Sentences with phrase «as a stranger who»

It could be as simple as a stranger who smiled at you or the genuinely friendly clerk at a convenience store.

The feature will expand out the short's concept, adding in Reynor's big brother character, along with Dennis Quaid as the pair's father and Zoe Kravitz as a stranger who joins up with their cause.

Meanwhile, Fassbender gives Silas a jaded charm as the stranger who doesn't want anyone to know who he really is.

Most leads start out as strangers who transition into a warm lead and then evolve to someone that «knows» you as their sales person.

Not exact matches

«The gig economy is typified by irregularity, meaning there is no job security and instead of having a boss who trains you and helps you improve, your performance is rated on a scale of 1 - 5 stars by strangers who have no understanding of your growth as a professional,» explains Scot Wingo, founder and CEO of Spiffy, a modern on - demand company.

Uber's case is that the driver enters into a binding agreement with a person whose identity he does not know (and will never know) and who does not know and will never know his identity, to undertake a journey to a destination not told to him until the journey begins, by a route prescribed by a stranger to the contract [Uber] from which he is not free to depart (at least not without risk), for a fee which (a) is set by the stranger, and (b) is not known by the passenger (who only is told the total to be paid), (c) is calculated by the stranger (as a percentage of the total sum) and (d) is paid to the stranger.

As for Starbucks employees, these are people in low - wage jobs who don't need the extra hassle — or worse — that might come from being required to engage strangers on touchy topics.

Cars have long been sold as «a product that is closely associated with who you are,» says Arun Sundararajan, a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business, explaining that letting strangers in can uncomfortably infringe on that identity.

According to her brother, as Beth danced with friends, a stranger — who turned out to be Luke — came up to dance.

If your child is sick and you can't go in to work, calling your manager, who also happens to be your child's grandfather, isn't going to be nearly as difficult as it might be in an environment where strangers who don't have empathy for your situation are recording your attendance.

«Being stared at by a stranger who appears large or ominous can be seen as a threat and elicit a fear response... However, the gaze of a potential sexual partner causes arousal that can be interpreted positively — as a sexual invitation.»

The findings should also probably serve as a warning to the growing number of adults who behave like high school sophomores and attempt to measure their self worth in likes, followers, and the empty admiration of near strangers.

These up - and - comers can be as hilarious as they are brilliant (take UCLA's Danny Oppenheimer, who is currently winning a bet 5 - 2 on whether he can manage to sneak the strangest citations through peer - review each year, or New York University's Deepak Hegde, who claims he hurt himself milking a cow).

You can focus on loved ones, as well as total strangers who may be in your vicinity.

On Tuesday, some of the people who had been involved in newly reinvigorated anti-government protests in Kiev last weekend received a strange text message, according to Andrew Kramer of The New York Times: «Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.»

As Elliott ramped up its pressure on Arconic, friends and colleagues of Kleinfeld, along with board members of Arconic, reported more suspicious run - ins: Others who live near the CEO were followed to a local restaurant by strangers who then approached the couple; they claimed to be considering investing with Kleinfeld, but first had a few questions.

He's clearly confident, despite the hesitations and the endless «um «s and the strange cough - laugh he uses as a kind of diffident pause, but there's also something breathlessly unsophisticated about the way he speaks — in some ways he's more like a teenager who's been asked to stand up and speak at a family dinner than like a titan of industry.

It may seem strange to focus marketing efforts on people who have already received your product as a reward for funding you, however in most cases, this isn't the case for every campaign.

This sure might seem like a strange one to be on the list, but you should absolutely be meeting consistently with someone who knows you as «your entrepreneurial self.»

Gundlach, who is no stranger to AdvisorOne or its sister publication Investment Advisor magazine — where he was its cover boy in October — has enjoyed his title as the «it» manager of the mutual fund space since being named 2006 Fixed Income Manager of the Year by Morningstar.

Haven t heard about it much lately... maybe they re doing it and not talking about it (buying dollars)... just awfully strange that with our wages stagnating and unemployment at 14 % when you count people who drop out of the workforce and pparttimers who can t get fulltime work — that the dollar is surging as it is.

It doens» t sound strange to me at all, I too can think for myself... because I was a believer in God long before I read His book, the difference is I acknowledge that I am not in control of this life, I can choose to either be a slave to sin or a slave to God, either way I am a slave just as you are, but I choose to be a slave to my God who created me, who or what do you choose to be a slave to?

Even as a gay male, it was strange for me showering with my straight classmates or at the gym just as its strange for straight people in the same situation but I am a human being who is capable of respect for others privacy and personal boundaries.

She said: «My twenty - nine - year - old daughter's choice to die gently rather than suffer physical and mental degradation and intense pain does not deserve to be labelled as reprehensible by strangers a continent away who do not know her or the particulars of her situation.

It is a slight story, made perhaps somewhat more significant by the authors» revelation in the very last sentence that the strange ex-slave who was Matthias» servant came to be known by history as Sojourner Truth.

As a kid who went to church every day I can't tell you the number of times the daily readings said something really strange and perverse; why even keep it around?

Experiencing the kindness of strangers offered relief to Mormons who had been feeling «a little under siege,» said Bennett, who first got to know Romney through church in 1978 and worked with him for five years at Bain & Company, a global consulting firm that Romney eventually led as CEO.

This conclusion may seem strange to those who regard Schweitzer as one of the 20th century's greatest religious figures.

As I said many times to several MacGroupies after the Strange Fire conference, in which John MacArthur trashed anyone who's ever had a dream of Jesus without even examining it as Scripture commands us to do, «Did Satan stop traumatizing children past the Apostolic Age as well?&raquAs I said many times to several MacGroupies after the Strange Fire conference, in which John MacArthur trashed anyone who's ever had a dream of Jesus without even examining it as Scripture commands us to do, «Did Satan stop traumatizing children past the Apostolic Age as well?&raquas Scripture commands us to do, «Did Satan stop traumatizing children past the Apostolic Age as well?&raquas well?»

I know Christ followers who view the «say the sinner's prayer and get saved» version / understanding of the Gospel (and the mindset the usually goes with that set of beliefs) as a strange perversion of the Gospel.

He is not above taking a stealthy swipe at Ronald Reagan from time to time but he reserves his most scathing remarks for those who, as he puts it, «saw nothing strange about being against both abortion and contraception.»

Hospitality of Abraham: In Genesis 18, there is a myth about the hospitality of Abraham, (he welcomes two strangers, who turn out to be angels), as that was an important cultural value, in a society where a wandering desert dweller could get lost, and die.

Like the parallel story in Luke 5, the miraculous catch serves as an epiphany, shining a light on the stranger, showing him for who he really is.

In my own case (and in no way am I saying that this is true for Julie or any other person who has been hushed up, tangled up or fucked up by an abusive system or a specific person), as I spoke my truth out loud to trusted friends and even a few strangers and unwitting passersby and heard their responses, I realized that I had formerly seen only part of the truth.

It is passing strange that the same people who describe ours as a society driven by selfishness and greed are, at the same time, so insouciant about giving people permission to kill others whom they find burdensome.

Brown delighted this reviewer with his appreciation of the Psalter and would delight any right - minded Calvinist with his appreciation of Karl Barth's statement in Church Dogmatics IV, 2: as a poor man, writes Barth, Christ «shares as such the strange destiny which falls on God in His people and the world — to be the One who is ignored and forgotten and despised and discounted by men.

The stories themselves insist that Joseph was not the biological father of Jesus and there is the strange inclusion, in the genealogy of Matthew, of the four disreputable women: Tamar, who conceived twins of her father - in - law after seducing him (Gen 38); Ruth, the Moabite woman who claimed Boaz as her husband under dubious circ - umstances (Ruth 4); Rahab, the Jericho prost - itute who aided the Israelite spies when prospecting for the invasion across the Jordan (Josh 2); and Bathsheba, who was ra - ped by King David (2 Sam 11).

God said you could SELL your 7 - year - old daughter to strangers who could use her as they want and NEVER ONCE said it was wrong.

We are to act as if Christ is in other people, even the stranger whom we believe we have reason to fear, the prisoner whose acts we find reprehensible, the sick we'd rather condemn because we're convinced that their lifestyle contributed to their illness, the hungry who should have been able to fend for themselves.

This is tough pill to swallow because it implicates our very selves, when — as the response to Zerlina Maxwell shows — we would much rather believe that rape is perpetrated by strange monsters who lurk in dark alleys and who can be shot at point blank range because all they'll ever be is a monster.

Leonard presents personal sanctity as very much within reach — undeniably important for those who feel holiness is a strange and beautiful concept somehow reserved only for the great heroes in faith.

The Church is the community of truth and love, and it is the same as in any other loving community of finite human beings: we must always love and accept one another also as men who are strangers to each other and who do not quite understand one another.

As one who accepted the strange vocation of being an apocalyptic seer, Blake was not in quest of a hidden but ancient mythical form; instead, he was engaged in a desperate search for a new mythical «system» by which he might record the dawning of a final movement of redemption in the arena of our totally fallen history.

Those of us who have lived many years with a spouse are aware at certain moments — perhaps across the table or as our mate is sleeping — that, in a deep sense, we are living with a stranger whom we never will fully know!

As Ferdinand Tonnies» who may have originated the distinction» insisted, society (Gesellschaft) is alien and forbidding («one goes into society as one goes into a strange country»), while community (Gemeinschaft) is good («the expression «bad community» violates the meaning of the word»As Ferdinand Tonnies» who may have originated the distinction» insisted, society (Gesellschaft) is alien and forbidding («one goes into society as one goes into a strange country»), while community (Gemeinschaft) is good («the expression «bad community» violates the meaning of the word»as one goes into a strange country»), while community (Gemeinschaft) is good («the expression «bad community» violates the meaning of the word»).

9 By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.

In the search - committee setting, people often come together initially as strangers — people who do not know one another well enough to discuss complex and sensitive issues such as sexism.

The seasoned actor, who has earned his stripes with such roles as Johnny Cash in Walk The Line, is no stranger to playing biographical figures.

Strange, isn't it, that there is no record that Jesus ever modeled or advocated methods such as those, methods which in reality better serve the causes of those who use them, rather than the cause of Christ?

The truly guilty one was David's father, Jesse, who, as a result of having Moabite blood (from Ruth) and due to some strange twists of Jewish law, believed that his marriage to Nizbeth was illegitimate and stopped having sexual relations with her to keep her from sinning.