Sentences with phrase «at least some friends of»

In sharpest contrast to Mr. Wieseltier's divorce of truth and justice, at least some friends of freedom begin with the proposition, «We hold these truths to be self - evident...» Are we paying too much attention to Mr. Wieseltier?

Not exact matches

It's obviously geared towards having the chance of a romantic connection, but if it's not, then there's a great chance that it'll at least be a friend or someone that might be a good business connection or something, and so I think being geared towards just social discovery generally both makes it a more effective product and also there's still I feel like a little bit of a stigma associated with online dating, and this makes it just a much more accessible product.

One of my most prolific Facebook - posting friends has deactivated his account at least three times, always with an elaborate «Why I'm really leaving this time» farewell post, only to come slinking back.

When the Pew Research Center surveyed thousands of Americans about their social media lives, they discovered that 44 % of Facebook users «like» content posted by their friends at least once a day, with 29 % doing so several times per day.

Several high - profile entrepreneurs, such as Basecamp co-founder and CTO David Heinemeier Hansson, have publicly declared that they can get all the work required for their start - up to succeed done in a moderate 40 hours a week, leaving, presumably, enough time for exercise, family, friends, and fitness (or at least more than two of those).

So be warned, these are the nations at the bottom of the list of 66 countries, where you'll have the hardest time rounding up a local circle of friends (from most friendly to least).

Also, if you're able to find something through a friend of a friend, it takes away some of randomness, and you at least know you're not wasting your time with a scam.

According to a survey of alumni released by Bernstein in January, 54 % rated senior management as fair or poor, and 70 % said that at least 20 % of their friends were actively trying to leave P&G.

You need eight of those for sleeping, at least a few spent with friends and family, and a few spent on taking care of yourself.

The goal is to get potential customers to spend an extended period of time on the site — at least a few minutes — and to get them to tell their friends by electronically sharing the petition and the video.

But if you do plan to ask family and friends for advice, at the very least make sure they have all the relevant facts, said Ryan Wibberley, an advisor and founder of CIC Wealth Management.

Titov, who is reportedly a friend of Putin's as well as a «part of the Kremlin establishment,» seconded the president's fervor and opined that there exists «a need for change in [Russian] society» that may be addressed, at least in part, through the «development of the blockchain, cryptocurrencies, IT spheres.»

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

The SEC's complaint alleges that, from at least February 2015, Amrit J. S. Chahal, of Fairfax, Va., used his company, Kane Capital Investment Group, LLC, to fraudulently solicit approximately $ 1.4 million from about 50 individuals, including friends and family members.

Beyond Korean - speaking HWP users, targets of this campaign appear to be users of the Coinlink cryptocurrency exchange, South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges at large (or at least those that are hiring), and a group called «Friends of MOFA» (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), which is a group of college students from around South Korea with «a keen interest in foreign affairs.»

I began working with SEO in early 2002 when a few friends of mine were building real estate websites and were spending tons of money (it seemed at the time at least) on Overture.

You may be a friend or relative of at least one of the 15 victims.

Canada and Australia share much of the same heritage and history, and these days Prime Ministers Harper and Abbott seem to be each other's best friends, but their strategies in Asia couldn't be further apart, at least when it comes to concrete results.

Since just about everyone reading this post has at least thought about opening a restaurant at some time in their life I have created this hypothetical scenario: Two of your friends have asked you to invest in their restaurant.

«Insist on paying interest at a rate of at least what your family member / friend would earn if he put the money in a high - yield savings account,» Dearing suggests.

At least one place Lewis explains this problem was in the Screwtape letters, where a demon exclaims, «How much better for us if all humans died in costly nursing homes amid doctors who lie, nurses who lie, friends who lie, as we have trained them, promising life to the dying, encouraging the belief that sickness excuses every indulgence, and even, if our workers know their job, withholding all suggestion of a priest lest it should betray to the sick man his true condition!»

What makes the message of Mystic River doubly powerful is that the audience knows Dave is innocent (of this particular crime at least) and can only watch as his former friend first stabs him and then shoots him at point blank range.

And while it probably never works to overconfidently inform atheist friends that the serenity they feel in nature or the rapture they experience listening to music is the specific product of a specific God, we can at least embrace such experiences as points of connection.

Most of my friends admit they do not believe in god, at least not the christian version, but will not say anything to their families because of the repercussions.

The challenge is urgent because more than 31,000 people in the United States have already been diagnosed with this fatal disease — half of whom have already died, leaving families, friends and loved ones who need care — and because at least 1.5 million Americans are thought to be carrying the rapidly spreading virus.

A friend of mine who teaches on the collegiate level recently told me, «I don't meet any young adults who've grown up in the church lacking at least one story of spiritual abuse.»

At least President Obama is spending money to rescue our economy, not to pad the pockets of his wealthy friends.

last month our pastor apologized to the congregation at least 5 times for going to a certain restaurant (with a bar) to listen to a friend of his play in a band.

And don't forget, having imaginary friends and imaginary enemies and getting riled up on the BB about them is really at least a couple of silly pastimes.

Our consciousness at least lives on in the memories of our friends and loved ones and in whatever impact we have made on society...

I have a theory though that at least half of the people sitting in a church service don't actually believe; they go because their family, friends, neighbors, customers, etc expect them to go.

It's great that your friend got a job, but at least how you presented it, it doesn't sound like god gave him a job or even moved his resume to the top of the pile, but rather after applying for many many jobs, especially being out of a job for years that's a lot of job applications, one would happen to strike gold, hardly seems to me that god or specifically your prayers had anything to do with his success.

Having sex with someone you have never been on a date with won't resolve the sadness of not having a friends or company and, at least according to this data, appears to make the loneliness worse.

He dined with persons of respectable standing in local society, and he had at least one friend who moved in the highest ecclesiastical circles (he was an acquaintance of the High Priest» 12).

======= @Chuckles «I do like also that you at least accepted the fact that these empires had the same idea as the ones you gave which means check and mate my friend and finally getting you to admit that tyrants trying to abolish the religion of the indigenous are not just atheists.

I do like also that you at least accepted the fact that these empires had the same idea as the ones you gave which means check and mate my friend and finally getting you to admit that tyrants trying to abolish the religion of the indigenous are not just atheists.

I'm guessing at least 15 of your friends have posted Jefferson Bethke's «Why I Hate Religion But Love Jesus,» and maybe yet another 15 of your friends posted response pieces.

But I had thought that having been in the role and having been in fairly intimate contact with (close friends) and counselled a fair number of pastors across many denominations I may have had at least one clue, if not a few more clues than that, about the varied position of pastor.

If I want to argue with my Gelukpa Buddhist friends, it is of no use to quote the Bible to them as an authoritative text, and hope to get anywhere thereby — not, at least, unless I'm prepared to offer a prior and independent argument as to why the Bible should be regarded as an authoritative text.

Then, if the retreat is included with the class, and if the leaders continue to offer the Alpha course for at least six months, Alpha «insiders» will begin to invite friends outside of the church.

Most of us remember having had more friends as children than we have as adults — or at least we were conscious of such bonds» meaning more to us then.

Most of my churched friends agree that we need to at least love our gay neighbour!

But there are teachers who aren't afraid to say «I love you» to their students and friends who say «good job» when you mess up on your part and parents who love the best they can and principals who sing solos and somewhere there is a new crop of parents with bewildered babies in the public pool, bouncing up and down in the water, and in that moment at least every one is singing.

As a gay Christian who has followed and been friends with Wendy (at least in the land of facebook) for a while, I feel the need to come to her defence.

Colin, as you consider what it is about your friend that's making you want to end the relationship, I believe it is wise to engage in at least a moderate dose of self - exploration.

I came to think of my surgeon, Mr. Barry Mc Guire, a man of half my years, not as some technician of the human mechanism but as a recently made friend with whom, in a short time, I developed a bond of trust that is at least as strong as any other forged in my lifetime.

And if he has perceived this and assured himself that he has not courage to understand it, he will at least have a presentiment of the marvelous glory this knight attains in the fact that he becomes God's intimate acquaintance, the Lord's friend, and (to speak quite humanly) that he says «Thou» to God in heaven, whereas even the tragic hero only addresses Him in the third person.

Multiculturalism gets attacked a lot from the right in the US and I'm afraid that that can inspire a sort of lazy minded «the enemy of my enemy is my friend» response in some consider themselves left or at least anti-right.

Every year, one of the girls I met that first time - who is now one of my closest friends - begins the countdown at least a month before.

It is arguable that at least knowledge of our friends, and even of our enemies, is of this nature.