Sentences with phrase «higher than your friends»

The last type of APR likely listed on your cardholder agreement is the penalty APR — and it's probably significantly higher than its friends.

This is higher than all my friends that have the card.

Not exact matches

He is one of the progenitors of Brooklyn's hipster scene — a shaggy, tattooed, larger - than - life titan who, last fall, dropped $ 300,000 on a lavish Las Vegas meal for 25 friends after winning $ 1 million at a high - rollers» blackjack table.

Several high - profile entrepreneurs, such as Basecamp co-founder and CTO David Heinemeier Hansson, have publicly declared that they can get all the work required for their start - up to succeed done in a moderate 40 hours a week, leaving, presumably, enough time for exercise, family, friends, and fitness (or at least more than two of those).

Repak: While borrowing from friends or family is better than borrowing from a bank and especially those high - interest payday loans, only lend money if you're fine with never getting it back.

Respondents to Fairfield's survey ranked partners and pets as important sources of support, but Zuckerberg says she was surprised to see that random acts of kindness from strangers ranked higher in value than interactions with online friends.

Your friends and business associates might give you a rate that is slightly higher than they are earning in their high - yield savings account.

On average, private business loans from relatives and friends have interest rates 2 to 3 percent lower than market rates and 1 to 2 percent higher than high - yield savings rates.

So all my high school friends thought they were better than me because they were getting A's and I was getting F's.

Narr's study also found kids with broader friend groups tended to grow up with higher rates of social anxiety than kids with smaller numbers of closer friends.

To honor her birthday, more than 100 friends and family members gathered to celebrate Alyssa, who was killed in the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Is your throne higher than YHWH's friend?

I just think as Christians we should have a higher standard than what we are portraying in the media concerning this issue... I can not find the reason why gay people can not be our equals in our churches — if they can be my neighbors then they can also be my friends — and if friends — then they shoud have all the access to whatever it is I do.

This is a higher proportion than those that were concerned about making friends, bullying, and getting in trouble, but less than the proportions that were worried about exams, homework, having new teachers and new subjects and classes.

And if Sis is like her friends, she will have logged l6, 000 hours of television by the time she graduates from high school — more time than she will have spent in classes from Kindergarten through l2th grade.

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.

Even tried to just have friendly chats with her and in those chats the topic of my best friend who died in a car accident in high school came up briefly... little more than a mere mention.

We have about 14,000 (higher than the official count, but probably the more accurate number), and that number would be higher if the «situationally homeless» were included (couch surfers, those staying with a friend for a few days and so on).

A friend points out that the rate of attrition of American Jews is much higher than the standard estimates suggest.

A feeling deep inside pushed closer and closer to the surface, nagging me with thoughts of a more «normal» life: of community and day - to - day rhythms focused more on family and friends than on international travel and high - level diplomacy.

(I have a higher estimate of Eliot's faith than does my friend J. Bottum.)

Right now, I'm trying to convince my daughter that she does not have to hold her friends to any higher standards than what they set for themselves.

One question, if I were to make that dressing for a raw vegan friend, what would you suggest instead of agave (which is highly processed, heated, and is between 70 - 92 % pure fructose - higher than HFCS)?

This was inspired by the original recipe posted here, with a few tweaks by yours truly to reduce the sugar content, and a few extra adjustments suggested by my friend Rebekah (who is a much better mile - high baker than I am!).

My son had two neighborhoods brother friends for a sleep - over last night, so I made French Toast Frittata with the coconut flour bread for breakfast this morning (sliced or broken bread soaked in 5 beaten eggs, a good «glug» of raw whole milk, cinnamon, nutmeg [there is a higher egg to bread ratio than in conventional French Toast] all poured into a hot buttered sauté pan, cover and turn down heat to medium - low, cook until nearly set, place pan in 350 °F oven until eggs are completely set on top and starting to brown, about 6 - 10 minutes usually, flip over onto large plate and cut into wedges for serving).

But when someone commits to being your best friend for life, stands up for you, waves your fan - flag higher than anyone else, tells you when you are being ridiculous (at least half the time), and loves you to the point where their needs are always second to yours — you freaking miss them when they leave for work.

Should he tell them that he wanted more than anything to follow all his high school friends to Gainesville or Tallahassee or Coral Gables, but he was the first pick in the 1993 draft and the money he stood to make was the salvation of his mother and his two half - siblings, Joe and Suzy?

I texted a friend of mine and said a high school coaching staff could have put together a better game plan than PSU's in the first half.

To enlighten you my friend, lets take a small deviation and witness the ridiculous summer debauchery of Manchester United, who let slip they had money and need for players, overpaying more than 20 million in a few deals also which included meaningless high salary.

My opiniuon is the club is bigger than any player, if a player does nt want to sign sell him to the highest bidder if they chose to run down their contract» welcome to the under 18s my little friend where you will be for 12 months, no one will remember you in 12 months»

While other EPL clubs play Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich in pre-season in order to gauge themselves against the very best, to see what needs to be added to their squad, Arsenal plays Singapore 11, Lyon, Everton etc. to see where we are, this my friend serves two purposes, 1) Maybe our aspiration is no higher than Lyon, Everton and Singapore level and also to pull the wool over our eyes by dominating much lesser teams to generate massive support for the status quo.

I had a friend in high school who was older than me and able to drive before any of the rest of us, and to him Live was The Only Band That Mattered ™, and it was all he would ever play in his car, whenever we drove anywhere, and it was so fucking annoying I'm grinding my teeth just thinking about it.

center back situation: According to a friend who is deeper in transfer realm than me, one of our CB is injured and might face surgery and so the boss is looking to add a high quality CB.

Nice article... I used to be one of those staunch Wenger fans through the years... I used to believe he is superior than Sir Alex, because with almost nothing to spend and playing with kids, he managed to keep us up there every year... I was really caught up with that half season wonder we used to show... In the summer 2013, him or the board (I don't recall) came out and said we are much stable financially and now we can fight with the biggest bullies, I got my hopes high, I thought we are definitely signing a top striker and DM, that what we need... What happened, only hours before the window closed we managed to sign a top AMF (remember we have our best player for the season 2012 - 2013 was AMF, Cazorla if you remember), I was really depressed seen Giroud leading the line every match... then comes winter window, and we were right there top of the table... My friend send me a poster of an elephant on a tree, and on the bottom of it «no one knows how it got there but everybody knows how it will get down»... I told my friend that we are only one decent striker far from the gold... and what happened, we signed an old injured DM on loan... That for me was a completely arrogance and stubbornness cost us the league title... There I completely lost the plot with Wenger... I wish yesterday I was with those who raised that banner... I would write in my banner «Enough talks and philosophy, we need results»

As a friend of mine pointed out long ago, the winners don't get a lot more money than the losers in high school sports, so why would anyone risk their health for a victory that will most likely be forgotten in a few months?

«Several» is currently higher than the number of veggies going into the bodies of some of my friends» kids.

A friend of mine who graduated beauty school once told me that it's better to spend less on drugstore mascara and replace often than to invest in a higher end product.

Or, if you have a spouse or friend whose threshold for mess is higher than yours, ask them to supervise this one.

Don't want to visit that high school friend who still can make you feel lower than dirt?

«It's a public park in a very high - density neighborhood, where many homes have small yards or no yard at all,» said Plotkin, 32, a Chicago emergency room physician who, along with some of her neighbors and Friends of the Parks, is battling to preserve the park and its more than 60 trees.

We have been friends since the ninth grade (we just had our 20 year high school reunion) and her daughter is 10 months older than mine (and coincidentally we are 10 months apart in age!).

As a politically active feminist and a mother myself, I believe her time and ability to command editorial space in The Wall Street Journal would be far better spent opining about things like the need for better family leave and health care policies, improved access to birth control and higher education and affordable child care for working mothers rather than whether Angelina Jolie plans to adopt again or how long my friends plan to breastfeed their babies.

The two high school friends reunited in 2010 with the common goal to redefine screentime: to create media for kids that would benefit (rather than harm them) and help promote lessons that lay the social - emotional foundation essential for a happy, healthy life.

Higher - income children spend more time at school and activities than they once did, and have fewer opportunities to be with friends in an unstructured setting.

Yet, posting footage on the grand public forum that is Facebook for all to not only see, but comment, «like,» and of course share, constitutes more than just high - fiving from friends — even though a Facebook is clearly the equivalent.

Oh, my best friend in high school and I on more than one occasion came to school in the same outfit and it wasn't even planned.

In Bipolar 2, the manic episode is less apparent; the highs and lows are not as extreme, and sometimes it is more apparent to friends and families than to the individual going through the phases.

If I knew that the death rate at home with a midwife was 450 % higher than at a hospital and I kept that information to myself for fear of sounding «judgmental» of my friends» choices, I would certainly be in for some judgement of my own were they to experience the worst.

Two high - profile political leaders — female friends despite party differences — are at odds over Nassau's plan to charge more than $ 1 million in fees to Little Leagues and other sports and nonprofit organizations that have used county parks for free for years.

The prototype car, which has a capacity of about 150 people and cost about $ 100,000 to construct, features street - level boarding and higher average speeds than buses, according to Friends of the Brooklyn Queens Connector.