Sentences with phrase «as other girls»

She was also not as well coordinated in sports as the other girls.

Unfortunately, many girls believe that they aren't as talented, pretty, smart, or likable as other girls.

Although I love buying new clothing just as much as any other girl, (if not more - I may or may not have a fashion obsession) I really try to do my best to stick to what I already own for my posts.

But I did love that it wasn't exactly the same as every other girl at the dance.

River Island were having a student discount the other day and the same as any other girl, I couldn't not go in?

An attractive portfolio and a beautiful face can just be as boring as any other girl and this will not bring the man of your dreams closer to you.

The 32 - year - old actor may be happily married to Alison Brie, but he has joked that they're only together because she was the last «option» as every other girl he brought round to his apartment was put off by his chunky cats Harry and Arturo.

I love my cashmere sweaters as much as any other girl, but before placing moth balls in my closet, I think about the implications they may have on my pets» health.

Not exact matches

Or, as Christine Bader describes in her book The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil, corporations including her former employers at BP may well be «advancing human rights in some ways while compromising them in others.»

And now, after a decade of collaboration in which they had meshed as tightly as gear cogs, calling each other «Boy» and «Girl,» Diane told him she had had enough.

On the other hand, I grew up as a straight white girl with a loving family in a town that appeared to be mostly other straight white people.

The younger son of the media tycoon stepped down as the chairman of the - then BSkyB in 2012, forced out by his links to a scandal at the family's now - defunct News of the World newspaper which, among many other ethical outrages, hacked a murdered schoolgirl's phone in a search for its next story on the case, temporarily misleading the police and the girl's family into thinking she was still alive.

The Liberals have also put this budget through a gender - based analysis, which involves thinking about how a certain measure might affect men and women, or boys and girls, in a different ways, while accounting for other intersecting factors such as income, ethnicity, disability and sexual orientation.

On the other hand, 69 percent of millennials say it's a good thing for parents to encourage young boys to play with toys and pursue activities normally associated with girls, while older generations don't support such a move as much.

During Girl Scout Cookie season, participating Girl Scouts across the country show their G.I.R.L. (Go - getter, Innovator, Risk - taker, Leader) ™ spirit as they sell delicious cookies, building essential entrepreneurial and other business skills along the way that are imperative to leadership and future success.

To win, nominees must demonstrate that they have fast - growth businesses, mentor or actively support other women and girls involved in entrepreneurship, and stand out as leaders in their communities.

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success when she took on the lead role in the feature - film adaptation of the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

In our church there were 2 sisters in a youth group who were rallying the other members not to talk a girl because she wore the same jacket as one of them.

Fact # 1 = When at the same weight class, there is very little strength difference between boys and girls, and strength is not the all important factor, knowledge and ability to perform take - downs and other moves is very important and equalizing as well.

, and drawing cartoons in notebooks, and teasing and gawking at girls, might be insulting to Mister Bossy, might be a sort of theft of his time and energy, might be a sort of theft of immeasurably valuable holy unrecoverable time from the other students in the class, might be greedy and low and a theft from our own best selves, little though we knew of those selves as yet.

There are some people out there educating girls to the best of their knowledge and promoting it as a personal conviction rather than a law, and there are other people shaming girls because of their sexuality and life choices, declaring lots of people «unpure» and «sluts» if they disagree.

As other feminists have said, tactics that instruct women not to get raped are really just saying «Make sure he rapes the other girl.»

We are unable at times to identify ourselves as our own denigrating abusers, or as abusing other girls and women.»

As we drove home after the second service, I asked the girls that if they could only do one or the other next year, which one would it be?

It is with another woman in this world at this time that I am able to experience a radical mutuality between self and other, a mutuality that we have known since we were girl children, a mutuality that has shaped our consciousness of female - female relationships as the first and final place in which women can be most truly at home, in the most natural of social relations.

As an example, highly patriarchal societies that value boys over girls, result in females receiving leftover food, devoid of milk, meat and other essential nutrients.

And we're certainly not saying it is our job as Americans to go save those girls in other countries (unlike far too many missions trips would have her believe).

Instead, I've been dismissed as a silly girl out to «confuse» other silly women with a silly blog and book.

From skinny girl arms wrapped around each other and secrets as delight, from paths through the back forty and cousins and quilts, oh, I'm from love.

One hates to make old arguments, but if this education teaches (as other sections of the report make clear that is must) the familiar doctrines about how very wrong it is to impose any kind of normative standard on the many forms that peoples» desires can take, on what basis does it exclude pornography or the sexualization of young girls as legitimate forms of the varied human sexual appetite?

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

They just don't want to debase it by using it as a cheaper alternative to seeing a movie, or (for boys) as a way of asserting machismo in the absence of positive male role models, or (for girls) as a desperate ploy to hold on to a boyfriend — or any of the other sad, dead — end abuses of sex that become common whenever a society sheds its «repressed Victorianism.»

As we discussed a couple of weeks ago, if Esther was anything like a typical teenage girl in this ancient Near Eastern patriarchal culture, she would not have expected to have any say in her marital future to begin with, and so when she is «taken» with the other virgins into the harem, the chances that she would even think to defy her male guardian, or even worse, the Persian Empire, are incredibly slim.

There are links to other «helpful» websites such as the BPAS (British Pregnancy Advisory Service — which describes itself as «the leading provider of abortion services in the UK»), Childline (which advises a girl named Chantelle, aged 14, that if she is afraid that she might be pregnant she can still prevent pregnancy by using emergency contraception up to three days after intercourse),)

Congress identified the following purposes: the promotion of «self - discipline and other prudent approaches to the problem of adolescent premarital sexual relations,» the promotion of adoption as an alternative for adolescent parents, the development of new approaches to the delivery of care to pregnant teenage girls, and the support of research and demonstration projects «concerning the societal causes and consequences of adolescent premarital sexual relations, contraceptive use, pregnancy, and child rearing.»

You see one of my girls is a brilliant autistic and the other is a satiric genius who is a quick with a comment as Zorro was with a blade.

But Faust is a sympathetic nature, he loves existence, his soul is acquainted with no envy, he perceives that he is unable to check the raging he is well able to arouse, he desires no Herostratic honor — he keeps silent, he hides the doubt in his soul more carefully than the girl who hides under her heart the fruit of a sinful love, he endeavors as well as he can to walk in step with other men, but what goes on within him he consumes within himself, and thus he offers himself a sacrifice for the universal.

As a bookworm who didn't like sport and who showed no visible interest in girls, I attracted far more abuse than most of the other boys.

My small group leaders and then other leaders in the church I grew up going to (which was as relaxed in their preaching as you can find (Presbyterian)-RRB- would confirms this to other high school guys and girls my age that unless he chose to believe in Jesus as the Son of God by the time he died on his deathbed he wouldn't join my Mom and sisters and I in heaven.

As the leaders of this mosque see it, segregating Muslim boys and girls simply means that young people arrive at the age of marriage without getting to know other Muslims of the opposite sex at all.

From the time she denounced Britain's participation in World War II as a girl (because it was plain to her, just months out of her teens, that Britain would be carrying out deliberate attacks on civilians), through her widely publicized opposition as a young don to Oxford's awarding an honorary degree to Harry Truman (on the ground that «having a couple of massacres to his credit» disqualifies a man for public honors), to her recent arrests in her seventies for participation in pro-life actions parallel to those carried out by «Operation Rescue» in the United States (because she found the life of a conceived child as worthy of protection and respect as any other), her life recalls John Paul II's injunction: «Always seek the truth; venerate the truth discovered; obey the truth.

Last September, authorities stopped two others girls, aged 16 and 14, from trying to sneak out of the country, as well.

Now, with your eyes still closed, imagine yourself born a member of the other sex... if you're a woman imagine yourself born a boy baby... if you're a man imagine yourself born a girl baby... Imagine yourself now as an infant member of the other sex....

She describes what happened when she entered the student library: «As I returned some books, a gaggle of girls stared at me from their revision corner, nudging each other and pretending to study.

Many times, children go along with it because they get some enjoyment also, and often some other benefits, such as in the relationships with the sugar daddies, passing HIV to all the very young girls (who are at the moment and for the moment, very aesthetically pleasing).

Prayers for church members in the military are kind of interesting: «Keep our boys and girls in Afghanistan safe as they make other people's boys and girls unsafe (or dead).»

As a teen I didn't identify with the Christians I saw, especially the other girls, so I thought I didn't really believe and wasn't a part of that group.

As many Christians washed each other's feet during Maundy Thursday services, Bill Gothard broke his silence on allegations that the popular seminar speaker regularly touched young girls» feet amid other forms of harassment.

I was never the tiny girl in the crowd, and I looked at other experienced runners around me as some sort of unattainable image.