Sentences with phrase «almost became obsessed»

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Gates was almost instantly obsessed with a computer when he first encountered one in eighth grade in 1968 at Lakeside School in Seattle, where he met Paul Allen, who would eventually become his business partner.

In fact, some graduates become almost obsessed with chaplaincy life and find it difficult to return to a mainstream parish.

I instantly became hooked and obsessed with the game of lacrosse and played almost every single day.

According to one five star review on Amazon, «Almost every kid that reads this book becomes obsessed!!»

For the almost eight years that the party held sway in Osun, the «nest of killers» was so obsessed with frivolities and flagrant outrageousness that dear state became a cataclysmic turf for incompetence, uncharitableness and backwardness.

I became a bit obsessed with the Terry Thomas Building, as perhaps the best example of how you design a new building to work like an old building, an «O» building with lots of natural light, ventilation and almost no green gizmos, yet still using half the energy of a conventional building.

Yet, in an age when parenting is less available, when marriage has almost become a thing of the past, and when children are being turned into commodity machines, it may make sense to reflect, as Plotz (1999) pointed out, that America is obsessed with youth because corporations are obsessed with youth: early intervention means netting an eager consumer audience for life.

However, what has changed since the widespread use of personal technology devices is that females are becoming online stalkers and / or bullies themselves in increasing numbers, whereas — before the Internet age — it was almost exclusively males who engaged in stalking behavior (unless you count those obsessed women in «Play Misty for Me» and «Fatal Attraction»).