Sentences with phrase «person at events like»

Huge win in my book, as I generally only ever have groups of people to play with in person at events like PAX.

Not exact matches

For writers and professional speakers like me, this means that if people are not disagreeing with you, walking out of your events, challenging your articles and ideas, you are playing too safe and not working at the edge.

If like me you are regularly meeting people at networking events or in meetings, this is a great tool to store the story.

«What I think is more relevant for most people is that we've got to take a page from those confident players» playbooks and see that we've got to learn to kind of step up that level of confidence, particularly in those high intensity situations like interviewing, at networking events or conferences,» she says.

Also in creating the networking event at the Summit, Justin, and his co-founders Nik Sharma and Troy Osinoff of All Things Social Media, allowed full access into the conversations and meetings of like - minded people in the networking side of things.

«At events like this, I pick a small group of people that I'm going to maximize doing things with.

Over the past 10 years startups like Dropbox, Mint (sold to Intuit for $ 170m), Yammer (sold to Microsoft for $ 1.2 b), Fitbit (went public in June 2015), PowerSet (sold to Microsoft for $ 100m), Clicker (sold to CNET for $ 100m), Trello (sold to Atlassian for $ 425m), TrueCar (raised $ 70m in its 2014 IPO), and Cafe X (raised $ 5m) have presented at our event — but 97 % of the people at the event were not allowed to invest in them.

Sometimes prospects took an action to trigger a sales call, like filling out a magazine card or entering a drawing at an event — but usually, it was a cold call in the truest sense: The sales person did not know the prospect — and they certainly didn't know their level of interest.

Like most people do this time of year, your resident Pagemodo bloggers (Deanna and Sarah) have been taking a look at the events of the past year, and are planning for the year to come.

Over the years, these people say, Pishevar seemed to take a liking to Geidt, following her around at company events, and at times placing his hand on her leg or lower back.

Developers at the time could access virtual anything of any value that a person's friends had posted on the social network: her hometown, current city, events and location check - ins; her interests, groups and all the pages she'd liked; her relationship statuses with romantic partners, friends and family; her birthday, activities, work history and political and religious affiliations; and her photos, notes and videos.

Co-founder Omar Haroun, basking in the glow of his win, offered this assessment of the day, «There is a self - selecting filter of people who are willing to wake up at 4:30 am to spend the day charging down a mountain and meeting like - minded people, which makes the event really special.

He plans to build applications that will use data from Facebook to create temporary social networks, say at a conference or sporting event, to help users meet people who grew up in the same town or like the same band.

God will work through events like this to bring lost ones to Him... and if having a concert at Fort Bragg and «offending» people is the way to do it then I say so be it!

So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.

No it has not been proven where did you see that on an alien special on a & e, Read up on it those other religions did not have Jesus as a Savior and did not have men writing 1000s of years apart talking about the same events, and phrophecizing about things that happened in later chapters written hundreds of years later... and in no bok any where was there a man like Jesus, who spoke the words that Jesus spoke and died for people who hated Him like Jesus did, and spoke the parabales and life lessons like Jesus did... look at what Jesus spoke... read it nowhere has there been a better teacher of life then in His words.

What surprised me on this trip was that at every single event, one or two people would pull me aside and ask how I kept from getting discouraged by those big numbers that Mark Driscoll, and pastors like him, are always bragging about — the 10 million downloads, the enormous church planting network, the packed - out services, the hundreds of thousands of blog visitors.

If you look at specific events, like surviving a car crash, there are examples of people surviving incredible head - on collisions.

It is democratic in the sense that it allows people to «be present» at events like John Kennedy's funeral, the first steps by humans on the moon, and the war in Vietnam.

I'm just waiting for the media to cover some sort of similar tragedy, like the event under discussion here or the Colorado theatre massacre, by saying, just once, that at least one of the victims wasn't a «truly nice, wonderful» person.

Mark are gays asking to have a gay parade at the event like religious people are asking to make it all about them and their beliefs?

If so many people can't tolerate something like that, imagine how incensed they would be at the prospect of having a Muslim imam speak at such a symbolic, emotionally - charged event as this.

>> «if so many people can't tolerate something like that, imagine how incensed they would be at the prospect of having a Muslim imam speak at such a symbolic, emotionally - charged event as this.»

According to a report from The Future Project, an organization in Canada dedicated to the eradication of human sex trafficking (the practice of coercing people against their will into the sex trade), the possibility of sex trafficking rises exponentially at international sporting events like the Olympics.

Hyung Goo died about six months later, and that prayer service came to seem like the inaugural event of that final trajectory the point at which all these people came together to see us through to the end.

Results were mixed at the event — people loved the consistency but definitely felt that they tasted «healthy» and not like brownies that they were used to.

«I think it's really important that like - minded people get together at events like this, and go away with fresh ideas, and also understanding that they are not alone.

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all of the people who made my attendance at the conference possible and so enjoyable: Dr Julie Nicol who first approached Simon Livingstone and Yasmin Chalmers at Marcus Oldham with the proposal of sending a scholar to the conference; Cathy Reade and Melina Gillespie for their support before and during the event; Tony Fischer and Neil Inall for spending time with me during the scholar days; and Tony Gregson, my mentor for introducing me to so many industry leaders I lost count!

If you're anything like me — an anxious person that is pathologically early to events large or small — you're probably at the airport and through security with two hours to kill before the flight.

The only caveats I granted were that if you must propose at a sporting event — like, if it's written in your dead grandmother's will that if you don't, your entire family will get boils, or you'll have to Instagram your smoothie for a week — that you have to be sure the person you're proposing to will say yes.

People connect across hundreds of miles through a web of relations and friendships woven over generations, and an event like the one at Tie Siding sends shock waves throughout the state.

«As an athlete, I'm always delighted and amazed that lots of wonderful people are willing to give up their time to come and help out at a major event like the IAAF World Indoor Championships and it is great news that so many people have already applied to be a volunteer at this event in March.»

Why do people think it's okay to act out like this at sporting events?

So, her name is Angela and this apparently, the mom is Angela, and this photo has been shared as of when this article was written which I was a few weeks ago, it has been shared thousands of times and it was actually taken at a community event, but if you look at the photo it is a mom who is obviously breastfeeding her baby, it has the fire truck in the background, she is in uniform, not completely suited - up, because again, this wasn't like they pulled up at a fire and she's like why would that person have her baby there, right?

The steady growth of attendance at progressive digital events like RootsCamp and Netroots Nation shows the results: a large (and growing) pool of skilled and talented people ready to apply their knowledge to political (and advocacy) campaigns up and down the ballot.

Lots of people have spoken at EU events I've attended have said they want to have a conversation about how we can try and have get a Europe that look like it works a bit better for ordinary citizens — not the rich guys in suits zooming about doing the deals but on things that make a difference to their lives like better rights at work.

But others, like the Senate's Majority Leader John Flanagan of Long Island and Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco of Syracuse charged up to $ 1,000 per person at events in January.

For unpopular policies like tax rises, the reverse might be true; announce them all at once, perhaps just before a major holiday or sporting event, and people may not pay as much attention.

«The right time is now» to talk about how to prevent more violence like Sunday's massacre in Orlando, Ross said Monday at an event in Kannapolis, North Carolina, adding that background checks could be a way to prevent terrorists and people who have a history of violence from getting guns.

Speaking at the Lane County Republican's annual Lincoln Day Dinner, a major fundraising event for the organization, Palin told the crowd she's more like people in Eugene than one might think.

At an event to recognize that the office's SWAT team's first place finish in a statewide competition of other like units (pictured above), Howard addressed the protesters concerns, saying that they had a right to express their views, but not to disrupt business or keep people from entering the facility.

They will swap ideas on how to protect people attending sporting events, like the Buffalo Bills at New Era Field.

We are also constantly making new contacts with people who can help us and our students at events like BEX (Business Enterprise Xchange), an exhibition and conference aimed at small businesses and start - ups.

«In contrast to events like hurricanes or earthquakes, volcanic unrest can last for long periods of time, and that's one reason people stop paying attention to the hazards that are looming,» said volcanologist Greg Valentine, PhD, a University at Buffalo professor of geology and director of the Center for GeoHazards Studies in the UB College of Arts and Sciences.

At the time of the September 11 attacks, the accepted protocol for handling large - scale traumatic events was to perform so - called critical incident stress debriefing, like that Dass - Brailsford led in New York, to discuss events and assess how people are reacting psychologically.

It also allows people to report flooding during extreme events like the fall king tides, said Susan Jacobson, a journalism professor at FIU who helped develop the program.

But he points out that this effect is counterbalanced by the fact that people also tend to upload photos taken at big events like concerts, which are attended by thousands of strangers who will do the same thing.

Though the 1986 explosion at Chernobyl was a terrible event for many people, the lasting effects were nothing like as bad as expected.

After events like the 1979 partial meltdown at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, and the Chernobyl accident, there was substantial psychological trauma, even among people who were not affected, because there is such a fear of radiation and its long - term consequences.

Yet, I knew that at events like this, I was likely to meet people with interests similar to mine — and that made it easier to start and continue talking.