Sentences with phrase «good old friend of»

It was only a last week that we brought back home this good old friend of ours.

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Tamerlan described one of the murder victims, 25 - year - old Brendan Mess, as his best friend.

There's no application to this secretive club, but the owners are looking for people «who understand the value of good old - fashioned conversation and having real face time with friends and colleagues.»

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.

As they age, he writes, men miss «gangship» (their groups of friends), so they need to suck it up and invest in rebuilding their oldest and best friendships.

Some of the old traditional brokerages have been accused of playing favourites, like sending the good airport jobs to their friends and holding back opportunities for others.

«He was meeting with 10 of his oldest and best friends and I was invite as his surprise guest,» says Goldsmith.

Then there are those of us representing Parkland: Fellow Stoneman Douglas student Nick Joseph lost one of his best friends, Joaquin Oliver, on February 14, and is speaking out in his name by organizing and marching, rising to a challenge no 16 - year - old in mourning should have to face.

As one of my best friends in the business and a very famous trader once said when asked who's the best trader he's ever seen, the answer was his young 4 - year - old nephew Bobby, because he could hold a chart in front of Bobby and say, «Bobby, what's that doing?»

The successful conclusion of free - trade talks with the 28 nations that make up the European Union marks a historic opportunity for Canada to renew and deepen ties with some of our best and oldest friends.

«Two of my best friends aren't here anymore,» said freshman Sammy Cooper, who picked up the book bag he had dropped as he saw the accused gunman, 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz, begin shooting.

While job hunting has changed significantly since 1973, the importance of passive connections has not: it's rare that your best friend will refer you to your next job, but much more likely that an old classmate, neighbor, or friend of a friend will.

In the old terms of service, app developers would not only get the data from the profiles of those using the apps, but from all of their friends as well.

So when front man Jason Lytle sings «might as well give up, old friends,» on the album highlight «Rear View Mirror,» you can only sympathize with the timid high - pitched admission of defeat.

Just after I finished How to Raise a Puppy, a friend mailed me his old copy of How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend, by the Monks of New friend mailed me his old copy of How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend, by the Monks of New Friend, by the Monks of New Skete.

He spoke to me through one of my oldest best friends (who by the way is also completely non-religious; it was although God took over his body and voice to speak with me) and delivered so many messages over a period of about 2 hours that my mind feels like it will explode.

Or even one of those pet store hamster boxes with breathing holes like the one I bought in 1980 with my best friend, Tracy, because two seven - year - olds co-owning a hamster is always a good idea.

One of our oldest and best friends lost his beautiful wife to cancer this year, it's his first Christmas alone with their two little girls.

Mountaintop experiences are gifts, whole and complete in themselves: a marriage where the love and delight stay kindled through the years, children, friends old or new, a job that we enjoy doing and that contributes to the welfare of others, good retirement years.

(For instance, on the very day on which I write this page, the post brings me some aphorisms from a worldly-wise old friend in Heidelberg which may serve as a good contemporaneous expression of Epicureanism: «By the word «happiness» every human being understands something different.

As an old friend who hopes never to be an ex-friend, I reminded him of the warning of a first - century Jewish teacher, «Woe to you when all men speak well of you.»

Several years ago a friend told me he thought the implicit concept underlying The Secular City is the good old Calvinist doctrine of providence.

Good, then tell your religous friends to stop pulling laws into place that are based on beliefs derived from a book that is thousands of years old.

I will never forget sitting across my desk from weeping parents who had only recently learned that their 9 year old daughter had been sexually victimized by one of their best friends.

Even the friends of Job, stout protagonists of the old orthodoxy though they turned out to be, had known Job's apparent integrity so well that at first they tried interpreting his disasters not as punitive but as educative --

I love it that my friend and you are wrestling with people who both of you see as OK guys with similar outlooks on social and moral issues and get on really well together but even though we can converse on belief the Old Testament is a massive stumbling block, a 100 foot high brick wall.

I have a friend who is a Jewish Rabbi, and one day we were discussing some of the Old Testament passages, and it quickly became obvious to me that I knew the Old Testament Historical books and the Prophets better than he did.

But he remains an «old friend» to political philosophers as well as to historians, and if a study is to make sense of the life of Alexis de Tocqueville, the work that Tocqueville undertook must be understood in all its depth and breadth» beyond what the historian, or even the psychologist, may say.

The best thing about having a best friend who is 72 years older than you are is that they sometimes outrank your mother in terms of what you're allowed to do.

Your friend who is 80 years old tells you about how this Elvis guy made real good music but there are no records of his music.

He expressed his own view of the importance of education to his old poet friend Eobanus in March 1523, in a letter which takes us into the Renaissance world of the humanists: «I do not intend that young people should give up poetry and rhetoric... it is through these studies, as through nothing else, that people are really well prepared for grasping sacred truths, as well as for handling them skilfully and successfully.»

The old educational theory of «regression to norm» will not take place, God willing, before our Polish friends have exerted an influence upon us that is for the good of the Catholic Church here.

It's a bit overwhelming I must say, however, among the madness comes good times, catching up with old friends and the best of the giving time.

Much like a summer gathering of good old friends having a good time.

I posted about it on Facebook and triggered by a comment from an old friend of mine to share the recipe, I decided to write a short article on it and share it with all of you here as well.

Day old bread may be my new best friend and making use of it another small action toward sustainability.

A jar of plum, blackcurrant and lime jam made by a friend, found its way into this old favourite — as well as chocolate of course.

Overhearing a 17 - year old typically blonde California teen in line in front of you describe her method of making homemade mustard «cuz it just tastes better» to her teen friends makes this man's heart melt with happiness.

Yahnni is my best friend's daughter, (but is more like a niece to me), a 10 year old extremely intelligent, and extremely creative ball of energy who leaves her mark on everything she touches.

I'm in the car with my best friend, and we've just had lunch at this quiet, quaint restaurant with huge windows so close up to the Old City walls it'll make you gasp - hippie bowls of grains with roasted vegetables and a big, oil - slicked plate of glossy green lentils her baby couldn't stop grabbing.

My good friend was just telling me this past week how she has 100 + year old sourdough starter she is going to give some of to me.

But I hear from friends that personally he's a good guy, even if he does call a friend of mine «mama» as a term of endearment when she's clearly only about 7 years older than he is.

The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff This book was absolutely lovely: a visit with the best of old friends.

Nothing better encapsulates the complicated friendship between Currie and Duffy than an old adage: «The enemy of my enemy is my friend.»

And of course, our good old friend the coconut provides an abundance of heart - healthy fats and skin - invigorating minerals.

With one of the most robust rum selections available, SUGARCANE raw bar grill pays homage to its namesake with rum - inspired cocktails including the Tobacco Rum Old Fashioned with Mount Gay Black Barrel, maple, Angostura bitters and homemade cigar bitters; the Beet Mojito with beet infused Flor de Caña rum and mint; and the Monteflor Mule, with Flor de Caña white rum, Amaro Montenegro, ginger beer, marasca cherry syrup and fresh thyme, all of which reflect the restaurant's ethos of enjoying delicious food and drink with good friends.

Sanjay and Craig follows the misadventures of Sanjay (Maulik Pancholy), an excitable and irreverent 12 - year - old boy and his best friend Craig (Chris Hardwick), a smooth - talking snake and master of disguise.

It wasn't until in recent months, when well intending friends pointed out how lovely it was to see the «old me» back that it dawned on me, that I had faded quite a lot... into dark holes of formless, halfway - house and never - ending leggings.

The pair are said to be good friends, and the former wants the 27 - year - old to return to England and be part of the exciting revolution taking place under Mourinho at Old Traffoold to return to England and be part of the exciting revolution taking place under Mourinho at Old TraffoOld Trafford.

The Phillies are the team of extremes, then, where they have the best of the watchable young players, and the worst of the unwatchable old friends.