Sentences with phrase «of leaving friends»

It was already my 5th or 6th school and I had had enough of leaving my friends behind.

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A friend of Tasner's at Method had left the company to manufacture packaging made from compostable materials in China.

The two men at the center of the incident were waiting inside the Starbucks location for a white friend on Thursday but did not order anything and were asked to leave.

We need to respond to that urgent email, finish up a project due at the end of the week, and of course, spend some time with friends and family — if there's any time left.

One of my most prolific Facebook - posting friends has deactivated his account at least three times, always with an elaborate «Why I'm really leaving this time» farewell post, only to come slinking back.

One of my friends — a massive builder — doesn't leave the office anymore.

Several high - profile entrepreneurs, such as Basecamp co-founder and CTO David Heinemeier Hansson, have publicly declared that they can get all the work required for their start - up to succeed done in a moderate 40 hours a week, leaving, presumably, enough time for exercise, family, friends, and fitness (or at least more than two of those).

As you stand on the stage, trying to engage with them about your product, you see some of them turn to talk to friends, yawn and text — one even leaves to grab a soda.

The simple act of leaving the house to run an errand, grab lunch with a friend, or even just to take a walk becomes a much more involved process, requiring everything from diaper bags to bottles to bibs to a spare set of clothes in preparation for inevitable messes.

A friend of mine used to work from home and is really adamant that I leave the house.

That was uncomfortable, unproductive, and left his friends with an earful of constant complaints.

So if you're making a point of attending an event for business, leave your friends at home.

In honor of her death, the gamer's fellow guild members and friends left their weapons behind and gathered to pay their respects.

Not only are you taking the trip alone, but you're often leaving behind your emotional support system of family and friends and coworkers.

His worst fears were confirmed Monday morning, when a friend sent him a photo of what was left: a smoldering heap of burnt metal and debris.

Before you leave your current employer, collect the personal contact information of trusted colleagues and friends.

If you have a friend who loves Trump and you don't, and all he or she talks about is Trump, well, spend less time with that person or just explain that you appreciate his followers» passion for the candidate but you hold a different view and don't want to let politics get between the two of you, so best to leave it behind.

Trump doesn't care; he built a nice little landing pad for his friend Roger Ailes, the disgraced chairman of Fox News who left the company because of his habitual mistreatment of female employees and landed on his feet in the Trump campaign.

According to a survey of alumni released by Bernstein in January, 54 % rated senior management as fair or poor, and 70 % said that at least 20 % of their friends were actively trying to leave P&G.

He was planning to leave his job as an account executive at Leo Burnett Advertising in Chicago to travel around the world, when his old friend from Brown, Leon Richter, got wind of the scheme and gave him a call.

There are plenty of other digital footprints we leave such as websites we visit, the frequency with which we visit them, things we google, what apps we download, people and things we search on Facebook, how many internet friends we have, who we interact with often, where we go in real life (phones have a GPS system and motion sensors), etc., etc., etc..

Further, people might see posts of friends at an event they weren't invited to, and feel left out.

If you want to add a friend to broadcast with, tap the camera icon at the top left of the screen or swipe right from your feed.

To avoid overeating, snack on a cup of baby carrots or an ounce of almonds before you leave to meet your friends.

The first movie finds Harry discovering he's a wizard and leaving his abusive aunt and uncle to go to the magical school of Hogwarts, where he makes friends and fights off evil.

Ann Curry, another former «Today» cohost who left the show after just about one year «felt that the boys» club atmosphere behind the scenes at Today undermined her from the start, and she told friends that her final months were a form of professional torture,» according to Brian Stelter's 2014 book «Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV.»

When Freitas sat down to talk to young people about their phones, she heard some pretty crazy stories of raging tech addiction, from the girl who gave her phone a name and talked about it like a friend to the boy who claimed he'd rather leave his brain at home than his precious device.

You're a day away from bankruptcy, markets are shifting very quickly and at any moment this could all fall apart, and I will have been the hardest - working person of all my friends and missed every birthday party, neglected my body and destroyed my personal relationships, and I will be left here with nothing.»

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

When someone commits suicide, their family and friends can be left with the heartbreaking and answerless question of what they could have done differently.

Shrinking degrees of separation often leave people with a lot of «friends» but few relationships, and little indication of which potential relationships might provide real, mutual value.

«I set up this company because I didn't want to see my nieces, who at the time were between 14 and 22, having the same conversations in their 40s about how much money they had left on the table that so many of my friends were having.»

«Northern and rural communities have been left behind by Christy Clark because she puts rewarding friends and donors above the best interests of ordinary people.

One last example, I promise: Last year I realized just how frazzled it made me to fit focused work in between meetings and phone calls every day of the week while still leaving enough space to be with my family, serve my community, visit friends, and read a book or two.

Hicks had been contemplating leaving the White House for several weeks and told friends that she was relieved to finally announce her move... She felt three years was a long time to work in the whirlwind of the Trump orbit, with crises occurring by the day and sometimes by the hour, and was eager to try something new and return home to her family in Connecticut.

Bring a homemade loaf of bread and leave it with a note by the front door of a friend going through a hard time — or just to brighten their day.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

Juan Polanco, left, Denis Oliveras, center, and Carlos Narvaez, all childhood friends of deceased military pilot Maj. Jose Rafael Roman, gather at Roman's family home in Manati, Puerto Rico, Thursday, May 3, 2018.

Sariela Bordner left Puerto Rico when she was 8 but her father, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends still live on the island, which was devastated by Hurricane Maria at the end of September.

My objections would have more to do with the lengths some might go to cut their taxes under such a system; selling stocks in droves right before tax season, giving gifts out to family and friends (perhaps with the intent to take them back after the tax man leaves), and of course, owning more assets outside of America.

Hanging out after the planting of a tree in honor of Arbor Day are the grandchildren of Woman's Club of Aransas Pass President Dianne Brown, from left, Ethan Phillip Villarreal and his sister McKenna Villarrea; and friend Marshaun McFarland.

This list isn't complete, and I've just offended a lot of my friends by leaving out their names because I'm on deadline today.

With her death, Cruz and his half brother lost one of the only relatives they had left, according to family members and friends.

I'll leave out commentary on the five Gawker - haters, other than to say that one of them is a good friend who has his reasons for not wanting to sit next to Nick at a closing dinner, although he's an evolved person, and gets why the deal played out as well as it did.

Perhaps, like me, your departure from the system was a testimony to your family and friends and the system you left that you believe it had failed and would continue to fail to create the culture of actual freedom.

But we do believe they were saved... The sorrow is for those left to deal with their (temporary) loss of loved ones and friends so much sooner than expected.

One of my best friends in high school left the church when she was 17.

Almost 20 years ago I had an illness that left me, literally on death's door, and at the time I don't recall thinking about my spiritual beliefs — all of my thoughts were indeed on my friends and family.

Unlike a number of Lutheran colleagues and friends who have become Roman Catholics or are tempted in that direction, I have never seriously contemplated leaving Wittenberg for Rome.

«So to have a monarch who talks openly about Jesus in a very relaxed and natural way, we find that a huge encouragement and hope that Christians across the country will take a leaf out of The Queen's book and learn to talk about Jesus in a natural way with friends, relatives and colleagues, so people can discover more about what it means to be a follower of Jesus.»