Sentences with phrase «asking for favors from»

I'd rather have authors trading blurbs than just asking for favors from everybody else.

«I always knew that one day I would ask for a favor from my friends, who are all extremely well connected and really too cool for school,» Ms. Pak said.

Not exact matches

The first instance was when he called up a supplier to ask for a favor — not realizing how much time had gone by from the last time he had touched base.

According to Politico, Trump «asked for a show of hands from Republicans on whom they favored as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve» during a Senate lunch earlier this week.

Five - minute favors are selfless giving acts you do for someone without asking for anything in return from the person whom you help.

Five - minute favors are giving acts, without asking for anything in return from the person whom you're offering help.

Changing your greeting from «regards» to «thanks» can result in one 10 percent more responding to your emails — whether you're cold emailing, asking for a favor, or trying to connect — which means it's definitely worth it.

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Ask for too many concessions from the seller, like a contribution toward your closing costs, and they might skip your offer in favor of the next one.

He has the mother kneeling at his feet, begging favors, like a poor widow asking for patronage from a ward boss.

Think you are wisely right to have your concerns but let me Guide you to ask which branches of Islam handles each mosque you know of and find out more about their mentality and they call for since not all branches of Islam are of danger, but you mentioned some thing which make me feel that there is a possibility that you got the most redial branch of all Islam branches... This branch is taking advantage of the presence of non harming Muslims to expand it's redical teachings by offerings or force turning Islamic communities from normal to most redical of all... do not favor to give the name of that branch but sure you will find it if you look for it...

So you believe the creator of life, the universe, and everything placed more importance on Joel Osteen asking him for a favor in healing your mother than keeping 29,000 children from dying?

Ask for advice and help from mothers who have breastfed their babies, a lactation consultant oral pediatrician who favors breast milk in case your nipples get sore, get engorged or in case the breast milk supply isn't how you want it to be.

Facebookers who had identified themselves as Tea Party supporters or Christian rock fans, or who had posted messages in favor of tax cuts or against abortion, found an ad from Bachmann waiting for them on their profile page in the weeks before the vote, asking for their support and directing them to a link where they could arrange a free ride to the polling place.

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.»

In other evidence Boyland was shown asking for money in exchange for political favors, including a request for $ 250,000 to pay for his legal fees resulting from the first court case in which he was found not guilty.

Days after instructing his lawyer to contact US Attorney Preet Bharara to offer «help» with the investigation into donors who allegedly bartered gifts for NYPD favors, de Blasio claimed on «Ask the Mayor» that he still hasn't heard from the feds.

And so, according to the reports, Cruise asked Wenner for a favor: could he be released from his promise, so he could be on the cover of Time?

Worrying that she and her two young children will make for easy targets, Dwight then looks up an old friend from high school, Ben Gaffney (Devin Ratray), and asks him for a favor: the weaponry and firepower needed to end this deadly war between these two mid-Atlantic families.

That's a weak argument, which is why I always tell my book marketing clients not to negotiate from a position of weakness: never start a relationship asking for favors.

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) has written to HUD pleading for a break, claiming that new HUD foreclosure policies are punitive and arbitrary — fancy language from a special - interest group asking for a special favor.

Ask for too many concessions from the seller, like a contribution toward your closing costs, and they might skip your offer in favor of the next one.

Role Played Games are notorious for this, having you try to pass through a town and learn that the mayor of the town has a favor to ask you that requires you only to go grab something from the next town over.

To repeat my example from the previous article: if asked to explain why you favor Red Dead Redemption for the Best Action Game of the 2010, you may think about what should be included in the checklist for evaluating an action game, come up with «the weapons,» and then feel compelled to award or take away credit for how the game's weapons feel and work.

For individuals, the trick is to be your own devil's advocate: to think through how your favored conclusions might be misguided; to ask yourself how you might be wrong, or how things might turn out differently from what you expect.

Remember that informational interviews that result from a cold call are often genuinely exploratory; your interviewee is not doing a favor for a friend, and you are not asking for a job.

The association, through its political action committee «Quality of Life Matters,» with financial support from a National Association of REALTORS ® independent expenditure grant, campaigned in favor of asking voters to approve up to $ 212.1 million in bonds that would pay for 39 public projects and result in a slight property tax increase.

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.

Just four months ago the enigmatic Australian singer and pop ditty writer and her documentary filmmaker husband, Erik Anders Lang, shelled out $ 4.7 million — $ 400,000 more than the $ 4.299 million asking price — for an arrestingly offbeat house in the foothills above L.A.'s celeb - favored Los Feliz area that, we've now heard from several friendly peeps including the PR gal at Trulia, has returned to the open market with an asking price of $ 4.995 million.