Sentences with phrase «than any of my friends who»

If I may be so bold, many of the so - called Christians are worse than some of my friends who choose not to follow Jesus.

My husband and I spent many hours talking about parenting, how we wanted to raise our children, how we would deal with discipline, with schools, with rebellious teenage years, far more than any of my friends who conceived naturally.

I'm not sure that the boys are covering everything on the National Curriculum - Tim in particular doesn't appear to be doing a lot of maths - but they're certainly learning plenty of other things, and enjoying life considerably more than some of their friends who go to school out here.

Not exact matches

I sat standing 1 foot away from somebody who's been in prison for 15 years of his life and I had 60 seconds to open up to him about something that causes me pain in my life while he stares into my eyes I found myself going deeper than I would with even friends or family.

He is one of the progenitors of Brooklyn's hipster scene — a shaggy, tattooed, larger - than - life titan who, last fall, dropped $ 300,000 on a lavish Las Vegas meal for 25 friends after winning $ 1 million at a high - rollers» blackjack table.

«Paradoxically, big get - togethers can be easier to prioritize than smaller ones,» writes Vanderkam, offering the example of a busy professor who plans an annual getaway for her old college friends and their families.

The study looked at 149 participants in networking and business groups from the United States, Belgium, India, Japan, Australia and England and found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves and didn't write them down.

This means that if you choose to start a business, thinking that it would be a good source of funds, you could very well make less money than your friend who works a minimum wage job.

«In sum, social media users are not any more likely to feel stress than others, but there is a subgroup of social media users who are more aware of stressful events in their friends» lives and this subgroup of social media users does feel more stress,» the report states.

This study by Dr. Gail Matthews found that «more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to a friend reported successful goal achievement.»

«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.

Happily, Schultz and the Starbucks organization have found and continue to find a steady supply of employees at every level of the organization who are less jaded than my journalist friend with whom I opened this article.

«This is because people, other than very close friends and relatives, don't seem to relate well to those who constantly share photos of themselves,» lead study author David Houghton, of Birmingham Business School, said in a release.

More than a quarter of consumers who aren't planning a romantic evening have an alternative in mind, such as buying something for themselves or getting together with family and friends, the NRF said.

In addition, Richards has cultivated a network of more than 1,600 «friends» — fellow MySpace users who are interested in her and her business.

So far, about 7 percent of Step2's customers have registered on the company's website with their Facebook IDs, and of those who have, more than half of them have shared product reviews with their Facebook friends.

When Freitas sat down to talk to young people about their phones, she heard some pretty crazy stories of raging tech addiction, from the girl who gave her phone a name and talked about it like a friend to the boy who claimed he'd rather leave his brain at home than his precious device.

We give $ 1,000 if one of our employees refers a friend who lasts more than 90 days.

Asked to name the type of people who influence their purchasing decisions, 59 percent of Millennials listed friends — compared with less than half of non-Millennials.

«He had all sorts of respiration problems, and we were spending more time at the hospital than at home,» said Glacken, 49, who spent lots of time disinfecting her house with Lysol and Windex, until a friend suggested using a Shaklee - brand organic cleaning solution.

One by one, executives, board members, investors and even close friends slowly fell away as Uber became embroiled in a seemingly ceaseless series of legal and ethical scandals, according to interviews with more than a dozen Uber insiders, former employees, investors and others, who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Happy birthday from Bob to Erica (a year younger than mass - produced personal computers) and Heather (twice the age of Google); to Christine's son Matt (a year younger than The Simpsons); to Vikram (a year younger than the International Space Station); to Pamela's childhood friend Bert (twice the age of Macintosh computers); to Marian's son Bryan (the same age as Kobe Bryant); and to our editor who makes this newsletter possible, Rosa (one - sixth the age of The Atlantic), from the other members of the Daily team.

The difference can be surprising; I have seen a number of friends buy at «expensive» prices (say, $ 300 + per bitcoin) and make considerably more money than others who bought at «cheap» prices (say $ 30 and below) but then traded along the way.

If the people who downloaded the app averaged 200 «friends» each, that could lead to the collection of data on more than 50 million Facebook users.

A 2015 Dominican University of California study found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves without writing them down.

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.

But, while ads in a newspaper or on the radio or TV are seen or heard by — and can be fact - checked by — a broad cross section of people, Facebook users may see entirely different ads than their friends depending on who's targeting them and how.

Your goal should be putting together a group of friends of friends, rather than friends and family (who will likely be biased in their response).

I have Muslim friends who are more forgiving, loving, and kind than it seems many of you are.

Friend of Brian's I'm sorry to burst your bubble here, but every major heresy that has inflicted God's people for the last 2,000 years has come from organized groups with «leaders» who thought they knew God's mind better than anyone around them.

I got no problems with atheist, I went to school with some of the brightest minds on the planet who where atheist and they treated me better than some of my so called christian friends.

I have had several friends and family members who worked at Chic - fil - a and I know that they have always been more than gracious in their support of their local communities.

It often seems as the «share» the details of this relationship that Jesus is more like a child's imaginary friend who is always on their side when any conflict occurs with others rather than the Jesus who loved people enough to tell them, without accusing or withdrawing affection, the hard truths they needed to know to encourge them to make more meaningful choices.

Perhaps you've been in the midst of people like your parents, your loved ones — your circle of friends who claim to be christians — and they have let you down or proven to be less than you expected.

The challenge is urgent because more than 31,000 people in the United States have already been diagnosed with this fatal disease — half of whom have already died, leaving families, friends and loved ones who need care — and because at least 1.5 million Americans are thought to be carrying the rapidly spreading virus.

Partnering with organizations like WorldReach (who allows you to sponsor children) and Charity: Water (who lets you tell your friends to donate instead of getting you a birthday present every year) or finding a cause like ending human trafficking, supporting education or assisting the homeless can represent more than just one - time gifts or temporary passions.

I heard from more than a dozen mainline pastors who were receptive and appreciative of the critique and eager to continue the conversation.I also heard from my friend, Aric Clark, a Presbyterian pastor and one of the creative minds behind the blog Two Friars and a Fool.

Unfortunately, her reply is little more than a show of concern for herself and her friends, and the fact that we are once again faced with an accused person in a ministry position who spews indigation without the slightest attempt to engage by offering counterpoints or supported statements lends still more credibility to Julie's account.

Living in the opposite country from the illusive and idyllic Village where I was sure all of my friends» children were being raised by content mommies who were far more Godly than me.

She did mention in the video that even her atheist friends were telling her that her philosophies were actually more Christian than atheist, so I rather think she was latently religious all along, sort of like gays who live for years in hetero relationships, then finally realize what they are, after years of saying something else.

«Say: Shall I choose for a protecting friend other than Allah, the Originator of the heavens and the earth, who feedeth and is never fed?»

Almost 9 out of 10 Americans know someone who is gay or lesbian (87 %), and those people are more likely to say homosexuality is morally acceptable (19 %) than those who don't have a homosexual friend or family member (3 %).

It's become part of the cultural lingo and when it's spoken we all understand that we're talking about someone who's more than just a friend; someone who carries a significant place of value and priority in our life.

And I can recall quite a number of occasions when visiting men in hospital who had never previously been ill in their lives, being told that such a forcible withdrawal from life came to be regarded far more as a friend than as an enemy.

While I think it's irresponsible to blame family and friends for a loved one's suicide, I believe it's just as irresponsible to ignore the reality that gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide as straight peers, that nearly half of young transgender people have considered taking their lives, and that LGBT youth who come from families who reject their gender identities or sexual orientations are more than eight times more likely to attempt suicide than those who come from supportive families.

When I talk to my good friend who is a very conservative Catholic who views taking communion as sacred and every crumb is representative of Christ's body and not one crumb will drop... then compare it to how we do it at church... everyone ripping bread from the same loaf, crumbs everywhere, kids spilling the «wine»... does it really matter... is one more right than the other... one upholds church law on how communion will be performed versus our laid back version.

I have a friend, an older lady (older than myself:)-RRB- who was a Hare Krishna most of her life.

Those who see God primarily as «Boss» and «King» (rather than Father or Friend) probably don't get to these points of intimate communication with God.

Then, instead of lecturing friends on your own hot take — or shouting into an echo chamber of your own making — engage in real, face - to - face conversation with people who see the world differently than you do to challenge your biases instead of just trying to have them affirmed.

But quantifiably speaking, we can say for certain without any knowledge of friends & family that the man who mur.der one person is in fact «better» quantifiably than he who has mur.dered two.