Sentences with phrase «help of a friend of»

I'm hoping to shed a little light on the subject with the help of a friend of mine, James Vermont, who has recently started his own indie studio named Mutiny Media with his father.

The Toronto Star reported that Barry Cooper would provide much of the funding for the event (presumably through the Science Education Fund, although the Fund is not mentioned): «Meanwhile, Cooper, a political science professor and erstwhile mentor to Harper, has enough resources to offer travel and hotel costs, and $ 1,000 each, to the 13 people he invited to speak at the April conference in Ottawa, which he is mounting with the help of Friends of Science.»

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So deeply grateful for the support of friend and #OppNet board member #DanielCraig and @ChristiesInc in helping us deepen our work with more students!

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

«We're also so grateful for the love and support of our friends and family, as well as our wonderful medical teams for everything they've done to help us in our decades - long journey to complete our family,» Duckworth said.

And don't forget extended family and friends: «Don't be afraid to ask for help, including babysitting; take the risk of confiding in friends when you feel overwhelmed.»

NEW YORK — Facebook doesn't think hookups are meaningful and doesn't want you to date your friends — but it's known for a long time that its vast map of human connections could help people find long - term partners.

An experiment in making no - strings - attached offers to help friends and acquaintances yielded huge returns, not least a lot of good will.

With over 30 million people using Foursquare, it's a great way of helping happy customers tell all their friends where they are.

Maoli knew logistics, but he needed extra help forming those personal connections, so he called an old friend — Gary Gabriele, a hospitality prodigy who had worked his way up from dishwasher to general manager of a local hotel franchise by the age of 21 — and asked him to run Flash's customer service.

So if your seasonal cheer won't help your depressed friend deal with his or her least favorite time of year, what will?

Lingzi's friends posted pictures of her online and begged people to help find her.

«When people were worried about a friend of mine, they'd call him and ask if he wanted to go shopping or help them clean out their garage.

There are lots of ways to practice gratitude, from keeping a journal of things you're grateful for, sharing three good things that happen each day with a friend or your partner, and going out of your way to show gratitude when others help you.

Trump called this claim a «joke» during a January appearance on Fox & Friends after Sen. Bernie Sanders pointed out the 2012 tweet but he quickly added that, «this is done for the benefit of China, because China does not do anything to help climate change.»

A few weeks ago, my friend and I embarked on a camping trip — the same one that could have been helped with the military's super underwear — and we wasted a good deal of time tooling around in Barrie, Ontario looking for the Mountain Equipment Co-op outdoors supply store.

Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, has spent the last two years struggling: to normalize life for her children, to get comfortable accepting the help of friends and family, to regain confidence at work, and to rediscover hope.

Business Insider spoke with two of Janie's friends who helped her that night.

My friends and family took notice and eventually started asking for my help selling their items online, and that's when I realized I could make a career out of what was previously just a hobby.

Using devil's advocates, asking people who have solved similar problems, gathering relevant statistics, and soliciting the advice of friends and family members can all help.

While some folks are, of course, naturally gifted in this area, if you're not an inherently smooth operator you can teach yourself behaviors and mental tricks that will help you win friends, influence people, and make a strong impression when you walk in a room.

Written by Peter Schweizer, a regular Fox News guest and author of controversial bestseller Clinton Cash, the book will reportedly «expose vast corruption by top Washington figures who leverage their political power to enrich their family members and friends, often by helping grease deals with foreign entities,» according to Axios.

With a little help from my friends, I started to like both parts of my life a whole lot better.

He brought on Shaun Powell, a University of Nevada - Las Vegas student with a mutual friend, to help build the platform.

Running potential outfits past your best - dressed friend ahead of time helps, too.

So my friend who was helping me with the launch had his assistant field all of the emails for a week.

Inspired by his father, Ron Price, a self - employed consultant who often spoke of living according to your values, Dan says he just wanted to help friends like Heather, who ran the Moxie Java coffee shop in Caldwell, Idaho.

Since I'm something of an expert on sales messaging (and make no mistake, finding a job is a sales process), friends and colleagues frequently ask for my help with their resumes and job hunting efforts.

Another problem with the Moore theory is that one of Adnan's high school friends, Jay, testified that he helped Adnan dispose of Hae's body and was able to lead police to her car after she was found dead.

The idea being that your friends might go to you for help in increasing their own knowledge of the subject.

The state didn't vote for him in 2016, and when some of his wealthy hometown friends pushed him last month to help on SALT deductibility, he joked, «You guys seem to be doing OK,» according to The New York Times.

But the benefit of music goes beyond people: dogs also feel the impact of listening to tunes, helping our four - legged friends relax and reduce their anxiety.

Just imagine lounging at home while socializing with your friends and business partners across the globe — with the help of VR.

I know you have lots of friends... but how many people do you feel comfortable calling in the middle of the night if you need help?

And of course most of us could not do what we do without the help and support of our family and friends - the group we probably take for granted more than any other.

A Columbia law professor, Richman was previously quoted in The New York Times as a «close friend of Mr. Comey's who helped woo him to Columbia in 2013.»

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.

So in 1999, again on the advice of the board and with the help of wealthy New York friends, Hollender bought back his struggling company for $ 1.30 a share.

The visual image actually makes sense as a way of helping people see that what I do over here in finance does impact what my friend does over there in sales.

Not to be confused with the video messaging app of the same name, Pleeth's Sup app has one goal: to help millennials find their friends around them.

The author David Betts, a principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP, concluded saying, «Improving the patient experience can help a hospital improve its financial performance by strengthening customer loyalty, building reputation and brand and boosting utilization of hospital services through increased referrals to family and friends.»

She passed on this sense of thrift to me — and, sure, a friend still makes fun of me for refusing to spend $ 15 on a roller coaster ride back in 2001, but that helped me save up $ 70,000 by age 28 to start my business.»

Enlist the help of a friend to keep you accountable in reaching your goals, or hire an accountability coach.

To help me in my transition, my friends had given me all these VHS tapes of Everybody Loves Raymond and Friends to learn everything I needed to know about Afriends had given me all these VHS tapes of Everybody Loves Raymond and Friends to learn everything I needed to know about AFriends to learn everything I needed to know about America.

Luckily, friends of mine in Ukraine and Ukrainian - Americans are sponsoring students at the school to help fund ethical development of business — «clean,» to use their terms.

And while white entrepreneurs of means are more likely to start a business with financial help from friends and family, generations of poverty in minority communities shuts the door on this prospect.

The survey also found that striking the right balance of sleep, exercise, socializing with friends and family and «me time,» can help alleviate feelings of loneliness.

As someone who rarely has cash, this app helps me stay in good standing with my friends and keep track of paying rent and bills on time.

It is the greatest irony of my life that losing my husband helped me find deeper gratitude — gratitude for the kindness of my friends, the love of my family, the laughter of my children.

You will also have a lot of new «friends» who will call and offer «help.»