Sentences with phrase «few people close to»

I watch the addiction of a few people close to me, to soda.

Not exact matches

The 2005 Australian Longitudinal Study of Aging found that close relationships with children and other relatives had very little impact on how long you live, but people with the most friends tended to outlive those with the fewest by 22 percent.

The Rusal contingency team felt like it had fewer options than their En + counterparts because the metals producer had a much larger portion of debt and contracts in dollars due to the nature of the aluminium market, according to three people close to Rusal.

When people want to give a car a closer look, they must stare at it for a few seconds to get a list of real - time information about the vehicles including the number in stock and their price.

As I creep toward that omni - present 40 — an ambivalent milestone I'll hit next year — I can't help but notice that I seem to see fewer and fewer of the people I used to consider close.

If they can't make a sale now how will they ever close business by marketing to fewer people?

While a few of the people in his online courses have come close to replicating his initial success, the most common sales total at the one - month mark in one of his early classes was under $ 12,000.

This week's big news is that Michael Kors, one of the largest luxury fashion brands, is closing up to 15 % of its retail stores over the next two years, after slow sales and fewer people shopping in - store.

We have a country that started from scratch, with just 4 million people living here in 1790, and ended up with close to 25 percent of the world's GDP and more than 300 million residents a few hundred years later.

Today, I was having a discussion with a close friend about the fact that very few people view individual stocks for what they are - proportional ownership in a business that must be evaluated on an enterprise - level to determine their relative attractiveness - and thought that allowing my readers to be a «fly on the wall» would provide some insight into the methodology Ben Graham made so famous.

Because relatively few people actually trade after the market closes, orders tend to build up overnight, and in a rising market, that will produce an upward price surge when the market opens.

As Hurricane Irma bore down San Juan, Puerto Rico, Delta sent one last flight to help evacuate a few hundred people from San Juan just before the airport closed.

The closer to the end of the year, the fewer taxable people willing to sell.

And some people I am close to are going over to Lakeland for a few days next week (I'd love to go too, but I can't take so much time off work).

Conversely, the closer to the atheistic end of the spectrum people are, the fewer children they're....

I used to wonder why I was so «weak» and would get so emotional when the people would leave and even mad at myself for not being able to just become tough and stay more emotionally distant with the people but a few close friends in the church told me not to change because my reaction simply shows what a caring shepherd I am.

But, if you feel there is never a wrong reason for becoming a christian, even if an individual does it for no other reason than playing it safe, never believed in god, will go their whole never never truly bielving, does the minimum (paying lip service), and to really point a cherry on top, doesn't live anything close to a «christian lifestyle outside of the few hours on Sundays (just a rotten to the core person, thief, liar, cheater... rappist, murderer...) Is there STILL no wrong reason for becoming religeous?

When someone very close to me died a few years ago, I remember my dad telling me that it's important to allow people to grieve in ways that don't necessarily make sense to me.

Osama bin Laden's rhetoric may strike a chord with some disgruntled and dispossessed Muslims in various lands, but there is no evidence that anyone (other than a few people with close ties in neighboring Pakistan) is lining up to take courses from the Taliban on how to organize an Islamic state.

Is the Covenant to be open to all people, or is it to be closed to all but the privileged few?

Communism is NOT taking away from rich people and redistributing it to the poor — it is taking away from everyone who has a business and YOU will not get a dime — plus all stores will close and only a few will remain open UNDER rationing system like Cuba where most people starve to death.

Unlike theological schools in the United States, however, these university faculties are closely tied to the Protestant and Catholic churches: The ipso facto establishment of the two major Christian traditions via West Germany's church tax means that few people here question the close relationship of the faculties to the churches.

There is a variety of ways to get connected as a group — joining hands in the circle with eyes closed for a moment and then discussing what each person experienced; milling around, taking a brief time to hold the hands and look into the eyes of each member, repeating his name; talking in pairs for a few minutes about topics such as «What I hope for and fear in this group,» «What's most important to me right now,» «What I hope to become in the next year,» after which each person introduces his partner to the group, sharing what he has learned.

After serving breakfast for roughly 300 to 500 people daily, the restaurant closes for a few hours to transition to an evening dinner service.

Nobody seemed to know exactly how many acres were in pepper production in T&T, but after talking to a few knowledgable people close to growers, like Vernon Montrichard, the figure of 2,000 acres seemed to be the best estimate.

«If we do that, and we add a few more people who make sense for our model, I think we can get closer to the head of the class.»

^ ^ I know of a few people with the same diagnosis so it really hits close to home.

And by that I mean that likely 90 % + of the people who feel their work has been stolen are actually thieves themselves, having — at best — cobbled together a few disparate recipes into something that seems unique; more likely it's a close match to something that's out there dozens of times over.

If you have supported a professional football club in England for any significant period of time, then at some point you're more than likely to have cheered and clapped a few, maybe more, of the following: racists, sexists, homophobes, bigots, petty criminals, bad husbands, bad fathers, adulterers, tax dodgers, wife - beaters, liars, people who don't close the tops of cereal boxes, Conservatives, and instances of any of the other shades and shapes of the evil that men do.

Joan was close to suffering a meltdown herself as she was 6 months pregnant flying with her 3 - year - old daughter and 2 - year - old son — headed home to Colorado after her grandfather's funeral... I'm pleased to say the tales of helpful people aren't as few or far between as you might be led to believe.

The quality of our school lunches is discussed frequently, but few people outside of the schools get to see the questionable lunches this up close and personal.

Recently I have received exciting news that quite a few people very close to me are pregnant!

People try their best, but they still miss out a few areas in the parenting domain that is why I have made a skill set which will significantly positively affect your parenting and will bring you closer to your children.

Cuomo has made a few public appearances since U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara issued criminal complaints against nine people, including several close to Cuomo and two major upstate real estate developers.

Cuomo's made a few public appearances since U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara issued criminal complaints against nine people, including several close to Cuomo and two major upstate real estate developers.

The state governments, Madison argues, are closer to the people and can focus on the welfare of the people, regulating ordinary affairs such as the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, as well as the internal order of each state, and should have numerous undefined powers to do so, while the national government, being bigger and possessing national resources, can bring victory in war, protect the people's liberty, and maintain peace between the states, and should have clear, few, defined powers to do so, mostly focusing on external objects such as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce and national taxation.

To be eligible for the program, a business must be below Canal Street, employ fewer than 50 people and be on or near a street that has been closed because of public construction.

Fewer people see Gordon Brown as having been close to NewsCorp — 39 % think he was too close to Murdoch & Brooks, 36 % to editors in general.

Though few will say so publicly for fear of angering Cuomo, in interviews, close to a dozen people in and around New York politics registered their doubts that Foye would have sent such a harsh and extensive email, leaked early on, and continued to have had such an active role, without more contact with the governor's office.

YouGov polling in August found Labour was seen as being closest to trade unions, to benefit claimants and to immigrants, with comparatively few people seeing them as close to the middle classes or people in the South.

Cuomo's made a few public appearances since the US Attorney, Preet Bharara, issued criminal complaints against nine people, including several close to Cuomo and two major upstate real estate developers.

Writing in the journal Applied Economics, Steve Cook and Duncan Watson (both from the University of Wales Swansea) and Louise Parker (from the University of East Anglia) take a closer look at two ways that unemployment impacts on crime: the «opportunity» effect (a strong economy means more goods worth stealing, and fewer people sat at home to guard them) and the «motivation» effect (a weak economy widens perceived differences between lifestyles and can tempt some into crime).

In the spring, I looked at ways to take immunology closer to people and I have since had an opportunity to get a little closer to a few immunologists myself, having just attended this year's British Society of Immunology Congress and run a careers surgery for delegates.

«Discarded cellphones are a huge, growing source of electronic waste, with close to two billion new cellphones sold every year around the world and people replacing their phones every few years,» said UBC mining engineering professor Maria Holuszko, who led the research.

A few squirmed out of the water and wiggled toward high ground, passing close to people onshore — surprising behavior that suggested something spooky in the waters below.

First came the ship part: getting used to everything being bolted down, close quarters with the same few dozen people, and, of course, the constant rocking and motion.

The few cases that seem to have spread from person to person involved close and prolonged contact.

Rat «psychologists» — scientists who have studied rat feeding patterns — are able to outwit the rodents as much as 70 per cent of the time, but few people routinely using rat poisons can get close to this.

The team found that most people stayed close to home, and a select few regularly took long trips.

It may take quite a few of those demonstrations to establish the idea that closed - canopy forests, which most people regard as the normal state of nature, may actually be man - made.