Sentences with phrase «others in my group of friends»

When one of our previous provincial governments sold off the 407 toll road, I chuckled along with others in my group of friends — what a fiasco.

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It's a great story to read along to at any age, but I particularly loved seeing a group of friends in a vulnerable time in life (and a hyper - vulnerable station in life) come together and show each other the loyalty they couldn't get anywhere else.

He also had a passion for exploring new products with friends and other entrepreneurs, which led him to start an email list sent to a group of friends, which grew to include friends of friends until it evolved into tens of thousands of recipients, all interested in knowing what people were creating.

«In soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund AccountIn soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accountin the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accountin recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accountin a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accountin the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accountin a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.

In San Diego, more than 4,000 military family members are part of a group that helps them make friends with other spouses.

One caveat: The new feature can only be used in Tinder mode, not Tinder Social — the app's other new feature that allows users to swipe along with a group of friends.

I ate up studies (from Facebook and others) that argued the site actually encouraged a certain kind of information diversity, because your Facebook friends are likely drawn from a wider group of people (the guy you went to middle school with, your mom's neighbor, that rando you met that weekend at the beach) than the people you discuss news with in real life.

Here is a show about a diverse group of students nay friends who make their way through Spanish and anthropology courses in terms of relying on each other as a study group.

The Society of Friends has as much claim to the label Christian as has any other group, in spite of its rejection of traditional sacraments.

Prayer in the smaller and still more intimate group of two or three friends who love and understand each other well enough to share all their other interests can be a doorway to blessedness.

I remember a friend telling me about her sister - in - law who had found such a connection in a weekly prayer group, then became insufferable to the other members of the family «We just can't be spiritual enough for Evelyn,» my friend sighed.

If you're not able to create that type of community with your existing friends, look for meet - ups or groups where you can work toward that with others as support; or consider asking a close family member or friend to check in with you for accountability.

How It Worked: The Story of Clarence H Snyder and the Early Days of Alcoholics Anonymous in Cleveland Ohio (NY: AA Big Book Study Group, 1997), pp. 6, 71, 138, 157, 235; and the «Great Physician» reference to Jesus Christ was in common use among other Pioneer AAs, by their New York mentor Dr. Silkworth, and their Oxford Group friends.

Third, the minister can arrange for him to get acquainted with an experienced and accepting AA member who may serve as a bridge to feeling at home in an AA group [In a study of factors which produce «readiness» for affiliation with AA, Harrison M. Trice discovered that alcoholics with the following characteristics tend to relate effectively to AA: Before contact with AA, they often shared troubles with others, had lost drinking friends, had heard positive things about AA, had no relative or friend who had quit through willpowein an AA group [In a study of factors which produce «readiness» for affiliation with AA, Harrison M. Trice discovered that alcoholics with the following characteristics tend to relate effectively to AA: Before contact with AA, they often shared troubles with others, had lost drinking friends, had heard positive things about AA, had no relative or friend who had quit through willpoweIn a study of factors which produce «readiness» for affiliation with AA, Harrison M. Trice discovered that alcoholics with the following characteristics tend to relate effectively to AA: Before contact with AA, they often shared troubles with others, had lost drinking friends, had heard positive things about AA, had no relative or friend who had quit through willpower.

Small groups draw individuals out of themselves, pull them out of their isolated personal lives, and put them in the presence of others where they can share their needs and concerns, make friends and become linked to wider social networks.

Their group - created strategy included these actions: establishing cooperative links with other churches and groups committed to ecology; developing a Center of Ecology Information and a paperback book table at the church; devising methods to reach decision - makers in the community; exploring the development of a coordinating council of all ecology groups active in that community — Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Zero Population Growth, League of Conservation Voters, Wilderness Society, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, World Population, GASP (Group Against Smog Pollution), Planned Parenthood, group - created strategy included these actions: establishing cooperative links with other churches and groups committed to ecology; developing a Center of Ecology Information and a paperback book table at the church; devising methods to reach decision - makers in the community; exploring the development of a coordinating council of all ecology groups active in that community — Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Zero Population Growth, League of Conservation Voters, Wilderness Society, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, World Population, GASP (Group Against Smog Pollution), Planned Parenthood, Group Against Smog Pollution), Planned Parenthood, etc..

They planned a service for a weekday night in February and invited the elders of the church, the members of our Bible study group, and any others of our friends who wished to come.

The other night, I was in charge of making a salad for my book group and couldn't wait to share this with my friends.

It gets hard to coordinate schedules with large groups of friends because everyone's not only working, but also going on vacation or making plans with other people that they haven't seen in a while.

So, as I read from your posts, I imagine for your family, a very natural setting were two people together with their child, tell each other what they believe in, in front of a small group of best friends, to celebrate life, love, trust, support and care with their friends and especially the 3 of you.

And, as birthdays go, I'm going to be indulging in lots of other delicious eats this entire week including an all - you - can - eat Korean BBQ dinner on Friday, a fun night out with a big group of friends tomorrow, and most likely a family dinner when the pops gets back from a business trip.

After an evening of flirtation and burning mix cds for each other in a comfortable group setting, a friend's older brother gave a bunch of us a ride home.

A friend organized a potluck, and among a group of flippant twentysomethings, our sense of emergency and our desire to take care of each other resulted in an overflowing table, everything carefully prepared.

It came in response to a suggestion from our friends at Empire of the Kop as well as other groups of supporters, and the former Norwegian international gleefully revealed that he would be more than open to that possibility.

What is also normal is developing other interests, playing with other groups of friends, spending family time at home or in the community, bopping from activity to activity when their interests move in another direction, and then coming back to an activity they dropped some time ago, when they feel like it.

I'd never in a million years want to be tied to one group, no matter how much you try to tell me that you can still be friends with others outside of your frat.

But what upsets my friend as well as a lot of other middle - aged women is this: If older men are only interested in dating and marrying much younger women, they are limiting the pool of available men in their own age group.

Leave notions of «methods» at home, skip the boring ones your friends warned you about, and come learn about all of your options in a group designed to create community, communication with each other, and answer your individual questions.

I just wanted to point out that the items necessary for some women to breastfeed can be bought or received second - hand, re-purposed from other items (in the case of the shawl instead of hooter hider), medications can be covered by health insurance, and breastfeeding advice can be obtained free from breastfeeding groups, in the hospital, from family members, friends, parenting books in the library and the internet.

Sometimes it can feel that way and then again I am like another mom said I in two different groups I have a lot of teachers and friends that I know through my older kids and then others that know me strictly through my younger kids so that is a little weird.

So, as others have said, either method as you describe them is fine in my books, in my group of friends we have done both, and probably comes down to family preference and perhaps knowledge of what your own relationship with food is like.

However, we quickly discovered that many of our worries and fears were unnecessary, and stemmed from a slew of misinformation that keeps being recycled on the internet and in mom groups and by other friends and well - meaning family members.

Having begun in 1956 as a group of just seven friends who wanted to support each other in their breastfeeding journeys, LLLI now makes up a global community that serves 65 countries.

If you have other friends who are parents, or if you are part of any groups or communities online, you can ask if anyone in your area has leftover diapers or unopened cans of formula.

We all seek out a strong support community: Some of us may find a family or two nearby to share a regular playdate; others may bounce parenting questions off one trusted friend; for many parents, an API Support Group offers what we're looking for — a group of parents who share the same goals and the same struggles in a society that's not always friendly toward Attachment Parenting choGroup offers what we're looking for — a group of parents who share the same goals and the same struggles in a society that's not always friendly toward Attachment Parenting chogroup of parents who share the same goals and the same struggles in a society that's not always friendly toward Attachment Parenting choices.

Her friends were as shocked as the other ladies in the group, but hey, he had such great ideas and knew exactly where to put the centerpiece that they realized that it would be a crazy missed opportunity to give their friend the baby shower of her dreams if they did not enlist the help of her husband / event planner.

If there's anything like this where you live, take part in at least one of these clubs or groups to get the most out of making friends with other parents around your own age.

The idea of a support group is to link up with other fathers to share concerns and frustrations, to find ideas for being a better dad in your circumstance, or just to make friends and create a network of people who can be a support to one another.

It truly seems like it was just the other day that a small group of dear friends and I decided to start a local group affiliated with Attachment Parenting International (API) in Des Moines, Iowa, USA — only the second one in the Midwest.

They tell me that it's important that Oliver get contact with other kids, but he gets along fine with all the kids in the group and with all the children of my friends.

At 8 months old he is still in the Alpha, and the other day as I was carrying the Alpha from the car with sleeping baby in tow, a friend in my mother's group commented at how handy it must be as she stood outside her car debating whether to wake her sleeping daughter by getting her out of the new car seat they had to purchase as their baby had outgrown their infant car seat so fast.

The ways we engage with our friends, the preferences and hostilities we harbour, the views we have about teachers, parents, education, or people from other ethnic groups — however loosely held — can easily be «excavated» by the student of ideologies, who can then identify, classify and maybe even anticipate the ideas and behaviour people display in their roles as members of a society.

In fact, board members of the Friends of the High Line group and the Real Estate Board of New York have donated a combined $ 370,000 to her campaign and Jamestown has spent more than $ 670,000 lobbying to her and other officials.

Rep. Meeks and some of his closest political allies in New York, including Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith and former Rep. Floyd Flake (D - NY), his predecessor in Congress, are the subject of a federal probe into their dealings with several nonprofit groups.41 According to press reports, investigators are looking into whether Rep. Meeks and the others used the groups to «benefit themselves, their families, and their friends.»

Backed by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust the group brings together all the main players in the democratic reform movement along with other groups, like Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth etc..

In that paper, the phenomenon of «free - riding» on information sharing is the main driver behind the findings — when people are part of a larger social group, they feel less of a need to share information about well performing charities because they're expecting other friends to share the information; but this concept of free - riding also extends to giving in social groups — friends expect other friends to stump up most of the cash and so they don't bother themselveIn that paper, the phenomenon of «free - riding» on information sharing is the main driver behind the findings — when people are part of a larger social group, they feel less of a need to share information about well performing charities because they're expecting other friends to share the information; but this concept of free - riding also extends to giving in social groups — friends expect other friends to stump up most of the cash and so they don't bother themselvein social groups — friends expect other friends to stump up most of the cash and so they don't bother themselves.

Luckily my best friend in the group and I ended up very close to each other; I live in Kanagawa, about 1 hour southwest of Tokyo.

• 69 percent of those in the largest racial group report having close friends in these congregations, compared to 57.9 percent from other racial groups.

If you love the style of all the other ones that are in the group, it's an excellent opportunity to bond and get new blogger friends.

I absolutely LOVE my little family of friends here in Denver:) We get together for group dinners, we watch sports games (like the Butler game this past weekend, Super Bowl, and any other «important» game!)