Sentences with phrase «as a teenager on»

Matz trusted hisinstincts, which were honed through four decades, beginning with the afternoonin 1966 when George Kohl, for whom Matz did weekend chores as a teenager on afarm in Adamstown, Pa., invited him on a horse ride.

The fact is, most of us stick with the first birth control either our doctor (or our mate) recommends, but what suited us as teenagers on the Pill — to get rid of our acne, of course — may not suit our lifestyle now.

In the last couple of weeks, three men ranging in age from 21 to 37 have been accused of posing as teenagers on the app's teen forum and allegedly luring boys and girls ages 12 to 15 to sexually assault them, according to a New York Times report.

The show follows two central characters; 13 - year - old Ra'Neil (Malcolm Kamulete) who is trying to navigate the moral and physical perils of life as a teenager on the estate, and twenty - something Dushane (ex-So Solid Crew member Ashley Walters) a street - level drug dealer who is attempting to rise to the position of top boy on the estate.

His performance as a teenager on the brink of adulthood is at times entertaining, and at other times exasperating.

As a teenager on the streets of Chicago's South Side, Darrell Cannon learned not to trust the police — a lesson that...

A self - taught artist, Ward began his career as a teenager on the streets of Belfast in Northern Ireland, creating large - scale graffiti work on bridges and derelict buildings.

It stars Storm Reid as a teenager on an interplanetary journey with Oprah Winfrey as a supernatural being; the strapline from the trailer is: «The only thing faster than light is the darkness.»

She arrived in Winnipeg as a teenager on Dec. 13, 2001 with her Kurdish - Iranian family, after spending her life to that point living in a refugee camp.

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Teenagers we spoke to almost universally named Spotify as their preferred music - streaming service — and some teenagers said it was the best app on their phone overall:

To get an idea of what the kids are into these days and, more importantly, why they're into it, I decided to ask one of the smartest, most self - aware teenagers I know: my cousin Lucy, who is, as she told me recently «15 going on 30.»

Netflix description: «In this darkly comic series, a disgraced civil lawyer turned beauty pageant coach takes on a vengeful, bullied teenager as his client.»

There's also some stacking going on, meaning if you set expectations in daughters» heads that they should go to college AND they should not get pregnant as teenagers, they're more likely to make it to age 20 without having a child than they would have been if you'd only pushed the «don't have a baby until you're old enough to be ready» message.

As a teenager, Olajide «KSI» Olatunji played EA Sports» line of FIFA video games for hours on end in his parents» home.

Loosely based on writer - director Cameron Crowe's adventures as a teenager writing for Rolling Stone, «Almost Famous» follows a young man's journey into 1970s rock and falling in love along the way.

... The manufacturers behind the popular Marlboro brand have used Freedom of Information laws to [attempt to] gain access [to] about 6000 confidential interviews undertaken with teenagers as young as 13, which discuss their views on smoking and tobacco....

-- prides itself on being family - run; even Johns, who started working in the deli department as a teenager, is married to a Trimarchi cousin.

«Wilding,» when teenagers from Chicago's tougher neighborhoods invade the wealthier ones and do everything from rob convenience stores to assault passersby, gave way to bloodier crimes as Chicago's gang culture splintered in on itself, The Daily Beast reported in August.

The action comes one week after the FDA disclosed a nationwide crackdown on underage sales of Juul e-cigarettes, which have become popular among some teenagers as a way to vape at school and in public.

As with previous games in the series, the story of «Persona 5» focuses on a Japanese teenager.

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters)- Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai visited her hometown in Pakistan's Swat Valley on Saturday for the first time since she was shot by a Taliban gunman as a teenager, two security officials and a family friend said.

I'm the worst example of learning how to react as a teenager, because I relied mostly on sarcasm.

Just as blockbusters are put out en masse during the summer months to reach out - of - school teenagers and young adults, videogames are traditionally released during the winter holiday season — when parents are more apt to spend $ 60 on a new game or up to $ 300 for a new system.

I was one of the highest ranked World of Warcraft players in North America as a teenager, and also one of the most e-famous World of Warcraft bloggers on the Internet.

For Koum, 38, the windfall would stand in stark contrast to his years as a teenager, when his family relied on food stamps after emigrating from Ukraine.

Studies have shown half to two - thirds of the rise in non-participation is due to demographic changes as baby boomers reach retirement age and teenagers choose to focus on school rather than working part time.

Chairwoman Luiza Trajano started on the sales floor as a teenager and in 1991 took over the company founded by her aunt.

On Tuesday night, the state legislature refused to debate an outright ban on assault weapons as students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas watched and cried, but the teenagers» push for change is still expected to bring Florida's first limit on gun access in over a decade, according to CNOn Tuesday night, the state legislature refused to debate an outright ban on assault weapons as students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas watched and cried, but the teenagers» push for change is still expected to bring Florida's first limit on gun access in over a decade, according to CNon assault weapons as students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas watched and cried, but the teenagers» push for change is still expected to bring Florida's first limit on gun access in over a decade, according to CNon gun access in over a decade, according to CNN.

If YES, here are 20 ideas & tips on how to start an online business from home as a teenager.

As a teenager I was told that I shouldn't go into computer science because it was all men, but being female shouldn't be a limitation on what I can and can not become.

This is why the possibility that Facebook offers to capitalize on teenagers» mental state invokes so much rage — when teenagers interact with their friends on Facebook, they are unlikely to recognize nudges as such.

His second: as a teenager busted on allegations of assaulting an officer.

The careful framing and camerawork focus on the wide space between the two teenagers as they lie side - by - side without touching, the physical distance powerfully communicating genuine love.

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We were just teenagers, heedless and selfish, all too normal, You have to be an idiot before you can desist being an idiot, But now I see Mister Wilson, fedora hat surfing his crewcut, Always wearing a suit even when running practice sessions, That pained wince on his face as we deliberately threw wild, And I get a sense of what made him wince: all that graceful Athleticism, all that sweet energy, all that possible creativity, All that wild juice that, bottled, might have made great wine.

This statistic rang true as I turned on my computer Saturday evening, scrolled through my Twitter feed, and saw #Ferguson, #MikeBrown, and other references to a police shooting where an unarmed teenager was killed in suburban St. Louis.

Congregational pastoral care occurs when members reach out through very concrete acts such as sitting by the bedside of someone who's ill, listening as parents describe their fears and grief when a teenager leaves home, offering hope to someone in despair, or praying for those who suffer on the margins of the church and society.

She distanced herself from her pious family when, as a precocious teenager, she renounced the church on the grounds that its scriptures were fictitious and its doctrines «most dishonorable to God and most pernicious in their influence.»

The book tells the story of a group of Holocaust survivors, who, as teenagers, lost virtually everything they had during the War, but rebuilt their lives and went on to serve society in extraordinary ways.

In the evangelical youth group where I was converted as a teenager, a wise elderly volunteer, probably now long gone on to glory, wore a different kind of red baseball cap.

When I was baptized as a teenager, my father (who is a pastor), before he plunged me under the water, said these words: «Jeremy, based on your confession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, I now baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.»

Every white supremacist doesn't go on a shooting rampage, just as every anti-gay activist doesn't beat a hom.ose.xual teenager to death or bully them to suicide.

You can be as «green» and as enthusiastic about «justice and peace» as you like — for an atheist teenager this is just icing on a non-existent cake.

As the teenager largely directs her own work, however, I think that a reading checklist of this sort will help her to keep herself on track.

As is often the way with brainy, moody teenagers, I had come to believe in the gospel according to Jack Kerouac, Dizzy Gillespie, and a hodgepodge of Japanese poets, absurdist playwrights, and existentialist philosophers whose works I'd found on adjacent shelves on the second floor of the public library.

Although I never met Brittanie Cecil, and I've never been to Columbus, Ohio, I can not begin to express the grief that wells up inside my heart whenever I see the school photograph of the little teenager, on the cusp of adolescence, her blonde hair pulled back into a ribbon, and her blue eyes sparkling at the prospect of all those summer pool parties, those early - fall hayrides, her prom, her high school graduation with the cap and gown sailing high into a sky as wide and full as her hopes and dreams.

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

As a teenager, just about everybody on that side of Orlando attended «Rock House.»

I grew up in the mid-to-late 90s as part of the first generation of teenagers with easy, on - demand, dial - up access to pornography.

I grew up on a dairy farm, and as a teenager, made many batches of yogourt from whole, raw milk; it's taste was unlike anything available commercially, so absolutely creamy and delicious.