Sentences with phrase «as a teenager in»

Today's Dell is a behemoth by every definition: $ 74 billion in annual revenue, 140,000 employees, and worlds away from the design - your - own - PC shop that its founder established as a teenager in 1984.

As teenagers in the Netherlands, Jobert Abma and Michiel Prins hacked into the high school TV station.

The Davis Cup player reached his highest world ranking of 69 as a teenager in 2015 before a series of injuries sidelined him for the best part of 18 months.

«Pizza Hut the brand has lost much of its unique meaning and energy, I think, in the past 20 years,» says Radley, whose first job as a teenager in Pennsylvania was washing dishes in a Pizza Hut.

In an interview, Younghusband spoke of his uncle's influence on him as a teenager in making him want to be an explorer (15).

Gene knew as a teenager in the 1940 ′ s that he enjoyed the hard work, the early mornings and the fast pace business of the bustling Los Angeles produce market in the still blossoming city of down town Los Angeles.

Walcott has of - course been left out of every World Cup squad since his surprise call - up as a teenager in the 2006 World Cup.

Aaron and Kelly had begun dating five years earlier as teenagers in Mississippi.

But the ex-National League stalwart did train with Manchester United for two months as a teenager in 1989 as part of an emerging talent scheme.

The rally's website reported that Villas - Boas was an enthusiastic dirt biker as a teenager in Oporto and competed regularly in the Portuguese off - road championships.

Messi arrived at Barcelona from Newell's Old Boys as a teenager in 2000 and made his first competitive appearance against Espanyol as a 17 - year - old.

Cesc Fabregas has been a top talent from when he first started out as a teenager in the Premier League.

The 31 - year - old return to the club where it all began for him as a teenager in 2002, this summer, as he moved back from Manchester United — the club he'd left Goodison Park for in 2004.

Lukaku moved to Stamford Bridge as a teenager in 2011 but was never given a fair crack at the first team despite prolific loan spells at Everton and West Bromwich Albion — making just one league start.

Verratti, who arrived from Pescara as a teenager in 2012, has racked up 100 Ligue 1 appearances already, scoring twice.

«He was like a father figure to everyone at the beach, including myself,» said Ark Pachnik, who, as a teenager in the mid 1990s, worked under Mr. Nystrom at Foster Avenue Beach.

Dajnowski, who began studying art restoration as a teenager in Poland, worked for the Park District in the 1990s.

Howie Hawkins has been an organizer in movements for peace, justice, labor, the environment, and independent working - class politics since 1967 when he got active in «The Movement» as a teenager in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Both Kohl and Gorbachev, for instance, had suffered as teenagers in the second world war and that provided a basis for building trust between them.

As a teenager in Massachusetts, Johnson came out while a co-captain of his high school football team.

Howie Hawkins has been an organizer for peace, justice, labor, the environment, and independent politics since 1967 when he got active in «The Movement» as a teenager in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A proud product of New York City's public schools, Jenny began volunteering as a teenager in activities that encourage Asian American citizens to become registered voters and participate in the electoral process.

Getting down to basics, Lopez, paralyzed as a teenager in a car accident, is offering legislation that would give business owners county tax credits for upgrading their properties to serve the handicapped.

A proud product of New York City's public schools, Jenny began volunteering as a teenager in activities that encourage Asian American citizens to become registered voters and participate...

They first met in the mid-1970s when, as a teenager in Chicago, Illinois, Grunsfeld attended science workshops taught by Weiler at the Adler Planetarium.

As a teenager in Wales I had been playing soccer with the youth section of a professional team, and I later also got involved in coaching.

As a teenager in the 1980s, she could do little more than observe the turmoil, but physics and its equations?

As a teenager in New Haven, I took care of a private collection of exotic animals that included primates (slow lorises, pottos), snakes (pythons, boas, pit vipers), scorpions, a monitor lizard, and an alligator.

It's not that I didn't appreciate those bygone moments: my sons in puffy life preservers leaping off a dock, my mother as a teenager in her cuffed jeans.

Tara Stiles revealed a traumatic incident that happened to her as a teenager in her new book, Make Your Own Rules Diet.

That's why I chose to reveal a traumatic incident that happened to me as a teenager in my new book, Make Your Own Rules Diet.

My first job, as a teenager in the 90s, was as a chambermaid in a country house hotel (really a country house, but with the added excuse to keep «staff»!)

THE SCOTSMAN - July 30 - As a teenager in Glasgow, Bill Dobbie fancied becoming a pilot.

Actor Mark Wahlberg has ended his bid for a pardon for assaults he committed as a teenager in Massachusetts.

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Leonardo DiCaprio stars in the true story of Frank Abagnale, who left home as a teenager in the 1960s and survived by becoming a master of check fraud and of faking his identity.

Depressed in his unemployment, he's asked to write a human interest story about Philomena Lee (Dench), a woman who, as a teenager in Ireland, fell pregnant, was sent to a convent, and forced to give the child up for adoption.

I came to the city as a teenager in the late»70s, too late for the New Yorker Theater itself but right on time for the Cinema Studio on 66th and Broadway, where I spent half of my student life seeing and re-seeing movies like Wenders's The American Friend and Godard's aforementioned return to 35 mm feature filmmaking, and the Metro on the corner of Broadway and 100th Street, where I saw Oshima's early films for the first time.

It feels like the kind of film Eastwood might've watched as a teenager in the 1940s, and even then the clichés were old.

Ronit (Rachel Weisz) finds out you really can't go home again when she returns to the Orthodox Jewish enclave she fled as a teenager in Sebastian Lelio's Disobedience.

Ergüven shows us modern, free - spirited young women, who think and behave much the same as any teenagers in the US but endure treatment that simultaneously feels alien and yet familiar.

Segel, in particular is badly miscast as a sexual demon, and both actors are a little too old to be swanning around campus as teenagers in the early scenes.

«As a teenager in college, you don't get taught how to drink properly because you can't [legally] drink until you're 21.

As a teenager in El Salvador, our Claudia saw a television commercial about the Special Olympics and immediately became a volunteer for the organization.

The Northamptonshire - based driver started racing as a teenager in Karting, competing in various national series before making a name for himself in cars in 1990.

Then, as a teenager in the 1870s, he received a camera with a microscope and spent winters photographing the intricate flakes, eventually finding fame as a nature photographer.

On the opposite side, my neighbor Yuri, one of the greatest men I know, used a pay - for - print publishing house to create a hardback version of his tenuous survival as a teenager in war - torn Europe during the Second World War.

Ifemelu and Obinze fell in love as teenagers in Lagos.

i've read the savage dragon trade from 1993 i aquired as a teenager in the mid noughts, and single issues irregularly purhased since reading those first issues.

Prior to that, he was a TV and stage actor, getting his start as a teenager in the hit series Fifteen for Nickelodeon at Universal Studios Florida.

As a teenager in the 1930s, John began breeding the remaining herding bulldogs.