Sentences with phrase «after her childhood of»

After a childhood of carob treats due to an eccentric mother who had a passion for looking after her children's health, his opinion is that there is no substitute for chocolate.

After a childhood of being bullied, and a young adulthood of being overlooked, when the world started behaving appropriately toward me (which occurred somewhere around when my weight reached the 130s), I was gobsmacked.

(I learned, after my childhood of severe hypoglycemia, that if one eats refined sugar now and then, it should be done only after a good, healthy, high - fiber meal.)

After a childhood of inventing things from spare parts, including homemade rockets, Lonnie Johnson had a successful career at NASA, designing a power pack for the probe Galileo's mission to Jupiter.

After a childhood of stories feed an imaginative pattern of wonder about woodland fairies and their ilk potentially holding council or playing hide and go seek in the most rapturous constituents of the forest, a strange tinge of remorse was leftover for being unable you couldn't shrink down and run through the halls and tunnels of trees.

I have embraced the rustic look (although this city girl swore she never would after her childhood of spending countless weekends at her grandparents» farm!)

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Druckenmiller was named «America's Most Charitable Man of 2009» by the Chronicle of Philanthropy after he and his wife pledged $ 705 million (U.S.) in support of medical research, education, and the fight against childhood poverty.

Using the authors» analogy — despite its condescending overtones — of kids and adolescents growing more quickly than adults, if we took away the extra gallons of milk and after - school snacks, if we stopped providing education, if we penalized a kid for an inadvertent mistake, if we took away all the extra tools and resources required to usher kids through childhood, what would that look like?

What starts as Tig reconciling her mother's affairs, becomes a poignant, hilarious, and surprising exploration of family, childhood, and life after grief.»

In almost every class of entrepreneurs I teach, I ask the question, and a staggering number of hands goes up each time (and that's after I tell people to leave their hands down if they want to keep their childhood private).

Hopes for President Trump to repeal the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has diminished dramatically after the White House put out an aggressive list of demands.

After a troubled childhood (alcoholic parents, years of bullying), Manning joined the army at Fort Meade and, in 2009, shipped out to Iraq.

The day after the Company filed its proxy statement, Chairman D. Boone Wayson, a childhood friend and former business partner of Mr. Wynn, communicated the board's outright rejection of my request to reopen the nomination window as neither «appropriate [n] or justified,» without any further explanation.

In his most recent interview to date, Vidal Sassoon has a highly personal and moving discussion with CNBC Meets presenter Tania Bryer in which he talks about his impoverished childhood, his years in a Jewish orphanage in the East End of London and candidly about how his mother had to hand him and his brother over, as she could not afford to look after them during the Depression.

After high school, Whitney went on to graduate from the University of Alabama where she majored in Early Childhood Development.

They believe that after so long in power, not only was there a wave of change, they became tone deaf to issues of affordability and early childhood education, issues that resonated in the suburbs around Vancouver and lower main land, where they lost.

On September 5, 2017, after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Obama released a Facebook post rebuking the decision.

Jason was born in Madrid and, after a brief stintin the States, spent most of his childhood back in Spain, on the southern Atlantic coast near Cadiz.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

i had a childhood friend whom i thought was normal until he told me that he was meant to kill one of us (his 6 friends) and after that i dated Jesus and my so called friend went on telling about how he hates me just coz i was and is still in love with Jesus Crist.....

The Word was made flesh...» In my childhood, this was the Gospel reading for the morning after, the kind of explanatory imagining that would take place when the sun had risen, the angels and shepherds were gone and all the hushed wonder of the night before was blurring in memory.

When a writer repeatedly proclaims that he has left faith behind in childhood» in fact, never had it» and then proceeds to write book after book in which a crisis of faith plays a central role, we may reasonably wonder if he is not engaged in his own evasive maneuvers, conscious of a pursuer at his heels.

A childhood memoir written half a century after the events it describes is inevitably novelistic, and Oz explicitly alludes to the shaping of his narrative in fictional terms.

I stored away boxes of memorabilia that include hand - written letters from my childhood and a vacuum - sealed bag full of newspapers from the day after 9/11.

«After thirty - five years of studying and teaching the theology and history of the Church,» writes Eamon Duffy, «I find myself living more and more out of resources acquired not in the lecture room or library, nor even at the post-conciliar liturgy, but in the narrow Catholicism of my 1950s childhood, warts and all.»

After early childhood I have never believed in the fairytale of creationism.

He knew that the bodily component to rational thinking was not fully developed until well after birth, since children are not capable of rational thinking until after early childhood.

After a «very Victorian childhood», the young Bourne discerned a priestly vocation and was formed at the famous seminary of St Sulpice in Paris, an experience which, as Fr Vickers notes, had a «profound impact on his intellectual development and theological outlook».

This tells of his birth and childhood and his life in the sacred city of Ayodhya, from which after a court intrigue he was banished to a forest.

Even after a season of my life when I walked far away from our traditions, gathering the greater story of our Church and history to myself, I now find myself corkscrewing back over and over again to the teachings of my childhood, the songs, the practices.

After all these years, Wilson seems to continue to identify «religion» with the fundamentalism of his childhood.

@ikproductions, I didn't like it at first b / c I've always loved «Amazing Grace» from my childhood, but then after really listening to Chris» rendition of it, minus any interruption from anyone or thing, I fell in love with it.

Her move to Fort Worth in my childhood was prompted by her desire to help her daughter, son - in - law, and grandson adjust to life in a new place after the death of her granddaughter from leukemia.

After all, in childhood, the kingdom of heaven belonged to such as us.

This so obviously captures that childhood lunch staple that I'll absolutely have to make it next time I'm feeling under the weather or blue — or maybe just after a long Saturday afternoon of making snow angels!

After a childhood (and many years of adulthood) trying to avoid parsnips, I have discovered how good they really are.

I actually opted to use a childhood dream of mine and use Nutty Bars because Steve bought me a box when I mentioned them after seeing those stupid Little Debbie commercials.

They bring back many childhood memories of enjoying an after dinner mint at one of my parent's dinner parties....

I remember watching it dozens of times on TV throughout my childhood and teen years — after I turned 11 and started cooking and baking, I'd always make something especially for the movie session, and there was an orange cake I'd repeat to exhaustion back then; unfortunately, I never kept the recipe.

It does melt quickly, so you might want to freeze it after mixing if you want a firmer texture — I was going for the childhood memory of that drippy - cold texture that immediately dissolves in your mouth, so I skipped the freezing step.

It has less calories than yogurt or skim milk, and only 3 grams of sugar (versus 9 for plain yogurt... yogurt is high in lactose, which we slowly lose the enzyme after childhood to break this down...» lactose intolerance»).

Up the top of my list of favourite fruits (right there next to longans) mango has long been a love mine, my childhood dotted with memories of trailing after my dad at the local flea market and buying entire boxes of Bowen mangoes for $ 2.

In 1995, Chef Payard earned a prestigious James Beard Foundation Outstanding Pastry Chef award and then in 1997, his childhood dream became a reality when he opened a restaurant of his own, Payard Pâtisserie & Bistro, on Manhattan's Upper East Side which closed its doors in 2009 after a 12 - year run.

After all these years of recreating my childhood favorites to be more tummy - friendly, I've realized that only 2 things matter; flavor and texture.

He had spent most of his childhood and his teen years as the man of the house, after his father left the family when he was six.

Rosberg's retirement announcement just days after achieving his childhood dream and winning the F1 title caught many of us off - guard.

Akpom must come out of childhood football and get very serious with his games after signing a 4 1/2 year deal with the Arsenal FC.

Ned Stark — declared a traitor and decapitated Catelyn Stark — throat slit at her brother's wedding Robb Stark — murdered after watching his pregnant wife get murdered Jon Snow — stabbed to death by his subordinates Sansa Stark — twice married against her choice; raped in front of childhood friend Brandon Stark — pushed out of a tower window and paralyzed Arya Stark — blind and at the mercy of assassins in a foreign country Rickon Stark — ¯ \ (ツ) / ¯

Really, it couldn't have been any other way: Of course the unlikeliest World Series champs in recent memory would be led by a kid who grew up a 45 - minute drive from Busch Stadium, quit baseball for a year after graduating from high school because he was burned out, and, after the Padres drafted him in the ninth round in 2006, was traded to his hometown team the next year for a childhood hero, Jim Edmonds.

Being in only my second full season of attempting to attend every week at Spurs (I've only just moved back to the area after a childhood - long absence) I was relishing the chance to go to see us play at Old Trafford, one of the most famous football grounds in the country.