Sentences with phrase «people in the past who»

There have been people in the past who purchased a lottery ticket from an Internet Web site, subsequently won the jackpot, and the lottery attempted to block them from receiving the jackpot.

All religions are the equivalent of uneducated people in the past who thought the world was flat.

Yeah, NOT — it's people in the past who couldn't explain something so they declared it was a God but the reality is it doesn't exist.

Blair informed Hattersley that he was worried about «hurting Gordon» to which Hattersley replied that he should tell Gordon Brown that there had been,»... a lot of people in the past who had wanted to be leader of the Labour Party and have come to terms with the fact that they weren't going to be» and that Brown would have to be part of a line that «goes back a very long way».

Being a part of the Greek community, you may well feel that you've dated people in the past who didn't quite match up to the qualities you seek in a partner.

Are there people in your past who you want invited that your family might not know about?

Not exact matches

Additionally, the number of people who report having a close confidante in their lives has been declining over the past few decades.

JM: It's just a combination of who you liked in the past, what their attributes are, and finding more people like that who are within your world of social connections.

Hire people who are positive, optimistic and open - minded and who will be willing to be friends with people who don't fit the mold of the people they've been friends with in the past.

Kitedesk pulls a lead's email address, phone number, social accounts, past interaction data and company size to give sales reps fast and reliable insights into who the person is and what happened in previous conversations.

While data suggests that more Americans are socially isolated than in the past, people who feel they lack connections are similarly likely to experience poorer health.

«This is a brand new way for people to contribute and give back in a way that's actually needed the most,» says Joe Gebbia, Airbnb's cofounder and chief product officer who has spent much of his time in the past few years leading the initiative.

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A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts found that most people who use general purpose reloadable prepaid cards have used mainstream financial products in the past and may be using them now.

As a result, the number of people who say they have used heroin in the past year jumped by more than 50 percent between 2002 to 2011, according the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

«I don't envy the challenge Elop faces,» he says, «but his background represents a refreshing change from the kind of person who might have been slotted into the role in the past.

Foursquare took the list of places where Herradura is sold and used location data from mobile phones to target ads to people who had been at or near those stores in the past or were likely to buy premium alcohol.

When he hits the mark, Bezos, who started selling books from his garage 22 years ago, becomes the first man to bump Gates from his perch in seven years and is only the sixth man to hold the «richest person» title in the past 30 years, according to Forbes.

To determine why people are leaving at such an alarming rate, the Tribune surveyed those who have left in the past five years.

If you haven't done the best job in the past of diversifying your communications, content, featured experts, or even the people you have at all levels within your company, don't wait to get dinged for it by someone who is frustrated by it.

She's launched a half - dozen ventures of her own in the past eight years, and almost all of them — including Sprouter, BetaKit and BrandProject LP — helped those building their own businesses connect with people who can help them.

As part of its 25th anniversary, CNBC is creating a definitive list of people who have had the greatest influence in business over the past quarter century.

«Some of the people who have been floated have been people who have expressed concerns about Google in the past and we'll have to see how that goes.»

Perhaps most important: They know other people who have provided expertise and support in the past, and often will do so again.

Add to that a focus on innovation (some 960 employees filed a patent last year), and you get people who «truly feel lucky to work» here, and a stock price that's up nearly 400 % in the past five years.

Many of the business tax cuts in the Republican plan are simply windfalls for people who made business investments in the past — and even if investors are very responsive to incentives, they can't respond to the bill by investing more in businesses and creating more jobs in the past.

Whether you call it karma, or simply the notion that people like to help people who have been good to them in the past, the notion that no good deed goes unpunished is simply wrong.

Finally, see if the business opportunity seller will provide you with a list of people who've purchased the opportunity in the past.

A recent study published in the Journal of Consumer Research found that people who were asked to think about the past were willing to pay more for products than those who were asked to think about new or future memories; another experiment showed an increased willingness to give more money to others after recalling a nostalgic event.

News that Dos Equis was wrapping up its advertising campaign revolving around «The Most Interesting Man in the World» caught a lot of people off guard, but Jonathan Goldsmith, who has portrayed the iconic character for the past nine years, says the writing was on the wall.

In the past some degree of flexibility was offered to people who could not, with complete accuracy, predict their annual earnings and business expenses.

A few incredible people that might be considered our «oracles,» who have helped us tremendously in the past, are the following:

If times change, or tables turn, and you are in need of help, you may find that the very people who might have helped you have since become alienated by your past poor behavior.

I want people who have demonstrated in the past they are comfortable taking risks.

Laurie Lemmlie - Leung, who for the past 20 years has run a small factory employing 80 people in Guangdong, said she too found it hard to meet the demands of the companies she supplies.

«We've done webinars on an ad hoc basis in the past, and people love to hear from us, and especially from other businesses who have offered tips and tricks,» he said.

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For the past 20 yrs or so I have worked as a manager, so I know the salary of people who are in my group, as I get to tell them their salary increases whenever that happens.

«Putting progressive elements into trade deals — labour protections, environmental protections — actually helps us make the case for trade and reassure people that the benefits of trade will be distributed more fairly and not just to the small number of people who've always benefited from it in the past.»

About 9,645 people who called the hotline in the past three months said they'd thought about killing themselves — an 83 percent jump from the same time last year.

I happen to believe that life happens for me (not too me), so all those people who «wronged me» in the past were merely just motivation steps along the journey.

Of an estimated 100 million television viewers — 10 times the number of people who tuned in for The Voice's season 1 finale — most stay up past the «main event» to watch former secretaries of the U.S. government debate nuclear policy with astronomer Carl Sagan.

Uber also does not have a chief financial officer and is unready for a public offering, despite Mr. Gurley's past entreaties to prepare for the possibility, according to two people who participated in the conversations.

-- Introduce your business to thousands of potential customers in the entire market area of Cape Cod, the Islands, and the South Shore — Influence the buying decisions of thousands of potential customers — Speak to people who will make a decision to buy your product or service this week — Create a consistent flow of new customer opportunities via foot traffic, phone calls, website traffic, e-newsletter sign ups, social media engagement — Tell «the story» of your business — Differentiate your business from your competitors — Encourage customer loyalty — Educate past customers on why they should come back and do business with you again — Grow your market share — Make your business a household name and create top of mind awareness — Build the credibility of your business — Control the public's perception of your business

If you have outsourced link building in the past, you can also contact the person who placed the links for you and ask that person to have the links removed.

Yet, in spite of some of his past struggles meeting deadlines that he's set for himself, you'd be hard - pressed to find people who will doubt the words of the PayPal co-founder.

I'm referring to people who have bought from you in the past, or who have at least made inquiries about you.

«One strong indicator of who Guy is as a person and as a fair - minded and effective business leader is that people who partnered or invested with him years ago, in some cases all the way back to 1981 with Chauvco Resources, keep coming back to invest with him again,» says Mike Tims, member of the DBLA selection committee and past recipient (2007).

For a small group of people, however, the theft — likely masterminded, we now know, by a Russian cybercrime suspect who was arrested in Greece this past summer — would prove auspicious.

During the past year, I have encountered several people who took the plunge, but in some cases failed to do their homework.