Sentences with phrase «friends in high places»

The «needs» of those «you» wish to represent are quite separate and apart from the «wants» of same, and it is the «wants» which is driving change within the industry thanks to the loud outcry of wannabe highjackers (now actual highjackers thanks to friends in high places) of a privately established, privately funded and privately maintained MLS system.

However, you don't necessarily need friends in high places to find lucrative opportunities; job connections can come from anyone, anywhere.

Ah yes, we have a wealthy family (a very wealthy family), who have friends in high places, and it is election timeâ $ ¦..

Mark Levy had talent, a top - flight resumé and friends in high places.

A commendable action, but the trouble is, Lawson has friends in high places, and has been able to dismiss all such previous complaints.

They are produced by powerful companies with friends in high places.

Friends in High Places — Some of the Whitney's biggest art stars are giving back to the institution next month by donating artworks for a set of sales at Sotheby's on May 14 - 15 to benefit the museum's new building being constructed at the foot of the High Line, and so far Jeff Koons, George Condo, Cindy Sherman, Glenn Ligon, and Cy Twombly are among the artists (or estates) that have collectively donated an estimated $ 8 million worth of art to the sale.

Friends in High Places features work by Ernesto Burgos, Angie Drakopoulos, Jason Duval, Jack Featherly, Elisa Lendvay, Michael Mahalchick, Chris Martin, Thomas McDonell, Douglas Melini, Zach Needler, Julie Phillips, Julia Rommel, David Shaw, Michael St. John, Jessica Stockholder, Adrian Ting and Tamara Zahaykevich.

Conceived as an organic interchange, Friends in High Places, explores the implicit connections within a community and takes as an article of faith that a fluid curatorial approach can yield a comprehensive catalog of practices and principles.

David Shaw, Chemical Tail, 2008 Wood, steel, paint, holographic laminate 72 x 23 x 28 inches March 12 — April 18, 2010 Christopher Henry Gallery is pleased to announce Friends in High Places, an exhibition of abstract painting and sculpture by seventeen contemporary artists, organized by participants Zach Needler and Adrian Ting.

Episode 1: Friends in High Places Chapter 1: Flight School Chapter 2: Total War Chapter 3: Carry Your Friend Chapter 4: Blitz

I'm not even referring to the main story missions explicitly — even outside of that, you've a shipful of sailors ready to die for you, all kinds of friends in high places, and basically own New York.

If they do well enough, at least they've got potential friends in high places.

those whose owners have friends in high places.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Animals at the Berkshire Humane Society in Pittsfield have friends in high places - notably in Boston, where there could be plenty of legislating this week for their well - being.

«Let's put it this way: We have friends in high places.»

But if you don't have friends in high places, you're going to need to make the effort to introduce yourself.

If you hold a highly recognized position (powerful network and influence), if you know key influencers (friends in high places), if you are associated with powerful communities, if you have prestigious degrees or posts, or if you otherwise have public - facing work — yes, you play the field at an advantage.

Winner of the Suntory mystery fiction Grand Prize for Death at La Fenice Winner of the Golden Book award from the Austrian Booksellers Association International Deutscher Krimi Preis, 3rd Place, for Dressed for Death Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger award for Friends in High Places Winner of the Chorine — International Book Prize for Willful Behaviour Winner of the Spoken Word Awards Silver Award for Blood From a Stone One of Time Magazine «s 6 Detective Series to Savor Named as one of The Times (London) Fifty Greatest Crime Writers

; Captain, a disheveled homeless vet with a penchant for Twinkies; Abe, the richer - than - rich research scientist who hires Mace; and Mona, a vengeful U.S. attorney with friends in high places.

Note too that he had friends in high places, such as Obama and the Democratic leadership.

Hard to imagine friends in high places living at a higher altitude than that.

But Betsy forgets it's her friends in high places who pushed a one - size - fits - all curriculum into public schools in the first place.

This cause also has friends in high places, especially the mayor and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, who have been lobbying hard for the «Last In, First Out» policy to change.

'» (President Bill Clinton — then governor of Arkansas — in his 1987 «Making Arkansas Work» inauguration speech, quoted in Friends in High Places)

The company also has friends in high places.

It pays to have friends in high places.

Thanks to friends in high places, however, Casanova is spared the hangman's noose.

From Snoop Dogg to Dawn Wells — if you're commemorating the marijuana enthusiast's national holiday on April 20, you have friends in high places

About $ 20 million was shaved off the budget and the project gained some much needed steam, so it pays to have friends in high places.

Make friends in high places.

I bought these «friends in high places» (which after describing all of the different animal's accessories further in this paragraph, I am wondering if that was a play on words) pair at Nordstrom Rack for something like 70 % off.

Networking is powerful and friends in high places are inarguably valuable however there is something oh - so fulfilling about building something (anything) on your own and watching it grow!

Friends in high places.

It also helps to have an accommodating department, friends in high places, and money in the bank as a cushion — not to mention emotional security and a tough skin.

Today we reveal the close relationship between a key Cambridge Analytica backer and a senior pro-Brexit Northern Irish PR man — who has Russian friends in high places

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The controversial data company also has friends in high places, from Tory party donors to the British military.

It was put in place of course to prevent the staffing of public jobs with the friends, relatives or the otherwise politically «connected» instead of qualified workers who don't have friends in high places.

Others echoed these sentiments, reiterating that Espada has money, experience, a well - known name and friends in high places — all factors that make an incumbent difficult to beat.

He's sharp, credible and wealthy, has friends in high places, and he made a strong run for state comptroller last year,» said one of the state's GOP leaders.

But that is a far cry from saying our politicians here in the UK will rush to change their lifetime habit of looking after themselves and their friends in high places.

It pays to have friends in high places.

And for those you don't save, you've got friends in high places.

And when we love others not as «projects» or potential converts or friends in high places, but with the love Jesus modeled, our circle of friends begins to look less like the segregated cafeteria of days gone past, and more like the Kingdom.

Though the principles of risk - taking and adventurous entrepreneurship were publicly lauded as fueling the engines of wealth in the «80s and «90s, the creation and protection of corporate wealth owed more to the influence of «friends in high places» than to the inveterate courage of entrepreneurs.

The most successful people in business often have friends in high places.

And fortunately for General Fusion, it has friends in high places.

Deluce has friends in high places: the former CEO of the Port Authority who helped him get Porter off the ground, Lisa Raitt, is now the federal minister of transport.

With friends in high places, Wall Street may have less reason to be as outspoken about the new restrictions.