Sentences with phrase «at a father who»

In many ways, it's a familiar story: preacher - kids gone wild, rebelling against a strict upbringing, lashing out at a father who left them and had his own fall from grace.

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Schultz talks affectionately about his father in his book, «Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time,» saying that Fred was an honest man who worked hard, played ball with his kids on the weekend and loved the Yankees.
It is my firm belief that whoever may succeed my father as Chair at each company should be someone who is not a Trustee of my father's trust or otherwise intertwined in Redstone family matters, but rather a leader with an independent voice.
There's a known history that we can work together well,» says Shannon, who is J.J.'s stepmother (and, at 42, only 16 years his senior) through her marriage to his father, Lululemon Athletica founder Dennis «Chip» Wilson.
For employees at the corporate headquarters (who account for 3 % of its workforce), the company provides 18 weeks of paid parental leave for mothers and 12 weeks for fathers.
At the same time, Becker had also just lost her father, who had left her some money.
Claude Shannon, a brilliant eccentric who could often be found riding his unicycle and juggling through the halls of Bell Labs, was the father of information theory itself, a revolutionary new way of looking at the world.
For me, Elizabeth I was primarily not an historical construct but a young and vulnerable woman who was taking over her father's business at a difficult time, when it was threatened by two other ambitious businesses.
It's a story almost exclusively about a small, personal thing: Fathers who have looked at their lives and realized they have failed their children.
Graham, who became a Southern Baptist, went on to study at Wheaton College, a prominent Christian liberal arts school in Illinois, where he met fellow student Ruth Bell, who had been raised in China where her father had been a Presbyterian medical missionary.
On his panel: his grandfather, Bill Draper, co-founder of Sutter Hill Ventures; his father, Tim Draper, cofounder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson; his sister, Jesse Draper, host of «The Valley Girl Show»; and his brother, Billy Draper, a Facebook alum who now works with his father at Draper Associates.
In 1978, Blankfein graduated from Harvard Law School and took a job as an associate at Donovan, Leisure, a small «old - line» law firm founded in 1929, by William J. «Wild Bill» Donovan, who later formed the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and was known as the father of the CIA.
Chip Huggins, who is the son of the company's longtime CEO and who began working at See's for his father at age 14 and eventually left to run Joseph Schmidt Confections, asks, «If you put See's everywhere, what makes it so special anymore?»
Richard Kalb, who grew up with Blankfein and has remained friendly with him, said his father worked at the post office, too.
When Vivian Kleynhans was 16, her father, who had worked at a local fishing company for 20 years, lost his job.
[M] uch as I would love to experience what you describe, I have not,» James K. Rilling, a father of two who studies the neuroscience of social behavior at Emory University, told Business Insider in an email.
The closeness between the two men changed earlier this year, however, at about the same time that Redstone started to become closer to his daughter Shari, who had been estranged from her father for a number of years.
He says his own father, who owned a used car rental business and at times rented to Trump's business, eventually declined to rent to any casinos in the area because of their poor reputation for payment.
He received his first set of golf clubs from his father, who worked at Latrobe Country Club from 1921 until his death in 1976.
Researchers at the University of Toronto recently documented widespread workplace discrimination against fathers who participate in child - rearing — managers and co-workers were likely to label them slackers or «failed men.»
In late 2013 his father, Riley Bechtel, who had served for 24 years as CEO, retired four years early at 61 after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
When Scardino was drafted at 18, his father convinced an optometrist to write a note to draft officials falsely claiming that Scardino, who wore glasses, was going blind.
In a matter of a few days, the mother of five, who at the time was living as a housewife in London, had to decide whether to take up the role her father had played.
A private - school attendee with a father who made partner at a law firm, Gates isn't exactly a rags to riches story.
The governor was accompanied in Doral by Ryan Petty and Andrew Pollack, the fathers of two of the children killed at Stoneman Douglas High, who pledged to return to Tallahassee in the 10 remaining days of the annual legislative session to pressure lawmakers to act.
Back in the 1990s, «you never had a chef with a credible resume doing anything like the burger,» said Sang Yoon, the former executive chef at Michael's who bought a Santa Monica pub called Father's Office in 2000 and made it into one of the region's first burger - focused restaurants.
Mika Brzezinski shares a hug after the funeral for her father Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, at the Cathedral of Saint Matthew the Apostle in Washington on June 9, 2017.
From left, Fred Guttenberg, father of Jaime Guttenberg, 14, who was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida; Francine Wheeler, mother of Ben Wheeler, 6, a victim of the Sandy Hook shooting, and Lori Haas, mother of a survivor of the Virginia Tech shooting, during a meeting with Senate Democrats about gun violence last month.
Cohen, a 51 - year - old father of two, faces potential criminal charges and enormous legal fees because of his involvement with the president; there is widespread speculation that he «could end up cooperating with federal officials who are investigating him for activity that could relate, at least in part, to work he did for Mr. Trump,» the Times reported.
Andrew Pollack, father of Parkland shooting victim Meadow Pollack, filed a lawsuit Monday against Scot Peterson, a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy who served as a school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.
Only about 6 % of fathers who are married or living with a partner stay at home and take care of kids and the house, compared with 30 % of mothers in a similar arrangement.
Ruane and Buffett's lifelong friendship began at an investment seminar led by longtime Buffett mentor Benjamin Graham, a professor at Columbia University who was called «the father of value investing.»
Glen Elder, the sociologist at the University of North Carolina, who's done field work in Baltimore, said, «At a lower level of skill, if you lose a job and don't have fathers or brothers with jobs — if you don't have a good social network — you get drawn back into the streeat the University of North Carolina, who's done field work in Baltimore, said, «At a lower level of skill, if you lose a job and don't have fathers or brothers with jobs — if you don't have a good social network — you get drawn back into the streeAt a lower level of skill, if you lose a job and don't have fathers or brothers with jobs — if you don't have a good social network — you get drawn back into the street.
Ramirez, who has no criminal record according to court papers filed in his case, was taken into custody last week at his father's home in Seattle by ICE officers.
Max Schachter, father of Alex Schachter who was killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, holds a replica NBA trophy with his son Ryan and Miami Heat forward Josh Richardson.
The father of a military veteran with PTSD who was shot by a guard at a Veterans Affairs clinic in Oregon says he feels betrayed by the VA and county officials.
Father Gary Thomas, the priest who the film's main character is based on, preaches at a San Jose church on Saratoga Avenue.
«He's kind of a famous neocon,» Mary Gordon, who teaches at Barnard, was quoted as saying in an article in the Columbia Spectator («Catholics Divided Over Father's Politics,» April 6, 2006).
Wilcox reports that Christian conservative fathers, at least the ones who attend church frequently, are actually far more affectionate with and emotionally invested in their wives and children than are their counterparts among either mainline Protestants or the unchurched.
He was simply a devoted husband and father, a sincere believer, a humble man who put his gifts at the service of the royal family out of love of God and Russia.
Children not among the targeted audience: those who worry about having enough food to last through the weekend, those who wonder why their father is no longer at home, and those who must learn to avoid neighborhood violence.
Having been close to a number of people who've died before me including my father, I agree that an explanation for the most poignant emotions we've expressed and been involved in is where we look for meaning at life's end.
Rather, the temporal Temple was a dwelling place for the Spirit that now rests upon those who believe thus the rending of the veil in the temple and the subsequent near - razing of the temple at Jesus» death (how is that for confirmation by God the Father that it was His initiative and in Jesus was there the finality of the Great Work of Saving Power upon the latter's resurrection).
A perfect father surely becomes angry at his disobedient children, but he's not going to roast them alive because of it — and any earthly father who does is soundly and rightly condemned as evil and / or insane.
Against those who depict her father's religious decision in opportunistic colors, there is also the fact that he became a Catholic, a distinctly downmarket connection at that time in England.
I heard it at a young age, and later in life when my mother died, father, brother who were Catholics and I was given money to donate to the church for a «mass».
Father Carlos Martins, who guided the tour, as caretaker, told a reporter that he receives at least one e-mail a day from someone who has been violently assaulted, but been able to forgive their assailant, through the intercession of St. Maria.
I believe that Jesus is the only way to the Father, I believe this to be objectively true, and though I don't believe that there will be a pop quiz at the gates of Heaven; it seems to me that, if I'm correct that Jesus is who the Christian Scriptures say that He is, knowing that truth would help one understand the reality one is taking part in.
Who would be interested in a book supporting and trying to gain acceptance for the doctrine based on biblical and historical evidence that Jesus died on March 25, 31 CE, at 15.00 hours, on a TUESDAY and was resurrected by His Father, Yahweh God, at about 18.00 hours, on a FRIDAY, thus fulfilling His own prophecy contained in Mat 12:40, whereas He would be three days and three nights in the tomb?
So if you have a triune god who is father, son, and holy ghost but you have a mother of the human manifestation of father / son god — then Mary is arguably the mother of god and in that way could be argued as the more divine at some point in the history of the transformation of the triune god in heaven to the triune god on earth and of course the few days when the triune god on earth was dead (but not really dead) before rising.
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