Sentences with phrase «as local boy»

On 18 December I will be going with pride to London to collect my OBE from the Queen and bring it back to Oldham as a local boy done good.

But, as local boy Sarfraz Manzoor discovered during two months on the campaign trail, the people had the last word

Assuming Payet remains first on the team - sheet and Noble retains his place as local boy, Englishman and skipper then it leaves some very good players vying for a couple of starting berths.

Not exact matches

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.

The duo also scored a lot of free publicity in Atlanta by playing up the «local boys make good» angle of their story as well as the idea of a gay couple starting a company together.

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.

Amancio Ortega is the fourth - 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.

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.

Last month, President Trump expressed concern over Amazon, declaring, «Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.), and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business!»

I ran in parks with friends, hung out in the local boys» club after school, played ball, and once risked entering the abandoned home known as «the haunted house.»

As we, his family, felt the sweet sensitive boy of his childhood slip through our fingers we gladly prostrated ourselves at the altar of anyone who claimed wisdom — first and foremost our local evangelical congregation (more on that later).

The local habitation for much of his life was Salem, Massachusetts, with important chapters elsewhere: as a boy along the idyllic shores of Lake Sebago, Maine; as a student at Maine's Bowdoin College; as a young idealist at the Brook Farm Utopian community west of Boston (1841); as a married man in Emerson's Concord (1842 — 45); as a summer neighbor of Herman Melville in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts (1850); as a mature writer and consular official in Liverpool, England (1853 — 58); and as a traveler and resident in Italy (1858 — 59)-- before a final period of ill health and death in Concord (1859 — 1864).

Instead of sending the, delinquent youth to a reform school, a tough but compassionate magistrate, Hesther Salomon, commits him to the psychiatric ward of the local hospital and convinces her friend, Dr. Martin Dysart, to take the boy as a mental patient.

«Chief Collaboration Officer Rodney Youckton, as well as other executive team members, leads by example and sit on local nonprofit boards such as Community Youth Services, the Boys & Girls Club, Big Brothers Big Sisters or United Way,» Miles says.

What's really cool about this is each of the plants can nominate local organizations, such as the Boys & Girls Club, for grants.

Burtons locations also work with organizations including the Boys and Girls Club of America and Visiting Nurses Association as well as local business groups.

Every six weeks or so, my boys and I venture to our local Asian market to stock up on pantry items such as rice vinegar, sesame oil, hoisin sauce, and spring rolls wrappers.

Wilshere has that «local boy» thing going for him (since Arsenal has not really been producing anything exceptional as players) and Wenger obviously rely on him a lot since he is one of his «findings» (youth disastrous policy)...

As for WR, I would favor the local boy Simmie Cobb

Wenger is obsessed with Wilshere and some of the football specialists (not in England of course as Wilshere has become something of a «GOD» here, you know, «local boy» thing... Like they (and Wenger) found the new «Zidane» or «Messi»... Not even close, and never will be) are just baffled by his insistence of playing the boy as the main catalyser of the harmony of our play...!!

Precisely why they're nicknamed the Grecians is the subject of some debate, though according to Exeter Memories the «likeliest explanation is that the local boys of St Sidwell's fought the boys of the city during the annual beating of the bounds... Because the St Sidwell boys were outside the city wall the were referred to as though they were Greeks outside the walls of Troy.»

Not only do the centres provide much needed care, support and necessities such as clothing, they provide the boys a start in life through paying for their school education or their study for a trade at local colleges.

Southampton must be amazed that Liverpool didn't even bother to barter when they quoted # 75m for their defender Virgil van Dijk as Klopp is determined to stop leaking silly goals (like Arsenal do as well) and were prepared to pay whatever the Saints demanded, so the South Coast side can now look for a few bargains to help them move back up the table, and local - boy Walcott could be high on the list of bargain buys.

As we all know, Pellegrini is the latest in a long line of talented local boys to suit up for Roma.

If that's the case, you could see if your tween might be interested in helping a local baseball team as a junior manager, bat boy, or coach's assistant.

Howard et al (2004), surveying 2000 mostly African American 8th grade boys found the vast majority willing to use protection: this resulted in the local hospital restructuring its teen family planning clinical services to give the same in - hospital clinical and counselling support to young males as to young females

Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.

He worked tirelessly as a member of the local Kiwanis, the Orland Park Lions, the village's Recreation Advisory Board, Friends of the Library, the Veterans of Foreign War Post 2604, the American Legion Post 118, the Boy Scouts, the Orland Park Veterans» Commission, the Wabash Historical Society and the Old Orland Heritage Foundation.

de Lench: I would like to see far more women on the boards of youth sports organizations, from the national governing bodies all the way down to local level, especially in predominantly boy's sports such as football, baseball and hockey.

For example, in Willis Independent School District in Texas, school organizations such as parent - teacher groups and booster clubs, as well as local community groups such as Boy and Girl Scouts, are exempt from rental fees and pay only for supervision, security, and cleanup costs, while all other groups must pay $ 50 an hour to rent a school kitchen.22

Partnering with other local groups that share a mission (hunger advocacy groups, youth - focused groups such as Boy and Girl Scouts and YMCA / YWCA, local colleges or universities, hospitals, etc.).

At 2 p.m., Assemblyman Andrew Raia will be joined by state and county officials, as well local boaters, to announce new boating safety legislation in the wake of the tragic death of a 12 - year - old boy during a boating lesson, Centerport Yacht Club 33 Beach Plum Dr., Centerport.

SELKIRK — The push by Democrats to preserve the deductibility of state and local taxes came to a front lawn here on Monday, as local politicians, firefighters, housewives and a little boy with a lollipop flanked Sen. Chuck Schumer and Gov. Andrew Cuomo while they argued their case.

And so, some of the debates about local councils were ones that I had as a boy, believe it or not.»

Kaiman, who is resigning as North Hempstead town supervisor to work for Cuomo, is widely seen in Nassau political circles as hyperambitious and willing to be what one local official called «Cuomo's messenger boy» in exchange for two high - profile political jobs.

His comments — which outraged local leaders — came as the parents of a 3 - year - old Brooklyn boy shot by thugs in a playground said they support the top cop's controversial stop - and - frisk program.

The boy began working as a caddie at local golf courses, earning $ 10 a round and turning over $ 9 to his mother to support the household, Thomas DiNapoli said.

The Boy Scouts of America's local Cub Scouts Pack 47, high school students from Hawaii Preparatory Academy, Honokaa High School, Pahoa High School, and Parker School, as well as college students from University of Hawaii at Hilo's Astronomy Department and UH Hilo's Astrophysics Club, volunteered to lend a hand at the event.

i got to tour the local jail when i was in boy scouts back in the mid-80's, and there were some swole - ass motherfuckers in there, with arms as big as their heads.

The city of angels is known for its entertainment industry, so naturally it's full of boys trying to make it in what we locals lovingly refer to as the industry.

The story goes from Philippe's youth, as a boy transfixed with the high - wire act at a local circus, to his young adulthood, performing in the streets of Paris.

In 1976, Bruce became a volunteer apprentice at Traverse City's Cherry County Playhouse in northern Michigan working long hours behind the scenes on the playhouse's productions from erecting sets, assistantThe youngest of three boys, Bruce Campbell wanted to be an actor as young as eight - years - old after witnessing his dad's enjoyment while performing in local community theater.

Biography: The youngest of three boys, Bruce Campbell wanted to be an actor as young as eight - years - old after witnessing his dad's enjoyment while performing in local community theater.

The youngest of three boys, Bruce Campbell wanted to be an actor as young as eight - years - old after witnessing his dad's enjoyment while performing in local community theater.

Haim stars as Chris Griffin, a pizza delivery boy whose younger brother Miltie (Devin Clark) gets caught up with the local drug - pusher gang, the Rollerboys.

Ralph Fiennes plays the former local boy turned success story who turns out to be as much of a prat (if not more so) than the small - minded working class losers he's trying to escape and Felicity Jones is his bright and pretty daughter in danger of falling to the same soul - sucking existence that snuffed the life out of her mother (Emily Watson).

The new 10 - episode mystery series Gracepoint (airing Thursdays) at least has a solid pedigree, remaking last summer's acclaimed eight - part Broadchurch from BBC America, even starring David Tennant in the same role (albeit with an off - putting attempt at an American accent) as a detective newly arrived in a coastal California town, where the murder of a young boy rocks the local residents to the core — including his resentful partner (Breaking Bad's Anna Gunn)-- turning neighbor against neighbor until a shattering denouement.

So Ren develops a reputation as a bad boy, even dating the daughter (Julianne Hough) of the local preacher (Dennis Quaid) before he and nerdy best friend Willard (Miles Teller) try to compromise by changing the system so his classmates can hold a traditional dance.

As complicated as it is with all of the police surrounding the house, the boys have also unwittingly put an associate of some serious baddies under gunpoint, and with evidence of many past crimes in the house, the local underworld affiliates are a bit nervous about the prospect of their operations, kept in the form of a DVD, being found ouAs complicated as it is with all of the police surrounding the house, the boys have also unwittingly put an associate of some serious baddies under gunpoint, and with evidence of many past crimes in the house, the local underworld affiliates are a bit nervous about the prospect of their operations, kept in the form of a DVD, being found ouas it is with all of the police surrounding the house, the boys have also unwittingly put an associate of some serious baddies under gunpoint, and with evidence of many past crimes in the house, the local underworld affiliates are a bit nervous about the prospect of their operations, kept in the form of a DVD, being found out.

The film opens in Afghanistan as Raymond and Pamela's 20 - something boy Kyle Wincott (Robbie Arnell), a dog handler whose Belgian Malinois Max (played by one Carlos), is trained to search for guns which the local people are selling to the Taliban.