Sentences with phrase «made by friends of»

Microsoft told CPI: «We were unaware of any payments made by Friends of the House LLC to the convention committees.»

And this spicy hot sauce that is made by friends of theirs — I already popped it open and it's delicious — almost too spicy, but I can handle it.

During my 20 hours of labor, I had a loop going in my head of a statement made by a friend of mine who had three children at the time and was intent on adding more.

Entertainment King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys and a mix made by a friend of songs suggested by guests when they RSVP'd.

My mom has a collection of hand - painted wooden Christmas ornaments that, as I understand it, were made by a friend of my grandma's.

Mekorama, a game made by a friend of mine, got nominated for a Nordic Game Award.

Not exact matches

By focusing on our health, understanding and planning for worst - case scenarios, cultivating trusted friends, and rewarding ourselves periodically, we're making an investment in the future of our business.

This tool makes it faster and easier for small companies to compete for the best new employees by drawing upon their existing networks of online friends and followers.

As word of the giveaways spread, Woodman decided to make a bigger deal of them by gathering friends of the company in front of his booth at 3 p.m. each day of a show.

Explain that by quitting together at once, you're eliminating FOMO, because all you really want to see on Facebook is your real friends» posts, not the random crap that makes up most of your News Feed.

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.»

Chinese buyers also differ from U.S. consumers by relying more heavily on word of mouth to make purchases, as well as social media and referrals from friends and family.

Think of customers as friends you hope to influence by remembering the following wisdom from Dale Carnegie: «You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.»

«Beginning in November 2014 and continuing until his arrest in March 2016, CASPERSEN engaged in a Ponzi - like scheme to defraud investors, including his close friends, family members, and college classmates, by falsely claiming that their funds would be used to make secured loans to private equity firms and would thereby earn an annual rate of return of 15 to 20 percent.

I constantly get made fun of by my friends and family for wearing the same thing, but it works.

«In soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.

My family and close friends would certainly make up a large piece of it, but I hope it would also include my mentors and mentees, team colleagues, fellow board members and even strangers who were touched by my articles or speeches, shared a cross-country plane ride conversation with me or somehow crossed paths with me along the way.

Start making gradual changes by reaching out to friends and family and make a list of activities you'd like to schedule.

But not only is it important — making time for regular trips with friends and family increases one's feeling of well - being, finds a new survey by Gallup — but it's difficult.

You might found that you spend all of your time talking about the business, hashing out ideas, arguing about money, and that all the things that made you friends in the first place have fallen by the wayside.

By booking her workout classes in advance, Dunnahoo - Kirsch is able to combine the commitment she makes with the social pressure from friends she works out with, into a powerful accountability hack for keeping her version of work - life balance in line.

AggregateIQ was connected to the scandal following allegations made by Canadian data expert and whistle - blower Christopher Wylie, who was once a friend and colleague of Silvester and Massingham.

Having proved his ability to handle crystal ball work, Buffett, 86, was asked by this writer — an 87 - year - old friend of his — whether he might care to make a prediction about total returns over the 17 years starting now and ending late in 2033.

In that sea of options in my closet, there are a very select few that I really love — the ones that I know the feel of by memory and actually remember which company makes them so I can tell my friends when they ask.

However, she says, by making her content more personal and informative, and by having a discreet link to her eBay Store on the site, she both communicates to her MySpace friends about her business on eBay and stays well within the guidelines of the site.

In 1961 he lost the Masters by one stroke when he made double - bogey on the 72nd hole after accepting premature congratulations from a friend to the right side of the 18th fairway.

A contribution to the college fund of a friend or relative is unlikely to be appreciated by kids hoping for a Wii U, but it sure makes parents happy.

During a panel discussion as part of the South by Southwest Festival's interactive program, Denton admitted that the Hogan story — which was about a sex tape that the wrestler made with a friend's ex-wife, and included a short clip from the tape — didn't have an obvious point to it, apart from embarrassing Hogan.

By their senior year of high school, the friends had cashed in on a connection one of their moms» had to Jennifer Aniston, and they now make about $ 10 million per year.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

Untangling the operations of HNA, already complicated by its murky ownership and a complex array of affiliates, is made more difficult by a web of interconnected deals with friends and family members of top executives.

Developers, in turn, created apps that became emblematic of the Facebook experience — apps such as Farmville, a farming simulation game played with friends on the social network, which was made by the gaming company Zynga.

My friend Jabir makes $ 100,000 a year by not only driving ~ 50 hours a week, but also by lending out his second car, a paid off 2012 Honda Civic, to his younger brother and friend for 40 % of their profits.

The site is made by Ola and Markus in Sweden, with a lot of help from our friends in Italy, Finland, USA and contributors from all over the world.

Burnie Burns, cofounder of Austin - based Rooster Teeth, a production company with 300 - plus staffers that produced the made - for - YouTube sci - fi comedy Lazer Team and its upcoming sequel, still remembers being dumbstruck almost a decade ago, when Rooster Teeth consisted of little more than a handful of friends, by what the service offered: «They completely changed the game in terms of the ability to monetize video with pre-roll advertising.

Frequent readers of this research publication are by now long familiar with our concern about an inventory led slowdown in steel (Making Volatility our Friend: Trading the Kitchin Cycle, 5/28/14, Unsustainable Steel Premiums, 9/3/14, Revisiting the Inventory Cycle, 10/1/14).

I have friends and family that are DEms and Reps. I like to make fun of politicians and feel entertained by reading the heated discussions.

The complaint was made by businessman Shailesh Bhatt, who says he, a friend, and his driver were kidnapped from a gas station by a group of policemen from the Amreli LCB.

We don't dig up the bones of «heretics» either the way some did in the Dark Ages who held grip on the people, ruled over them by fear, and claimed they had authority of God, holding keys to heaven or hell in their possession, making people hostages by their lies... I think you have a lots of things mixed up in your mind friend!

My Christian friend tried to be a good wife by submitting to her husband and letting him make all of the decisions about finances, even though she's very good with money.

♦ A friend wrote, taking issue with my characterization of Rush Limbaugh as someone who has «made his career by denouncing people.»

Some of the friends and supporters of the gay movement are made nervous by the emphasis on reaching out to young people.

But now those are already there at yours maybe if you prepare them right as to education and training for finally deputing them to return to their own countries with the needful backup and authority they will be useful tools for the advancement and prosperity of their nations then you will have no one wanting to immigrate leaving behind their own families and friends... in addition to that you will see those who immigrated towards your country start moving back to their own countries and this is the only solution to resolve the issue of illegal immigration and to find peace... otherwise if things go on as it is today surely slowly slowly you will find that your own countries become inherited by piling up immigrants who might get starved due negligence turn on against the Host country... that has contributed in the destructions of their countries but not towards and advancements or developments of their countries and nations to find peace and make a living..!?

«All the time not having a clue that they were being whispered against, campaigned against by both Catholics & Anglicans who made it palpably clear that this initiative was detrimental to the «dialogue towards unity» and temporarily compromised their positions as oecumenical ambassadors - that this was a counter-productive «wacked - out» scheme by an ailing Pope who merely needed to be placated until he died - hence delaying tactics, obfuscations, procedurality, red tape and making everything as difficult and administratively untenable as possible; with patronising sympathy and hand - wringing at their lot while sneering, dismissing and chuckling to themselves that the whole thing will eventually come to naught... that the administration will crumble via crises and power politics andpersonality clashes and outright frustration at the situation... and ultimately the Ordinariate will be re-integrated into the Conference system and those not happy about it will crawl back to their friends in the C of E.

Little by little, though the irresistible development of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is made one.

«And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal habitations.»

It makes the limits of Laura's Christian formation painfully obvious — the only future she can imagine for her friend in the church is an ex-gay future, and she's so blindsided by disagreement that she can respond only with angry defensiveness.

But I am not a hero, I am a human and our humanity makes is do what we think is impossible with the help of other humans like yourself, who fill in the blanks left by families and friends.

Her friend knows all this, so she makes a lot of noise when she comes by and waits for the door to open.

Fortunately, I have a creationist friend, who has informed me that this can't be right, as the World is only one tenth as old (about 6,000) years and that all Australian Aboriginal languages were made by God in the Tower of Babel.