Sentences with phrase «friend called me with»

He didn't know what, until a friend called him with an irresistible opportunity.

He had been in the restaurant business for 30 years and wasn't looking for a new job, when a recruiter friend called with an opportunity.

The conversation was awkward at best, so when my friends called with an «emergency» I told him I had to go.

Not exact matches

Bruce has set a new standard for general counsels, and I am proud to have worked with him and proud to call him a friend.»

Warming to the pastime, Ho, along with two friends, launched a website called Young Guys Finance that introduces the basic concepts of investing to their contemporaries via online video courses and boot camps at their alma mater.

The campaign undertaken to drive in more attention towards the company's website was a fairly local one with a slogan called «changing lives» and needed people to participate by messaging or emailing friends and letting them know about the campaign and its benefits.

A one - minute ad called «Here Together» focuses on what Facebook says it was invented for — keeping up with friends — before addressing the fact that «something happened.»

Then he called over the show's producer, Laura Ziskin — the friend whose breast cancer had returned with a vengeance.

President Donald Trump called into Fox and Friends Thursday morning to talk about a range of topics from his visit with French President Emanuel Macron («we accomplished a lot, more than anyone knows») to Kanye West's tweets, to his support for YouTubers Diamond and Silk («Diamond and Silk are warriors!»).

Peter Stormare, a face any Big Lebowski or Fargo fans know and love, plays a black - suited surrogate who will fill in wherever your life needs you — jobs, lady friends, what not — so you can focus on «your responsibility to kick ass» with the new Call of Duty release.

With the new instant video, users are able to launch impromptu video calls with their friends at the tap of a button so long as both users are viewing their Messenger conversation at the same tWith the new instant video, users are able to launch impromptu video calls with their friends at the tap of a button so long as both users are viewing their Messenger conversation at the same twith their friends at the tap of a button so long as both users are viewing their Messenger conversation at the same time.

A Times story in July was so laden with quotes from disgruntled customers and staff that Price's worried friends called to say he always has a place to stay if things don't work out.

A junior at Yale — we're calling her Beth in this story — attended DKEmas with a friend who was pledging the fraternity.

Several times friends have been visiting when her manager calls with a shift, and because she needs the hours so badly, she'll take them on a moment's notice.

I got my first big break at Deloitte Consulting when the external consultant I worked with at my first job, with whom I had formed a really good working relationship, called a friend of his there and recommended me.

Urbaniak calls this phenomenon «speechlessness,» and she says it shows up in all kinds of interactions: whether it's asking for a raise, talking with a friend, or confronting a sexual predator.

Online quizzes are what I call Cognitive Catnip; people engage with them at remarkably high rates, often spending several minutes in each quiz, then sharing with colleagues and friends.

Advances in technology mean that we'll soon be able to connect with friends and loved ones in vivid, «almost real» video calls.

The Call List was founded in 2016 after Patterson, a former management consultant, searched for a way to help a friend, a performance artist with a wide international fan base, monetize the performances he gave his followers over FaceTime.

At the F8 Developer Conference this year he advised: «No one enjoys calling a business, or installing a new app for every business or service they want to interact with, people should be able to message a business in the same way you'd message a friend.»

Esprit, originally founded by Susie and a friend in 1968 (and originally called Plain Jane), went on to become a powerhouse clothing chain, with profits of $ 80 million and revenues of $ 1 billion in 1989.

Whether you call it «venting» with a friend over happy hour or spending a few sessions on it with your counselor, talking about failures is perhaps the best way to let them go.

During his second stint at Atari, in 1975, Jobs worked on a «Pong» knock - off called «Breakout» with the help of his longtime friend Wozniak, who did most of the engineering work on the video game, even though he wasn't being paid by Atari.

While I was complaining about the debacle to an entrepreneur friend, he called me out: «Get comfortable with the feeling that you have right now.»

Trump also reiterated his call for McConnell to send the filibuster in a tweet on Wednesday after the failure of the latest GOP healthcare bill, and in an interview with «Fox & Friends» host Pete Hegseth.

Professional writers might not be able to get away with this one with all editors and for all audiences (and anyway, it's their job to find ways around the trouble), but for your average email or work memo, go ahead and write «Tell your friend they can call me,» when you don't know the gender of the friend.

Standing in front of the Centerville crowd with your idea, you might refrain from calling on those you know want to criticize when they raise their hands, hoping to limit the commentary to friends of the proposal.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg poked a little fun at himself talking about a new feature called Watch Party, which lets Facebook users view videos together with their friends.

Call a friend you've lost touch with.

Recalling the days when he started the venture with 17 friends in his flat in the South - eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, Ma once said: «I called myself a blind man riding on the back of blind tigers.»

Bricklin got together with an old friend, Bob Frankston, who knew more about programming, and the two started a company called Software Arts Inc. (See «Software Arts wrote the first best - seller,» page 71.)

When friends started bombarding her with messages about the colorful drink, Laylah responded by calling it a «Frappajappajooza» — and people believed her.

Behind that was making or receiving mobile voice calls at 38 percent, then interacting with friends face - to - face at 33 percent.

When he introduced a feature called Watch Party, which lets people watch video and chat with their friends, he joked that his own friends had used Watch Party to discuss his recent appearances before Congress.

It's true that the vast majority of Americans still rely on phone calls as the first method of staying in touch with friends and family.

Every time a friend or family member gets the Chase Sapphire Preferred, they always call me afterwards pumped about how cool it looks, and how every time they pay with it, the cashier is blown away by its sleek design.

He said he agreed with a friend, who called the metal an «end - of - the - world insurance contract.»

Today, I make a house call with my good friend the professor, K. Leon Saunders.

One friend, who bought a car with a 15 % loan (really bad credit) said the dealership called her a month after purchase, saying there may be a better deal for her if she would stop by.

The new addition is called «Type;» and it's one that will allow you to be creative when composing texts to share with your friends in Stories...

One night, over dinner with Hsieh and his friends at Carson Kitchen, a new high - end restaurant in what was once the rundown John E. Carson hotel for men, I lost track of the conversation, reached for a pork slider, considered sipping my Fernet shot, and suddenly realized they were fiercely debating how to explain to me a Holacracy concept called «circle elections.»

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.»

With the help of a friend, she cut a demo tape and started cold - calling local stations in the larger markets.

Millstein had four in - person meetings, a phone call, and some email correspondence with his friend, Deputy Attorney General Cole.

I quit my day job with my friend Igor I started a new company called elastic.io, a solution that helps people connect cloud API's without programming.

One last example, I promise: Last year I realized just how frazzled it made me to fit focused work in between meetings and phone calls every day of the week while still leaving enough space to be with my family, serve my community, visit friends, and read a book or two.

This time with my friend David Meerman Scott, best - selling author of numerous books including The New Rules of Marketing & PR, Real - Time Marketing & PR and a new book called Newsjacking (Wiley) created specifically for the Amazon Kindle.

Other red flags have also surfaced, including calls to the FBI about Cruz's potential to become a school shooter and numerous visits by county law enforcement officials to his home - both before his mother died in November and after, when he lived briefly with a family friend in Palm Beach County.

In fact, I am so passionate about this topic, that my best friend and fellow life coach, Ashley Cebulka, and I have developed a program called «Perfectionist Rehab,» addressing just that: how to deal with your inner critic.

This technique, once widely used but now severely restricted, meant that officials affiliated with the voter profiling firm, Cambridge Analytica, could gain access to basic demographics and the Facebook «likes» of all of the friends of the 270,000 people who downloaded an app called «thisisyourdigitallife.»