Sentences with phrase «as a boy with»

Jaeden Lieberher stars as a boy with special powers in director Jeff Nichols» sci - fi thriller «Midnight Special.»

Saoirse Ronan is the American cousin, George MacKay — him again — looked suitably swoonsome as the boy with whom she falls madly in love.

I remember being blown away at how taken he was as a boy with the shapes of Welsh words on the sides of trucks.

Howard told me, «My earliest memories of the Blue Ridge Parkway are day tripping as a boy with my extended family during summer vacations.

In Inside, you play as a boy with no special powers — just the ability to run from the monsters around you.

The title alludes to an excerpt from Goethe's Venetian Epigrams: «I fell in love as a boy with a puppet show; / It attracted me for a long time until I destroyed it.»

The principal of the Kenora school remembered Wenjack as a boy with a good sense of humour, particularly adept at noticing wordplay.

Benioff, who co-founded Salesforce and is a prominent philanthropist in the city, said the building is the ultimate expression of the «inspiration» he felt when walking in San Francisco as a boy with his grandfather, who was a city supervisor, watching the Transamerica Pyramid tower being built.

Not exact matches

A rigorously constructed morality tale with a well - paid Wall Street investment banker as its hero, Flash Boys could hardly be confused for Das Kapital.

She begins clobbering computer chips with a hammer, just as the stereo switches to «Still,» the gangsta - funk Geto Boys track made famous in the printer - whupping scene from the 1999 film Office Space.

Loved reading [this] with my boys as it thrilled them and they could relate (no magical, wizard, fairytale BS) to a young man in a real situation overcoming great obstacles.

With a net worth in excess of $ 66 billion, Amancio Ortega is the second - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

Ikea displayed a photograph of a young boy with his finger under his nose as a «pretend mustache» — reminding customers of Adolf Hitler.

Some marchers wore Nazi armbands and carried swastika flags and signs denouncing Jews as «Satan's children» — boy, Islamic terrorists are vigorously nodding their heads in agreement — along with a vile range of racist slurs.

But for all its success as a movement, and for all the political and celebrity connections and support Global Citizen attracted, there was still one person with whom Evans had not connected: Sonny Boy.

What started as a personal dissatisfaction with an old boys» club mentality in venture capital led Pocket Sun to co-found what she calls the first female - led millennial venture capital firm.

Ashby, a psychotherapist who turns 50 in June, played with G.I. Joes as a boy, but few survived, falling victim to encounters with firecrackers and little parachutes that failed to open.

Adopted as a young boy after getting lost and separated from his family in India, as a young man, Brierley used Google Maps to jog his memory, ultimately reuniting with his birth mother, who stayed in the same town where he was born.

Manning came across as a laid back southern boy but on the gridiron he was a clinical, ruthless competitor with an off - the - charts football IQ who changed plays at the line of scrimmage to outsmart opposing defenses and torched opponents with a big arm and dead - on accuracy.

Walsh now works part - time as a nanny and volunteers with Spaulding and the Boston Boys and Girls Club.

Internal critics derided Walters and his deputy as «the McKinsey boys,» blasting them as callow consultants with no appreciation for Bloomberg's methods.

According to the National Science Foundation, women with bachelor's degrees in math and computer sciences has declined by about 25 percent since the mid-80s, when computer games were aggressively marketed as a boy's hobby.

A boy with Robert Plant locks indulges, gesturing to a tablet computer as he haltingly explains the three - dimensional world he has coded in the game Minecraft — Nadella's first major acquisition as Microsoft's CEO.

Nostalgia for the 1980s and the 1990s has peaked in recent years, as evidenced elsewhere in the fashion world with a denim comeback not to mention listicle upon listicle on BuzzFeed, reboots of countless nineties sitcoms from Boy Meets World to Full House (or original takes on dated themes like Netflix's Stranger Things), or even the release of the Nintendo NES Classic Edition that immediately became The Gift of the 2016 holiday season.

As Variety notes, the suit's plaintiff, George St. George, bought a ticket to Shlesinger's show at Largo at The Coronet on November 13, which was advertised as «Girls Night In with Iliza — No Boys Allowed.&raquAs Variety notes, the suit's plaintiff, George St. George, bought a ticket to Shlesinger's show at Largo at The Coronet on November 13, which was advertised as «Girls Night In with Iliza — No Boys Allowed.&raquas «Girls Night In with Iliza — No Boys Allowed.»

Falling Whistles started as a journal about the young Congolese boys who are sent to the frontlines of war armed with nothing but a whistle, but it quickly became a movement tens of thousands strong of people wanting to help.

Most of the girls sing one song and the boys sing two, and even though I am sitting behind McKnight, you can tell he is pleased with certain performers as he nods his head emphatically to the beat of the music.

While he retains his reputation as a boy - genius coder, in reality Zuckerberg is something of a grinder — a 99 % perspiration guy who has surrounded himself with a group of people he respects and with whom he is constantly stress - testing his hypotheses.

The glass ceiling, the old boys club, brogrammer culture... it seems to me that these aren't signs of an all powerful patriarchy so much as an ongoing manifestation of men who are terrified to compete with women on a level playing field.

«On October 26, three days after Business Insider began our conversation with «Vamp,» London Metropolitan Police announced the arrest of a 15 - year - old boy in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, as part of the investigation into the hack.

Investors in far away Canada seem to be treating Ivernia West, which started life as an Irish zinc miner, with the same level of caution that Australian investors treat our local boys who go to Botswana or Uzbekistan — out of sight, out of mind and out of the investment portfolio.

As a young boy, I used to watch Muhammad Ali's boxing matches on TV with my dad.

One of my first at home / Saturday morning projects as a 10 year - old boy was to build a robot with tin cans my Mom had thrown out and plenty of lead solder and an «Archer» soldering gun, which still works after 50 years, even the little light on the front!

It might feel as though the effect of phrase has diluted with year after year of false starts and setbacks — call it «Boy who cried «Tiger!»»

On the other hand, 69 percent of millennials say it's a good thing for parents to encourage young boys to play with toys and pursue activities normally associated with girls, while older generations don't support such a move as much.

As complicated as it may be for adults to navigate the child - rearing process with their young boys and girls, it's important for parents to stay mentally strong and help their children prepare for challenges they might facAs complicated as it may be for adults to navigate the child - rearing process with their young boys and girls, it's important for parents to stay mentally strong and help their children prepare for challenges they might facas it may be for adults to navigate the child - rearing process with their young boys and girls, it's important for parents to stay mentally strong and help their children prepare for challenges they might face.

Those making hiring decisions are likely to bring on interviewees with similar characteristics as themselves, thus perpetuating the old boy's club.

She has also worked extensively with nonprofits such as the United Way, YMCA, Big Brother Big Sister, and Boys & Girls Clubs of America while leading local strategic CSR partnerships with the Celtics, Red Sox, Nascar and more.

Surrounded by several affordable housing complexes, Downey serves as a central gathering place for the surrounding community, offering an afterschool program with the Harrisburg Boys & Girls Club and a health clinic in partnership with the Hamilton Health Center.

But it wants to play with the big boys anyway when it comes to derivatives, as the chart above shows.

He was part of President Clinton's task force on school violence, and today he works with some of the biggest celebrities like Lebron James, Denzel Washington and Jennifer Lopez just to name a few as vice president of sports and entertainment and alumni development for the Boys and Girls Club.

IT, once the blue - eyed boy of India Inc, has been the least - talked - about sector for more than a decade now, as the bellwether industry gradually lost its sheen with the decline of western economies.

-- Two top public affairs officers at FEMA have resigned in the past month, with one woman describing the office culture as a «boy's club» and saying she was excluded from meetings because of her gender.

As a child, I was fascinated by Uncle Scrooge, his adventures with his three nephews, his ingenuity in discovering new ways to make wealth and his ability to thwart the schemes of the thieving Beagle Boys.

My extensive work with financial firms here in Australia, as well as learning from other professional traders, has enabled me to see how the «big boys» trade and further enhanced my understanding of how markets move.

«It used to be that gender was dismissed out of hand as unimportant, but boy has that changed in the last two years,» says Laura O'Neill, director of law and policy with SHARE, an advisor group to institutional shareholders.

His commitment to public service began early on and as a youth Rick was honoured with the Queen's scout award by Boy Scouts of Canada.

Of course they are going to «struggle» in the sense that they are males with a sex drive, and they will notice beautiful women and be attracted to them, but there's no need to condition my little boys to notice every time a woman is dressed «immodestly,» as I was as a child, pointing out «inappropriately dressed» women at the beach in bikinis, or drawing attention to every hint of cleavage, bare midriffs or even tight pants.

Girls are more likely to have concerns about their appearance than boys as they return to school after the summer holidays, with children becoming more anxious as they get older.

-- repealing statutory rape laws — eliminating pedophilia laws, sex with a boy or girl of any age is ok as long as they consent to the act