Sentences with phrase «of folks around»

There are a lot of folks around here with 2nd home beachhouses.

Hey Minnesota folks - @Michael Tempel, @Alan Mackenthun, @Jon Loca, @Dan B., @Nick Wight, @Jay Lohn (and anyone else)- Any of you folks around Tomorrow (Thursday, May 21st) morning?

It's not the best implementation though, and several times I had to shake the phone violently — to the surprise of folks around me — to capture a screenshot making it a pointless «shortcut».

Not sure why all the downvotes but probably because people here (and in general most of the folks around you) carry some sort of debt and use CC's.

Though we were at two completely different events, in two different states, the common thread (besides a whole lot of folks around who love books and writing them) was the cooperative spirit of authors helping authors.

I have a list of cards that describe certain personality types drawn from my observation of the folks around me and I use these as background to my fictional characters in order to imbue them with a sense of verisimilitude.

Very convenient when you need to haul a bunch of folks around.

But plenty of folks around blogland have been up to their amazing tricks again.

You'll find yourself more attuned to your own needs and to those of the folks around you.

People tend to adopt the same mindset of folks around them.

This mother of four works full - time while attending classes at Lakeland Community College, and takes care of a lot of folks around her — including her mother, and her three dogs, not to mention her students!

But lots of folks around the world who cook their dinner over flames would disagree.

The preacher Casey in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath says at one point, «One person, with their minds made up, can shove a lot of folks around.»

But, my friend can we not say that about the majority of folks around the planet?

«Having a broad network of investors is something that I've decided to do, you know, for all my businesses, because you want a good syndicate of folks around you when things are tough,» he says.

Speaking to Eurogamer, Williamson said: «Some of the folk around the office are saying hey, we could be the biggest Battle Royale game in the western world, which is crazy.

Not exact matches

Lots of folks are rallying around the young professional community because they see this is the next generation of leadership.

Not only does physically getting up now and again protect you from the truly horrible health consequences of too much sitting, but taking quick «smoke breaks» (sans cigarette) when you feel your mental energy depleting (for most folks around every 90 minutes seems to be a good rule of thumb) ensures you'll get more done in the long run.

The citizens of the host country expunge all cynicism and find their eyes filling with tears; television viewers around the globe are inspired by a new generation of fresh - faced athletes, many of them competing in events which would draw almost zero interest in any other context; the networks and sponsors breathe a great sigh of relief knowing that their massive investment was sound; and the folks in Lausanne smile a secret smile.

The folks in and around the Duluth metro area know how to rock the vote — more than 70 % of residents 18 and older turn out on Tuesdays to cast a ballot, according to data from the American Community Survey.

Because the image of this farm boy from Smaland — hardworking, thrifty, with all this mythology around him, close to the common folk... the Kamprad sons, who grew up in a very different world, don't represent that at all.

To New Jersey folks, that's a huge subsidy - the state collects around $ 2.5 billion in corporate taxes each year, so they're offering Amazon about 14 percent of the taxes paid by other businesses for the next two decades.

And around Fort McMurray, Alta., thousands of workers continue to use mining trucks and steam - assisted gravity draining (SAGD) to extract nearly three million barrels of oil daily, confident that folks somewhere will demand the stuff, no matter how it gets to refineries and customers.

But I digress... what we want to know — and there is a consensus around this among the FX folks I talk to, but having it explicitly stated would certainly be useful and potentially market - moving — is whether these election results nudge the Bank of Canada's «risk management» approach to setting monpol in one direction or another.

«I do feel like Microsoft has a vast opportunity here for thinking about evolving some of these programs towards «How do we engage further, how do we continue to add more value, how do we help folks accelerate innovation in and around what we're doing, so that it creates more value for the market, how it creates more value for our customers?»»

The NDP folks are nice and will do a good job in government; they will actually work rather than loll around in the house of corruption avoiding the questions of the opposition parties as I noted when I went to the legislature to present my banned self to my MLA — Mr. Mandel.

The good folks of BuzzStream had 20 spare Beta invites laying around, which means that I can offer access to the (still free) service to the first 20 people who leave a comment (or drop me an email).

Earlier this year, around the time of the Strategic Investment Conference, I was hanging out with the folks from Mauldin Economics.

Now, said Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Muñoz said, «the folks who were jockeying to get into meetings or struggling over manifests are just kind of not around anymore.»

Each year, we put together a list of the most anticipated conferences around the globe focused on connecting FinTech folks with the companies moving the needle in the industry.

«Sorry folks, I'm just not a fan of sharks — and don't worry, they will be around long after we are gone,» he tweeted in 2013, before adding, «Sharks are last on my list — other than perhaps the losers and haters of the world!»

(RM) A lesson in taking seriously theological perspectives that have stood the test of time, and in thinking about how these ancient truths can be made relevant to folks who hang around places like Las Vegas.

I know that I see elements of divine around me in things and in ways that others don't, including other religious people... And as long as different religions and even sects constantly argue about what god truly is, and as long as they come up with different asnwers, then I have to say that the spiritual elements of our universe simply manifest differently for different folks, including not at all for some... as with those who label themselves as athiest...

It's almost like we looked around and said, «Well, marriage is really difficult, and a lot of folks never experience intimacy, joy or happiness in their marriages, so let's just tell them marriage is supposed to make them holy instead.»

Jesus» original disciples likely never thought of him as anything more than a great rabbi, and some might have thought him a good rallying point for a revolt, they could have even whispered that he was anointed by God, but the idea of his being divine only seems to enter into the gospels around the time many Greek educated folks had converted, bringing their own views of what a «son of God» means into the faith.

You folks need to come out of the bubble and look around.

It's been more than thirty years since Jesus turned everything right - side - up for my folks and I felt the weight of that choice at the table that night, watching all this little kid crew, another generation, all perched around my kitchen table by the light of candles in the darkness, telling us grown - ups all the things we already knew about Jesus.

A lot of pro-choice folks like to say that «no one is pro-abortion,» but when celebratory concert series and festivals are organized around the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, I can't help but question the degree to which we have desensitized ourselves to the reality that abortion means the termination of, at the very least, a potential life, something that should never be celebrated with balloons and rock concerts.

Thanks to the folks at Ethika Politika, these exchanges keep swirling around Weigel's vision of an Evangelical Catholicism and the ecumenism it promotes as part of the path forward.

It has become something of a sport for folks in the evangelical, neo-Reformed tradition to take to the internet to draw out the «boundaries of evangelicalism,» boundaries which inevitably fall around their own particular theological distinctions and which seem to grow narrower and narrower with every blog post on the topic.

Folks, you can't get around it: The first profit of the LSD church, Joseph Smith, put it in the pillars and tenant of faith, said «You can tell a lie as long as you don't offend a church member»... Well, lets see what the other non-members think of the Mormon religion and its trust in the Romoney / Ryan ticket now.

It has various names, but whatever we call it, it means understanding, friendship, sympathy, and appreciation of other people not those of our race, or our nation, or our economic class, but of all the folk that God has made the world around.

The ADL has the right to be inconsistent in its support of religious freedom at various places around the country — but they have allied their organization with the wrong folks in the NYC discussions.

Why is it JVD that around 2 thousand years of our civilizations ongoing mannerisms are daily being subjected to folks like you who would rather be religiously bound up and hog tied in transfixed ideologies that will never truly find their messiah's returning?

But I look at the folks who stand in the heat to vote, or sit on the benches at commission meetings scribbling notes, or strategize around seas of coffee at kitchen tables, and I'm humbled.

Deny all facts around you, and just admit that you're scared of what you don't know, while us non-religious folks grow our minds and humanity's body of knowledge so we can make the world a better place.

If it weren't for seeing there was a «way out» of the banality of my military high school setting by hanging around mature folks, I would never have made it.

The folk explosion has moved on, but Gundersen will be writing songs like this as long as he's around — exploring the Venn Diagrams of family, God, time, women and his own slippery heart.

I have been kicking around on this with a couple of folks who think of me as a heretic as well, I will post the longer version on my blog.

I think what's exciting is that the peculiar folks that have taken many of God's commands around economics really seriously — like the Mennonites and the Amish — are experiencing huge revival right now.