Sentences with phrase «by a family friend as»

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Or are they beliefs programmed into you by external sources such as the media, family, peers or friends?

MCI's telemarketers could now begin sales calls by saying «I'm calling on behalf of your friends and family», giving them three times the close rate as cold calls.

Chinese buyers also differ from U.S. consumers by relying more heavily on word of mouth to make purchases, as well as social media and referrals from friends and family.

I am proud to be part of this amazing organization and am always humbled and moved by the wonderful care my family, friends, and I receive when we come to NYPH as patients.»

«In soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters)- Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai visited her hometown in Pakistan's Swat Valley on Saturday for the first time since she was shot by a Taliban gunman as a teenager, two security officials and a family friend said.

If the answer is the founder, their friends and family, then chances are the business will be among the glut of failed startups, which the 2015 Startup Genome Report co-authored by Berkeley and Stanford faculty members estimates is as high as 90 %.

He and his family keep expenses relatively low by finding happiness in things that don't cost as much money, like hanging out with friends over home - cooked meals.

«After Jordan's two brothers, Vidal and Kevon, along with their two friends, were forced to experience this tragedy up close as occupants of the car, they were immediately treated as common criminals by other officers; manhandled, intimidated and arrested, while their brother lay dying in the front seat,» a statement released by the Edwards family said.

Soldiers from the 44th Medical Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps, are greeted by family and friends as they return from a year - long deployment in Afghanistan to Fort Bragg, N.C., March 1, 2012.

This figure includes spending on goods and services as people travel by automobile, jet or some other means to visit friends and family.

Formerly known as Circle Lending, and acquired by British entrepreneur Richard Branson last year, Virgin specializes in managing «friends and family» loans to entrepreneurs.

Finally, their childhoods were colored by watching friends, and likely family as well, suffer the effects of the Great Recession.

-LCB- Guest Post written by Taseea Lainas - Cruz -RCB- Have you ever created something for your friends or family and thought to yourself «Maybe others would enjoy this as well,» or, «Maybe I can turn my passion into starting a home - based business»?

A new study by Millennial Branding, of 4 million Gen - Y Facebook profiles from Identified.com «s database of 50 million, uncovers that Gen - Y (ages 18 to 29) is inadvertently using their profiles as an extension of their professional personality, even though they are socializing with family and friends.

Shi described to me how personal banking and credit information «is being used as part of the anti-corruption campaign to identify the networks of corrupt officials», who in China often hide their graft — whether it's property or cash — by putting it in the names of friends or family.

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Depending on the type of mortgage you use, the down payment funds could be provided by a third party such as a family member, a close friend, an employer, etc..

This is testament to how the Chinese outbound investment is an ever - fluid market that changes at a rapid pace, as mainland Chinese have increasingly become sophisticated international property buyers who tend to research thoroughly — either by asking for information online and via social media or by asking friends and families for recommendations — before narrowing down their options to decide on their final international property investment destination.

This June, just as the election season was gearing up, Facebook tweaked its algorithm to play down posts from news outlets and to increase updates shared by friends and family.

As the case study from Vancouver tells us, fixing a valuation is not the best approach and addressing it by giving family and friends a very low valuation may not be wise either.

As these are terms sheets for Angel investors and seed funds, it is important to note that very often outside investment is preceded by money from friends and family.

«Our hearts and thoughts continue to go out to the family and friends of those lost or injured, first responder teams and the community as a whole who were impacted by this horrific tragedy,» said Stephen P. Weisz, president and chief executive officer of Marriott Vacations Worldwide.

This figure included spending on goods and services as people traveled by automobile, jet or some other means to visit friends and family.

«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.»

I think that knowing what we do about what often happens to the brain as the person begins the final failures common in the dying process, it is likely that Darwin could have been coaxed into denying, by friends, and family, or even just frightened himself.

But now those are already there at yours maybe if you prepare them right as to education and training for finally deputing them to return to their own countries with the needful backup and authority they will be useful tools for the advancement and prosperity of their nations then you will have no one wanting to immigrate leaving behind their own families and friends... in addition to that you will see those who immigrated towards your country start moving back to their own countries and this is the only solution to resolve the issue of illegal immigration and to find peace... otherwise if things go on as it is today surely slowly slowly you will find that your own countries become inherited by piling up immigrants who might get starved due negligence turn on against the Host country... that has contributed in the destructions of their countries but not towards and advancements or developments of their countries and nations to find peace and make a living..!?

We can do this by reaching out to our community and helping those in need as well as focusing on family and friends.»

Encouraged by his family and by such friends as John Updike, Cheever had made a heroic recovery from two heart attacks, severe alcoholism, and drug dependency.

Its boasted self - reliance virtually always capitulates at the point of accepting human support from family, friends, or physicians, though it usually fails to recognize that its self - sufficient logic is as much violated by human as it would be by divine assistance.

Certainly, Pope Leo XIII's great encyclical, Rerum novarum, was pretty clear, at one point arguing that the government should come to the aid of families only as a last resort: «True, if a family finds itself in exceeding distress, utterly deprived of the counsel of friends, and without any prospect of extricating itself, it is right that extreme necessity be met by public aid...».

Even as I was being chosen by my peers and coaches and teachers to be the captain of sports teams and academic clubs, even as I was embraced as a best friend and confidant, a very clear «Whites Only» sign still hung boldly over the «family room» in the white American house.

On June 4, 2016, my husband and I were surrounded by our closest friends and family as we tied the knot.

Various smaller groups such as families and friends may be held to provide the environment for these special nonsocial nexus, by praying, remembering, and creating an especially intense group unity among themselves.

And on a question directly related to Berger's idea that discrete spheres of relevance in everyday reality need to be integrated by some broader framework, respondents were asked, following a set of items dealing with family, friends, work, and the like as sources of meaning, if they «try to keep all these areas separate or tie them all together?»

Heading the list was «family» (93 percent listed it as «very important»), followed by «close friends» (63 percent), «financial well - being» (57 percent), and «work» (54 percent).9

The motive was the public rendering of thanksgiving / praise to God by the person commissioning the ritual in the presence of relatives and friends for God's signal intervention in saving the man (and his family, if the occasion called forit) from death in war or in some similar grave danger such as famine.

No one, as far as my family and close friends go, are motivated by fear.

By serving as a politically resonant allegory about the ways differing beliefs can divide friends and family, it also became one of Marvel's first, bonafide tragedies — a story of what happens when good people get their priorities confused.

To what extent these needs are met by the community as a whole or primarily by family, friends, and neighbors is a matter to be worked out in a participatory way by the community.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

Great fellowship whilst holidaying with a group of like - minded people: I've been on Christian holidays alone, with my family and as part of a group of friends and have always felt so welcomed into the friendly environment created by the Christian staff team.

Whether we do it as part of a church ritual or not is another question — my wife and I and two of our children were all baptised as adults at separate times in the sea by friends and family, and one child only in a church ritual.

Up to a third had also experienced putdowns from their partner, such as being told that they were too fat, too thin, ugly or stupid, or being isolated from friends, family or work colleagues by their partner.

I believe in a God who doesn't want to be feared, but love, who doesn't want to stand over us, but by us and be our friend, loved as a family member.

If you can imagine God by your side all day every day, then you can also begin to hold conversations with Him in your head as you go about your day, just as you do with any other friend or family member.

As an openly non-religious person, I have to wonder how many «religious but not too religious» people are actually non-religious people afraid to say so for fear of being ostracized by family and friends.

So on this happy day, as the students of the class of 2014 celebrate a milestone achievement with their families, their friends, and their teachers, I come to congratulate you, to wish you well, and to address each of you as a person who has received the good turn of a fine education, and who should feel a responsibility to repay the debt of that education by living well as a person, mindful of the personhood, the individuality, and the good of others around you, in the various communities through which your life will take you.

And even for me as an individual, is it not important to note that this is by no means the first time I've been a church - goer, that I had been recently finding a kind of joy (one might call it an experience of the sacred) reading T. S. Eliot, that my commitment to the new church is by no means total (in the sense of excluding work or family or friends), and that if statistical predictions work in my case I will probably have moved on to some other kind of commitment in five or ten years.

They answered by citing most often 12 relationships established by «blood, marriage, or adoption»; a reader must wade that far before coming to one founded on another basis: «friends,» chosen as «close family» by only one of every 10 respondents.