Sentences with phrase «acquaintance as»

Glad to make your virtual acquaintance as another Australian kindred soul.

Usually, I quietly spike those reviews, and send a note to my friend / acquaintance as to why he won't see a review out of me.

At this dive bar, you can drink a pint in peace and make a new acquaintance as the evening unfolds.

It's an affordable place — by New York standards — and a great place to clink glasses with a new acquaintance as the ragtime piano plays.

I am also sizing up various acquaintances as prospective subcontractors to take off some of the pressure if things get too hectic.

High - tech sticks could help visually impaired people spot obstacles and even identify acquaintances as they approach.

Use the last achievements of the technologic evolution and strike up new as many new acquaintances as you consider appropriate.

We aim to provide as much useful information on foreigners and international acquaintances as possible.

Acquaintances as a whole can engage a certain time.

It is a trend that I'm noticing in my circle of friends and acquaintances as well (with the caveat that my sample set is likely too small, unrepresentative or both).

The artists exaggerate the idea of «car culture» by cramming as many friends and acquaintances as possible into one car.

The 32 - minute piece channeled the sensation of arriving in mid-conversation around an office water cooler as co-workers exchange safe banalities and gossip about shared acquaintances as chit - chat lynch pin.

For several decades, Thomas Schütte (b. Oldenburg, Germany 1954) has produced watercolor sketches of friends and acquaintances as well as numerous self - portraits.

The Grand Fondo rides such as Banff, Whistler aren't cheap and are not fundraisers, but do attract business related acquaintances as well as anyone else willing to pay the fee.

Indeed in a small survey where I questioned acquaintances as to what they knew of the Jackson Reforms none had ever heard of them.

Not exact matches

Driven by his domineering fathers disapproval at his illegitimate existence and his desire for serious wealth, Seth suddenly finds himself seduced by the opportunity to interview as a trainee stock broker from recent acquaintance Greg.

It's the original Facebook: exchanging valuable information with other people face to face so that they think of you as an acquaintance instead of a fellow corporate cog.

For example, buying a million - dollar property you intend to flip without the proper research can make for a bad investment, but spending $ 82,000 in real estate education — as one acquaintance did — can also deplete the reserves you need to invest in the first place.

You can link your blog to your Facebook and LinkedIn pages as well, so your friends and acquaintances on those sites will know when you've posted a new blog entry.

Other studies have discovered that as people age, they seek out situations that will lift their moods — for instance, pruning social circles of friends or acquaintances who might bring them down.

Nancy Lanza was described by friends and acquaintances after the shooting as a gun enthusiast.

Each snippet is sent to his 5,644 (and counting) «followers,» as they're called in Twitter - speak: the friends, acquaintances, and stalkers who have elected to keep tabs on his every move.

Whereas some obvious indicators will land someone on the list, such as carrying out a violent attack at an airport, other innocuous actions such as being an acquaintance of a suspect on the watch list can also lead to being watch - listed.

Researchers from the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia found that those who talked to service providers — like a barista or a package deliverer — as if they were an acquaintance were left happier by those interactions.

When I stopped by the Horseshoe, he was buying drinks for everyone who showed up — friend, acquaintance or media — urging people to try out a bike or enjoy a complimentary taco and then settling in the back of the club when the music started: a couple of little - known local indie bands played, and Broken Social Scene member Brendan Canning — dressed as if he'd just arrived from Wimbledon's centre court — did a DJ set.

As you look through your email contacts, Facebook friends and LinkedIn communities for those who may help support your campaign, put them into separate lists of friends, family, acquaintances and business associates.

She planned to write a book, but her notes became instead a business plan for a beauty and cosmetics company that relied on women to sell merchandise to their friends and acquaintances through direct sales (otherwise known as multilevel marketing).

«Uber's lack of security regarding its customer data was resulting in Uber employees being able to track high profile politicians, celebrities, and even personal acquaintances of Uber employees, including ex - boyfriends / girlfriends, and ex-spouses,» Uber's former forensic investigator Ward Spangenberg was quoted as saying under penalty of perjury in filings from a lawsuit is pursuing against the company.

But what started as a few dinners with friends and new acquaintances turned into a regular series of events that became increasingly more structured.

But Vance describes his neighbors using those external forces as an excuse to give up — coworkers who were routinely late to jobs they desperately needed to support their families, and an acquaintance quitting his job because he didn't like getting up early and then taking to Facebook to bemoan the «Obama economy.»

Think I'll just share my stock portfolio though, as that's the real focus for me — and don't want to share everything with friends, co-workers and other acquaintances who might stumble across my site!

It is also something that Shelly feels compelled to do personally to build relationships further with family, friends and current acquaintances, as well as to gain new members of a Pure Barre family.

As soon as you mention the words «money» and «startup» in the same sentence, doors slam in your face and acquaintances dash across the street to avoid having to say hello to yoAs soon as you mention the words «money» and «startup» in the same sentence, doors slam in your face and acquaintances dash across the street to avoid having to say hello to yoas you mention the words «money» and «startup» in the same sentence, doors slam in your face and acquaintances dash across the street to avoid having to say hello to you.

If you have friends, family or acquaintances who have some kind of online business, such as a website of their own or a blog perhaps, make sure you ask them about posting an article about your endeavors.

Acquaintances I know are letting out their rental properties as airbnb instead now, you can make the same yield for a year in a few months, while avoiding the spotlight of opprobrium; plus ca change & all that.

This collection consists of over a hundred pieces by various artists, including Modern Masters such as Braque, Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, and Seurat, but also friends and acquaintances of Keynes such as Spencer Gore, Duncan Grant, and William Roberts.

David brought it home as to why genuine Christians have been despised, saying: «In you, O Jehovah, have I taken refuge... For you are my crag and my stronghold... From the standpoint of all those showing hostility to me I have become a reproach, and to my neighbors very much so, and a dread to my acquaintances.»

Relationships, even those that we as Americans might consider insignificant acquaintances, are paramount to efficiency.

Claiming it is «impossible» to get him to consider different points of view, exasperated acquaintances of local man Kyle Dunham told reporters Wednesday that the 34 - year - old is completely unwilling to listen to even a single argument as to why ho.mose.xuality is an abomination.

And then I went to a tiny Christian college and that's where I lost my faith, surrounded by Christians, with no influence of pop culture and not so much as one atheist in my circle of acquaintances.

My question comes from my intimate acquaintance with being abused by people who were as close to me as people can get.

- Numerous well - meaning white Christian friends and acquaintances attempting to provide wise counsel as I thought about marriage.

They may not have much human understanding of marriage as each may have grown up with parents who have divorced or never married, and many of their friends and acquaintances will have that experience too.

Several male pastoral counselors of my acquaintance feel that they are viewed as lower on the totem pole than other mental health professionals with equal qualifications.

She also relates practical and theological insights from acquaintances and scholars who have likewise tried to receive each day as the gift of God.

As a three year old of my acquaintance once said about an older child who was throwing a temper tantrum at a grocery store: «Baby.

In each, he cultivated minds and local grandees with perhaps a delicate touch of insouciant espionage thrown in, as in his probable role when press attaché in Sofia of trying to persuade King Boris of Bulgaria, an acquaintance from a decade earlier, to side with the Allies early in the Second World War.

Rorty's liberal ironist sees persons and cultures as «incarnated vocabularies» and tries to resolve her doubts about her own character or her own culture by enlarging her acquaintance of other people and cultures.

(As acquaintances did to their own children.)

Whatever one's work or calling, occasions arise for professing one's allegiance to Christ and for inviting friends and associates, as well as casual acquaintances, to share one's faith.