Sentences with phrase «people at the dinner»

You keep quiet a lot growing up because you're always the dumbest person at the dinner table.

he mentioned to people at dinner and in the audience at the signing that I was an indie author too, plugging my trailer and generally being an incredibly nice guy.

You would have no trouble spending $ 100 on two people at dinner, and could probably do it at lunch, too, if you added alcohol.

Citing articles published in the Economist is always a good strategy for intelligent conversation, but you don't want to be the person at the dinner party who halts the dialogue...

There were a good deal more people at the dinner than I thought we'd have, which was great.

On any given weeknight, there was an extra person at the dinner table — an old family friend who was passing through, a backpacker my mom had met in town, or a prospective client of my father's.

Tonight there will be 219,000 people at the dinner table who were not there last night, many of them with empty plates.

Finally, when you buy your policy online, you're cutting out the uncomfortable, pushy sales person at your dinner table trying to talk you into the policy.

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Jan. 27, 2017: At one - on - one dinner at the White House, Trump asks Comey to pledge his loyalty to the president and Comey declines, according to a person close to Comey, speaking after the FBI director was fireAt one - on - one dinner at the White House, Trump asks Comey to pledge his loyalty to the president and Comey declines, according to a person close to Comey, speaking after the FBI director was fireat the White House, Trump asks Comey to pledge his loyalty to the president and Comey declines, according to a person close to Comey, speaking after the FBI director was fired.

In a speech at a World Jewish Relief dinner at the Guildhall in London, he said the humanitarian agency's work in tackling poverty helps «support people practically, emotionally and spiritually.»

Price: Room rate: Dinner at the Hall of Fame costs about $ 500 for 30 people; speakers charge $ 1,000 - 25,000.

Microsoft, which launched the YouthSpark initiative at last year's CGI to create jobs, education and entrepreneurship opportunities for 300 million young people by 2015, returned with a private dinner for young participants and nonprofit partners to discuss the progress so far.

The best way I can describe the people we want is like this: There are some people who throw great dinner parties because they really want to take care of their guests, and there are other people who are lousy at it because everything is a chore, everything is a problem.

But the power of what Dinner Lab is doing comes into focus when you step back a bit and look at the community of people who participate in the Dinner Lab experience.

And you probably would have enjoyed the tacos and meatballs even more knowing that the $ 50 you paid for them would be going to help people whose dinner that night might have only been a hot dog — if they were lucky enough to have dinner at all.

«Make sure that you're really present in a moment, you're not that person who's texting or glancing at your phone at the dinner table.

«Whatever those two people want to do — may it be to give company at a dinner or end up in bed together — is a private matter and should be agreed upon in the chat before meeting,» Poppenreiter told TechCrunch.

Here's a suggestion: «Being a guest at a hosted dinner with people is one thing.

«At HBS, $ 100 dinners for one person in downtown Boston are a standard affair,» he says.

She was hosting two, three dinners a week at her house in Bedford, for advertisers, groups of eight or 10 people.

Have you ever been at an extremely professional dinner and noticed that everyone is talking to the one person.

«He's the kind of person you chat with at a dinner and feel very comfortable with.

I also try to pay attention to when people might be at lunch / dinner; although of course that's a bit of a toss - up due to time zone differences.

In the lead - up to his dinner at the White House planned for Thursday night, Chinese premier Xi Jinping met with the people who really run things: Leaders of the world's biggest tech companies.

«They wanted the things that wouldn't have been obvious to a lot of people I would meet in the New York media world, the Upper East Side, or at Robin Hood [Foundation] dinners.»

This weekend, over 100,000 new Coinbase accounts were opened, presumably by people who had an overzealous nephew at their Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, telling tales of unbridled riches and the wholesale changing of the world that is most assuredly imminent thanks to crypto currency.

There were about 400 people at the awards dinner.

This is like sitting at a dinner table of six and deciding you are only going to speak to the person to the right of you.

Hillary Clinton rubbed elbows with Hollywood A-listers Monday night at an intimate, $ 33,000 per - person «dinner and conversation» fundraiser at the New York City home of high - powered producer Harvey Weinstein.

A helpful way to look at inflation is the changing cost of a typical Thanksgiving dinner for 10 people.

«In Christy Clark's B.C. the only people who aren't struggling are the ones who can afford to spend $ 20,000 to sit next to her at fundraising dinners.

But at the same time, by bringing in people with experience, we could actually also make sure that we could have dinner with our kids.

Family, freinds, lovers, neighbors, co-workers, the postman, people from your church, people you like, people you don't like, your ex-husband or ex-wife (I know you don't want to, but take one for the team), the cashier at Walmart, your child's teacher, the kid in the drive - thru window at McDonald's, the random encyclopedia salesman that knocks on your door while your eating dinner, the pushy car salesman who doesn't believe your «just looking,» the overweight plumber wedged under your kitchen sink

So about two years ago I got talking to a friend's mother who had inherited Barclays shares, because I am the sort of nerdy person who talks about shares at dinner parties.

At the informal dinners and meetings in New York, Houston and Washington, investors pushed back at several aspects of the deal, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private meetingAt the informal dinners and meetings in New York, Houston and Washington, investors pushed back at several aspects of the deal, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private meetingat several aspects of the deal, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private meetings.

I'll leave out commentary on the five Gawker - haters, other than to say that one of them is a good friend who has his reasons for not wanting to sit next to Nick at a closing dinner, although he's an evolved person, and gets why the deal played out as well as it did.

The little old lady the gives out hugs at church The sunset that takes your breath away The person that tells you that he appreciates you The lady that brings your family dinner because you are tending to a sick child The friend that prays with you and cries with you when someone you love lies dying.

Some studies show that people maintain a kind of moral equilibrium, meaning that giving money to charity may lead them to skimp on the tip at dinner, whereas partying too much may inspire a volunteer day at the soup kitchen.

The young people who worked for him at the magazine lived with him in a townhouse on East 19th Street, where we had daily evening prayer and Saturday dinner together.

You can do that at Sunday dinner, look around at your people, look at all the brave ragamuffins and beautiful misfits who you get to call yours, and you can feel it pounding like a tidal wave of truth in your very own chest:

I might be the only person in the world who ever thinks about this, but sometimes when I can't fall asleep at night I like to imagine who I would invite to my fantasy dinner party.

So when we want to know about a person's friends and associates, we look at the people with whom she eats, and when we want to measure a someone's social status against our own, we look at the sort of dinner parties to which he gets invited.

If you want to discriminate at home and not invite any gay people over for dinner that's your choice.

Instead of saying grace at dinner and thanking God, the people of North Korea have been indoctrinated for generations to thank Dear Leader.

We met at a dinner party, and as we sat sipping martinis and seeking, as people do, some way into conversation, we discovered that we had grown up in the same city.

It can just be one other person who you speak to about God, have a weekly get together for reading or studying a particular part of the word at lunch or dinner.

«I understand the church to be the people of God who follow Jesus into the world and so a gathering of the church occurs whenever and wherever believers gather, whether it is two or three around a dinner table, five or six in a living room, seven or eight at a coffee shop, or larger gatherings in some other building.»

Two, the purpose of the Al Smith Dinner is to show both our country and our Church at their best: people of faith gathered in an evening of friendship, civility, and patriotism, to help those in need, not to endorse either candidate.

In fact, one could make the case that anyone attending the dinner, even the two candidates, would, by the vibrant solidarity of the evening, be reminded that America is at her finest when people, free to exercise their religion, assemble on behalf of poor women and their babies, born and unborn, in a spirit of civility and respect.

When John presents most of the male disciples as passive observers of Jesus» deeds, the women are portrayed as active respondents to Jesus» words and deeds.49 They did virtuous deeds such as hosting dinner, serving at the table, overseeing the feast, and anointing Jesus» feet — all challenging works that no other persons took initiative to do.