Sentences with phrase «less than a friend»

But his compounding returns will end up at almost $ 300,000 less than his friend.

Typical fears underlying academic performance anxiety or exam performance anxiety are: Fear of not gaining admission to a high profile University, fear of disappointing parents, fear of failing in life, fear of accomplishing less than our friends or siblings etc..

In Buffalo for example, charter school students receive $ 9,811 less than their friends and neighbors in district schools.

Great teachers are no less than our friends, mentors, and role models.

10 liters is less than a friend of mine gets from his 1.8 liter honda civic.

If you make significantly less than your friends, you're likely to be in debt as you try to maintain a similar lifestyle — a classic case of «Keeping Up With the Joneses.»

Your income might be significantly less than a friend earns.

To emphasize, a travel insurance policy is no less than a friend, protecting you from every possible emergency situation during your travel.

Not exact matches

This means that if you choose to start a business, thinking that it would be a good source of funds, you could very well make less money than your friend who works a minimum wage job.

In March, Price went walking with a good friend who earned less than $ 50,000 at another firm.

Less than a year later, walking down Church Street in downtown Burlington, he ran into Bob Johnson, his old friend and former warehouse manager.

If your down - on - her - luck pal has been sleeping on your sofa for the past year and earned less than $ 4,050 while you've been mostly supporting her (or him), then you may be able to claim the sponger — er, friend — as a dependent and deduct up to $ 4,050 on your federal return, even though the two of you are not related at all.

It turns out kids who have just one really close friend fared better than those who had large but less intimate social networks.

Happily, Schultz and the Starbucks organization have found and continue to find a steady supply of employees at every level of the organization who are less jaded than my journalist friend with whom I opened this article.

Millennial parents, a group The New York Times labeled «parennials,» are less likely to turn to friends and family for advice than older generations.

We're placing more expectations on our relationships than ever before — we want our partner to be our best friend, our lover, our intellectual sparring partner, maybe our co-parent — while simultaneously investing less time and energy in the relationship.

Researchers compared students» responses to those from the 1980s on things like «I have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me» and «I try to understand my friends by imagining how things look from their perspective.»

APPLE HEALTH RESEARCHER DEPARTS COMPANY: Stephen Friend, a prominent health researcher at Apple, has left the company after less than two years, according to CNBC.

Probably 30 percent, whereas it used to be less than 10 percent,» Theresia Gouw, a VC that recently left Accel to form a new firm, Aspect Ventures, with her friend and fellow experienced investor Jennifer Fonstad, told Inc.com.

Some people say renters are throwing away money on rent, but it's clear that they're throwing away less on credit card interest than their home - owning friends.

Asked to name the type of people who influence their purchasing decisions, 59 percent of Millennials listed friends — compared with less than half of non-Millennials.

If your friend or family member wants to give you a no - interest loan, make sure the loan is less than $ 100,000.

Less than a second later, a Facebook app had harvested not only Mr. Deason's profile data, but also data from the profiles of 205 of his Facebook friends.

Waited less than two weeks to get invitation after having six friends respond to my «get on the list» link.

They also receive much less financial support from friends and family, and will need more than 15 years to save enough for a 20 % down payment.

I have become fast friends with women who were strangers to me less than 6 months ago, and we have come to rely on each other for so much.»

Some patients may even prefer to speak to bots like Woebot — «your charming robot friend who is always ready to listen» — because it's less complicated than speaking to another human being.

Attending a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels less than 24 hours after being sworn in, Pompeo criticized Russia for threatening the alliance's friends and partners in Georgia and Ukraine as well as for «an aggressive campaign to undermine Western democratic institutions.»

(For instance I'm fairly confident that promiscuity is sinful, especially when it comes from a place of lust, but I'm less convinced that my committed same - sex friends are sinning by expressing their love physically any more than I am sinning when my wife and I express our love physically — even though I think we can be if we are acting out of lust or as a means of asserting power over one another, but that is another story).

I can find relative meaning here on earth in my own life with my family and friends while acknowledging that on a cosmic level my life has far less purpose than a grain of sand has purpose on a beach.

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.

As my good friend Peter Lawler would say,» studies show» that students who believe in a «harsh, punitive, vengeful, and punishing» God are less likely to cheat on a test than are non-believers or students who believe in a «loving, caring, and forgiving» God....

(Hint: I have a Ph.D., have lived in 8 states and spent 5 years abroad, voted Obama, make less than 60K, was born in Utah but left it 21 years ago, have never divorced, and raise three awesome children who you'd want your children to be friends with.)

Perhaps you've been in the midst of people like your parents, your loved ones — your circle of friends who claim to be christians — and they have let you down or proven to be less than you expected.

There is no indication that praying to a carton of milk is any less effective than praying to your imaginary friend.

My dear friend who died in less than 18 months from aggressive breast cancer was told by the vicar to apologise to the church committee about a minor matter or «consider her future as a member» (I helped her prepare her reply and told her that she couldn't say what she wanted to say, she was insistent but I was emphatic «it's not the content....

I lost one of my best friends to suicide less than two years ago and through a Professor my friend and I had at different times, another student game me a copy of the writing by Norman Vincent Peale.

And let us not underestimate the importance of friendship, for, as Hauerwas notes in his essay, «God intends nothing less than to make us His friends and, therefore, friends with one another.»

Although we occupy a different time and place than our friend Chaucer, we are a people no less laughable and in need of grace than his pilgrims.

Your friends should not feel guilty because they have less than «loving»» feelings for their mother's at all times.

In 1998, at the height of the Clinton impeachment battle, evangelical voters were constantly confronting accusations from their secular, leftist friends that «it was all politics,» that evangelicals were less concerned with Bill Clinton's indiscretions than they were about his party identification.

But as more and more of us find ourselves called upon to provide such prosthetic support to afflicted parents, relatives, or friends, we may find it a challenge to remember that such patients are never less than persons.

We would be less than candid if we did not acknowledge that such suspicions have been directed at our friend, and frequent FT contributor, Jean Bethke Elshtain.

This is because her life radiates beauty: through her hospitality to friends and strangers alike, through her joyful laugh, through her care of those in need, through her passion for education, through her love of framing things on film through the lens of a camera, through her ability to be patient with her doofus husband, through her genuine love for God, through her sacrificial generosity to those with less than we have, and even through her stubborn refusal to let me get away with any of my trademark snark.

Seventeen per cent of older people are in contact with family, friends and neighbours less than once a week.

My changes and current views on these questions are causing me to be more concerned about following Jesus, making disciples, caring for the poor, feeding the hungry, loosing the captives, living on less, loving others, and making friends with people on the fringes than ever before.

I don't need religion to tell me that I'm less of a person because I'm a woman, or that my friends aren't really people because they love differently than the majority.

The prodigal son, the friend at midnight, and the unmerciful servant are allegories, she believes, but they are no less authentic bearers of the mystery of the Kingdom than other figurative modes of expression.

A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination (Leviticus 10:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality.

But all obscenity is less insulting than, «How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do.»