Sentences with phrase «of acquaintance for»

The main source of acquaintance for both the church sample and the general population sample was direct mail, which was named in 72 percent of the cases.

New site of acquaintances for you.»

Not exact matches

For example, you might note to a new acquaintance that you just marked your fifteenth year in marketing, having progressed into a role that lets you work with some of the smartest people in the business.

Jen had a great interview with the owner of a small marketing business, a longtime family acquaintance, for a job she was fully qualified for.

Other studies have discovered that as people age, they seek out situations that will lift their moods — for instance, pruning social circles of friends or acquaintances who might bring them down.

Resisting the urge to post this story on Twitter, my friend settled for sharing this story with a handful of acquaintances on Facebook.

When I stopped by the Horseshoe, he was buying drinks for everyone who showed up — friend, acquaintance or media — urging people to try out a bike or enjoy a complimentary taco and then settling in the back of the club when the music started: a couple of little - known local indie bands played, and Broken Social Scene member Brendan Canning — dressed as if he'd just arrived from Wimbledon's centre court — did a DJ set.

As you look through your email contacts, Facebook friends and LinkedIn communities for those who may help support your campaign, put them into separate lists of friends, family, acquaintances and business associates.

Women are also less likely to tap personal networks of close friends and business acquaintances for financing, though men and women seemed equally likely to approach banks for financing.

If you've been referred by a mutual acquaintance, do not save that for the body of the email, says Augustine.

I first learned of Stone Temple and their great work in SEO and digital marketing through an acquaintance, and interviewed CEO Eric Enge for a post on Maximize Social Business awhile back.

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Would you rather have a great core group of colleagues, or a bunch of acquaintances who will show up for your launch party but rarely offer to help you when you need it?

Acquaintances I know are letting out their rental properties as airbnb instead now, you can make the same yield for a year in a few months, while avoiding the spotlight of opprobrium; plus ca change & all that.

(a name which, combined with the group's penchant for posting scarcely any actual scientific material but a lot of pictures of natural phenomena, has prompted more than one actual scientist of my acquaintance to mutter under her breath, «What you truly love is pictures»).

David brought it home as to why genuine Christians have been despised, saying: «In you, O Jehovah, have I taken refuge... For you are my crag and my stronghold... From the standpoint of all those showing hostility to me I have become a reproach, and to my neighbors very much so, and a dread to my acquaintances.»

This factor may help to explain the reported sharp rise of sexual activity within the Postmature category, those sixty - five years and older (a number of «postmature» citizens of my acquaintance, for instance, would likely decline to participate even before getting to the questions on necrophilia and sadomasochism).

She prepared her song and dance routine (tears, drama the works) for the acquaintance of ours.

So there you have it: Speaking for myself, I have friends and professional relationships and acquaintances (and I'm sure, enemies) on all sides of this.

The third type of preparation for counseling alcoholics is an acquaintance with the insights contained in the literature dealing specifically with this kind of counseling.

He is clearly a man whose long acquaintance with these texts has endowed him with an enviable knowledge of their bounties, and a deep enthusiasm for their complexities and subtleties.

Take «narly,» for instance — a word which, in my limited acquaintance, seems capable of an almost infinite range of....

The means for this is a deepening acquaintance with the patterns of feeling and acting that one has acquired in relation to the important persons in one's own psychic history, coupled with a deepening appreciation of the worth of one's self.

Take «narly,» for instance — a word which, in my limited acquaintance, seems capable of an almost infinite range of meanings, indicating anything from enthusiastic approval to violent hatred.

One can not gain even a little acquaintance with the early church — which means, one can not do even a little reading in the New Testament — without recognizing not only the importance of what the word «Christ» stands for in its life, but also the richness and manifoldness of this same reality.

In describing the need for criteria within the corrective task, I noted that to know what «Jesus Christ» means requires acquaintance with a widening circle of «assumptions and prerequisites, cultural backgrounds, and definitions of concepts.»

Tate's thorough acquaintance with regional and national literature of the 19th and 20th centuries gave him an excellent vantage point for observing the evolution of southern literature over a considerable length of time.

[Benevolent sexism] did relate to rape myth acceptance in cases of acquaintance rape (Abrams et al., 2003), which accounts for about two thirds of all rapes committed (U.S. Department of Justice, 2005; RAINN 2012).

He was glad to make the acquaintance of a Roman officer who approached Him, and He expressed admiration for his simple soldierly outlook.

An excellent gift for a priest of your acquaintance who may, from time to time, feel beleaguered or bewildered about what it means to be a priest.

Among the latter are faith, compassion, good will, indefatigability, acquaintance with the books of the Teaching, reverence for himself and for others, worship of the Buddhas, etcetera.

The other consists in an acquaintance with the nature of religious experience, an acquaintance which, after all, is the indispensable prerequisite for the work of the historian of religion.

For a competent handling of subjects which pertain to the domain of psychology, sociology of religion etc., a solid grounding in methodology and, generally, an acquaintance with the results of scholarship in the respective field has to be expected.

Such acquaintance with world literature and such exquisite sensibility would not be of note except for two points — that Shiqaqi was, until his assassination in Malta a few weeks ago, an Islamist (or what is frequently called a «fundamentalist» Muslim) and that he headed Islamic Jihad, the arch-terrorist organization that has murdered dozens of Israelis over the last two years.

My duty to act in love to try to secure for them justice, insofar as my voice or vote or influence extends, is not limited by the fact that my personal acquaintance extends to only a small fraction of this number.

A young Chicano of my acquaintance remarked one day when we were talking about the options for young girls in her culture:

Since my acquaintance of the Guild for Psychological Studies is somewhat recent, I have asked Dr. Howes to write a brief appendix for this book, outlining the Guild's approach in more precise detail and providing several examples of the kinds of questions asked.

I know of no better catalyst for this kind of self - examination, this intimate acquaintance with oneself, than the crisis of having a child.

For my friends and acquaintances that are GLBT, the ability to have a legal standing on par with heterosexual couples carries weight in every area of their lives.

For instance, an acquaintance of mine on the national staff of a Protestant denomination was deeply disturbed when an evangelical conference on porn used a photo of a woman's naked breast among its examples — hardly a case of the material available in porn shops.

A minister whose career is suffused with a perception of the «great church,» whose thinking bears the imprint of his or her acquaintance with living members of many church traditions, will be a minister who understands and knows how to welcome people searching for a new church home, those who have married into a new denomination, and those who feel that they must turn away from some aspect of their own history.

Philip Kapleau's Three Pillars of Zen was for a time a kind of bible of the counter-culture, influencing thousands who had only the most casual acquaintance with Zen meditation.

Still, this much is true: From the moment Scooter Libby was indicted, all the way down to this moment of his sentencing, I have judged the character of many acquaintances in the worlds of writers, public intellectuals, and conservative politicians ¯ their courage and their trustworthiness ¯ by a simple measure: whether or not they stood up for Scooter Libby.

As for me, I had theoretical knowledge from my acquaintance with Buddhist literature, of the non-theistic tenets of Buddhism.

He met there many of the people who would become close friends or remain acquaintances for the rest of his life, and many of whom would play some part in the unfolding drama which was to be set in motion by himself.

My aunt spoke of her dad's love for her mother, who currently lives with demetia, and for his three daugthers; she wrote to me about his kindness and thoughtfulness towards acquaintances such as the security guard at his building, his joyful disposition towards life, and his caring attitude.

Chris is an acquaintance of mine, and I watched him demonstrate his technique for pulled pork at Kingsford University in Arizona a few years ago (article is here).

In 2012 an acquaintance offered to introduce me to Jeff Carter and his amazing and talented team of winemakers and the head of distribution for SCW.

I hope your 2016 has been wonderful so far As I spent the last of 2015 working like crazy (nannying, catering two parties for my friend David, making regular cookie deliveries to a jeweler downtown, figuring out this food blogging thing, etc), traveling to Texas and back, and making dinner for 300 of my closest acquaintances, I hope 2016 brings a lot of naps.

Spooky, the childhood acquaintance was out of prison and had been going by the name Alex Ramos for years now, hunting women at bars and clubs, just as he had once hunted Alex's own sister, Miriam.