Most of us have been in situations where someone
asked for a favor long before they built the social capital to make that kind of request, if they built any capital at all.
Not exact matches
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favor to
ask [Vanity Fair] Jim Chanos says Valeant was biggest loser ever
for hedge funds [CNBC] Credit Suisse said raising $ 2 billion
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When a reporter
asked about a
long - promised list of donors to the Campaign
for One New York who did not receive
favors from City Hall, de Blasio told him to «
ask a real question.»
Seeing the reaction to this character — someone who's doing stuff that you haven't seen a woman do
for a
long time, if at all, who's not trying to placate an audience or
ask any
favors — that's exciting to write as a dramatist.»
Everything changes on the day that Josef confesses a
long - buried and shameful secret - one that nobody else in town would ever suspect - and
asks Sage
for an extraordinary
favor.
What you need to do is put out so much value into the world and do so many free
favors for so many people, that when you publish your book you're not «
asking for» a
favor, you're just «calling in» all the
favors people feel they owe you because you've showered them with positive, life - improving benefits
for so
long.
Another example is a motion
for summary judgment, which
asks the court to rule in the requester's
favor because essential facts are no
longer in dispute (perhaps because of what has been learned in discovery), making a jury's decision unnecessary on some — or all — points.
Six months later they owe me part of a months rent from 5 months ago still, (
long story, fight between them not me) and the woman mid 30's constantly
asks for favors, can I borrow a few bucks, borrow your car, bum a smoke off you.