Sentences with phrase «as an adult by»

A lookback window is among the most controversial components of the Child Victims Act, which would make it easier for abuse survivors to seek justice as adults by extending the timeframes they can bring criminal and civil cases.

Born and raised by default, and now, as an adult by choice.

Noah's adopted daughter, who is played as an adult by Emma Watson, brings sensitivity and grace to her role as Eli.

Never Let Me Go follows a trio of children played as adults by Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield (who has been recently cast as the new Peter Parker / Spider - man) attending what appears to be a somewhat odd boarding school named Halsham in the England countryside.

As in The Magnificent Ambersons — another of Baumbach's movie models that has an impersonal narrator — the seeds of the story are planted in the opening moments: we're told that Lester (played as an adult by Eric Stoltz) becomes obsessed with the previous sex lives of all his subsequent girlfriends.

Played as an adult by Irrfan Khan, Pi was especially appealing.

Javert eventually comes to hound him once again, which provides the through - line for a plot that encompasses a starving, unwed mother (Anne Hathaway) and her young daughter (played as an adult by Amanda Seyfried); the daughter's cruel guardians (Sasha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter); a revolutionary leader of the 1832 Paris student uprisings (Eddie Redmayne) and his unrequited love (Samantha Barks); and enough squalor and grotesquerie to fill out a dozen other movies.

Born under so unlucky a star, it's hardly surprising that James T. Kirk (played as an adult by Chris Pine) grows up with issues, which Abrams dramatizes by having adolescent Jim drive his stepdad's vintage convertible off a cliff, and twentyish Jim pick pyrrhic barfights across rural Iowa.

It's one thing to go into the backstory of how and why a typically bright and cheery fairy can be horribly hardened by heartbreak at the hands of the duplicitous love of her life (the king / Aurora's father, played as an adult by Sharlto Copley), but it's quite another to completely softpedal any sinister sentiment, which is more or less what occurs as Maleficent warms up to Aurora as she grows up into a perky and pure hearted teen (Elle Fanning, sleepwalking when not sleeping) who believes the mysterious, ever - lurking figure to be her fairy godmother.

Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) plays Cooper, a former NASA pilot who know farms corn and does his best to raise two kids: an older boy, Tom — who will be played as an adult by Casey Affleck (Gone Baby Gone)-- and a younger girl, Murphy (or Murph) who will grow up first to be (disappointingly), the lightweight Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) and then (less disappointingly) Ellen Burstyn (Requiem for a Dream).

When a handsome World War I pilot crash - lands offshore, Diana — played as an adult by Gal Gadot — rescues him, which leads to a battle with German forces who are ultimately felled by the women's acrobatic swordplay, superb equestrian skills, uncanny aim with flaming arrows and all - around badassery.

In junior high he immediately clicks with Wood natives Roland (played as a teen by Trent Cameron, as an adult by Taye Diggs) and Slim (played as a teen by Duane Finley, as an adult by Richard T. Jones), and together they come of age through high school.

Though the humans and woodland creatures stay away from each other, they become friends, and ultimately more than that as they grow older, but Stefan (played as an adult by Sharlto Copley) thirsts for the throne and, knowing the king's desire to conquer the moors and exploit its untold riches in gems, leverages his boyhood romance with Maleficent (played as an adult by Angelina Jolie) in order to betray her — he cuts off her wings — and succeeds the king upon his death.

Nat Turner (played as an adult by Nate Parker) was a slave, and as a child (played by Tony Espinosa), had a quest for knowledge.

As the film unfolds, we find Emily (played in her teens by Emma Bell, later as an adult by Cynthia Nixon) just finishing a frustrating freshman year at Mount Holyoke.

For too long, «tough on crime» policies have deliberately targeted our black, brown, and working class communities — ICE is tearing apart families, our youth are being criminalized in school and treated as adults by our overzealous criminal justice system, and the legal system's reliance on cash bail continues to overcrowd our prisons, keeping the House of Correction facility open despite its notoriety for its decrepit conditions.

Ethan, being played as an adult by Dennis Quaid, is a young boy when Bailey joins their family.

Not exact matches

Iconic characters like Mario and Donkey Kong are instantly recognizable by children and adults the world over, just as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck are.

I personally still love reading YA from time to time as an adult... I think I've read almost everything by John Green.

In my young adult years, I had long hair, wore too much flannel, and my discourse revolved around and was greatly influenced by subjects such as Pearl Jam, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Breakfast Club and Beavis and Butthead.

In fact, the classic «marshmallow study,» led by psychologist Walter Mischel in the 1960s, found that kids who were able to delay the delicious gratification of eating a marshmallow wound up more successful as adults.

And that could be a problem for the younger generation: 69 percent of millennials believe that debit cards are as safe or safer than credit cards, according to a recent national survey of 1,000 adults conducted in August by Compare Cards / Lending Tree.

This latest trailer comes just a couple weeks after the 10th anniversary of GTA: III, thought by many to be a watershed moment where video games began to be seen as a serious form of adult entertainment that could also rake in millions of dollars.

But the experience inspired him to launch the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults in 1997, which is how, as the oft - told story goes, he came to be discovered by Armstrong, another young cancer survivor who had just launched what was then known as the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

The treatment, named Kymriah, was hailed by doctors and the life sciences community as a major advance in medicine and a boon to children and young adults with a certain form of leukemia (the group for whom the gene therapy is approved).

Just by having a juvenile Chasmosaurus, paleontologists will be able to track how the species grows over time as it matures into an adult.

«I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult,» says the 41 - year - old stand - up comedian.

Moreover, single adults are a growing part of the American population, so demand for individually portioned products is increasing as more people dine by themselves.

According to a 2014 survey by the NCTE and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, about one - fifth of all transgender adults are veterans, making transgender people approximately twice as likely as others to serve in the military, The Washington Post reported.

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

«As they attempt to establish their status as adults, their environment sends them mixed messages: regardless of their professional or personal achievements, they are still considered by others to be «kids,» especially before they marry and have children,» writes ZilcAs they attempt to establish their status as adults, their environment sends them mixed messages: regardless of their professional or personal achievements, they are still considered by others to be «kids,» especially before they marry and have children,» writes Zilcas adults, their environment sends them mixed messages: regardless of their professional or personal achievements, they are still considered by others to be «kids,» especially before they marry and have children,» writes Zilca.

Adults can set up SmartyPig accounts for minors by designating the children as co-owners who can then track their progress toward a purchase — an Xbox 360 or Wii, for example.

Vascepa has been approved for use by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as an adjunct to diet to reduce triglyceride levels in adult patients with severe (≥ 500 mg / dL) hypertriglyceridemia.

That observation is echoed by the Federal Reserve Board, which fielded its Enterprising and Informal Work Activity (EIWA) survey, which concluded that 36 percent of the adult population has undertaken informal paid work activity either as a complement to, or substitute for, more traditional work arrangements.

Elder financial abuse or exploitation is defined as the unauthorized, illegal or inappropriate use of an aging adult's financial resources by a person in a position of trust.

However, around 40 million American adults still count themselves as smokers, according to the C.D.C., and three in 10 cigarettes are smoked by someone with mental illness.

Data suggests the hourglass may be nearing empty: A January 2016 Pew Research Center survey found that just 5 % of U.S. adults who had learned about the presidential election in the past week named print newspapers as their «most helpful» source — trailing nearly every other category by wide margins.

A survey conducted last year of 2,078 adults by The Workplace Group, a recruitment firm in Florham Park, New Jersey, along with Lyon College and Rutgers University, found that 34 percent of those ages 53 and older defined themselves as being in the early or mid-career stage.

Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

His investment of $ 80,000 in equity and $ 170,000 as a loan earned Markkula a one - third share in Apple but it was his role as what Jobs called the «adult supervisor» that was by far and away his greatest contribution to keeping the unruly Apple youngsters on track.

By grappling with mild social exclusion when they're young, kids will emerge as more capable, resilient adults, these advocates argue.

The success of the Canadian system of Licensed Producers and mail - only distribution, as evidenced by the country's willingness to move on to adult - use legality, has prompted a new wave of laws liberalizing access to medical cannabis.

The low employment rate, which applies in the 25 - 54 age group as well as the full population of working age adults, can not be explained away by baby boomer retirements.

Prof. Wolfson and co-author Scott Legree of the University of Waterloo have now completed a new report, called Private Companies, Professionals and Income Splitting, to consider how much income is flowing from CCPCs to spouses or adult children who are living at the same address as the company owner, which could indicate a tax - reduction strategy by splitting income with lower - earning family members.

For instance, one approach is to use gender diversity as a screen by minimizing exposure to companies with poor gender diversity records including weak policies, poor supply chain safety records or involvement in the adult entertainment industry.

These protections have been used for a lot of good, but unfortunately, some bad, too, as detailed by the decade - long battle courts have had with Backpage.com, a classified ads site whose adult section was used widely by perpetrators of online sex trafficking.

Beyond that, workplace bonuses are up, as are expected inheritances across the U.S. Forty percent of U.S. adults expect an inheritance from aging parents in the next decade — if not sooner, a study by Arlington, Va. - based Willis Towers Watson found.

The 39 - year - old native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who started as a nightclub stripper there at 17, has appeared in more than 250 X-rated films, beginning in 2000; was signed as an exclusive with major porn studio Wicked Pictures in 2002 (she's still a contract player for them); and has been inducted into multiple industry halls of fame, including the one run by leading industry trade publication Adult Video News.

Wage rates, as measured by average weekly ordinary - time earnings of adults working full time (AWOTE), increased by 1.3 per cent in the three months to February and by 4.6 per cent over the year (Graph 19).

The collaboration, facilitated by Johnson & Johnson Innovation, will explore the potential for online psychometric tests, such as the Cogniciti brain health test, to help identify adults at risk of developing dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.