Sentences with phrase «of a few friends who»

That can work wonders, and I've heard of a few friends who thought iOS 11 seemed faster after a reboot.

During her pregnancy and in the early newborn days, Sara relied a lot on the advice of a few friends who'd been down the road of twindom before, and she credits the hacks and commiseration of other parents of multiples for getting her through that first year with her twins.

So using the blockchain technology to create the first land title document with the help of a few friends who had in - depth knowledge about blockchain, time - stamping and mapping, I started Bitland.

Not exact matches

For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.

Maybe they have a friend or a relative who works in the White House who could get you a west wing tour of the oval office few other visitors can access.

In 2014, she undertook a project to study the social media accounts of a few of her «superfans,» learning what they liked, who they were friends with, where they worked and other personal details.

A few years ago, I got asked by one of my friends who is in PR, Heather West, to do some social - media consulting for Ramona Singer, a star from the Bravo TV show, The Real Housewives of New York City.

I've had a few iPhone - toting colleagues and friends who were curious about the Pixel 2's camera, which is widely reported as one of the best cameras on a smartphone.

Google Glass announced on Monday that it will expand its Explorer Program over the next few weeks, allowing Explorers (people who have been trying out the wearable computer device) to invite three of their friends to join the program.

I'd had a few of my friends who were also creating online content say it was important to put stuff out on different platforms.

As Elliott ramped up its pressure on Arconic, friends and colleagues of Kleinfeld, along with board members of Arconic, reported more suspicious run - ins: Others who live near the CEO were followed to a local restaurant by strangers who then approached the couple; they claimed to be considering investing with Kleinfeld, but first had a few questions.

«I've had a few friends who are influencers who were thinking of jumping onto Snapchat who texted me and said, «Whelp, now I don't have to join,»» he said.

«I saw most of my friends who were a few years ahead of me struggling financially,» said Bohlig, 32, who was introduced to Amway by a college friend.

But evidence is mounting that who we «friend,» what we «like» and share, can be used by malevolent groups to target entire swaths of the population with a few keystrokes.

Andrew Smithers, one of the few other analysts who foresaw the credit implosion and remains a credible voice now, concurred last week in an interview with my friend Kate Welling (a former Barrons» editor now at Weeden & Company): «The good news so far is that the stock market got down to pretty much fair value or even, possibly, a tickle below it, at its March bottom.

I know a lot of friends who will debate to the end of the earth a few half percents of interest on funds but neglect that actually investing more money would probably be the first step.

I have never been even remotely an expert either on iron and steel production or on the Australian economy, but recent action in the iron ore markets and a vibrant debate within Australia has, in the past three weeks, set me up for several planned and unplanned meetings with Australians — some old friends, some fund managers and bankers, some government officials — who remembered some of the comments I made a few years ago about Australia and iron ore and who wanted to discuss future prospects.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel obtained copies of some of the letters showing that Cruz, who had few friends in the outside world, is now being showered with attention.

Until one day of course, he gets to talking to his rich and self - employed friend, Mike who only worked a few hours a week and yet was absolutely loaded.

Recently, I was talking to a few friends — really faithful folks who attend church regularly and who, above all other things, self - identify as Christians — about the subject of unemployment.

Another friend who works for a large Christian missions organization told me that the number of participants they were sending into the mission field this summer was down by 60 percent, which translates into a few thousand missionaries for them.

April, his wife, who's checking her iPhone on the bed of DeMoss» hotel room, says they've lost a few friends over Romney, too.

In my own case (and in no way am I saying that this is true for Julie or any other person who has been hushed up, tangled up or fucked up by an abusive system or a specific person), as I spoke my truth out loud to trusted friends and even a few strangers and unwitting passersby and heard their responses, I realized that I had formerly seen only part of the truth.

But the studies reveal that very few of these remain devoted followers of Jesus Christ, and of those few, the same studies show that the reason they remained followers is not because of the crusade, but because of the Christian friends and family around them who were there to walk with them in following Jesus.

In 1942, Bonhoeffer met a few friends at Werder, and among them was Werner von Haeften, who was a staff lieutenant of the Army High Command.

For the next few weeks, I'll be getting by with a little help from my friends — specifically, some of my favorite bloggers, who have contributed challenging, thoughtful, and beautifully - written posts.

all of my friends who are muslims are women, i know few but i am close with them.

Deborah went to the Latymer Christian Centre and described how she is helping people find loved ones: «A few of my friends are going around different hospitals, that live in neighbouring areas, and taking a list of names of people who've been brought to A&E.

From this fund, we regularly buy groceries for needy families, make chicken soup for our sick friends, watch the children so a deployed soldier's wife can get a few hours to herself, take blessings baskets to folks who need a smile after life's tripped them up, and numerous other ways of blessing and loving others.

A few years ago, a friend of mine who had recently moved to my city was looking for a church.

If God isn't that reasonable, well, I'll enjoy my time chilling with Nietzche, Buddha, some of my good friends, a few favorite professors, my therapist, my favorite aunt and uncle, Gandhi, some of our founding fathers, and all of those other folks who do not subscribe to Christianity or don't follow it to the letter.

Even if we are the special few who were not raised with the media as our pacifiers, we definitely had friends, family members, teachers, classmates, colleagues and so on, who were raised believing this is just commonplace behavior, influencing our early - forming minds in the process of simply doing life together.

A few years ago, a friend who frequents the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. told me that he had seen the former Speaker there often, speculating that Gingrich was likely going to convert to Catholicism.

I do believe Jesus was a guy who had some good friends and made a living one of the few ways you could in his day, and meanwhile spread some messages that were, for the time, progressive.

And I have found, even from my friends of other faiths (of which I have a few), that people appreciate others who genuinely believe their traditions are more than an amalgamation of pieces of other faiths discarded down the highway of human history.

The charity currently recruits volunteers in three areas - host families who are able to look after a child for anywhere between a few days to a few weeks, family friends to befriend and mentor parents through difficult times and resource friends to supply a range of goods and services depending on what the individual family needs.

And one of her few friends, a person who admired her deeply, remarked that he had never once known her to yield a point in an argument!

A few years before his death, he received some of the Jews who remembered that he had been their true friend during and after the war.

Some friends were apprehensive that my wearing such a hat savored of an affected singularity: those who spoke with me in a friendly way, I generally informed in a few words, that I believed my wearing it was not in my own will.»

In speaking with my friends and family who are religious, very few of them have ever read anything in the bible other than what they were directed to at church (a statistic that has been repeatedly observed).

Indeed, few Supreme Court decisions have ever been the object of such instant and severe censure, much of it coming from those who were no particular friends of the unborn child.

I made a few friends over there, but none closer than a boy about my age named Ken, who was positively giddy about the idea of freedom.

But the bonus is you get to find out who the real friends are (and there are a few) from THAT bunch, plus a whole bunch of new friends.

One of the things that really launched his blog was that he had a good friend who owns a blog that gets millions of pageviews a month, and this popular blogger spent a few months mentioning and recommending this new blog by his friend.

I have a friend who claims to have seen a UFO from distance of a few feet, another friend who claims to have been within a foot of an alien from another planet and another who claims to have visited other times.

In the words of novelist John le Carre, who has studied the Muslim world extensively and set some of is stories there, «What America longs for at this moment, even above retribution, is more friends and fewer enemies.»

I was also beaten by random girls for no reason, put into a dumpster, tied up in an abandoned rv by some sick teens who thought that was funny, almost raped by a man while walking down the street at the age of 17 but because I screamed he only made me jack him off (at knife point), almost raped at a friend of a friend's house when we just dropped in for a minute, was impovershed growing up, even to the point where we didn't have power in the middle of winter, had to sleep all in the same bed to stay warm and used our pantry as a refrigerator, lived (and I mean LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the time.

Myself and few of my other blogger friends teamed up with Hodgson Mill, who is sponsoring this giveaway, to give away this pretty awesome baking package!!!

A good friend recently asked me if I could put together a few ideas for finger foods that she could easily serve up to guests, but men in particular, as she lives with a few hockey / football loving males who spend a lot of time glued to their TV sets in the early fall watching Sunday sports.

This recipe looks amazing and will be fabulous for a friend who is gluten - free (I might sneak in a few pieces of choco - heaven myself!)