Sentence examples for initial friends from inspiring English sources

He was extremely helpful with advice and support during organization of the initial Friends group and attended American Friends board meetings until he was no longer able.

The group meets twice a month to listen to pitches from the heads of companies that have moved past an initial "friends and family" financing stage.

However, the extent of homophilous behavior is surprisingly high in some settings, such as women's strong preference for signing up for the social network site on invitation of another woman, adding other women as their initial friends and having the strongest interactions with a woman.

The results show that women organize their online social environment differently from men especially in the initial steps, as they are more likely to add other women as their initial friends and to try a new service and enter a new social environment following an invitation by another woman.

After initial, disparaging remarks, friends, when informed, were curious rather than rejecting.

In Silicon Valley's hyperconnected world, Mr. Grimes' initial band of friends has generated an ever-expanding network of contacts and deals.

The company was founded in 1998 by Mr. Lightfoot, the company's chief executive, and Robert Thomas, a former Manhattan chef, through initial investments from friends and family members.

Despite their threats, Massenet found initial backers in friends including Anya Hindmarch and Jimmy Choo founder Tamara Mellon, and became profitable in 2004 before emerging as one of the leading success stories of the dotcom boom.

For some school and college friends, initial astonishment was tempered by memories of Markoff's fondness for gambling, at which he might lose substantial sums and then stay up late into the night trying to win the money back.

Co-founder and CEO, Alberto Pepe, who has a background in astrophysics — including two years working at CERN in Switzerland — tells TechCrunch the product soft-launched in February last year, with an initial invitation to friends and colleagues to test it out.

My closest friends initial concern turned into an outright shunning.