Sentences with phrase «as a child in»

May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and Joint Base Lewis - McChord will celebrate the diversity and honor of its service members, including Sgt. Maj. El Sar, I Corps command chaplain sergeant major, a Cambodian - born American who lived through atrocities as a child in his homeland and is now proud to call America home.

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program changed the lives of young people who came to the United States illegally as children in incredible ways — boosting high school graduation rates and college enrollment, while slashing teen births by a staggering 45 percent.

Thuan Pham, Uber's CTO, who escaped Vietnam as a child in 1979, pledged to «help defeat» the «deplorable» Trump and his «destructive agenda» in an internal email after the election, according to Business Insider.

I laid with him in his hospital bed when he was still conscious and began reading scripture to him from a little book he had received 80 years earlier as a child in England.

It's unfortunate that Bill Nye didn't start his campaign many years ago, maybe he would have caught you as a child in time before you were brainwashed by your Marvel Comics of Religion parents.

As a survivor of abuse as a child in a missionary boarding school I believe what he said was very true.

Let's say you were born as a child in Nazi Germany and you were brought up to believe that the Jewish people are less than human and to exterminate them is morally good.

Although he sympathized with the civil rights movement and actively opposed the Vietnam War» he was (with Richard John Neuhaus) a member of the steering committee of Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam» he felt increasingly alarmed at the radicalism of the Movement, which reminded him of the street violence he had witnessed as a child in Nazi Germany.

I learned of God's love as a child in a very non-theological church.

I was reading an endless collection of whiny and threatening Syriac texts from the early church, and all I could see in them was what I had already heard in the country summer revivals I had attended as a child in western Kentucky.

There are estimated to be over 38 million who have been abused as children in the United States.

Jensen links this rejuvenation of Lazarus to other images, such as the depiction of Jesus as a child in the baptism by John in the Jordan, or Adam and Eve portrayed as infants at the moment of creation.

«Who is so vulnerable as the child in the womb?»

It is true that McCourt refuses no gruesome detail in his account of the poverty he experienced as a child in Limerick.

«After all it's only the purely immediate men — who so far as spirit is concerned are about at the same point as the child in the first period of earliest infancy when with a thoroughly endearing nonchalance it lets everything pass out — it's the purely immediate men who can't retain anything.

Men and women still living nearby came forward to recall what they had seen there as children in 1937, in the early summer mornings, as they hid in the foliage of the trees.

Obama was fed dog as a child in the Far East where that is quite usual.

As a child in New England in the 50's and 60's, playing in nature was my raison d'etre.

In an alliance with Christian conservatives against the atheism that has made a sick and paltry joke of each of their respective and joint traditions and that has begun like a swarm of termites to eat away the underpinnings of this democratic republic, the new Jewish conservatives have come to understand that any alienation they felt as children in Christian America is as nothing compared with the danger they sense to themselves and their progeny, along with their uncomprehending coreligionists, in atheist America.

Do you recall as a child in church hearing sermons about becoming mature in your relationship with God?

As much as Don's flashbacks are dominated by scenes as a child in a whorehouse, they are equally dominated by discussions of sin, purity, penance, and redemption.

The review also disclosed that Regis, who came to Britain from the Caribbean as a child in 2003, was reported to the Home Office as working illegally two months before her son's death, but «no action was taken» after letters were wrongly filed.

So interesting that you like duck... It was a favorite special occasion treat as a child in Japan.

I remember picking sweet potatoes fresh from the field as a child in the south... Read More»

Chef Roy's culinary philosophy was cultivated as a child in Hilo, Hawaii, where he was surrounded by farmers, foragers and fishermen, gaining a true appreciation for the provenance of ingredients and the relationship with the producers.

First I forgot the last 15 minutes so the bread didn't turn out so good (the chickens loved it) but I had to do it again right away and oh my God, it reminds me of the bread that we had as a child in Hungary.

I used to have something similar as a child in Italy but..

Even as a child in the food deficit of Soviet Union, I was always inventing all kinds of treats for myself in the kitchen.

Executive Chef Sean Welker (Saigon Sisters, Belly Q, Farmhouse) has a love for cooking and comfort food that began as a child in his grandmother's Southern kitchen.

Whatever It Takes is a moving account of his commitment to giving Harlem's children access to the same dreams as children in New York's most privileged neighborhoods.»

As long as the child in question isn't being intentionally harmed, isn't our ultimate goal the same?

Children are less active after they hit puberty, as the 6 - 11 age group engaged in twice as much physical activity as children in the 12 - 15 and 16 - 19 age groups.

Often, sick children are in the same waiting area, breathing the same air and playing with the same toys, as children in for their well visit.

The dictionary also defines an infant as a child in the first stage of life but doesn't give any age specifics.

«[A] moving account of... giving Harlems children access to the same dreams as children in New Yorks most privileged neighborhoods.»

[7] Carle was familiar with «differently shaped pages» from books that he read as a child in Germany.

Like many baby boomers, Norsig recalls dressing up as a child in homemade costumes, such as the bevy of purple balloons pinned to a leotard the year she went trick - or - treating as a bunch of grapes.

Attachment parenting is admittedly more intense during the early years than other approaches to parenting, but as the child in toddlerhood begins to pull away to strike out on his or her own, the parent allows this.

Choosing the cloth diaper detergent sounds easy for us to buy from the hypermarkets, but it is a daunting task to use the right detergent to protect the cloth diapers as well as your children in the long term.Therefore, you need to spend much time to research the information about cloth diaper detergents.

In addition, specific groups are known to have heavy alcohol use have a documented higher FAS rate, such as children in foster care, Native American / Alaska Native children, and children of foster / adoptive.

The water used to wash cloth diapers is about the same as the amount used by the same number of kids to flush a toilet — so a child in toilet training uses the same amount of water as a child in diapers.

Children in other countries weren't having nearly the amount of diagnosed peanut allergies as children in the United States or the United Kingdom.

There are good online programs that can help, such as Children in the Middle (www.divorce-education.com); parents can also work with a therapist or counselor.

However, some of the concerns initially facing both adoptive parents as well as children in the early phases of international adoption include the following:

It is funny — I find that kids who start with no cribs but always an open bed don't have the issues of escaping the bed the same as children in cribs do!

Chirlane McCray once described to me how her husband's belief in the importance of community is rooted in his experiences as a child in Cambridge, Massachusetts, particularly after his father's descent into alcoholism.

Gary Greenberg, a Greene County resident and minority owner of the casino, hotel and racetrack Vernon Downs, was molested as a child in the 1960s.

«Based on this cooperative effort, I think we will arrive at a good solution for the students in Success Academy as well as the children in traditional public school buildings.

«Rural schools face unique issues and I want to ensure that pupils that attend them have the same opportunities as children in other areas.

Some Albany lawmakers want all of them treated as children in Family Court instead.