Sentences with phrase «old acquaintances from»

He doesn't want old acquaintances from his high school days, when he was a star footballer, to see the desperate straits into which he is falling.

At one point, the wrongly accused protagonist encounters an old acquaintance from his radical days.

So the reformer's reformer, Michelle A. Rhee, my old acquaintance from when I worked with her at the 1996...

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When an acquaintance told me about how she flew 12 hours from Cape Town to Amsterdam without a partner, family, or friends, in economy, with three bouncing sons under 5 years old, I could only think: How do you do that?

One day Lily receives a visit from an old acquaintance, Samantha Lamb - Henderson, a well - known biblical scholar.

Most notable was Georg Spalt an old student acquaintance from the Erfurt days.

Some came from relatives with older children, some were offered by casual but sympathetic acquaintances.

Aaron Ziegelman, and 84 - year - old onetime real estate mogul and major benefactor of the Reconstructionist movement of American Judaism, is facing multiple lawsuits and soliciting cash from friends and acquaintances.

The 68 - year - old admitted he took an $ 80,000 bribe from an acquaintance and promised to use it to influence prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney's office, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn.

It includes a scene based on a supposedly true story he heard from an old acquaintance.

He may have wanted it so bad, but dared not say anything, especially since he is now 33 years - old, still living in his mom's basement, and with no friends other than a couple of acquaintances from dating sites.

Ray Donovan, Season 4, Episode 5: Ray and Mickey shake down Mickey's old acquaintance for the $ 4 million from the casino heist.

From China, Hector goes to Africa to help an old friend (Bruce Fontaine) with a traveling free clinic — a kind of Doctor Without Borders thing — and winds up meeting a drug kingpin (Jean Reno) and being kidnapped before his acquaintance with the drug kingpin gets him out of a tough spot.

As it turns out, Brooke harbors a pipe dream of opening a restaurant in Williamsburg, and schemes to raise money from a wealthy old acquaintance (the reliably goofy Michael Chernus).

The latter, from 2011, saw the Norwegian writer / director reunite with his compatriot, Anders Danielson Lie, here playing a recovering junkie who sets about reconnecting with old acquaintances in a city where he used to belong.

The moment in which she frantically makes small talk with some old married - couple acquaintances in order to shield her sons from being exposed is one of the film's comic high points.

As he subsequently tries to start over in the drug - ridden Baltimore neighborhood where he grew up — meeting resistance from both his ex-girlfriend (Zazie Beets) and potential employers — he winds up finding trouble with old acquaintances.

Woody is addled with dementia and has settled into a kind of leave - me - alone stasis, but he's dead set on making the trip from Montana to Lincoln to claim it, which in turns leads to a stop in a place where he hasn't seen old acquaintances and relatives for decades — and which opens up the story to all sorts of narrative and thematic possibilities.

Soon enough, Thomas, his old friends from the Glade, and a few new (read: disposable) acquaintances are on the run in the wasteland called «the Scorch.»

Looking at overall preferences, device - owning readers are more likely than all readers 16 and older to prefer to purchase all types of content, and are less likely to prefer to borrow from an acquaintance or library:

A family purchases a 7 week old puppy or adopts it from an acquaintance.

I have an acquaintance who had a 6 year old pit... sweetest dog you could ever imagine... yada yada... long story short, he was standing in his living room about 5 ′ away from his 2 year old daughter and his pit, who was about 8 ′ away from the daughter, decided to charge and attack her face.

Around midnight at the bar I bump into an old acquaintance of mine from Chicago, Mark Mann.

She renewed her acquaintance with a battery of critical discourse, familiar from her year at Bennington — treatises on feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, and structuralism — and listened to all the old arguments about painting.

«Offer to take an attorney from another firm out to coffee or lunch, whether he or she is a new or old acquaintance, to learn about their practice and to bounce ideas off of them regarding marketing or other topics.

Everywhere we went, our news was met with expressions of true joy from old friends, acquaintances, and complete strangers alike.