Sentences with phrase «was a close friend»

Cameron notes he's a close friend of «Star Wars» creator George Lucas before saying that the 2015 sequel leans too closely on Lucas» originals.

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.

Before the game, Thomas sat with Celtics guard Avery Bradley, who grew up near Thomas and is a close friend, and cried on the sideline.

«It's your closest friends and family,» she says, noting that the average «big» wedding at Sandals resorts is only about 52 people.

For example, Francisco Perea served as a delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from New Mexico and was a close friend of President Abraham Lincoln.

«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.

Morgan is a close friend of Trump's — Trump spent more time talking to Morgan on the phone after the election than he did with British Prime Minister Theresa May.

Some speculated he was leaving to take a role in President Donald Trump's administration, as Sacks is close friends with Trump adviser Peter Thiel, who has acted as a liaison between Trump and Silicon Valley.

The pair have been close friends ever since they were young girls on the set of HBO's hit series.

«It's not about getting any public recognition for her giving, it's to help touch and transform individual lives,» said Laura Arrillaga - Andreessen, a philanthropist and lecturer on philanthropy at Stanford who has been close friends with Ms. Powell Jobs for two decades.

(David Pecker, American Media's CEO, is a close friend of Trump's.)

She noted that Telford and Butts are close friends of the prime minister's and that he had to sign off on their expense claims, which are paid to political staff throughout government at the discretion of each minister.

She added that Meadow and her mother were close friends.

Syrian - born investor Wafic Said is a close friend of the Saudi royal family and initiated the potential purchase through his company Safinvest.

because he was a close friend with a gay man for the purpose of civil rights activism??

«While we may not be close friends, I consider him a brother - in - Christ,» says Cho, who preached at Mars Hill in the early days.

The important issue is the closest friends of Jesus Christ died as martyrs.

BTW, the person that molested me and I are close friends today with no residual hard feelings.

I recommend every pastor to get copies into the hands of every congregation member, which is verbatim my words to a pastor, who is a close friend in Christ, only 2 days ago.

I was not part of emergent over the long haul, but I am close friends with many who were, and the women have many stories to tell of how badly they were treated.

Pete is a close friend of the leader who went around Transform saying I was bipolar, among other things.

In addition, Senator McCarthy was a close friend of mine.

Afterwards he was accompanied by Fernando Sáenz, a Spanish Opus Dei priest who was a close friend of his and who would later succeed him as archbishop, to the church where he was to celebrate Mass..

He was my closest friend [all six of my siblings are close and dear to me but «he» was extra special], an artist, and myself one, too.

He was a close friend of Fr Lebbe who played a very important role in the Catholic Church in China before the Second World War.

I've known, lived among, worked with and, occasionally, been close friends with gay and lesbian people for the 50 + years I admit to.

Yes, I do believe your spouse should be the closest friend you've ever had.

He and his wife, I and my wife (before two illnesses reduced her to a helpless invalid) were close friends for more than fifty years.

Blacks and whites came to be close friends.

In the view of even the most faithful and sophisticated church members, including those who are close friends of the clergy, the theological seminary is a mysterious and awesome institution — familiar only to the privileged and spiritual elite, speaking an esoteric tongue, and turning out men and women in a highly specialized field — ...

... the darkness is my closest friend.

My parents were close friends with much of our pastoral staff at the church I grew up in.

But despite the Vatican's statement that implied that the publication of the interview was a surprise to them, the pope knew Scalfari reconstructs conversations — because he and Scalfari are close friends, and Scalfari has reconstructed parts of their conversations before as interviews.

It's absurd because Mary — his wife — is my closest friend: in fact we've both known them both since we were married, so it's not a case of a tall, dark and handsome stranger across a crowded room.

Not everyone who goes on the trip will be your closest friend.

There was also Bosnian Muslim units in the SS and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin Al - Husseini, was a close friend of Adolf Hitler.

Strindberg was a close friend.

After eight years of married life, Kate was beginning to realise I might never be the close friend and intimate lover she needed and hoped for.

I am close friends with a stay at home mom in TN, and we text each other with comments and anecdotes about us and not just our kids.

Of course I'm not sure how someone is going to know one way or another whether someone is involved in ministry unless they were close friends or involved in that ministry.

Einstein and Gödel were close friends, but they disagreed profoundly on religious and philosophical matters.

It has to be close friends you can be transparent with or its just a failed, legalistic effort.

The group was also instrumental in bringing down Ahok, who is a close friend and political ally of President Joko Widodo.

In the view of even the most faithful and sophisticated church members, including those who are close friends of the clergy, the theological seminary and the seminary professor are mysterious and awesome — familiar only to the privileged and spiritual elite, speaking an esoteric tongue, and no place for the laity.

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin Al Husseini, was a close friend of Adolf Hitler.

Viewers recently saw Pat Phelan go on the run following a string of gruesome murders he has yet to be punished for and last month viewers saw David Platt was raped by a man he believed to be his close friend.

And people who I thought were close friends just didn't keep in contact, leaving me a bit bewildered.

She was a close friend of a close friend, and she happened to live right across the street from the house my dad had just moved into (my parents having recently divorced).

Nutritional labels are a close friend of the gluten free eater and this cookbook includes all the information you need.

Beetroot has never been a close friend of mine in the kitchen (until recently).