Sentences with phrase «at least the children as»

Tough shows even the most naïve reader how difficult it is to grapple with the question of how to take an entire community of mostly disadvantaged children and mostly undereducated parents without financial resources and transform them — or at least the children as they grow — into fully functioning members of the middle class.

Not exact matches

An attack on Save the Children's Jalalabad office on January 24 that killed six people and an attack on Kabul's military academy on January 29 that killed at least 11 Afghan soldiers were claimed by ISIS» Afghan branch — known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — Khorasan Province (ISIS - K).

During a Halloween event with reporters» children in the Oval Office in October, Trump told the kids that at least they «have no weight problems» as he handed out candy.

The change could affect the more than 4 million US citizen children under 18 who live with at least one undocumented parent, as well as the approximately 1 million more so - called «dreamers» who were brought the US by their parents as children and remain undocumented.

Economists treat parental leave, both for women and men, as a simple cost - benefit problem: in theory, at least, if a woman's wage is greater than the cost of replacing her in the home, then she should spend her time working and hire someone else to care for her children.

Bennett says he reads even more children's books («at least two a day») with his daughter, who serves as the basis for his own books» main character.

He maintained a punishing travel schedule, which included commitments to at least 18 outside organizations at various times, such as the board of Xerox (XRX), the U.S. - China Business Council, and the Business Round table, as well as personal interests, such as chairing the board of visitors at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business (his two children are Duke alums).

Conventional wisdom quantifies that buffer of time at roughly a generation, for the simple reason we often grow up to buy — or at least aspire to buy — those very same cars we lusted after as children.

So at least once a year, or in the event of a major change in your life — such as the birth of a child, divorce, inheritance, retirement, or job change — you should sit down and revisit your investment plan.

In all likelihood, you're probably at least partly familiar with straight razors, as they're commonly featured in movies and on television; or maybe you saw your grandpa using one as a child.

A W5 investigation on Saturday: An Ottawa fertility doctor accused of using his own sperm and fathering at least 11 children faces a class - action lawsuit as his patients speak out in exclusive interviews.

This a staggeringly unhealthy narrative to promote to our children about the way sexuality works, and plays directly into the hands of a rape culture such as the one in which we live: If you are a woman and ever get catcalled, abused, molested, raped or any number of other sexual advances, you are probably at least partially to blame.

So if Andrea Yates was not hatefully murdering her children in the tub, but thought she was sacraficing them to God, or at least to the voices in her head she believed to be God then shouldn't she have been rewarded for her faith as Abraham was instead of convicted for her convictions?

I just wanted to add that I think your approach at least tries to force the members to act as grown - ups and THINK for themselves and not be child - like.

At the very least, therefore, schools for poor and minority children should have as much funding per student, as many qualified teachers and as good physical facilities as other schools.

Children are seen — at least by some people — as a liability rather than as a source of hope.

but on a very practical level, as a mom of two young children, I have to ask — What in the world do you do with the kids, who I'm sure would disrupt the whole thing (at least mine would, to be sure)?

Don't you think God loves us at least as much as a good parent who delights in the activities of her children, regardless of whether they get everything right?

If some children are neglected in our society they are — as educational theorist Henry Giroux points out — being closely targeted by at least one segment of society: corporate marketing.

Those ideas are actually quite healthy for a child's mind; let them grow for a few years and at least have the chance to develop a healthy mind before they're as hopeless as your stance.

You're confused, Demuth.The idea that «everyone is a child of God «has no Biblical basis whatsoever; who told you otherwise?Only those born again in Christ via the regenerative power of the Holy Spirit are children of God in the Bilical sense.If you are going to comment on biblical issues at least get your theology straight; otherwise you sound just as silly as the other God - haters on this blog.

@krissmith777: Yes, those who actually believe the nonsense in the bible to be true are lunatics, or at least as gullible as little children.

He does not treat the parallel development in Marian devotion in which adult women and men were encouraged to relate to Mary as little children attached to their mother, relying on her to get them out of all trouble or at least comfort them in a motherly way.

Say «Good Shepherd» to most Christians, at least in this country, and chances are we see the stained glass window that I saw as a child.

At the very least as an authority figure it is dishonest and a disservice to children to claim to know things no one really knows and teach it to them as if it is fact.

Most of us remember having had more friends as children than we have as adults — or at least we were conscious of such bonds» meaning more to us then.

(Those children, at least, are where God used my mistake as a blessing, and I'm very grateful for that.)

Effusive media reports give the impression that robots will befriend us, play with our children, and care for us when we are old — and that they may be (at least) as good as the human alternative.

And, as was already well known, children in general benefit from having at least one caretaker with whom they can establish a close bond, and from having structure and rules in the home environment.

Its theme parks offer the chance for a secular pilgrimage that must be engaged in as often as possible, but at least once a lifetime, lest our children be deprived of a certain cultural blessing.

This is a contradiction endemic to a society that» for whatever reason, and at least some of the reasons are probably lost in the mists of history» does not know how to ask anything of its children except that they manage somehow to behave as if their lives are pleasing to them.

Children are entitled to at least as much attention as is paid to commerce.

His survey of the social science literature on the topic usefully, if sometimes turgidly, compiles the growing evidence that homeschooled children learn more than their counterparts, at least to the extent that standardized tests measure learning, and are emotionally healthier as well, at least to the extent that psychologists» «self - esteem and self - concept» scales truly capture emotional health.

As the general quality of public education has declined, at least in public perception, and as the power of the youth culture in public schools has increased, many more parents seek private schools for their children, and many of these schools are connected with churcheAs the general quality of public education has declined, at least in public perception, and as the power of the youth culture in public schools has increased, many more parents seek private schools for their children, and many of these schools are connected with churcheas the power of the youth culture in public schools has increased, many more parents seek private schools for their children, and many of these schools are connected with churches.

At the very least, as Amy Black points out in «For the Sake of the Children» (a 1995 contribution to the Crossroads Monograph Series on Faith and Public Policy), there are public - justice issues involved.

The other treaty, the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), has been ratified by every country on earth except for the United States and Somalia (which does not imply that the treaty is good; to the contrary, it is at least as bad as CEDAW).

But we can at least analyze the kinds of love that are needed by every child, and we can see the ways that the culture has organized to meet those needs, needs which, when driven deeply enough, necessitate the wisdom and the sanctity of a monogamous marriage and a faithful living together as far as possible so that the full work of parenting can be done.

As Sarah put it in a couples» sharing group, «Before the children came, we had something going; but then we both got so wrapped up in other things we didn't work at our marriage, at least not very often.»

I pray, I love, I listen and I care about him as a child of God — or at least I ask God to help me do so.

Is it unfair to her that she has the greater privilege and that as a good mother she will stand higher, at least in her children's estimation, than a good father?

Occasional remarks are found such as «before there reigned any king over the children of Israel» (Genesis 36:31), which seem to imply that from the standpoint of the writer the monarchy had already been established; and «the Canaanite was then in the land» (Genesis 12:6, 13:7), which implied that it was being written after Hebrew occupation; and finally repeated instances of the use of the phrase «on the other side of the Jordan,» in reference to events occurring in the lifetime of Moses, which led scholars to doubt if Moses could have been the author at least of the whole of the Pentateuch.

According to Matthew 2:1, Jesus was born «in the days of king Herod», and Herod's order for the killing of children at Bethlehem who were two years old or less (2:16) suggests that Matthew regards the birth as having taken place at least two years before Herod's death (4 BC.).

Two other reports in the same issue of Cancer Causes and Control suggest that children born to mothers who eat at least one hot dog per week during pregnancy have double the normal risk of developing brain tumors, as do children whose fathers ate hot dogs before conception.

As a child, I would visit my grandparents at least once a week, and if I wasn't holding a wooden bowl of dry - roasted peanuts within 5 minutes of my arrival, then I was holding a wooden bowl filled with mixed cocktail nuts.

And is really useful to make with children, as licking out the bowl can keep them quiet for at least a whole quarter of an hour.

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«at least we competed...» [says stan as he sips on the blood of yet another small child] «kind a looking forward to the F.A Cup» [whilst he crunches down on a bone ripped from an unsuspecting Arsenal fan].

Thus, the «Child» will remain, at least six weeks away from the pitch, as confirmed by the club's official website Network

But as research indicates, childfree couples divorce more often than couples who have at least one child, despite numerous studies that indicate marital happiness plummets in the first year or two after the birth of a child and sometimes never quite recoups.

Tell them that the World Health organization now recommends AT LEAST 2 years of nursing as the optimal standard, and you are doing the best for your child, and that comes first.