Sentences with phrase «a friend of mine»

My developer who has been with me for two years has been a friend of my family for 10 years and I trust him to support me and my business.

A friend of a friend recently drove to an empty lot with a trailer on it.

Cameron notes he's a close friend of «Star Wars» creator George Lucas before saying that the 2015 sequel leans too closely on Lucas» originals.

Nomadness Travel Tribe began with 100 Facebook friends of the founder and now counts more than 10,000 members.

Nor should we ignore the role of the media (and supposed friends of the Democrats) in sealing their doom.

A friend of Tasner's at Method had left the company to manufacture packaging made from compostable materials in China.

A friend of the suspect, Khusn Taramiv, said his friend, 27 - year - old Ibragim Todashev, was being investigated as part of the Boston bombings and knew bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev because both were MMA fighters.

A friend of mine has a good phrase for doing a startup: it's like eating glass and staring into the abyss.

But when I asked an investment banker friend of mine who had been at this same party about this, I had hardly begun before she said, «I know exactly what you're talking about!»

You're going to have to do a lot of leg - work in the form of networking with friends and friends of friends as well as getting yourself up to speed with the latest web development changes.

Bill Waren, senior trade analyst at Friends of the Earth, called the decision «recklessly irresponsible and a thinly veiled attack on clean energy.»

In part, that's because media ownership is concentrated among friends of the government, but it's also because those who report on military action are often censored.

Netanyahu, who called Pompeo a «true friend of Israel, echoed the Secretary's focus on Iran, stressing the closeness of U.S. and Israeli cooperation on the issue.

The next time I needed to negotiate, I was able to talk to a lawyer, talk to a banker who is a friend of mine, and say OK, I don't want to accept this as it is.

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Because our ad strategy focuses both on new users and «Friends of Friends,» the viral nature is definitely important to our success.

However, Chris Pratt is great as Owen, the navy seal and friend of the Velociraptors.

As word spread of the horror, relatives and friends of runners and spectators began trying to make contact with their loved ones, desperate to make sure that everything was OK.

A guy will swear to you that it was a friend of a friend's sister who disappeared on prom night 20 years ago and her ghost now hitchhikes along the lonely road between town and the old cemetery.

This particular story gave me involuntary eyebrow twitches because a friend of mine had just endured a recent experience with another well - known car rental company.

«When people were worried about a friend of mine, they'd call him and ask if he wanted to go shopping or help them clean out their garage.

Just be careful: These have to be very close friends of yours, with whom you are sure your intelligence gathering will not make its way back to the customer and disqualify you.

Along the way, I greeted locals out harvesting their food for the day, and made a friend of Luz, a white horse who I'd see every time my run came to an end.

Matanov was a friend of the Tsarnaevs but played down how well he knew them.

To figure this out, the research team asked the friends of 417 study subjects to rate their level of charisma.

The company engineered two three - month loans, totaling $ 300,000, from a private party — «a friend of a friend,» says Anderson — who required the owners to put up 10 % of their equity as collateral and make principal and interest payments of $ 75,000 a month.

Joel Cutler of General Catalyst Partners, a friend of Kushner's and an investor in Vostu and, subsequently, Oscar, recalls first hearing Kushner talk about his idea in 2012.

In addition to being a designer known for dressing First Lady Michelle Obama, she was married to rap mogul Damon Dash and is a friend of reality - TV star Kim Kardashian.

Indeed, Levy's testimonial is a bit like that famous moment in The Graduate when a family friend of Dustin Hoffman's character earnestly says: «I want to say one word to you, just one word: plastics.»

Upon our arrival, we consulted with a friend of hers to plan our first day in the city.

She sketched out a logo — a blot of nail polish — came up with a few regular features, and spent $ 700 on a camera and a website built by a friend of a friend.

Once upon a time, a friend of mine saw a snazzy red sports car gleaming in the dealership showroom window.

As word of the giveaways spread, Woodman decided to make a bigger deal of them by gathering friends of the company in front of his booth at 3 p.m. each day of a show.

A friend of mine works in a space much like this at a local co-working space.

His passion for bitcoin, he said, didn't ignite until a friend of his from Argentina asked him to send him some of the virtual cash for a project that they were working on.

Riza Aziz, Najib's stepson, is a friend of Low Taek Jho, also known as Jho Low, the Malaysian financier whom the U.S. alleges orchestrated the scheme to loot $ 4.5 billion from the Malaysian fund going back to 2009.

A friend of Dowlatshahi's named Danny Rawls, who also happens to be a general sales manager at Toyota of Rockwall, asked his boss about finding a car for him.

«It turns out we found an amazing person through another friend of a friend, a prototype - making guy,» said Och before Prince chimed in, «who produced them in FIVE DAYS in Taiwan,» (then Och finished the sentence) «and literally five days to our door we had seven of these prototypes.»

Investor Shervin Pishevar, a prolific Silicon Valley connector and friend of ousted Uber Technologies Inc..

A good friend of mine owns a small rental property near this one and he often hires me to answer phones and show units when he is out of town.

I got my first big break at Deloitte Consulting when the external consultant I worked with at my first job, with whom I had formed a really good working relationship, called a friend of his there and recommended me.

Eventually, a childhood friend of Hollender's, a New York City investment banker, bought Newman's stake for about $ 200,000, which went right into the new venture.

No disrespect intended to Mick, who is a friend of mine, but seeing him onstage certainly shows how big a disconnect there can be between doing what you do best and acting your age.

A Columbia law professor, Richman was previously quoted in The New York Times as a «close friend of Mr. Comey's who helped woo him to Columbia in 2013.»

I recently had an email from a friend of mine regarding an opportunity that she was finding a little overwhelming.

Hinge, a popular dating app that introduces users to friends of friends, says it's figured out which opening lines on a dating app land you a date the fastest — and which don't.

«A ruling by a single judge in one circuit can not and does not undo the years of clear legal precedent nationwide establishing that transgender students have the right to go to school without being singled out for discrimination,» said a statement from five groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), that have filed «friend of the court» briefs on behalf of transgender students.

McCabe's wife, a Democrat, had received several hundred thousand dollars in donations from a political action committee controlled by a close friend of Clinton for her unsuccessful Virginia state Senate bid in 2015.

So he put a message on the wall of Sarah Goodin, who is a college friend of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

«Before the housewares show — talk about people you know — a good friend of ours was at a shiva call and met this gentlemen,» Och said.