Sentences with phrase «of a friend of a friend who»

It's kind of like, figure out if you have a friend of a friend of a friend who has anything like the kind of job you want to get and get that person's time, and see if they'll give you some ideas or if they're willing to read your work and give feedback on it.

Shes just a friend of a friend of a friend who occasionally reads my writing on the Internet.

Just look around: practically everyone knows someone, or has heard of a friend of a friend who met their partner through an online dating service.

Not exact matches

My developer who has been with me for two years has been a friend of my family for 10 years and I trust him to support me and my business.

«After several months of interviews with friends, teachers and coaches still reeling from the shock, what emerges is a portrait of a boy who glided through life, showing virtually no signs of anger, let alone radical political ideology or any kind of deeply felt religious beliefs,» the magazine explained.

JM: It's mainly been that we look at our userbase, we look at where they have the most friends, and that's mainly the function of what cities we're in, just because it's really about the social connections, so when we go to a city that has a lot of friends who are already using Hinge, it makes it a lot easier for us to get off the ground.

In this year's letter published Wednesday, Bezos again stressed the idea of long - term thinking, using an anecdote about a friend who visited a handstand coach who told her it would take six months to master the skill:

Said Connie Steele, director of Network Solutions: «Social media can be the best friend for small business owners who constantly seek new ways to attract new customers and retain the ones they have at a relatively low cost.»

Fielding is a friend and former mentee of the legendary Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, who also invested in the company.

This is further complicated by the fact that Graham is close friends with secretary of defense Robert McNamara, who is the one who commissioned the Pentagon Papers as, he said, a record for future administrations to study.

Because of that, Dunbar feels we have different layers or slices of friends: One or two truly best friends (like your significant other and maybe one other person), then maybe 10 people with whom we have «great affinity» and interact with frequently, and then all sorts of other people we're friendly with but who aren't actually friends.

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.

The key is to have three or four really, really good friends, and then, of course, plenty of people who aren't necessarily friends but are fun to be around, or result in a mutually beneficial relationship, or share common interests.

(And of course that also means that only about half the time do you consider someone who thinks of you as a friend to be your friend.)

So many of my friends who are engineers who I worked with who has gone out and made companies of their own and go and work at other companies.

But when I asked an investment banker friend of mine who had been at this same party about this, I had hardly begun before she said, «I know exactly what you're talking about!»

Attempting to raise funding for their effort to develop a novel therapy for persistent viral infections, the co-founders, who've been best friends since they grew up together in Philadelphia, were on the verge of giving up and heading back to the east coast when Peter Thiel personally persuaded them to stay in town.

Cuban personally thought Trump deserved a C - minus, but then explained how others may feel differently, citing a conversation he had with one of his friends who surprised him with his vote for Trump.

I sat standing 1 foot away from somebody who's been in prison for 15 years of his life and I had 60 seconds to open up to him about something that causes me pain in my life while he stares into my eyes I found myself going deeper than I would with even friends or family.

«We're hardwired to look for signals of friend or foe, to sense hostility, and to determine who's the leader.»

Taco Bell's posts are full of bold, monochrome backgrounds and models who wear sunglasses and stylish haircuts while laughing with their friends.

In part, that's because media ownership is concentrated among friends of the government, but it's also because those who report on military action are often censored.

Charlie Sykes, a recently retired conservative Wisconsin radio host who had been friends with Clarke for the better part of 20 years, couldn't stay silent when he saw the tweet.

There's usually two sisters who are kind of equally messed up and are friends and then enemies and then friends again.

Gawker began a court - ordered auction of its business on Monday after losing a $ 140 - million court case earlier this year involving former wrestler Hulk Hogan, who sued Gawker for invasion of privacy after it published a clip from a sex tape he made with a friend's wife.

Netanyahu, who called Pompeo a «true friend of Israel, echoed the Secretary's focus on Iran, stressing the closeness of U.S. and Israeli cooperation on the issue.

Check out of your own business and you risk hurting your employees, customers, and people — including family and friends — who gave you money because they believed in you.

Hire people who are positive, optimistic and open - minded and who will be willing to be friends with people who don't fit the mold of the people they've been friends with in the past.

However, there's a type of boss out there who tries a little too hard to be a friend to one or more of his employees, and this type of boss can cause some real problems in the workplace.

The next time I needed to negotiate, I was able to talk to a lawyer, talk to a banker who is a friend of mine, and say OK, I don't want to accept this as it is.

You need a team of cheerleaders - family, friends and mentors who will be there to celebrate the highs, and support you during the lows.

Probably not many, but Bernat insists chatting with your friend who is bummed about Christmas is definitely not one of them.

A guy will swear to you that it was a friend of a friend's sister who disappeared on prom night 20 years ago and her ghost now hitchhikes along the lonely road between town and the old cemetery.

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.

Then he got arrested a third time after selling larger quantities of the drug to a friend who turned out to be an informant.

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.

«Paradoxically, big get - togethers can be easier to prioritize than smaller ones,» writes Vanderkam, offering the example of a busy professor who plans an annual getaway for her old college friends and their families.

«I'm going to Cancun next week, and so far I've heard of someone who got kidnapped there, someone who got blackmailed by the police, and another person who was arrested having their friend's blood on their shirt.»

Along the way, I greeted locals out harvesting their food for the day, and made a friend of Luz, a white horse who I'd see every time my run came to an end.

It all started when Australian Tumblr user Feminerds posted a photo on their feed of a friend who is a zookeeper taming her walruses just like Owen does.

The Spades had cashed out of their business in 2006, and shortly afterward, Spade and longtime friend and colleague Anthony Sperduti, who had been an art director at Kate Spade and Jack Spade, started working on a variety of branding and art projects together, eventually creating their own branding studio, Partners & Spade.

The study looked at 149 participants in networking and business groups from the United States, Belgium, India, Japan, Australia and England and found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves and didn't write them down.

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 sum, social media users are not any more likely to feel stress than others, but there is a subgroup of social media users who are more aware of stressful events in their friends» lives and this subgroup of social media users does feel more stress,» the report states.

But the stories of the people who created these acclaimed works are just as fascinating and inspiring as the ones we see in theaters, ranging from partnerships between newfound friends, finally getting to yes after years of hard work and the remarkable work ethics of idiosyncratic minds.

Immediately call peers, mentors, and friends in the industry to get the names of people who could temporarily fill in.

Peter Stormare, a face any Big Lebowski or Fargo fans know and love, plays a black - suited surrogate who will fill in wherever your life needs you — jobs, lady friends, what not — so you can focus on «your responsibility to kick ass» with the new Call of Duty release.

The company engineered two three - month loans, totaling $ 300,000, from a private party — «a friend of a friend,» says Anderson — who required the owners to put up 10 % of their equity as collateral and make principal and interest payments of $ 75,000 a month.

Whether finding a great co-founder, who has complementary skill sets (in my case, an old friend I met at theater camp over 20 years ago), or picking your executive team exclusively composed of «A» players (who you can alternately delegate to — or be inspired by), you need a bunch of great teammates to be successful when creating a new business.»

The research team is worried about what these results might mean for the decision - making of soldiers and police who work odd hours and whose jobs require them to make subtle distinctions between friend and foe, threatening and nonthreatening.