Sentences with phrase «said a friend who»

said a friend who was actually scowling at me, when I ordered a salad at lunch.

«Bloomberg is keeping himself in the field in case lightning strikes and he decides to run (in 2012),» said a friend who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid angering the mayor.

Sen. Gregory Hecht, one of the bill's sponsors, said friends who are educators had urged him to address the teacher shortage in low - performing schools.

«Outsiders who come here to help don't understand that we play by different rules,» said a friend who has spent her life in New Orleans, where unique intersections between politics, race, class, and corruption make for a particularly heady brew.

Mr Gelach said a friend who had been affected by many floods told him animals often helped each other out during disasters.

«She's not a woman who can be threatened and pushed around,» said a friend who asked not to be named.

Not exact matches

Said Connie Steele, director of Network Solutions: «Social media can be the best friend for small business owners who constantly seek new ways to attract new customers and retain the ones they have at a relatively low cost.»

This is further complicated by the fact that Graham is close friends with secretary of defense Robert McNamara, who is the one who commissioned the Pentagon Papers as, he said, a record for future administrations to study.

Says McConnell's longtime friend Bill Stone, who is a party regular in Louisville: «Mitch has always been a believer in knocking them out, and when they're down, putting your foot on their throat and not letting them up.

But when I asked an investment banker friend of mine who had been at this same party about this, I had hardly begun before she said, «I know exactly what you're talking about!»

«Firing your close, close friend and someone who built this thing with you from nothing is hard emotionally,» Zechory said.

The next time I needed to negotiate, I was able to talk to a lawyer, talk to a banker who is a friend of mine, and say OK, I don't want to accept this as it is.

My friend Bruce Kamich, who works with me at RealMoney.com, says that that Visa chart's really good, and I happen to like Visa management.

Coles says it could just as well be an ex or a best friend who's especially judgmental.

The company engineered two three - month loans, totaling $ 300,000, from a private party — «a friend of a friend,» says Anderson — who required the owners to put up 10 % of their equity as collateral and make principal and interest payments of $ 75,000 a month.

«The reality of online retailing is that it is a good place to shop for people who have seen or experienced a product at a friend's house or at an actual retail store,» Soberman said.

«It's perfect for sharing quick moments with friends who aren't right by your side or making your conversations richer by seeing each other face - to - face when you are messaging,» Facebook said in a blog post on Thursday.

I think [YouTube comedian] Ze Frank said it best: I think about someone who has 2,000 friends on the Internet the same way I think about people who have 2,000 sexual partners.»

Inspired by his father, Ron Price, a self - employed consultant who often spoke of living according to your values, Dan says he just wanted to help friends like Heather, who ran the Moxie Java coffee shop in Caldwell, Idaho.

«It turns out we found an amazing person through another friend of a friend, a prototype - making guy,» said Och before Prince chimed in, «who produced them in FIVE DAYS in Taiwan,» (then Och finished the sentence) «and literally five days to our door we had seven of these prototypes.»

After calculating and tallying up the maximum possible number of friends each person who downloaded it had at any given time, Facebook last week said the leak affected up to 87 million people, most of whom reside in the U.S.

«And then when I mentioned it on Facebook I had a few friends who said, «We want to chip in a little bit, too.»»

I found out about the subreddit from a van dweller who works as an engineer at a major tech company, and who says he made friends with other Bay Area - based, van - dwelling techies through the group.

«I don't have a constant fear of being deported now,» said Henderson, «but I have a lot of friends that are also British expats who work in tech, and that's a terrifying situation for them.»

And, in the wake of the «Access Hollywood» tapes, CNN anchor Erin Burnett recounted a story from a friend who said she met Trump in 2010 and he popped some Tic Tacs before leaning in to kiss her.

«It was much better than I thought it would be,» said Carlos Royal, 45, a professor who came with a friend dressed in Santa hats and took selfies for the occasion in front of the theater's Hollywood sign marquis.

It's not unusual for family, friends and neighbors who have access to the home to help themselves, he said — especially if you made verbal bequests or have personal possessions that could trigger infighting.

The friend who set up my site for me said these fateful words when I asked him how often to post:

«It's very, very, very quick for anyone who interacts with Slack to consider Slack, the entity, their friend,» says Reed, who ran technology for President Obama's 2012 campaign before starting Modest.

«If we were good friends and I gave you cash — not because of a contract but because of our close friendship — then that's a gift,» said Bruce Steiner, who is of counsel at Kleinberg Kaplan Wolff & Cohen in New York.

«From above, you see the Sacred Valley stretching out for miles on either side of you, and across you see more of the amazing Andes mountains,» says Scott Carr of Tulsa, Okla., who visited in October 2017 with his fiancée, her daughter and a small group of friends.

The Oculus executives said that people who take panoramic photos with either their smartphone or 360 camera will soon be able to have those photos shared with friends via the News Feed feature.

Kyle Stephens, who was a Nassar family friend, said he molested her for years at his Lansing - area home.

Talk to friends and anyone you know who works in that field, too, said Clark.

«In the nicest way, what makes him unique is his absolute audacity,» says Bob Ezrin, an award - winning record producer who's been a close friend of Cohl's since both were breaking into the business in Toronto.

That's what a friend of mine once said about teachers who tell their students, «I don't know.»

NPS is «perhaps the best - known customer - loyalty tool around today, based on the entirely sound principle that the more customer promotersyou have (i.e., customers who say on surveys that they're highly likely to refer you to a colleague or friend), the more likely you'll be to grow your business and outpace the competition,» writes customer - engagement expert Bill Lee for the HBR Blog Network.

That's from a blog post by Facebook's Joel Seligstein, who says that the newly unveiled Facebook Messages will sort through your inbox and attempt to separate the messages you care about (those from your friends) from the bank statements, spam, and job queries.

But the account echoed wording in a comment made a day earlier to The Associated Press by longtime Comey friend Daniel Richman, a former federal prosecutor, who said the president had removed «somebody unwilling to pledge absolute loyalty to him.»

«I know it's mean to say and I know it would hurt those of our friends who completely over-extended themselves,» he says, «but honestly, we're praying for a crash.»

One of the most notable things we found in our research was the high number of people who said that they were frequently offended by what their friends posted.

«The two women I am on a panel with are women who have been both friends and confidants and advisers in my life,» Fleiss says.

Smith, who started Taser in 1993 after two of his friends were shot and killed during a road rage incident in Arizona, says body cameras are a perfect next product for his company.

Saszi then heard about sales with bitcoin from Frigerio at Lamborghini Newport Beach, who he says is a friend and colleague.

One person could report having one close friend or family member and be just as happy as someone who reports having five or 10, Campbell said.

«Sometimes I feel like maybe it's a fluke that I even made it in, because my friends aren't that different from me,» says Martina Abrahams, an African American woman who works at a financial tech company in San Francisco and previously worked at Google.

He's wasting their tax dollars on his luxurious lifestyle, giving handouts to corporate polluters and poisoning our air and water,» said Lukas Ross, who represents Friends of Earth.

American Media Inc., the company that owns the tabloid, agreed to pay $ 150,000 in August to Karen McDougal, who allegedly had a consensual romantic relationship with Trump in 2006, while he was married to his wife, Melania, the Journal reported, citing interviews with McDougal's friends, who say she told them about the affair.

«They are a close friend in a dangerous neighborhood, and so threatening that important relationship lacks some credibility,» said Townsend, who is now with the Center for New American Security.

They have a small group of friends who share brilliant ideas and may co-invest or make strategic introductions,» Povlitz has witnessed.She says they understand that people and information have as much value as money, and that real wealth involves the right combination and proper use of each.