Sentences with phrase «as a young woman who»

They understand, as the young woman who knocked on my office door did not, that simple faithfulness counts too.

As a young woman who has struggled with anorexia for years, I can assure you that even for people without an eating disorder (especially a girl your age) calorie counting is an unhealthy practice.

He is invited in for a drink, but Paulina is scared for her life, thinking their visitor might be the mad doctor who was involved in torturing and raping her as a young woman who protested the previous regime.

Oscar (R) winner Brie Larson brings Jeannette Walls's best - selling memoir to life as a young woman who, influenced by the joyfully wild nature of her deeply dysfunctional father (Woody Harrelson), found the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua (Olympus Has Fallen) with a screenplay penned by Richard Wenk (The Mechanic), The Equalizer also stars Chloë Grace Moretz as a young woman who crosses Robert's path and leads him into starting a fight with some of the most dangerous people in Boston.

As a young woman who doesn't wonder whether she should get an abortion but who is haunted by its implications nonetheless, the actor was constantly surprising — and hilarious.

Brie Larson walked away from the 88th Academy Awards with a Best Actress statuette for her devastating, widely praised performance in Room as a young woman who spends years confined in a filthy shed, cut off from the outside world before finally being given her freedom.

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«The Age of Adaline,» «April 24 Blake Lively («Gossip Girl») stars as a young woman who's rendered ageless after an accident.

Claire Foy stars as a young woman who is involuntarily committed to a mental institution; other than that, the only thing we know about the film is that Jay Pharoah and Juno Temple are in the cast.

The former star of Sundance standout «Filly Brown» is garnering critical adoration for her starring role on the CW's new dramedy, as a young woman who finds herself both a virgin and pregnant.

Olsen stars as a young woman who goes to live with her estranged sister (Sarah Paulson), and brother - in - law (Hugh Dancy), after running away from an abusive cult.

Elizabeth Olsen (sister of Ashley and Mary Kate) stars as a young woman who escapes from an evil cult and struggles to reconnect with her estranged sister (Sarah Paulson) and her new brother - in - law (Hugh Dancy).

• Jennifer Lawrence was named Best Actress for her breakout role as a young woman who challenges her Ozark Mountains community to look for her missing father in «Winter's Bone», while newcomer Hailee Steinfeld took Best Supporting Actress for her debut performance in «True Grit» as an 1870s teenager avenging her father's murder.

«Lights Out,» which stars Teresa Palmer as a young woman who fights off a spooky entity that has attached itself to her mother (Maria Bello), is poised for profitability given its $ 5 million production budget.

Set in the Tang Dynasty (June 618 — June 907), the films will star frequent Hou collaborator Shu Qi (Three Times, Millennium Mambo), as a young woman who is trained in secret by a Taoist nun to become a ruthless assassin but is then asked to kill her lover (synopsis by Screen Daily).

Set around the holidays, it stars Anna Kendrick as a young woman who, after breaking up with her boyfriend, moves in with her brother (Swanberg), his wife (Melanie Lynskey, who starred in 2012's «Hello I Must Be Going,» another Sundance film about a girl who gets dumped, goes home and grows up) and their two - year - old son.

Hilary Swank won her first Oscar for her performance as a young woman who passed herself off as a man in Boys Don't Cry and only two years ago Jared Leto won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as a transgender woman in Dallas Buyers Club.

If the series never quite transcended its melodramatic young adult roots or heavy - handed socio - political commentary, this third sequel nevertheless moves along with grim, propulsive confidence, once again leaning on Jennifer Lawrence «s steel - jawed performance as a young woman who becomes the unlikely leader of a rebellion over which she has less and less control.»

Miss Curtis's screen personality is as strong and striking as her body, and Marilu Henner and Laraine Newman are good as the young women who gain a kind of fame they hadn't bargained for.

Clearly Margot Robbie — the producer, or the actor, or both — sees Tonya Harding as a young woman who did some things, not a villain who's a cautionary tale.

Just announced for the Cannes Film Festival next month, the film stars Elle Fanning as a young woman who moves to Los Angeles and enters the modeling industry, as illustrated by a room full of beautiful, slender young women parading around in lingerie.

«Lights Out,» which stars Teresa Palmer as a young woman who fights off a spooky entity that has attached itself to her mother (Maria Bello), is already pointed at profitability given its $ 5 million production budget.

Dowd is magnificent as the harried manager, as is Walker as the young woman who has walked into a nightmare.

Students such as the young woman who spent school mornings sobbing, having finally faced the harsh reality that in fifth grade she was reading and writing on a kindergarten level.

We meet her as a young woman who is strong but questioning her place in the world, through the trials that help her hone her skills, and finally, to the formidable — yet still vulnerable — woman she becomes, as the Tomb Raider.

Heralded as one of the best games of 2013, Gone Home extends an invitation into an ordinary family's mysterious past as a young woman who discovers an empty house that's much more than it seems.

We had a long telephone conversation, in which Hill conveyed deeply mixed feelings about having accepted an invitation from anti-fracking campaigners to speak at a political forum on such a charged topic — one she is personally very concerned about as a young woman who plans to be a mother, and which has also become the focus of her academic research:

Not exact matches

These days Candace is out from behind the mask and showing the world some new faces — as a singer (her rendition of Michael Jackson's «Heal The World» also went viral), vlogger, host on TLC, and ambassador for charitable organization Convoy of Hope, who as part of their mission works to empower young girls in cultures where women are degraded.

According to MDEdge, many people believe that younger women and women who haven't had children have small uterine cavities and cervical diameters, and, as such, the IUD isn't appropriate for them.

«In our celebrity focused culture, a young star like Emma Watson has the power to amplify important social messages,» says Katie Hood, a senior fellow at Duke University who teaches a «Women as Leaders» course and who recently became executive director of the anti-domestic violence One Love Foundation.

I thought about how the gender gap persists in tech despite declining in other STEM fields, how hard we've been working as an industry to reverse that trend, and how this was yet another discouraging signal to young women who aspire to study computer science.

When your workplace is home to a diverse group of individuals from different backgrounds and experiences, your company can more effectively market to all groups of consumers, from a wide range of racial and ethnic backgrounds, men and women, older and younger adults and those who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.

Roxanne Taylor, chief marketing officer, Accenture: «As someone who wants to always make sure that I'm helping young women succeed in business, I think it's very, very important that you make time to coach and mentor others.»

But I was just amazed by how everyone, young and old wanted to be involved... and was so deeply enriched and touched by the experience and the laughter and the love I experienced from the people I met and how women would in particular open their hearts to me and tell me the stories of where they've come from, particularly because I have the language and was coming there as a woman and just how touched they were that I was there as a woman from England who's learned the language and who's an artist and running this project and come all the way to see them so they didn't feel forgotten I think that was pretty much what they felt... that their stories were being heard so they don't feel forgotten knowing the tents would be around the world.

A woman who would not give her name was concerned and frustrated early Sunday as she tried to find a young man who had been at the club.

As an (almost) 50 - year - old woman who had chemotherapy at a young age, I have experienced many hot flashes in my lifetime.

The 2016 presidential candidate addressed a group of a few hundred well - coiffed young women, many costumed in bright pantsuits, who waited for hours in the rain in New York City for a chance to gain entry into the coveted powder - pink female - only clubhouse known as The Wing, pay $ 12 for a glass of champagne, and see Clinton speak.

Two young women are using the power of social media to warn teenagers about sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of a Montreal tattoo artist who used his boutique as a hangout for troubled girls when he sexually abused them.

«Together we can send the unambiguous message that the women of UBC have supporters everywhere who will stand against sexual violence — that the rape chants that students at the Sauder School were participating in are deplorable and must be properly dealt with as a violation of women's human rights; that repeated sexual attacks on young women on campus are a crisis with which we should all be concerned.

A San Diego woman who said she was raped by the «Golden State Killer» as a young teen spoke out about the relief she felt after hearing a suspect was arrested in the decades - long hunt for the perpetrator.

Well CNN if you want to bring it up why do nt you tell the truth / Joseph Smith was no less of a child molester then That other LDS freak who married all them woman... Joseph Smith had 29 wives some as young as 12..

For as I noted in a toast at the anniversary dinner the Maleckis» sons had arranged, the network of now - not - so - young friends that had gathered around Karol Wojtyla — men and women who resolutely refuse to think of themselves as something special — had in fact helped bend the history of the Church, and the world, in a more humane direction.

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

One thinks not only of the personnel that the Jesuits and other religious institutes devoted to teaching young men but also of the teaching congregations of religious women, such as the Ursulines, who educated young women in virtue and learning.

For the first time in modern history, we have had Popes who as young priests met and worked with women at university as a matter of course and on ordinary terms.

Riding the publicity wave of Brittany Maynard, a young woman who suffered much and became the human face of the death - with - dignity movement, they have redefined compassion as respect for a patient's autonomous determination of the time, location, and method of death.

-- I told this once to a young woman from Japan over an outing with another Japanese woman who was going to Bangladesh as a missionary.

The followers of Joey Smith, a man who was married to over 57 women at the same time, some as young as 14 years of age, and some a mother - daughter combo is your Mormon prophet.