Sentences with phrase «around some friends for»

I spent the afternoon chauffeuring around some friends for a birthday celebration, and one (possibly intoxicated) back - seat occupant in the Kia got a kick out of saying «Slingshot: Engaged!»

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Our friends at PROFIT have outlined a few mistakes to avoid in attracting top talent, including sitting around waiting for an opening:

The socks themselves are an easy way for people to connect around a cause, to provide someone suffering with a problem a voice or to show support for a friend or family member along their journey.

A few weeks ago, my friend and I embarked on a camping trip — the same one that could have been helped with the military's super underwear — and we wasted a good deal of time tooling around in Barrie, Ontario looking for the Mountain Equipment Co-op outdoors supply store.

In an annual survey of expats around the globe, some 9,000 workers in over 100 countries were asked to score 43 aspects of their lives abroad, from commuting and ease of setting up utilities to the cost of education and the ease of making friends — for both expats and their children.

He heard from friends around town about Seventh Generation, but for the most part, he didn't call in.

But the problem with these check ins is that even if his friends were around, they often wouldn't see his notification for hours or days later, and Pleeth wanted to find a way to «make serendipitous moments happen instantly.»

One joke idea that my friend and I used to throw around was to build tiny houses for tech workers in each parking space in order to solve the housing crisis in the Bay Area.

During my first week at CNBC, I met up with a friend for breakfast before work and we walked around the neighborhood.

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.

Our friends at Point2Homes helped us find properties in major cities across the world for around $ 1 million U.S..

Before heading out for my freshman year, I got a bunch of photos printed that I had taken of my friends from back home to tape up around my dorm room.

Make your followers feel appreciated; not only will they be more likely to stick around for the long haul, but they'll be more likely to tell their friends and family about you, which can have a massive impact on your total number of followers.

Other revelations fell like hammer blows: Redford using government planes for a vacation; to fly her daughter and her daughter's friends around; to go to a family funeral in Vancouver.

There's a couple reasons for this: after massive sleep deprivation and zero separation between work and personal life, taking a step back often reminds a founder of the things that they want in their personal life and gives motivation to the work life and while in a lull this can upset investors or look like avoidance, its in almost every case helped the company and lets be honest, if a company is going to die it isn't going to die in one week but be surprised at how much sleep a founder might need and you probably wouldn't want many friends around.

This worked well with people I knew already — friends were game for a 45 - minute walk - and - talk rather than spending $ 5 to sit around at a coffee shop.

Professional writers might not be able to get away with this one with all editors and for all audiences (and anyway, it's their job to find ways around the trouble), but for your average email or work memo, go ahead and write «Tell your friend they can call me,» when you don't know the gender of the friend.

Yeung and three friends were in the middle of a long line that snaked back from the store's entrance and around the corner for several long city blocks.

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.

A friend called the boy's parents around 8 p.m., saying Kyle, a member of the tennis team, never showed up for his match.

Starting a GoFundMe campaign makes it super easy for your friends and family members to rally around you during tough times.

campaign makes it super easy for your friends and family members to rally around you during tough times.

The best accidental side effect of running a website and writing articles for Seeking Alpha is that it occasionally allows me to stumble into friends I haven't to in a while — the kind of people that you enjoyed being around, but then life happens, and for whatever reasons, things happen and you fall out of touch.

The other friend has had one of his condo units empty for around 5 months.

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.

Children described their father as «mean,» «nasty,» or «bossy,» and didn't want to bring friends around, for fear of what he might say.

Started 50 years ago, the Robert Mondavi Winery in Napa Valley, California, was built around the founder's philosophy for vino: Good wine should be enjoyed with good food and good friends.

If you haven't worked as a handyman before, take the time to practice repairs around your own home, or help out friends and family to get some experience under your belt before you begin charging customers for your service.

President - elect Donald J. Trump kicked around ideas for his inauguration in his office at Trump Tower on Tuesday with two of his oldest friends, Mark Burnett and Thomas Barrack Jr..

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).

I cried when I looked around the room because here are all my friends singing these parts I had written for them.

As for your feminist friends, they can't be all that intelligent if they hang around you AND choose to worship an imaginary being.

And he's relying on friends from both camps in preparing for Sunday, when Gross will use the Super Bowl as a way to get churches around the country talking about pornography, a subject he calls «the elephant in the pew.»

As I mourn the loss of my friend, laid to rest in his hometown of Sogliano al Rubicone, Italy, I am thankful for his witness and example, and also have to pause and reflect on the moral leadership of the Holy See around the world, which Archbishop Sambi so deeply appreciated and valued.

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.»

For our friends, they gladly give up these material needs for 30 days during daylight hours as a way to worship and re-center themselves around the things they value moFor our friends, they gladly give up these material needs for 30 days during daylight hours as a way to worship and re-center themselves around the things they value mofor 30 days during daylight hours as a way to worship and re-center themselves around the things they value most.

My friends have had their homes broken into, been given death threats and one time when a friend happened to mention what country he came from the person he had been talking to for the last ten minutes just turned around and walked away, not saying anything.

«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.»

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 believe that its important to see inner wisdom and the council of friends and wise and knowledgeable people... but God, if he / she exists created us — right... oh yes w / brains... we should be honoring that by using them... I can imagine if God exists every day he is saying to himself / herself «why do people keep asking me for things I have not control over, or really could care less about (people are asking for a new shinny house to replace their perfectly fine house while millions are homeless around the world, hungry, sick, etc.)... why are they not using the gifts and skills they have».

How revolutionary, to give thanks for your best friends, with your best friends around a table containing real food.

NO ONE can tell you not to pray for a friend or hold her hand or put an arm around her.

A friend recently asked me for a reading list of roughly twenty - five volumes, and this immediately struck me as an ideal way to take one last stroll around the grounds before locking the gates on that particular estate of memory.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

We are not alone as many of our friends and churches around the world are also interceding fervently for us.

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 if your parents told you, from the day you were brought home from the hospital, that the Bible was the literal truth, and everyone — EVERYONE around you continually reinforced that belief — in school, at home, at your friends» houses, and you were in that 24/7/365 from the day you were born, you can start to see — and have sympathy — for these people when other people appear to be attacking their core conditional belief system.

I can picture Christmas supper and birthdays, friends around the real wood fireplace, new books written here, tinies on trampolines, a garden at long last for my patient husband, late nights and early mornings and creating comfort as ministry.