Sentences with phrase «as the kid in»

In recent weeks, for instance, on another issue germane to his appeal to his base — immigration — the White House was unwilling to irritate the base and worked to scuttle a bipartisan Senate compromise that would have shielded hundreds of thousands of people who had been brought to the US illegally as kids in return for border wall funding.

«It took a judge seven years and 607 pages,» the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, «to explain why children in New Jersey's poor cities deserve the same basic education as kids in the state's affluent suburbs.»

As a kid in Missouri, I was a Baptist, and that identity said not only that I belonged to an important church but that I was on the right side of the great eternal divide, ready to defend my salvation against the other contenders around me.

LOL — As a kid in southern Idaho the arrogant Mormons would taunt us Christians by calling us Gentiles.

This is actually an old recipe that's been around since my days as a kid in 4 - H.

Every summer as a kid in upstate New York, when the garden was coming up tomatoes, my family would pass them through the mill to get rid of skins and seeds.

From the canned pickled fish that you tried on that family vacation to Norway to the very specific gummy candy that you ate as a kid in Indiana, find it there (until it sells out and the «Currently Unavailable» mark means you might never taste Dr Pepper Vanilla Float ever again).

Heck, that was nothing more than a play he'd practiced a thousand times as a kid in his backyard ringed with «big, tall, 100 - year - old trees.

I remember as a kid in the 90s reading some batshit insane conspiracy theory about them getting people knocked off in some issue of Newsweek the teacher was making us read.

Tottenham striker Harry Kane has spoken about being rejected by Arsenal as a kid in a brutally honest piece for The Players» Tribune about his career so far.

As a kid in Pop Warner, his size had him playing lineman and he was done with that.

I say this as someone who grew up in Portland and started playing as a kid in 1975.

He's a Hollywood action hero now, but as a kid in Australia, Eric Bana dreamed of being a race car driver.

Baker loved the Dodgers as a kid in Carmichael, Calif., and then learned to hate them as a young man rising through the Atlanta Braves system.

As a kid in Milwaukee listening to Packer games onthe radio, I used to hear WTMJ Announcer Bob Heiss drop his voice in awe whenhe mentioned Don Hutson's Educated Toe.

They really appreciate something like this because they don't get as much when they're growing up as the kids in higher - income areas do.»

«All I did as a kid in my free hours was shoot in the driveway,» he says.

Always fun to see footballin the kind of muddy paddocks we played in as kids in clog - heavy boots more suited to trench troops.

Makes me as happy as a kid in a bouncy house at a birthday party!!

Packing a yummy lunch fast makes me as happy as a kid in a candy shop.....

As a kid in the 1970s, I tried to be a picky eater.

And as the kids in my food appreciation classes learned, squash — like most vegetables — is mostly water.

Having once carried 510 pounds on his 5 - foot - 10 frame, Mitchell is on a mission to teach healthy eating to adults as well as kids in this North Side neighborhood.

Ralph can go either way for some dads, but a lot of them will just connect it with Ralphie from A Christmas Story, who they may not be a fan of, at least not as a kid in real life.

«Until this community begins to deal with some deep - seated, real socio - economic and racially driven issues we have, you're not going to sell me the swamp land, that a kid on South Ave. is going to have the same ability and shared resources as a kid in Fayetteville - Manlius,» Owens said.

Scientific American reported in 2009 that a joint U.S. / Swedish study looking into the effects of household contaminants discovered that children who live in homes with vinyl floors — which can emit hazardous chemicals called phthalates — are twice as likely to develop signs of autism as kids in other homes.

Just as kids in the U.S. are exposed to issues concerning habitat preservation, children in Madagascar should be as well.

As a kid in the 70's, I used to receive a yearly membership to The Planetary Society for my birthday because I loved and still love all things «Space».

As a kid in the 60's I ate junk foods like soda, chips, ice cream, because I didn't know any better.

Less emphasis is on alignment and more is on how children can find their way around as a kid in an often stressful world.

Growing up, as a kid in suburban NJ (the Garden State!)

I ADORE this red coat and you look so fab, and sooo adorable as a kid in your faux fur coat!

I was not able to see it as a kid in theaters.

I'm a very easy man to talk with for sure and very upbeat, outgoing very happy guy???? I was raised on families ranch as a kid in east Texas so I was raised very much a gentleman and know how to be amazing to a woman???? I have recently given so much to my family that needed help keeping...

I played as a kid in bed, playing micro-games on the touch screen.

Used to watch this as a kid in the 80s.

He said to me once that as a kid in Mexico City he used to ride this bus with his mother and siblings.

Lakeith Stanfield stars as a kid in Oakland who lands a telemarketer job and learns he can use his «white voice» to make it all the way to the top of the sales world.

When I asked her what Bill had to endure as a kid in order to become so comically gruff, she asked me to construct the worst possible setting for a child to grow up in, then bury it under enough soul - crushing events — missed birthdays, disappointing Christmases, dead family pets, etc. — to bring that child right to the edge, just short of creating another Michael Myers.

What's so wrong about getting all giddy about it as a kid in my 30s?

During a freak occurrence, a young baseball player is tossed back in time 500 years and shows up as A Kid in King Arthur's Court.

As kids in the same neighborhood, they hang out together, but the inherent personality differences lead to polar opposite paths in high school.

While the story sounds like something might have watched as a kid in the «80s, the visuals in the film look incredibly impressive.

His directing debut, however, takes him back to his roots as a kid in New South Wales.

As a kid in the»60s, Michael Peterson (Tom Hardy) enjoyed beating up fellow schoolmates for no good reason, and as a married father, he decided to saw off a shotgun (with wife and baby in the other room) and rob a jewelry store, a heist that netted him little cash but seven years in prison.

We've always pictured him as this kid in an adult's body and it's the emotional growth of him going through life and its pitfalls and him growing because of that.

So I hire a highly qualified online teacher, and my kids get the same opportunity for a quality education as kids in Eagle, an affluent suburb outside of Boise.»

«As kids in the traditional kindergarten were playfully designing and creating things, they...

«Next, I tried having my students make the babies out of 5 - pound bags of sugar, as the kids in the book Sixth Grade Sugar Babies do,» explained Seeger.

And though these states also bring the problems of rural education to the forefront, there are plenty of black and brown kids in cities who need our help as badly as any kid in Bed - Stuy, Brooklyn, does.