Sentences with phrase «around friends who»

Spending years babysitting or being around friends who had already started having children only confirmed me in confidence.

Then they did an episode where MacGyver's case was around a friend who was trying to drill an oil well and was being harassed by someone or another.

Not exact matches

The key is to have three or four really, really good friends, and then, of course, plenty of people who aren't necessarily friends but are fun to be around, or result in a mutually beneficial relationship, or share common interests.

Somewhere around grade 7 or 8 I met a friend who taught me how to make programs, how to code.

You may tend to eat similar amounts as those around you, so dining out with friends who overeat may cause you to overeat as well (8).

NPS is «perhaps the best - known customer - loyalty tool around today, based on the entirely sound principle that the more customer promotersyou have (i.e., customers who say on surveys that they're highly likely to refer you to a colleague or friend), the more likely you'll be to grow your business and outpace the competition,» writes customer - engagement expert Bill Lee for the HBR Blog Network.

«And when I look at my friends who are running other good companies, the single biggest difference that I see in whether the companies end up becoming really great and reaching their potential or just pretty good is whether they're comfortable and really self - confident enough to have people who are stronger than them around them,» Zuckerberg said.

However, employees who are at the same level working together on projects or simply around each other daily often become friends and build relationships.

Poke around on LinkedIn and Facebook — or ask friends and acquaintances if they know someone who'd be a good fit.

A friend who has been around tech almost as long as I have wrote the other afternoon with a question.

Stick around instead for a hilarious and moving scene where the Monster becomes friends with a blind hermit who teaches him how to smoke and drink.

«Practice condensing it more and more and stripping away more and more so that the person receiving the information is going to have a full - picture — not feature-wise, because features are a separate thing — but so that when you're finishing explaining your product to somebody else who's brand new to it, they can turn around and explain it to their friend without much problem.»

Only 270,000 some people who downloaded the app and participated in the survey, but at the time, Facebook allowed third parties to collect information around friends of friends.

It's the realization that you've handed over an accumulation of years and years of data — data you gave Facebook back when it first introduced that big blue login button on sites around the web, data you gave to app developers who turned around and scooped up your friends» data, too.

It was installed by around 300,000 people who shared their data as well as some of their friends» data.

Like one of our friends, a builder, who has long been driving around in his van on the side of which was written: «Erection guaranteed», the industrious businessmen from the -LSB-...]

His view is that if he gives the entrepreneurs more time to get around to meet all the angel stars in Silicon Valley (Ron Conway, Mike Maples, Jeff Clavier or any of the other host of angel investors who have sterling reputations and once under their spell it may be harder for my friend to close the deal.

Game developer Tyler Hurd, who created a reactive VR music video experience around Future Islands» synthpop ditty «Old Friend» for the HTC Vive, is one of a new wave of digital artists who are being tapped to expand the content side of the VR market.

Every year on September 11th, in conjunction with the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, we remember our 658 friends and colleagues and the 61 Eurobrokers employees who were tragically killed by distributing 100 % of our global revenues to the Relief Fund and many other charities around the world.

Every year, BGC Partners and Cantor Fitzgerald, in conjunction with the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, commemorate our 658 friends and colleagues and the 61 Eurobrokers employees who perished on September 11, 2001 by distributing 100 % of our global revenues on Charity Day to the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund and dozens of charities around the world.

The fact that most of us still feel the need to hide our identlties and not bring it up when we are around friends and workmates who may be believers is evidence of the persecution we still endure.

I have been encouraging friends to attend — I've never been in a church that felt healthier for me or the people around me (okay — my kids are resistant, when we don't go regularly, but it seems very healthy for all the people I know and love who attend).

(With many thanks to my group of friends who've been sending around their own «alternative blasphemy» suggestions.

I look around me now and I have friends who serve the Lord who have cancer, ex-spouses, messed up children, debt, poverty, depression, hardships of all kinds, pain of all sorts.

Friend of Brian's I'm sorry to burst your bubble here, but every major heresy that has inflicted God's people for the last 2,000 years has come from organized groups with «leaders» who thought they knew God's mind better than anyone around them.

«So this Easter, as we pray for the friends and families of all those who've lost loved ones in Brussels, let us also draw hope and inspiration from the values we share and all those who, inspired by those values, seek to help others in our country and around the world.»

«I don't know if the reason for my anger is just my old fashioned Irish - American patriotism,» wrote the friend who sent us the link, «or the fact that I just spent a week with my father tripping and limping around with a bad leg he gave in the service of this nation, or because my mother is an immigrant and both my paternal grandparents were too, and as much as all of them loved Ireland they knew how much they owed this country and considered the precious value of their American citizenship only slightly behind that of their baptismal certificates.»

And then you realize that your getting angry over the people who didn't return your phone calls or friend you on Facebook or tweet back out you is just silly because the world doesn't revolve around you.

For as I noted in a toast at the anniversary dinner the Maleckis» sons had arranged, the network of now - not - so - young friends that had gathered around Karol Wojtyla — men and women who resolutely refuse to think of themselves as something special — had in fact helped bend the history of the Church, and the world, in a more humane direction.

I've received answers to my prayers, including gaining a couple true friends who I've been able to help and be myself around with whom I'll keep in touch.

I value my loved ones, my close friends, my child, the effect that I have on the lives of those around me, and the potential effect I can have on teh lives of those who come after me.

Pete is a close friend of the leader who went around Transform saying I was bipolar, among other things.

Around Agatha's moral axis revolve, frequently in erratic orbit, the members of Staggerford's closely knit Catholic community: French Lopat, the Vietnam vet who scratches out a living as a fake Indian for the tourist trade; Lillian, Agatha's best friend, who gets her news from supermarket tabloids; Imogene, Lillian's daughter, a liar and backstabber; Sister Judith, a New Age nun who imagines the Creation as God laying a giant egg.

But the studies reveal that very few of these remain devoted followers of Jesus Christ, and of those few, the same studies show that the reason they remained followers is not because of the crusade, but because of the Christian friends and family around them who were there to walk with them in following Jesus.

These are the types of friends who have stuck around in my life from childhood to middle school, high school and today.

I have two atheist friends who travel around the world as volunteers helping and building poor communities.

Deborah went to the Latymer Christian Centre and described how she is helping people find loved ones: «A few of my friends are going around different hospitals, that live in neighbouring areas, and taking a list of names of people who've been brought to A&E.

The entire conversation around ESCR is ineluctably complicated by our love for friends and family with chronic illnesses and by our love for family and friends who have been blessed through the process of IVF.

For those who didn't see the first time around, my Rock Songbook began with four epic posts on what may be the greatest 60s album, Odessey and Oracle, especially concentrating on the hit «Time of the Season,» but also taking in the glorious «Changes,» the ambivalent «Friends of Mine,» and then settin» down for some Platonic analysis of why it's hard to convey wisdom in rock - song, even for a group as great as the Zombies.

What the book tells us is that every single time a person has a major change in attitude around this issue, it involves getting to know a person who is lesbian and gay, finding out that it is a child, is a friend, is a brother, a sister, you name it.

From that starting point, any Facebook user who agrees to the terms of the application can invite friends to immerse themselves in a social game revolving around the life and journey of the religious figure.

We are not the people who watch all of our friends around us get pregnant and have babies while we have no idea when it will happen for us.»

Having many friends who are LDS (mormon) and having grown up around people in that church for the last 40 years (I live in Utah), I call your bluff on everything you just said about them.

I actually have an ultra-religious gay friend who married his male partner and you should hear how they skirt around the words of the bible to justify themselves in the eyes of a god they are still enslaved to.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

The second thing is «embrace your Christian Identity» — as radical as that might sound — I hear that a lot around the world from my friends who are Muslim.

Friends my own age who used to joke about my dedication to diet and exercise have been creaking and puffing around for some years now.

I think if people looked around, they would have seen that a lot of ethnic minorities who were believers were struggling, and if you didn't have friends in those worlds, you wouldn't realize it was an epidemic.

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.

The ironic one that I still have a hard time wrapping my head around are all the people who (myself included — and even his close friend, the assistant pastor / jail chaplain) were forced out of a certain church when the pastor started attending seminary.