Sentences with phrase «few opportunities in life»

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In my four years of startup life, I've had the opportunity to experience a few hard - learned lessons that many entrepreneurs would do well to avoid.

In the United States, we seek to ensure that all people — especially those with the fewest resources — can access the opportunities they need to succeed in school and lifIn the United States, we seek to ensure that all people — especially those with the fewest resources — can access the opportunities they need to succeed in school and lifin school and life.

In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people — especially those with the fewest resources — have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and lifIn the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people — especially those with the fewest resources — have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and lifin school and life.

Alas the time of opportunity for choice is now past and they must for eternity live with the decision they made in those few short years of temporal living.

For amid all the advantages of contemporary life, where fewer people suffer disease, hunger, or lack of opportunity than in years past, there still is probably no increase in the sum total of human happiness and very slight advantage, if any, in the main business of making sense of one's life.»

«Over the past decade, more of those admitted to the US have been Christians than those of any other faith background, so the dramatic reduction in refugee arrivals this year means far fewer persecuted Christians will have the opportunity to rebuild their lives in safety in the US,» World Relief president Scott Arbeiter said last summer.

«I will always be indebted to the club for giving me the opportunity to play in the Premier League and despite a difficult last few months I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at Saints and have made friends for life at the club,» Van Dijk said.

Mother's Day is only a few days away, but there are still plenty of opportunities to shop for and celebrate the mom in your life.

I was lucky to live in Berkeley and have a moms group that offered a short workshop in baby massage and the opportunity to pick up a few other moves in a kick - ass mommy yoga class.

After putting up a fantastic performance at this year's GLO - CAF Awards, award winning act Shatta Wale, met few stars in Nigeria and Ghana and used the opportunity to invite them to his forthcoming movie premiere titled «Shattered Lives.»

My class may be one of few opportunities they have in their lives to learn about such vital topics as global climate change, sustainability, and human biology.

In my view, the most important omission related directly to science and technology aspects of the greenhouse gas issue is the failure to point out the tremendous opportunity that exists to limit warming over the next few decades by imposing strong, mandatory controls of short - lived warming agents (so methane, black carbon, and tropospheric ozone).

«But hopefully this rare opportunity to study Ebola virus in humans leads to fewer lives lost in the future.»

Long - gone hunter - gatherers lived in groups with few close relatives, thus limiting opportunities for inbreeding, say evolutionary geneticist Martin Sikora of the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen and his colleagues.

With the support of a few volunteers at the time that Neil died, Cameron took on the challenge of creating what NSF says was a vision of «a time when technology would allow people who just happened to be in wheelchairs to have the same choices, opportunities, and quality of life as any other person.»

Finding sources of funding to search for life in the universe can be tricky, with only a few individual wealthy investors and limited opportunities for government research support.

Their work points to opportunities for therapeutic interventions — even in the first few weeks of life — that might improve long - term outcomes for the preemies.

Women today are less happy than women in the 1970s (who had fewer opportunities and less freedom), and an estimated 95 percent of women are unhappy with a part of their lives.

This, in turn, means less time for other things in your life and fewer opportunities to eat foods you'll actually enjoy and drink something that's not in your plan.

It may be less necessary in places where moms and their newborn are discharged within days of the delivery, because that way the baby is naturally exposed to allegens in the short window of opportunity that is his first few weeks of life.

(I am currently living in the UK and got to know the SockDoc website only a few months ago so jumped onto the opportunity of a workshop and did not mind flying 8 hours and was not disappointed quite the contrary!)

While few people see Hashimoto's as a blessing, it is an opportunity for you to educate the people in your life about what autoimmunity is and how common it is.

We could all use the opportunity to start over in some part of our lives -LCB- like actually dragging myself to do yoga a few days a week... -RCB- and I love the time to sit back and reflect on the best moments of last year, and all that I'm looking forward to next.

I had the opportunity of visiting a few weeks ago and picked this stunning ensemble that I'll be living in all Summer.

Living in AZ it's few and far between that I get to bust out the jeans in summer, but I always take the opportunity when I can!

I had the opportunity to write some commentary on a few runway shows myself... except I watched the NYFW live feed from home in my jammies!

It's one of few opportunities you get in life to meet new people every week, and have a one - on - one conversation with a complete stranger.

Unfortunately for Surnow and Kronish however, the lives of The Kennedy family include few opportunities for on - screen torture, explosions and car chases (although it would be wonderful to see John F. Kennedy trying to solve the civil rights problem in one wild day, armed only with a Glock and a mobile phone).

Though a missed opportunity to give an amputated actor the juiciest role since Harold Russell's Oscar - winning turn in The Best Years of Our Lives, casting AnnaSophia Robb in the lead allows her to add another impressive performance to her strong filmography, this one raising clout and familiarity as her last few projects did not.

Bale's Russell Baze toils all day at the local mill and spends his free time tending to his ailing father; his girlfriend, a nursery school teacher played by a believably de-glammed Zoe Saldana, provides him with the few opportunities for joy in his life.

«Students who live in poverty have few opportunities for schooling because their parents can not afford the school fees or buy uniforms or books,» Mrs. Bush said in a gathering at the Accra Teacher Training Institute in Accra, Ghana, on Jan. 17.

Ironically, these trends leave brilliant children who live in poverty with even fewer opportunities to develop their talents than they had before; their families can not afford the private schools and summer enrichment programs wealthier children have the option to attend.

«If our nation does not adequately develop and sustain its skilled technical workforce, the consequences will be seen in lower productivity, fewer job opportunities, and a lower standard of living for Americans,» said Jeff Bingaman, the chair of the National Academies committee that wrote the report and a former U.S. senator from New Mexico, in a statement.

Perhaps one of the few things most educators can agree on as a clear benefit of NCLB was the extent to which associated standardized assessment requirements highlighted massive opportunity gaps faced by students of color and students living in poverty.

Most educators, like most people, grow up and live in communities that reflect their background, and have few opportunities to interact with people from other racial, ethnic, language, and social - class groups (Banks et al., 2001).

The experience sticks in her mind as a symbol of the gulf between the opportunities she had compared to those enjoyed by students living in the suburbs just a few miles away.

For Corvette enthusiasts, this is a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to be among the very few to be there live when the cover was pulled of the 2014 C7 Corvette for the very first time.

Expectations are bound to be high for this powerhouse duo's first cowritten effort, and although it doesn't quite live up to the authors» respective works (Black's Doll Bones was a 2014 Newbery Honor Book), and there are several missed opportunities, the end offers a few intriguing twists and perspectives that hint at what's to come in the next installments.

Mark shares a few examples, in his own life, of how being in the same physical place as other authors and other industry people has led to opportunities and experiences that he wouldn't have had otherwise.

People are always told to go out and make your splash in the world, but for too many young professionals, the heavy burden of student loan debt means you have fewer opportunities to make healthy choices, begin pursuing life goals, and saving for retirement.

For me, this gives me an opportunity to praise the second most important person in my life, my wife, who typically has no impact on financial decisions, but at a few critical points did very well for me and the family.

Based on the successful decisions that you've made for your large family here today, what advice do you have in regards to seizing the few opportunities when I will have to act decisively for my family without jeopardizing her life's work?

A few carry a lot of the «wounds» or fears from the mill, but in providing a foster home, you have to give them every opportunity to lead a normal life.

In these past few years she has had an opportunity to have a healthy, normal life thanks to the Sponsor program and the wonderful support from you.

The dogs can be confined for years at a time, reduced to lives of constant breeding in dirty, stacked, wire - bottomed cages that are required to be only six inches larger than the dog on all sides, and with few, if any, opportunities to play, be walked, or receive basic grooming or veterinary care.

The diversity of marine life is exceptional and Bali provides one of the few opportunities for divers to see the mighty mola (oceanic sunfish — mola ramsayi) manta rays and other large pelagics — but diving in Bali is not only for «big fish» enthusiasts, macro divers have a selection of treats awaiting them too — the pygmy sea horse, frogfishes, ghost pipe fish and a plethora of nudibranch species to name but a few can all be found on Bali's fringing coral reefs.

Attendees will have the opportunity to bid in a live auction for «An Evening with Miss Aretha Franklin at the Santa Barbara Bowl,» along with a few other special downtown experiences to be auctioned off by the evening's host / emcee and Downtown's Citizen of the Year, John Palminteri.

I never had the opportunity to start travelling until a few years ago because I didn't have a British passport then, so could never just «pop to Europe» etc. despite living in the UK for nearly all my life.

So, for a few days in September, I'll finally visit Las Vegas — a place that's never been high on my list, but I'm fascinated by and feel I should absolutely visit at least once in my life, so I'm excited the opportunity has been sprung upon me!

There are precious few opportunities for uninhibited self - expression in contemporary life, and exactly none of them involve the Santa Barbara Architectural Board of Review process.