Sentences with phrase «people on a friendship»

Throughout his life and travels, «I met people on a friendship basis, but they now hold key positions around the world,» he says.

Not exact matches

Late this year, Imax announced two big movie releases in China: Dragon Blade, starring Jackie Chan, promising a «thrilling story of heroism, friendship and betrayal, which has never before been depicted on film,» and John Woo's The Crossing, a two - part historical epic about the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

He has co-authored published studies with titles such as «On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» and «The Role of Positive Self - Evaluation on Cross-Cultural Differences in Well - Being.&raquOn wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» and «The Role of Positive Self - Evaluation on Cross-Cultural Differences in Well - Being.&raquon Cross-Cultural Differences in Well - Being.»

Not many people can say that they change lives, crush goals, empower women and cultivate long - lasting friendships on a daily basis.

Titled «On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» it studied the social ties between wealthy people around the world and was published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences in 2015.

It's been an experience that improved your attitude, your outlook on life, your ability to deal with adversity, probably fostered good friendships with like - minded people and encouraged you to be a better member of society.

Since friendship of this kind develops organically and not on command, he probably finds, as time goes on, that friendship begins with a person or two.

I have several notebooks full of ideas on things churches could be doing to share Jesus more effectively with the world, to do a better job in making disciples, to help children grow up and «stick» with Christianity, to make the services more meaningful, to help people connect with God, to develop real and genuine friendships within the church, and on and on.

Read again Derek Humphry's caution on page 33: «I can not emphasize strongly enough that people (doctors included) should help each other to die if there is a bonding of love and friendship and mutual respect.»

As Christopher Lasch also points out, new therapies» solutions are tautological, self - defeating to the extent that they advise people «not to make too large an investment in love and friendship, to avoid excessive independence on others, and to live for the moment — the very conditions that created the crisis of personal relations in the first place» (New York Review of Books [September 30, 1976]-RRB-.

I am tired of people rejecting me when I do try be be me but then am tired of sacrificing my true self on the altar of friendship so that I don't get rejected.

Based on his many years of friendship with lots of homeless people in San Diego, Sam Riviera has learned the stories of several of them, and, with their permission, is writing their stories in the form of letters to their dads.

If the person is a friend, a real friend, and you're just kind of annoyed by the stuff they post (not hard in this political season), I'd still end the social media connection and focus on the real friendship.

And as we see here, friendship isn't defined by a connection on Twitter, it's defined by love for another person.

Most people find a natural rhythm in their friendships and locate quiet ways to pass - on signals to others.

In this way, discipleship is not something we have a program for, or something we can force on anyone, but is rather a product of God being at work in and through our genuine friendships with other people.

In recent years, both through theological - ethical reflection and through personal friendships with some remarkable gay persons, I have become increasingly convinced that the positions of both Barth and Thielicke inadequately express the implications of the gospel on this issue.

Moving is hard on marriage, family, friendships, and finances but helps a person learn what is important.

Like all of us, such people need support and friendship on their journey to wholeness and holiness.

They develop lifelong friendships with people who look and sound nothing like themselves, while being constantly enriched by the awareness that the same work of art can make a radically different impression on a different set of eyes or ears.

For instance, cliques discourage outside friendships, thrive on one person being the decision maker and are wrought with peer pressure.

Look at your own friendship circle; I'm willing to bet that most of us tend to support the person, male or female, who was cheated on and, yes, for many of us, that more often than not is the woman.

Family law's focus on marriage to the exclusion of other forms of friendship can encourage people to prioritize one comprehensive domestic relationship over other relationships.

You may lose your friendship over it, and your may even lose the spouse you're cheating on to the friend you've confided in; there's a reason people engage in mate poaching.

This is coming from the small girl who held so many insecurities about friendships and love and who had people turn their back on her for all sorts of reasons.

The goal of FamilyByDesign is not to bring strangers together to have a baby, but to connect people with similar goals, values, and outlook on parenting, such that they can start to get to know one another and begin a friendship / personal relationship that may lead to a parenting partnership.

These new friendships are important because they connect us to other people, give us a person in a similar life stage to feel comfortable speaking with, give us an outlet to get out of the house and away from the demands on our life, and enable us to learn more about ourselves.

If the friend continues to post inappropriate material, remind your teen that because of her friendship with this person, her friend's posts also reflect on her.

Because as a working mom, you're likely not the person that can have a friendship where you talk on the phone everyday.

Likewise, what she views on social media sites, such as Instagram and Twitter, also are not good indications of what other people's friendships are like.

But if you make consistent baby steps toward friendships, you'll eventually be surrounded by people you can share the burden with on the tough days, and have fun with on the good days.

I agreed to speak up because my friendship with Jessica is based on everything that this other person is trying her damndest to destroy.

It's a drama of betrayed friendships and high - stakes power struggles, as the founders went from everyday engineers to wealthy celebrities featured on magazine covers, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Daily Show, and Time's list of the world's most influential people.

On this dark day we extend the hand of friendship to people in the USA who wake up in fear — we know that you are not defined by the hatred espoused by your new president.»

At another Courtesy call on the Chiefs and people of Kadjebi, the president was met with a similar spirit of friendship and support, where he assured them of continuous development including asphalting of the Kadjebi town roads among others.

I can't think of another issue where I've had more communication and it's unprecedented for so much of that to come from England and what people have been saying to me is if what you meant during the election that you cared about more than Scotland, you wanted to hold out a hand of friendship to people in England, build progressive alliances where you could, if you meant that, then please on this issue vote with us to retain the ban on foxhunting.

A sociologist trying to pick meaningful patterns out of records for millions of mobile phone calls can't rely only on the quantitative tools that were developed to probe friendship patterns among 100 or fewer people.

Carter recalls how he used to roll his eyes when people would describe his work on reciprocity as studying «bat friendship.»

It puts a special strain on friendships when one person becomes a supervisor.

The researchers chose to focus on Facebook because it is by far the most popular online social media site, with people using it to share personal information, meet people and develop friendships, according to the study.

They would realize how many people are affected by it, and how hard it is to keep friendships and relationships because of the embarrassing impact it has on our daily lives and routines.»

In the most inclusive study to date on friendship, Chapman University research looks at gender, age, and sexual orientation differences in the number of friends people rely on for support, to what extent they choose friends of the same gender, and overall life satisfaction.

In a 2009 study Holt - Lunstad and graduate student Briahna Bigelow Bushman found that people hang onto difficult friendships deliberately — because the relationship has a long history, because the good in the relationship outweighs the bad or because, for whatever reason, they just do not want to give up on the person.

For example, using Facebook to post on a friend's wall or to share condolences or congratulations are linked to feeling closer to the friend and more satisfied with the friendship; however, sometimes people just post broadcast - style status updates as a way to maintain specific relationships.

I find it encouraging that low - social class people tend to have greater access to these resources on account of having more international friendships,» said co-author Maurice Yearwood.

Professor Bookwala's latest research on the power of friendship in staving off declining health after an older person loses a spouse appears in the special June edition of the American Psychological Association journal Health Psychology.

By asserting yourself in a considerate, confident way, says Ury, you can be selective about what you take on without jeopardizing friendships — a people - pleaser's biggest fear.

«People can define it differently based on family origins, the way they were raised, or their parents» friendships.»

The study, which appears in the journal PLoS ONE, was based on a concept known as the «friendship paradox»: When people are asked to name their friends, their friends tend to have more social contacts than they do.

Terrified of people finding out the real me, I sabotaged relationships whenever I felt myself caring too much, flaked on potential friendships, obsessed about my appearance, and moved from city to city and bed to bed hoping to outrun the loneliness.