear and respected friend of mine's wife was a fearful, obnoxious, insecure, lying witch who slandered people behind their backs and destroyed their reputations, I would be hard - pressed to spend any more time with my friend, certainly not in the company of his wife....

Park was accused of allowing a non-governmental friend to weigh in and influence topics from her wardrobe to who would be placed in official positions; she is also accused of extorting millions from South Korean companies with the help of this friend.

Jesus, well aware of the danger, was now taking care not to be found in the city after nightfall; he either stayed with friends at Bethany or bivouacked on the Mount of Olives, where the little company would easily escape notice among the numerous groups which camped out there for the festival.

I have also found myself looking into the faces of that diversified company of informal students embracing, for example, my colleagues teaching in other fields, as well as those other friends from all walks with whom I spend sustaining nonworking hours and who, ever and again even in the midst of play, put me back to work with «simple» innocent questions about the Bible.

Also, who wouldn't want to spend their last days on Earth with their families and friends, in the company of loved ones, rather than traveling around the country trying to convince people they are right so they feel better about themselves.

Your wealthy friends with their tax cuts shipped all the jobs ti China leaving us with no jobs and no healthcare.No - ones looking for a handout except your rich greedy friends in innsurance, oil, and pharmaceutical companies and let us not forget Wall Street and the banks.Do I have to repeat this to you deceitful defenders of the rich.Not everyone is looking for a handout.

I know it is a bit early to talk about grilling dishes, but who isn't excited to eat salad with grill meat outside in the company of our best friends??! I am, and I can't wait to be able to invite my friends over and have a summer BBQ on my patio!

Schirato notes that several family members are active in the daily operations of Patterson, along with many family friends, and each is dedicated to the success of the company.

This is a great one for the kiddos to help out with, if you've got any — I'm afraid your four - legged friends will be of little help with the prep but great in the keeping you company department.

As part of the popular Maryland - based chain's Funds for Friends program, individual restaurants team up with local organizations or local branches of national organizations, select a specific benefit date and donate 10 percent of that day's total sales to the organization in exchange for the organization having encouraged members, friends company profile and family to patronize the location on thaFriends program, individual restaurants team up with local organizations or local branches of national organizations, select a specific benefit date and donate 10 percent of that day's total sales to the organization in exchange for the organization having encouraged members, friends company profile and family to patronize the location on thafriends company profile and family to patronize the location on that date.

The artwork tells a story that celebrates the old and the new in order to reignite the appreciation and understanding of festive traditions shared with family and friends, the company says.

I am so happy to get to introduce you to Alex and Kiley's company Lore today, following with the theme from last week of sharing about friends who I am so thankful for as we lead up to Thanksgiving here in the U.S.. For this week I was a lucky duck and got to shoot with some of my favorite pieces from their shop over in Alex's kitchen.

In developing my products, I consulted with a chemist friend of mine who works at a cosmetic chemical company.

«Our new Kids Program, coupled with our ongoing Boston's Pizza Foundation initiatives in support of charity partners like No Kid Hungry and Kids Matter International, is a testament of our company's desire to create a deeper connection with our guests and their family and friends.»

As the inaugural commercial partner for Ripples, the innovative company behind Beer Ripples, a device that can print any image or message in beer, WOB customers will now be able to share messages, chat - up lines or even their own pictures in pints to add to the fun of enjoying beers with friends.

With whiskey in their blood, Maurice and Jonathan Egan, fifth and sixth generation Egan's, alongside longtime family friend and industry expert, John Ralph are revitalizing the company to carry on the legacy and time - honored traditions of the family.

Works at a company where he is just an extension and likes to think of himself as a Loner where he is in fact just a social reject with friends.

Your friend is either engaging in natural hazing of new dads when he suggests your days of fun are over, or he may be a close buddy worried that «our» days of fun are over, or a dad who is thinking misery loves company because he not only found himself stuck at home with his baby, he never

Your friend is either engaging in natural hazing of new dads when he suggests your days of fun are over, or he may be a close buddy worried that «our» days of fun are over, or a dad who is thinking misery loves company because he not only found himself stuck at home with his baby, he never figured out how to have fun with her.

2011 was the year of connections: I connected with so many awesome people, brands, companies, friends, and acquaintances in 2011.

Over a year ago while on a project with KaBoom to build a playground in Los Angeles I met a remarkable friend called Ciaran who in spite of having so many amazing projects running at the same time, owns a company that makes Francie Pants.

Mind Candy, headquartered in the United Kingdom, is one of the world's fastest growing social online gaming companies and the global developer, operator and publisher of Moshi Monsters, an online world for kids to share, develop and communicate with their friends in a safe environment.

It would probably be things like — it depends on which friend I'm talking to — but politics or different world events, my husband is in finance and business but I like talking about the stock market with companies and the mortgage industry, so it went from talking about that and real estate and all that to, «Can you imaging the ease of use for this stroller?»

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Another investment they make is that when a legislator is a «friend,» both in the general voting, but, especially, as a member of committees, they get rewarded afterwards with 7 - and 8 - figure «consulting» contracts after they leave office for jobs as lobbyists for companies they were supposed to oversee, lobbying their former colleagues.

James praised the vote in a statement, saying it signals «that we will no longer do business with companies that fund the deaths of our family members and friends.»

But when the company approved $ 1,000 for Kogan to experiment with his app, he produced data on 1,000 people who downloaded it and roughly 160,000 of their friends — all in a matter of hours.

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Okupe said, «Last sunday, in the company of some friends I met with Baba Obasanjo principally to try and settle and resolve the misunderstanding that has existed between baba and I since I joined the Jonathan administration.

But speaking on his Sunday's visit to Obasanjo, he said, «Last Sunday, in the company of some friends, I met with Baba Obasanjo principally to try and settle and resolve the misunderstanding that had existed between baba and I since I joined the Jonathan administration.

I may know a little more about it because I'm friends with Dan, but generally, it's the kind of company that everybody would want us to invest in.»