Sentences with phrase «who are in their neighborhoods»

So while I am grateful for those people who have devoted their lives to studying Greek, I know that I will never be able to «compete» on their level, and so for my Bible teaching efforts, learning Chinese, Spanish, or Hindi would have bee much more valuable so that I could communicate with the people who are in my neighborhood.

Instead of sending out generic messages from the candidate, why not recruit and train volunteers to work with the people on the voter list who are in their neighborhoods?

Contact the National College Access Network to see who is in your neighborhood and to find out how your school can become a feeder to some of the work they are doing.

Not exact matches

And Freedman, who opened 42Floors in the city's SoMa neighborhood, says that finding a «cool» office space is an important consideration to attract start - up talent.

Jeff Weissman, who has run his Great Harvest location in Washington's Lake Forest Park neighborhood for over 20 years, doesn't feel as if he's part of a corporate operation.

Sure, things might change in the next few years (in fact, they will), but these are five of the best neighborhood in Los Angeles right now, according to someone who lived there for 12 years:

His roommates, who work in recruiting, were quick to comment that tech bros populate that neighborhood.

Born in Chicago's Near North Side, he was raised by his grandmother, who moved the family to Indianapolis to escape the neighborhood's growing gang violence.

She opened Sticky Fingers in the gentrifying neighborhood of Columbia Heights, in part to serve the students, artists, and activists who were moving in, but also to prove something: Vegan food can be delicious when done right.

«When I was 22 years old, a guy who owned a little bodega in my neighborhood told me, «If you really want to start a company, you better dig under your couch for a couple of extra dollars, stop going out to dinner four times a month, trade in your car for a cheaper one, and raise that $ 40,000 or $ 30,000, if you can, by yourself.»»

While classmates at her all - white elite high school breezed into adulthood and homeownership with help from their parents, she «bought my first home as a co-signer to my grandmother who was next on the list of longtime renters in our gentrifying neighborhood... to be displaced.»

In a founder - dense city like San Francisco, which further has two peak neighborhoods where tech companies congregate (SoMa and the Mission), what this means is that you can't walk down the street without (almost literally) running into someone else who is starting a tech company.

Instead, the problem is more about convincing casual guests who aren't as loyal to the concept to stop by for wings when they have a lot of restaurant options in their neighborhood.

By learning advantages like the quickest routes to various neighborhoods, the best times to work, and who the best tippers were, I earned more in one evening than my (non-delivering) peers could earn in a week.

Including investments in consumer companies he holds through Maveron, a venture capital firm he co-founded — and the tens of millions of dollars of equity he owns in Groupon (GRPN) as a director — his net worth is in the neighborhood of at least $ 2 billion, which isn't bad for a kid who grew up in the projects of Brooklyn, on the seventh floor at 1560 East 102nd St. Obama himself, according to Schultz, said he was «very aware of my personal story.»

«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.

After a shooting that left several people wounded at the southern edge of Tepito — a rough neighborhood known as a bastion of the Sante Muerte faith — 200 police officers were dispatched, shutting down streets and searching alleys and buildings in pursuit of suspects who fled the scene.

That stay - at - home parent wheeling her infant around the neighborhood is engaged in a valuable service — just ask anyone who's paid for a week of daycare.

«I absolutely look at what I call the neighborhood when I'm investing in a stock, to see what other kinds of investors are in there,» says Whitney George, who manages the Sprott Focus Trust, «so you don't end up sitting in a very crowded movie theater when a fire breaks out.»

«These fellows are in the neighborhood and know the people we want to sell to,» says Klobnak, who estimates that his bird - dog network generates 20 % to 25 % of Laser Vision's leads.

«I got the first piece of advice when I was 22 years old, from a guy who owned a little bodega in my neighborhood.

Hours after the rampage ended, family members and friends were in the neighborhood trying to locate loved ones who were missing and believed to have been at the club.

Around the time that the first intelligence officers were sent to the US for treatment on Feb. 6, the wife of another embassy staffer, who lived near the Havana coastline in the neighborhood of Flores, reported hearing similar, disturbing sounds, two officials familiar with her account said.

As they eagerly describe a young Alison staging plays in the family living room and leading neighborhood children on make - believe safaris, the subject of their recollections sits quietly, as though detached from a past that has little to do with who she is today.

Legal experts said Berkshire Hathaway's mortgage companies were carrying out the very practices outlawed by the Fair Housing Act, a 50 - year - old law that banned racial discrimination in lending, by locating their branches in white neighborhoods, employing mortgage consultants who - from their websites - appear to be overwhelmingly white and lending mostly to white borrowers.

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«Identify the broker who's going to do the best job — one who knows the neighborhoods you're interested in, and who has a great relationship with the landlords they're representing.»

«There are many neighborhoods in Nashville where the fight is lost,» said James Fraser, a Vanderbilt University professor who has been active in the city's affordable - housing movement.

Like Vicente Zambada, the 32 - year - old Flores twins, who grew up in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood, were born into the drug trade.

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Cruz — at 5 - foot - 7 and 120 pounds — was scrawny, and rarely, if ever, felt comfortable with other kids, either in his Parkland neighborhood or at Stoneman Douglas, according to Paul Gold, who lived next door to the Cruz family and remained in touch with Nikolas up until his mother's funeral in November.

I used to babysit for a child who lived in my neighborhood starting when I was 14 years old.

The biggest winner, however, is anyone who has ever bet on sports games in office pools or with offshore sites or neighborhood bookies and wants to do it legally.

He was a Marine lance corporal from the Weston Field neighborhood of Scranton who volunteered to fight in Vietnam.

Folks who are renting in neighborhoods with a lot of housing vouchers end up having higher rents, so it's had some unintended consequences.»

Drawing on the work of New York University sociologist Patrick Sharkey, Richard Florida wrote that 70 percent of black residents in America's poorest and and most segregated neighborhoods «are the children and grandchildren of those who lived in similar neighborhoods 40 years ago.»

«There are a lot of bad people in the community who wish to threaten their neighbors and neighborhood and are using weapons to do that,» Tuter said.

We're an open community, and we're seeking like - minded, local / regional / national / international startups and entrepreneurs who are interested in growing their business in the Kansas neighborhoods of Hanover Heights / Spring Valley and Frank Rushton and the Missouri neighborhoods of West Plaza North and West Plaza South.

Among the missing posts: A 2011 study that finds people who are located in the San Francisco neighborhoods with the most prostitution, theft, burglary and alcohol - related crimes order the most Uber rides.

The Department of Veterans Affairs backs a 100 % mortgage for members of the military and most veterans; the U.S. Department of Agriculture backs a no - money - down mortgage which is available in most suburban and rural neighborhoods; and, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac offer a 97 % LTV loan for anyone who qualifies.

Instead, Harbour put up signs in African American neighborhoods and gave referral bonuses, a practice which, the lawsuit alleges, meant that it was mostly African Americans who heard about Harbour's offer.

Georgetown's population is small (at under 30,000 people), and is reserved for a select population who get to live in this neighborhood that, in its entirety, has the distinction of being a National Historic Landmark District.

The prospects for a better future are nearly hopeless for roughly 20 percent of black people — those who reside in big - city crime - infested and dysfunctional neighborhoods.

Take a walk around your neighborhood and chat to people who happen to be outside their houses in their gardens or on their driveways and ask them if they currently hire a cleaner and let them know that you are available.

Yet lurking behind the drapes of the house next door is the concerned face of a man who does not appear to appreciate the changes taking place in his suburban neighborhood.

The neighborhood was developed in the 1940s and today represents a remarkably preserved example of the kind of postwar, mass - produced housing that would proliferate in the following decades, according to Anna Andrzejewski, a UW - Madison professor of art history who has written about the neighborhood.

every one who seeks God should want to be part of that community in their own neighborhood.

«We feel neglected,» said Bonnie Lieberman, who is raising two children in the neighborhood.

If I had never heard of Orthodox Jews in Israel stoning women who walked through their neighborhoods showing «too much» leg, I'd be inclined to agree with you.

And I can tell you as someone who lives in a neighborhood that is Orthodox Jewish you can not mistake their clothing for anything other than clothing.