Sentences with phrase «as schoolyard»

Berman's glossy ads, which have run in Washington, DC, and New Jersey, portray teachers unions as schoolyard bullies.

Parents should know that this movie has peril and violence, including low - key depictions of a slaughterhouse and a bullfight, as well as some schoolyard language and potty humor.

Parents should know that there is some comic peril and violence and threatened more serious violence as well as some schoolyard language and potty humor.

The other threads don't hang together so well: Dan and his fiancee Marci (Julie Bowen) are too cruel and their jabs are essentially as funny as schoolyard taunts, and the same goes for a mean girl in Deanna's Archeology class.

Byrd grew up in San Francisco's rough Fillmore District, establishing himself as a schoolyard star but not drawing much interest from colleges because of his size.

Not exact matches

The former schoolyard bully of the software world is remaking itself as a collaborative, customer - friendly service provider.

Joe Biden and Donald Trump have traded childish barbs, as if in a schoolyard fight.

Instead, Maher's team came up with «Wellness Adventures,» which encourages employees to pick and enjoy «fun» activities during their lunch break — such as laser tag, basketball, golf, or even trampolining — to make fitness feel a little more like schoolyard recess than another chore to fit into the day.

The 2 highest vote getters among Players not in the Championship will serve as Captains on and pick Teams schoolyard style as part of the All Hoops Team Festivities.

Rather than dismissing schoolyard bullying as «a phase» that children will eventually outgrow, parents have the unique opportunity to alter these behaviors by helping young children overcome the very fears, anxieties, and insecurity that place them at risk.

At the time, we just couldn't make that happen, but in death, he managed to achieve what he never could as a ten - year - old on the schoolyard.

The Republican primaries in Virginia have become a haven for schoolyard bully tactics as candidates unleash personal attacks on each other in ways and to a degree seldom seen in American politics.

Vacca can point to a number of actions he has taken as District Manager in support of disability issues, including holding up construction of a local movie theater until there was accessible design, working for accessible schoolyards and school bathrooms, and support for community residences for mentally disabled consumers.

The next day, as Andy tells it, his father returned to the schoolyard to fight him.

The Queens delegation recently allocated a lump sum of $ 3M toward purchase of a schoolyard in Jackson Heights for part - time use as a park.

I guess his peers are now referring to him as «Milky Sutherland» in a vain attempt at schoolyard humor.

Though gas is the butt of much schoolyard humor, the reality is it's a symptom of serious digestive distress when experienced as an ongoing rather than occasional problem.

Channel the personality of the fox, as well as the student - like actions he inspires in the Little Prince, via classic schoolyard basics and rust colors.

Flappy Golf fever spread like wildfire across schoolyards as friends battled each other in its manic multiplayer mode or competed for high score bragging rights.

While the schoolyard bullying that was prevalent in the first film doesn't show up as much in this one, there are some moments of mean - spirited sibling rivalry.

During these Mutsuhiro is depicted as something akin to a savage schoolyard bully.

Vialet has visited schools where the center of the schoolyard was about as vacant as a volcano crater, flanked by children on the sidelines, unsure of what to do with their free time or how to engage their classmates.

As questions about otherness — and the intrinsic worth of others — continue to roil our society, I'm viewing my son's schoolyard posing through a wide - angle lens.

Instead, Miller views the green schoolyard as the natural, inevitable extension of the indoor classroom where play goes hand - in - hand with subjects including life and earth sciences, social studies, math, art, «ecoliteracy,» and nutrition.

The peer - mediation program allows students to serve as go - betweens when conflicts erupt in the schoolyard or elsewhere.

Frost believes the trend can be reversed, noting such influences as Richard Louv's 2005 best - selling book Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature - Deficit Disorder, and former U.S. vice president Al Gore's Earth in the Balance, as well as the growth of the green - schoolyard movement.

Record all numbers on the large schoolyard map, and move the objects to the correct location as needed.

Mr Birmingham said that, as a dad of two young daughters, the stories of bullying in the schoolyard and online horrified him as he knew they did thousands of parents across Australia.

Designed to provide teachers and administrators with a range of practical suggestions for making the schoolyard a varied and viable learning resource, Moving the Classroom Outdoors presents concrete examples of how urban, suburban, and rural schools have enhanced the school site as a teaching tool.

Use trees as the basis for interdisciplinary learning in your classroom this spring Choose a tree in your schoolyard.

As a comparison he gives an example of something from a flier for the non-unionized charter Harlem Success Academy I. «In a traditional school, if it's forty degrees or colder no one goes outside into the schoolyard, because it's too cold for the adults.

As Mr. White scooted out of his state - owned Prius to return a football that had been tossed from a schoolyard last week, an elementary school student recognized him, seizing the chance to suggest that dictionaries be allowed during state tests.

It provides a powerful explanation for schoolyard bullying and youth violence; its effects are painfully evident in the context of teenage gangs and criminal activity, in tragedies such as in Littleton, Colorado; Tabor, Alberta and Victoria, B.C..

Think of it this way: if a child isn't taught that fighting in the schoolyard is inappropriate, well then that child could interpret it as fighting as being an acceptable choice.

Additionally, as the player goes around the virtual schoolyard, looking to pick a fight, they will attempt to beat down the local champion and unlock even further special abilities.

Maps are not linear arenas where players will simply run around pillars with their hands flailing in the air as if they were about to beat up by the schoolyard bully.

They also taunt as well as any fat, pimply schoolyard bully.

«As a child once, I tripped in the schoolyard and passed out,» Mr. Attia said in an interview in Paris.

This is an old schoolyard truism usually known as the «broken - window argument»: go break a window, raise the GDP.

As Trathen Heckman of the Transition US movement wrote in a recent blog post: On a single weekend, May 14th & 15th, thousands of us will take to the streets, the garden, schoolyard, home, apartment and city hall to take action as part of the 350 Home & Garden Challenge... A multitude of organizations across the country will transform, retrofit and revitalize our landscapes and homes to grow food, conserve water, save energy and build communitAs Trathen Heckman of the Transition US movement wrote in a recent blog post: On a single weekend, May 14th & 15th, thousands of us will take to the streets, the garden, schoolyard, home, apartment and city hall to take action as part of the 350 Home & Garden Challenge... A multitude of organizations across the country will transform, retrofit and revitalize our landscapes and homes to grow food, conserve water, save energy and build communitas part of the 350 Home & Garden Challenge... A multitude of organizations across the country will transform, retrofit and revitalize our landscapes and homes to grow food, conserve water, save energy and build community.

They are everywhere, in cities and in the country; where I live, schoolyards that were used as public green space have gone to condos; lands that were promised as parks turned into subdivisions.

«Five proposed schoolyards in Brooklyn and Queens are undergoing soil tests, and if selected they will be transformed into public playgrounds with storm water - capture features such as rain barrels, raised gardens, porous pavers and an under - layer of gravel that holds water during a storm, before allowing it to seep gradually into the ground below, city DEP Commissioner Carter Strickland said.»

As another former colleague wrote on Instagram following Dolly's death — and recalling the schoolyard bullying that has shaped her own life and personality — «I imagine that from the outside my life looks shiny.