Sentences with phrase «of his few friends in»

When he first came to the District to settle in, he crashed with one of his few friends in town.

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In fact, according to the researchers, the health risk of having few friends was similar to smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and more dangerous than being obese or not exercising in terms of decreasing your lifespaIn fact, according to the researchers, the health risk of having few friends was similar to smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and more dangerous than being obese or not exercising in terms of decreasing your lifespain terms of decreasing your lifespan.

The season, which really picks up in the final episodes, also follows a lovely romance between Kate's dad and her friend Luke's mom, which is one of the few «parent» stories on a teen show that's not a complete waste of screen time.

A few weeks ago, my friend and I embarked on a camping trip — the same one that could have been helped with the military's super underwear — and we wasted a good deal of time tooling around in Barrie, Ontario looking for the Mountain Equipment Co-op outdoors supply store.

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.

Whether it's coaching a kids» sports team like the CEO of Insureon, playing a regular game of pickup soccer like celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson, or extending a standing invitation to your friends for a Sunday evening supper like Huckabee, all the successful people profiled in the book plot out their weekends in advance (though not every minute; just a few «anchor events,» as Vanderkam dubs them) and make active use of the hours they have.

That summer, at a time - share they split with friends in the Hamptons, their relationship just a few tender months old, Mia brought a dozen of her jumbo - size vanilla coconut cupcakes to the beach — and Jason smelled an opportunity.

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.

Founding a company is a sheer act of will and tenacity in the face of immense skepticism from everyone — investors, customers, friends, family, and employees, to name a few.

Back in the day, it typically took a season finale, a few friends and a bowl of corn chips to throw a TV party, but all it takes now is a few tweets.

I had a few friends living in the Bay Area, plenty of work, and I was able to lock in a rent - controlled apartment prior to my arrival.

With a small stock market where institutional investors have been in short supply since the nationalisation of pension funds in 2008, and few angel investors or venture capital funds, the traditional source of seed capital is what is known as FFF: friends, family and fools.

Billion - dollar startups are sprouting like dandelions in Silicon Valley these days, but that certainly wasn't the case 10 years ago this week, when Arianna Huffington launched a blogging site with the help of a few celebrity friends.

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 was watching all that on TV with a friend — an English professor — and when I mentioned that I was thinking of going hiking with Adamson in the Rockies in a few days, he laughed uproariously.

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 asIn 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 asin 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.

Quite a few of our friends in the foreign policy expert community have ridden their opposition to Trump all the way into Clinton's camp, declaring they will vote for her bid for president.

The portrait of Nikolas Cruz, suspected of fatally shooting 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland and wounding 15 others at his former school, is a troubled teen with few friends and an obsessive interest in weapons.

It is going to be much more difficult for a competitor to enter a business which requires hundreds of millions of dollars in startup capital than it is for a retailer, which can be opened for a minuscule fraction of the cost (e.g., there are very few entities in the world that could start an airplane manufacturer to go head - to - head with Airbus or Boeing, but you and your friends could probably gather the capital necessary to lease a space at the local mall and start your own business).

Kosinski had expected a few dozen college friends to fill in the questionnaire, but before long, hundreds, thousands, then millions of people had revealed their innermost convictions.

He has co-authored published studies with titles such as «On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» and «The Role of Positive Self - Evaluation on Cross-Cultural Differences in Well - Being.»

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 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.

I began working with SEO in early 2002 when a few friends of mine were building real estate websites and were spending tons of money (it seemed at the time at least) on Overture.

A close friend of mine is expecting to have his first daughter in the next few weeks.

excerpt: «My Indo - American friend made a few other observations about the coverage that we're seeing, which is that he's not actually being treated poorly over there, and it's more that certain politicians and business leaders don't want to be associated with members of the Indian Cabinet, which is controversial in large swaths of Indian society.

Titled «On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» it studied the social ties between wealthy people around the world and was published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences in 2015.

I still haven't gotten around to paying back any student loans, but I can eat now, I can pay my rent, I have some great friends, and I've had the privilege of playing and working with some of my inspirations in the last few months.

I've been friends with the people at the Foundation for Economic Education since I first discovered them in college and over the past few years have spoken at a number of their summer seminars, helped them improve some of their marketing, and did some photography for them one summer.

While people often link to, read and enjoy sources that link out manipulatively, very few of us will be likely to follow a Twitter account, friend someone on Facebook, or «like» something in a social site that's inauthentic, manipulative or spammy.

If you are ignorant of, or make a stupid judgment about the precarious situation you and 150 to 300 of your closest friends are in, then you my friend need to spend a few weeks in a jail to ponder your screwup.

Few of them are in a position to understand much more than their own feeling, their own circle of family and friends, and their own pain and suffering.

A few weeks ago, I was talking about how life was a big story and one of my friends leaned over and wrote «choose your own adventure» in my notebook.

I was sitting with a friend of mine a few months ago discussing the work of peacemaking as a central calling to those of us that follow in the ways...

I was sitting with a friend of mine a few months ago discussing the work of peacemaking as a central calling to those of us that follow in the ways of Jesus.

Since its 1861 discovery in Bavaria, just a few years after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, most scientists have placed Archaeopteryx at the root of the broad group of proto - birds, known as Avialae, from which our avian feathered friends emerged.

A friend of mine was interested in Christian beliefs about death and the resurrection, so I added a few questions to the survey about exactly that.

in truth the «accountability» consists of sauna's with one of my vicar friends and a couple of others, a monthly trip to the pub to discuss life, the universe and everything, a few close christian relationships which are open and honest.

I've lived on three continents and picked up facebook friends in a few more so was pleased to see one some current posts on my personal blog viewed in 18 countries in just a few hours but I'm not expecting to make it to the list of 100 top blogs anytime soon.

And in concert with so many women whose similar experiences had been invisible to me, I sought and found the tender support of a few close woman friends.

Living in low - income housing, teaching free literacy classes to refugees, setting up basketball camps for bored inner - city kids: all of it had a few costs for me personally, sure, but the holy buzz of pats on the back from friends and church people, and the feeling that I was the only person really getting what Jesus was saying — this more than made up for doing without.

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 trutIn 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 trutin 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.

Rarely in the last few centuries has the metaphor of friend been applied to God.

Except for a precious few, most of those friends went away forever, lost to memory, fading and eventually anonymous in aging photos.

I'm watching the whole shift in the Church from «growing group gatherings» - that's a lot of g's - to the «living room inviting just a few close friends together» gatherings.

No friend, I think that athiesm is a symptom of the degradation of our culture, a child's innocence doesn't stand a chance of lasting more than a few years in this current culture.

I stood in the dark, hugged a few friends, snapped blurry pictures with my iPod because I'd forgotten my camera, sang along «doo - doot - doo - doo - doo - doo - doo it's Christmas» and became the full sense of sight, drinking the sight of them standing on the risers right into my frazzled soul.