Sentences with phrase «of them friends of mine»

Through friends of friends of friends,» Boukadakis says.

The recent experience of a friend of mine with a chain store (names and trademarks omitted to protect the innocent) provides a cautionary tale at the intersection of ethics and customer service.

Consider this: The average Facebook user, with just 190 friends, has over five million people in their extended network with just those third - degree connections (friends of friends of friends).

Hey, for all we know, hackers working at the behest of friends of (friends of) Trump are the culprits.

If it's a friend of a friend of a neighbor down the block, thus far down the information chain, there is no way of knowing if the person is telling the truth or might be motivated to lie for some reason.

Liz Hutchins of Friends of the Earth, was among about 500 people demonstrating against the drilling proposal outside the Preston town hall while the vote was being taken.

«We're asking Facebook to change its policies to ensure third parties can't access the information of the friends of people who use an app.»

(Facebook has also made some changes to prevent the gathering of detailed information of friends of users.)

If people come up to him after he speaks at a conference, or run into him on the street, or meet him through a friend of a friend of a friend, and have a good idea, he or his staff will recruit them to join the Downtown Project.

Luisa Abbott Galvão of Friends of the Earth said the EPA statement confirms, «The Keystone XL pipeline fails President Obama's climate test.»

Your goal should be putting together a group of friends of friends, rather than friends and family (who will likely be biased in their response).

One of the friends of this blog is Ken Masugi.

This watercolor painting (available) is of a friend of mine watching the fog come in with the tide on the south shore of Prince Edward Island.

I do not suppose for a moment that you wish to become a hermit (though now I understand there are some girl hermits in England and they are sort of friends of mine because they are hermits, so I send them stuff about how to be a hermit).

As an immense counterblast in his behalf, the voice of the friends of the new viewpoint was lifted up throughout the German - speaking world.

@HeavenSent Forgive the tangeant, but I'd like to relate the story of a friend of mine whose fate helped to change my opinions about religion.

First, we went Trick - or - Treating in the neighborhood of a friend of ours.

And as the chorus underlines, there are a lot of these friends of his pairing off: «Joyce and Terry, Paul and Molly, Liz and Bryan,» and on and on with five more couples listed, sung in a sing - song but rote manner.

It is the last wonderful gift of the friend of the Bridegroom to his disciples.

The precocious nine - year - old son of a friend of mine was heard to lament that he was now too old to cry but not old enough to swear!

Still other studies have shown that more than 80 our of 100 people who have joined the church in recent years came because of the word of a friend of relative.

Professor Flournoy of Geneva gives me the following testimony of a friend of his, a lady, who has the gift of automatic or involuntary writing: --

The spokesman said security forces «arrested one of the friends of this group of Christians at his home and forced him to come with them to the workshop.

Because of friends of JM who preach the gospel and are considered part of the charismatic movement, i. e. «Reformed charismatics», to whom this conference was largely directed 2.

Finally the last batch of visitors came, introducing themselves as the friends of the friends of the relatives of the devotee who gave the turkey.

Then, you might find out that the Lord Jesus himself chose apostles of a «rather low» educational level, and that many people, perhaps simple by your standards but not by the Lord's, flocked to him, and later to his apostles, because they found in the community of the friends of Jesus new forms of «social security.»

Of course a future researcher might find in the papers of some friend of Whitehead's a reference to what he thought about the doctrine of papal infallibility, which Newman was reluctant to accept, and which Mrs. Whitehead later said was the great obstacle.

hello Ella it's almost 2 am in the morning and had to check about you and your blog since a friend of a friend of mine from the UK told me «oh you look like Ella»... well looking at you now, i know it's a compliment and a very / overly generous one!

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Not exact matches

My developer who has been with me for two years has been a friend of my family for 10 years and I trust him to support me and my business.

A friend of a friend recently drove to an empty lot with a trailer on it.

It's the 21st - century version of How to Win Friends and Influence People.

The 2005 Australian Longitudinal Study of Aging found that close relationships with children and other relatives had very little impact on how long you live, but people with the most friends tended to outlive those with the fewest by 22 percent.

But Facebook Messenger was mentioned almost as frequently — 80 % of teenagers we spoke with said they used Facebook Messenger as a primary or secondary form of communicating with friends.

And since you probably couldn't afford to take a comparable salary at first, you also faced a variety of unappetizing choices like dipping into savings, or running up credit card debt, or borrowing money from your friends and family.

Facebook wants more personal posts about friends and family, and therefore it is going to de-emphasize other types of posts — and by that, it mostly means the vast majority of what news organizations produce (including what Facebook pays them to produce).

While getting the word out about promotions on social media is a no - brainer, 93 percent of consumers are very likely to use coupons they receive via email and 40 percent will then share that email with their friends.

«After several months of interviews with friends, teachers and coaches still reeling from the shock, what emerges is a portrait of a boy who glided through life, showing virtually no signs of anger, let alone radical political ideology or any kind of deeply felt religious beliefs,» the magazine explained.

That means some people you think of a close friends don't see you that way at all.

JM: It's mainly been that we look at our userbase, we look at where they have the most friends, and that's mainly the function of what cities we're in, just because it's really about the social connections, so when we go to a city that has a lot of friends who are already using Hinge, it makes it a lot easier for us to get off the ground.

Baehr's mentor, Walter Hailey, whose insurance company Lone Star Life Insurance went on to become a Kmart insurance company, used to take an hour - long walk at 5 a.m. every morning with a group of close friends to talk about ideas, successes and failures.

«We all have hundreds of friends on Facebook, but we probably don't know all of our neighbours,» said Nowlan.

Even if you do have that vote of confidence from the friend in common, make sure that you are the one to put your cards on the table.

He's proud of having achieved success with no degree and, instead of paying off student debt, he is now living a life his other 34 - year - old friends could only imagine.

In this year's letter published Wednesday, Bezos again stressed the idea of long - term thinking, using an anecdote about a friend who visited a handstand coach who told her it would take six months to master the skill:

Twenty miles an hour over the speed limit qualified as reckless driving, so I figured 40 miles an hour over was a one - way ticket to the magistrate's office, a lost license, and months of hassling friends for rides to work.

Said Connie Steele, director of Network Solutions: «Social media can be the best friend for small business owners who constantly seek new ways to attract new customers and retain the ones they have at a relatively low cost.»

Fielding is a friend and former mentee of the legendary Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, who also invested in the company.

Follow positive thought leaders on social media and be more selective about which of your offline friends and acquaintances shows up on your own newsfeeds or timelines.

Most of them had never invested in a startup before, but each invested in Thrive, and then told their friends, many of whom invested as well.