Sentences with phrase «by a family friend of»

The drawings are by a family friend of the home owner.

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Facebook wants more personal posts about friends and family, and therefore it is going to de-emphasize other types of posts — and by that, it mostly means the vast majority of what news organizations produce (including what Facebook pays them to produce).

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

Adds Kusmich: «I realized the success of my life and business was not determined by what I accomplished but rather by my ability to be fully present — to my family, my friends, my clients.»

Occasionally, the balance can be thrown off by the spouses of those family or friends working together.

But a poll conducted by Abacus Data on behalf of Maclean's for the Canada Project shows the country's citizens are getting more and more comfortable carrying large amounts of debt — with more of that money coming from family and friends.

Also, the NYT reports that the U.S. Department of Justice is looking into properties held in the U.S. by Najib's stepson and other family friends.

Written by Peter Schweizer, a regular Fox News guest and author of controversial bestseller Clinton Cash, the book will reportedly «expose vast corruption by top Washington figures who leverage their political power to enrich their family members and friends, often by helping grease deals with foreign entities,» according to Axios.

Of course, most blogs never get found or read by more than the writer's friends or family.

Holiday season is upon us, which means you will probably be surrounded by family and friends, eating tons of amazing food, and, hopefully, taking some time to reflect on what you are most thankful for.

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.

It's a great example of a truly viral product, one that spreads by providing a valuable service not only to the initial user but also to their friends, family and colleagues.

The author David Betts, a principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP, concluded saying, «Improving the patient experience can help a hospital improve its financial performance by strengthening customer loyalty, building reputation and brand and boosting utilization of hospital services through increased referrals to family and friends.»

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.

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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.»

And yes, there is a fantastic well - oiled network of smart VCs and investors here, but the vast majority of start - ups (even in Silicon Valley) are still funded by second mortgages and family friends.

I've seen in in the home raids and the deportations of innocent family friends and I've seen it in hate crimes, and I've seen it in laws passed by Obama that strip a certain type of people, people that look like me, of our rights in the interest of «national security.»

«Beginning in November 2014 and continuing until his arrest in March 2016, CASPERSEN engaged in a Ponzi - like scheme to defraud investors, including his close friends, family members, and college classmates, by falsely claiming that their funds would be used to make secured loans to private equity firms and would thereby earn an annual rate of return of 15 to 20 percent.

Credit cards, personal loans and borrowing from family or friends were among the most popular alternatives, according to a first - quarter survey by Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business and Management and Dun & Bradstreet.

I constantly get made fun of by my friends and family for wearing the same thing, but it works.

«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.

If you're not sure what your leadership gift is, begin by asking colleagues, friends and family members for their opinions of what you do best.

My family and close friends would certainly make up a large piece of it, but I hope it would also include my mentors and mentees, team colleagues, fellow board members and even strangers who were touched by my articles or speeches, shared a cross-country plane ride conversation with me or somehow crossed paths with me along the way.

Start making gradual changes by reaching out to friends and family and make a list of activities you'd like to schedule.

But not only is it important — making time for regular trips with friends and family increases one's feeling of well - being, finds a new survey by Gallup — but it's difficult.

Gomez assured followers that she'd share the full story of her journey soon, and wanted to use the post to thank the family and friends who were by her side.

The ravages of older age take more of a toll on us all each year, with previously good friends now finding all of their time taken up by kids and family, a never - ending crush of career - related busy - ness, or just plain, simple laziness.

VCs and angel investors get a lot of attention, but personal loans and credit, followed by investments from friends and family, are the top funding sources for startups.

Over time others were drawn to the area by the presence of family or friends or simply by people who shared a common language and culture.

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 %.

With no background in business, technology or manufacturing, and no seed money for expansion, Temple was struggling to keep up with demand by relying on the help of friends and family.

Herrera says her ethically minded stance was influenced by her father, who had family and friends in the manufacturing industry and taught her the importance of supporting low - pollution factories that were considerate of their surrounding communities.

Altogether, researchers got a sample of 17,622 participants judged by one friend or family member, and a sample of 14,140 judged by two.

Before going into the diverse funding alternatives available, we want to remind you to be careful with the way in which you choose to finance your company, to get comfortable with the fact that its valuation will be determined by others, and to reconcile with the idea of going to your friends and family for the first round of capital.

All you have to do is swing by a local park and you'll see families, groups of friends, and solo players all searching together and having a laugh with complete strangers.

«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.

The most unnerving incident was when one of Kleinfeld's daughters, a student at Harvard Business School, was approached on campus by someone who asked to «friend» her on Facebook; the person also spoke to her friends, fishing for information about her family.

Yet compared to the thousands of parents, siblings, and spouses who have lost family members or friends, we were fortunate in that our son managed to cheat death twice by being resuscitated from overdose.

In late December of 2001, ImClone founder and CEO Sam Waksal tipped off family and friends that his company's new cancer drug, Erbitux, was about to be rejected by the FDA.

While most startups will be self - funded by its founders or the founder's immediate family and friends, some seek and accept third party «seed funding,» an investment at the very early stages of a company.

This summer, the Justice Department took the first public steps toward seizing $ 1 billion in assets that it says were moved to the United States after being taken from 1MDB by family and friends of Mr. Najib, the prime minister.

American officials are trying to recoup more than $ 1 billion that they say was taken from 1MDB, a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, and spent by family and friends of the country's prime minister, Najib Razak, pictured.

Untangling the operations of HNA, already complicated by its murky ownership and a complex array of affiliates, is made more difficult by a web of interconnected deals with friends and family members of top executives.

In January, Facebook tried to soothe investors after announcing changes to its News Feed that demoted news in favor of updates shared by users» friends and family.

American officials are trying to recoup more than $ 1 billion that they say was taken from 1MDB and ultimately spent in the United States by family and friends of Malaysia's prime minister, Najib Razak.

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

Sending money overseas to family and friends is pretty expensive these days, and the remittance space is dominated by a handful of players.

This release of proposed amendments to «Prospectus and Registration Exemptions» include an Offering Memorandum (OM) Prospectus Exemption, a Family, Friends, and Business Associates Prospective Exemption (FFBA), a prospectus exemption for distributions by a reporting issuer to it's existing shareholders and the Crowdfunding Prospectus Exemption and regulatory requirements applicable to a Crowdfunding Portal which we addressed in the presentation.

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.