Sentences with phrase «over the friend of»

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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.

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

It sounds like the sort of trivial debate you might have with a friend over drinks at a pub, but here's an actual back and forth I had with my phone the other day while driving.

Meyers» friend Amy Poehler even got in on the mix, taking over a bit in which he would say the setup of a joke and a woman in the audience would do the punch line.

You may think that the people you are going into partnership with are your friends, and that gentleman's agreements over a pint of beer will suffice.

With over 30 million people using Foursquare, it's a great way of helping happy customers tell all their friends where they are.

You don't necessarily have to prioritize quantity over quality, either: According to a meta - analysis by Gallup, one determinant of positive employee attitudes — in addition to having learning opportunities and adequate office supplies — is answering yes to the question «I have a best friend at work.»

I have over 1,000 Facebook friends, so most of the time, I don't really care about looking through my feed.

«We should place these feelings at the center of our lives and let them be the catalysts for a sustained exploration that continues throughout the week, over months and probably years, and that generates conversations with ourselves, with friends, mentors and with professionals,» he writes, warning us that «something very serious is going on when sadness and anxiety descend for a few hours on Sunday evenings.»

The way we got over all of that is that we decided to raise a very small amount of money from friends and family.

According to a Nielsen survey spanning more than 100 countries, 92 percent of people surveyed said they trust the recommendation of a family member or friend over any other marketing channel.

Have you passed over a better candidate just for the sake of working with a friend or family?

Selena shocked many after revealing she had undergone a kidney transplant over the summer, thanks to her friend best friend Francia Raisa, as a result of her lupus.

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.»

In the early years, we would have parts of our puzzles manufactured and then shipped to us, and we'd bring family and friends over and set up an assembly line in the basement.

In an annual survey of expats around the globe, some 9,000 workers in over 100 countries were asked to score 43 aspects of their lives abroad, from commuting and ease of setting up utilities to the cost of education and the ease of making friends — for both expats and their children.

It took her a couple of minutes to get over the shock and start recognizing faces, says Ezon, but the crowd included family and friends from all walks of life, some of whom she hadn't seen in decades.

«We flew people in from Atlanta, Los Angeles, and all over the place, including some of her oldest friends from elementary school that she never gets to see and some close friends that had recently moved across the country.»

Online entrepreneurship has swept the globe over the past decade, and one of the leading voices in that movement has been my friend Pat Flynn, with The Smart Passive Income podcast.

While the trip's big costs are out of the way — I bought my flight in October and I'll be staying with a friend — stretching $ 60 over the four days I'm there could be tricky.

The rape case drew national attention after the accused and their friends joked about the incident and showed a galling sense of impunity over social media.

The visual image actually makes sense as a way of helping people see that what I do over here in finance does impact what my friend does over there in sales.

Over at Freelance Switch, Collis Ta'eed bought cows from Oxfam's Unwrapped service on behalf of their clients, then named these new bovine friends after major projects the team had worked on.

Imagine the compelling power of telling a potential investor or retail buyer that 89 % of women 35 - 45 years old selected your product over a competitor and of that group 71 % said they would tell their friends.

Heineken's «Walk - in fridge» ad — in which a group of women goes nuts over their friend's walk - in closet, only to hear their husbands and boyfriends in the next room losing their minds over a walk - in refrigerator stocked with Heineken beer — garnered more than 4 million views on YouTube, not to mention the millions of impressions the ad made on the regular tube.

Twenty - two - year - old Daniela Vargas had just spoken Wednesday at an immigration press conference in front of Jackson City Hall in Mississippi when, according to her attorney, ICE officials pulled her and a friend over on the freeway as they were driving back.

Colin Barnett didn't win any friends at a rally over the issue of local content on resources projects.

The two have been best friends since 1975, when they locked horns over the presidency of the Phi Kappa Tau pledge class at Cal State Fullerton.

Personally, the media circus that followed Marissa Meyer's announcement reminds me of a friend who used to descend into a state of melancholy over this question: Can any of us really ever be a «good mother»?

«Thousands of friends and colleagues the world over have lost jobs because of the way the industry has been managed,» writes investigative journalist and former Los Angeles Times editor - in - chief O'Shea in his introduction.

Over the years, however, I have learned to balance the two, mostly with the help of mentors and good friends.

Millennials trust the opinions of their friends and family — and even strangers — over what a brand has to say.

It's a sign of how AI will evolve over time, conversing with us as though the robot is our friend.

Over time others were drawn to the area by the presence of family or friends or simply by people who shared a common language and culture.

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).

Having proved his ability to handle crystal ball work, Buffett, 86, was asked by this writer — an 87 - year - old friend of his — whether he might care to make a prediction about total returns over the 17 years starting now and ending late in 2033.

«It's something I've done for a long time, and what's really funny is that over the years my friends and my family, they kind of laughed about it — the same reaction I had when I was introduced to it,» Abrams says.

«People are positively surprised and more inclined to share their great experience on social media channels and with their friends through word of mouth,» says Kaempfer, whose company has annual revenues just over $ 1 million.

Over the past year, I've seen friends and others in my network lose their minds in anticipation of the premiere of Black Panther this weekend.

She has a masters degree in communications and wants to work in television, but Kumar spends much of her day at home, chatting with friends over social media.

Google Glass announced on Monday that it will expand its Explorer Program over the next few weeks, allowing Explorers (people who have been trying out the wearable computer device) to invite three of their friends to join the program.

The term adviser has a homey and relaxed ring to it, conjuring images of warm chats over coffee with supportive friends or brilliant experienced mentors.

Yes, he runs Facebook and has a large amount of influence over your online life — if you really only use Facebook to see what your friends are up to.

It's a major change for Facebook, which over the years has shifted from being a social networking service connecting friends and family to one of the world's biggest distributors of news and online ads.

Underwood is among a slew of celebrities — actresses Kate Hudson and Hilary Swank; singers Beyoncé and Jessica Simpson — to launch an athleisure line in a bid to win over female shoppers that are looking for yoga pants, running tights, sports bras, and other athletic wares that can be worn in the gym or while out for a cup of coffee with friends.

Ello and Vero provide attractive alternatives, but if only 10 of your 1,000 Facebook friends come over, you're going to flip back and forth so much that there's no point.

At one point she was even pulled out of school for over a month and hidden with family friends in the south of France because of a surge in death threats against her father.

Over the years, they've encouraged employees to refer friends when job openings come up, resulting in almost the entire team having some sort of personal connection.

It was a wild success: the Facebook application was installed nearly 60,000 times in a matter of days, nearly 20,000 Whopper coupons were sent out, and well over 200,000 Facebook friends were deleted.

During one of his most famous investment deals at New York's Plaza Hotel, he reportedly phoned a friend to bring over a six - pack of Pepsi so he wouldn't have to pay for room service.