Sentences with phrase «favors from»

It's not easy, but we keep making progress every day as we work magic and pull in favors from roofers and other tradespeople to get things done as quick as we can.

For example, do you set limits with how often people can borrow money, visit your home, or expect favors from you?

Whether it's a cup of coffee, a lavish gift, or an offer to stay by your sickbed, favors from friends are intentional acts of generosity.

A cover letter needs to be meaningful — writing it to get it off your head isn't going to win you any favors from the hiring manager.

They also implicate the South Carolina Association for Justice, the state trial lawyers» group, as the association sought political favors from Quinn and his political consultant father through hefty donations.

In New Orleans a former District Attorney (DA) investigator used his position to solicit sexual favors from those depending on the DA to investigate without bias and to administer justice according to current laws.

Now is the time to call in favors from your colleagues in your local bar association.

... The basic truth is that Enron, joined by other «rent - seeking» industries — making one's fortune from policy favors from buddies in government, the cultivation of whom was a key business strategy — cobbled their business plan around «global warming.»

Also we know now that you may receive favors from the four Gods of Chaos (Khorne, Slaanesh, Tzeentch, and Nurgle) and will reward you with different bonuses and add - ons to your ship.

The bottom line is you aren't doing your pup any favors from getting him or her a big spacious crate, and in fact you might be causing more harm than good!

The politicians offer us favors from our own money, and we thank them for it, by re-electing them.

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

But, the authors may have called - in favors from other authors.

The more work I produce the more I'm having to go outside my beta readers and favors from super talented friends.

A woman is captured, threatened and detained in handcuffs; at one point her male captor vaguely implies he would like sexual favors from her.

And NEWSFLASH - with his over-produced circle - jerk slop running at almost half a billion a pop - he's undoubtedly receiving massive financing and market favors from the most awesomly genocidal regime in history — across the Pacific!

In the opening scene, she's brazen enough to bilk a local police officer for $ 400 in ATM withdrawals, under threat of a video proving that he solicited sexual favors from a minor.

His idea of showing up to work on time happens somewhere around midmorning and he isn't opposed to using the attraction of his badge to collect sexual favors from a couple of Bay City cheerleaders (Amy Smart, Carmen Electra).

But this provocative idea is quickly lost to muddy motivations (Zeus was always a flip - flopper, but just try to follow his train of thought here) and tiresome action that suffers from a lack of audience identification in a hero who sorta wants to save the day, as long as it doesn't mean taking any favors from Dad.

For his filmmaking debut, Krasinski appears to have called in favors from nearly every famous person he's ever met, but he hasn't yet developed the authority or command to work their varying styles and skills into seamless cinema.

He and the corrupt local chief of police (he uses his powers to extort sexual favors from pretty young women in exchange for the chance to flee the Nazis), then wander off into the desert.

The site appears to attract under - educated people who seek sexual favors from one another.

Your rich sugar daddy is also looking for favors from you, and these can extend from company to high profile events, hanging onto his arm, to good old - fashioned sex.

The sugar daddy gets the benefit of companionship, a sense of having helped someone, and may or may not receive sexual favors from the sugar baby.

As you've just learned, while science hasn't yet been able to tell us the exact number of minutes of exercise that it takes to shove your adrenal glands «over the edge», we know that more than 90 minutes per day isn't doing us any extra favors from a health standpoint, and it's likely that the exact amount varies from person to person based on vitamin, nutrient and mineral status, training history, genetics, exposure to lifestyle, thermal, chemical and emotional stress, and even attitude.

Targets could include «applicants who try to influence reviewers... [or] try to get favors from reviewers.»

Syracuse - based Cor Development Co. executives Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi are accused of obtaining favors from aide Joseph Percoco, by paying bribes through a «shell company» set up by Howe.

Over the next four years, an investigation by Cuomo showed that officials and cronies got fees and favors from financiers seeking chunks of the retirement fund to manage.

Try to lure big businesses in exchange for favors from politicians, they really aren't creating any jobs as we know in New York... My jobs plan is different, as I indicated before it's about small businesses.

Mayor de Blasio did his best to bury his corruption scandals over the weekend: On Friday, he dropped his long - promised column about donors who didn't get favors from City Hall...

Malliotakis» website has a counter keeping track of the number of days de Blasio promised to reveal a list of donors who were denied favors from City Hall.

Kim's statement pointed out that there were «several circumstances» in which de Blasio «made or directed inquiries to relevant City agencies on behalf of» donors seeking official favors from the city.

As Mei testified about each town officials he said received favors from Singh, Gatz put up a photo of that person on the screen for jurors.

Acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim made a point of declaring publicly that de Blasio had intervened on behalf of donors who were seeking favors from City Hall.

The joint operation and press conferences comes just week after several members of the NYPD brass were suspended in connection with a corruption investigation by Mr. Bharara's office, which alleges two businessmen, Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg, traded gifts for favors from cops.

It also said the only exception would be family members or a «close personal friend» not seeking favors from City Hall.

Singh is the second de Blasio donor to publicly detail his efforts to obtain favors from City Hall by raising big bucks for de Blasio.

For two years, Mayor de Blasio has used his personal slush fund, the Campaign for One New York, to pocket millions from fat - cat donors seeking special favors from City Hall...

His team faces several probes, including one over bundler Jona Rechnitz, who allegedly traded gifts for favors from the NYPD.

Mayor Bill de Blasio finally published a long - anticipated op - ed listing political donors who did not get special favors from City Hall, more than a year after he first said he would release the list.

The government contends Dean Skelos extorted favors from Bonomo — namely, the hiring of Adam Skelos to a no - show job — in exchange for passing legislation in 2015 allowing PRI to continue to operate in the red.

Jona Rechnitz, 33, a wealthy Brooklyn real estate developer who pleaded guilty to charges of corruption, alleged at the bribery trial of Norman Seabrook, the former president of the Correction Officers Benevolent Association, that he gave money to the mayor's campaign in exchange for favors from City Hall.

In the weeks leading up to the election, top de Blasio donor Jona Rechnitz, a Brooklyn real estate developer who pleaded guilty to charges of corruption, alleged that he gave money to the mayor's campaign in exchange for favors from City Hall.

As Kim noted in his statement, federal prosecutors «conducted a thorough investigation into several circumstances in which Mayor de Blasio and others acting on his behalf solicited donations from individuals who sought official favors from the City, after which the Mayor made or directed inquiries to relevant City agencies on behalf of those donors.»

Howe and Percoco got involved with a Downstate power plant company that needed some big favors from state agencies.

The investigation by JCOPE is just one of many Mr. de Blasio is at the center of at the moment, including a separate probe of whether donors to the Campaign for One New York got favors from City Hall.

The cases against the former legislative leaders Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos include charges that they used their posts to gain favors from real estate developers, who are among the largest campaign contributors to top politicians.

McMahon laughed at any suggestion that he would get any favors from City Hall, which is entirely run by elected Democrats.

Police arrested Alison A. Carey, Mariah's older sister, after an investigation found her soliciting money in exchange for sexual favors from an undercover police officer posing as a client.

Durst and Mayor de Blasio have been at odds since September, when Hizzoner used the developer as an example of a contributor who didn't get favors from City Hall.