Sentences with phrase «of old friends who»

Annual meetings were wonderful get - to - gathers of old friends who had fought together in the practice management trenches.

After digging hard into Microsoft to figure out what their plans are, I bumped into a lot of old friends who were also advocates of XBLIG.

So beyond all of our CrackBerry loyals that have been visiting the site daily through the years, it's time to start spreading the word and bringing more of our old friends who moved away from BlackBerry back to visiting CrackBerry again (I'm sure a few of you out there are going to be CBK detractors initially, and that's OK.

Book Club The presence of Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen and Diane Keaton isn't enough to save this labored comedy, about a quartet of old friends who become inspired by «Fifty Shades of Grey» to spice up their sex lives.

And yet, watching her latest effort The Party — a tight, bitter, and very funny 71 - minute dark comedy about a group of old friends who come together for a dinner party and realize just how utterly screwed up their lives are — it's hard not to sense Potter's sensibility and presence throughout.

I've recently reconnected with a lot of old friends who, like me, grew up with the constant reminder that Christians are to «always be ready with an answer» in defense of the rationality of faith.

A more minor thread sees Harry and Lloyd visiting the childhood home of an old friend who, unbeknownst to them, died years ago in a motorcycle accident Lloyd may have indirectly caused.

In closing, as some of my older friends who have passed on once said to me, «If the locusts eat your crop, at least you don't have to harvest.»

He then launched into a long, loving speech thanking his parents and siblings, all in attendance, some of his oldest friends who came for the show, his studio, his dealers, and many others, dragging the speech on.

Not exact matches

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.

«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.

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.»

Once I learned all about the business side of things, the pair (who, by the way, have inside jokes and act like old friends), told me they were going to Google the next day to do a live Hangout video chat with the tech blog Mashable.

There's no application to this secretive club, but the owners are looking for people «who understand the value of good old - fashioned conversation and having real face time with friends and colleagues.»

A couple of days later, I had dinner with an old friend from New York who asked me about Virgin's policy on office romances.

After reading my new book, Real Leaders Don't Follow, an old friend and business associate who's had a long and successful career, Ziv Azmanov, sent me an email that, among other things, does a pretty effective job of explaining what distinguishes real entrepreneurs from the pack:

According to Chicago police, 28 - year - old Antonio Perkins was shot at about 8:45 p.m. while streaming video of himself and a number of friends who had gathered on South Drake Street.

Thoughts and prayers are the kind of thing you send to sick children, patients with cancer, friends who have lost a loved one to old age or illness.

The latest pits his 61 - year - old daughter, Shari Redstone, whose relationship with her father had run hot and cold over the years but who's recently worked her way back into his life, against two of her father's longtime friends and lieutenants, Viacom board member George Abrams and C.E.O. Philippe Dauman.

«She's been mourning for a year and was grieving for five years before that,» said Larry Brilliant, president of the Skoll Global Threats Fund who is an old friend of Mr. Jobs.

And when I speak on this topic in public I like to remind people that, «when I raised capital there were no easy ways to figure out who were the friends of the VC's (let alone who the VC's were in the first place) but in 2009 you have alll the social networking tools: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or even just plain old Google Search.

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 character is loosely based on Dunham's friend Audrey Gelman, a smart and stylish 25 - year - old who is, improbably, both press secretary to Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer and girlfriend of 47 - year - old photographer Terry Richardson.

As one of my best friends in the business and a very famous trader once said when asked who's the best trader he's ever seen, the answer was his young 4 - year - old nephew Bobby, because he could hold a chart in front of Bobby and say, «Bobby, what's that doing?»

«Two of my best friends aren't here anymore,» said freshman Sammy Cooper, who picked up the book bag he had dropped as he saw the accused gunman, 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz, begin shooting.

Game developer Tyler Hurd, who created a reactive VR music video experience around Future Islands» synthpop ditty «Old Friend» for the HTC Vive, is one of a new wave of digital artists who are being tapped to expand the content side of the VR market.

Ostensibly, while she was having lunch with the European Commissioner she received a phone call from her coalition mates, our old friends the DUP of Northern Ireland, who at the last minute experienced a change of heart regarding the border issue.

No, I'm an old woman who had to move a family because of former christian «friends» who «loved me» so much that when I told them I no longer believed thought it was a fun idea to take away my job, vandalize my vehicles, and harass me until I had to move to a new town..

He spoke to me through one of my oldest best friends (who by the way is also completely non-religious; it was although God took over his body and voice to speak with me) and delivered so many messages over a period of about 2 hours that my mind feels like it will explode.

The questions might be easier to answer had not Amis also framed the book as a kind of challenge to his old friend Christopher Hitchens, whom he sees as exemplary of a class of intellectuals who forever pointed us to the horrors of the Nazis while demurely turning aside from the still greater horrors of Stalinism.

The fact that you are uneducated is not the issue of those of us who are... read a science book for a change and get your head out of that 2000 year old book... only children and schizophrenics have imaginary friends..

«I don't know if the reason for my anger is just my old fashioned Irish - American patriotism,» wrote the friend who sent us the link, «or the fact that I just spent a week with my father tripping and limping around with a bad leg he gave in the service of this nation, or because my mother is an immigrant and both my paternal grandparents were too, and as much as all of them loved Ireland they knew how much they owed this country and considered the precious value of their American citizenship only slightly behind that of their baptismal certificates.»

My son Stephen and I spent an unusual, albeit unusually moving, Independence Day: We attended the golden wedding anniversary celebration of my friends Piotr and Teresa Malecki, which began with a Mass of thanksgiving in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of Cracow's Wawel Cathedral — the place where Piotr and Teresa had exchanged vows on July 4, 1964, kneeling before their old kayaking and hiking friend, the archbishop of Cracow (who, as Pope St. John Paul II, was canonized some two months before the Maleckis» jubilee.)

Recently, while chatting with an old friend who happens to be a professor of New Testament and biblical Studies at a prominent Christian university, I asked him what he thought...

The older you get, the harder it is to make new friends — and that goes double for married couples, who tend to get used to staying in; and triple for parents, who find the hassle of hiring a sitter understandably stressful.

On January 24, 1774, the young James Madison, twenty - two years old and two years out of Princeton, wrote an exasperated letter to his college friend William Bradford, who lived in Pennsylvania.

A friend of the 23 - year - old, who said he was close to him in 2012 and 2013, told the Austin American - Statesman newspaper that the suspected bomber attend Bible studies and church on Sundays.

I have a friend, an older lady (older than myself:)-RRB- who was a Hare Krishna most of her life.

While struggling to make sense of the social and political milieu, he discovered an old friend from school who had recently converted to Catholicism.

You remind me of my 8 year - old daughter who can prove to me that she has a make believe friend but «doesn't want to because I just won't believe her»

It was an interview with Chet Lowe, an old friend of mine who now pastors in Calvary Chapel Ft. Lauderdale.

Fortunately, I have a creationist friend, who has informed me that this can't be right, as the World is only one tenth as old (about 6,000) years and that all Australian Aboriginal languages were made by God in the Tower of Babel.

Furthermore, they can easily parody the whole position so that (as one critic, a friend of mine who is not unsympathetic to the wider process conceptuality, has phrased it) talk about divine memory may be taken as nothing more than indicating God's continually re-playing some old film or continually listening to some old soundtrack.

Having a child doesn't mean you can only be friends with other parents, obviously, but it sure is nice to connect with others who are in the same stage of life and get what you are going through (and who are OK with calling it a night before 7 p.m.) The old adage is true, it really does take a village to raise a family.

Josh Hart, who is the brother - in - law of 18 - year - old Allen Wright, said the teen had left a friend's house a little after midnight to walk home.

In an interview with The Telegraph, the American author referred to a friend of his who had «drunkenly» looked for images of 16 - year - old girls and was later jailed.

All of these items could show up in the White House, said Grant Bennett, an old Romney friend who spoke at the Republican National Convention and has known the Romney family since they met through church in 1978.

Brennan became a family friend who often visited the home, where the 14 - year - old «was the subject of special attention from the priest, who persistently wrestled with the boy, rubbed his back and shoulders, and openly brought up sex talk,» according to the grand jury report.

«A 20 - year old college student, who asked to remain anonymous, says one of his friends took the photo at a library at The Ohio State University.