Sentences with phrase «began as a teenager»

I have felt quite personally the force of each of the other stances described in this article, for at various earlier periods in my life I have identified, in turn, with each one — beginning as a teenager with the full complement of antihomosexual stereotypes.

My interest in photography began as a teenager.

Rebecca's interest in interior design began as a teenager when she had the «bright» idea of painting her bedroom a striking tangerine shade.

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His mom graduates high school as a salutatorian destined for college but falls pregnant as a teenager and begins a life of single - motherhood and squandered opportunities.

Since he joined the drug trade as a teenager, Chapo swiftly rose through the ranks, building an almost mythic reputation: First, as a cold pragmatist known to deliver a single shot to the head for any mistakes made in a shipment, and later, as he began to establish the Sinaloa cartel, as a Robin Hood - like figure who provided much - needed services in the Sinaloa mountains, funding everything from food and roads to medical relief.

As a teenager, he began investing in penny stocks and mutual funds.

After some negotiations with her parents she was received into the church as a teenager and there began a life of dedication to Our Lord.

A missionary kid living in Quito, Ecuador, Chad had begun using, and then selling, drugs as a teenager, in an environment far more dangerous than in the United States.

As a teenager, I began attending a multiethnic church and have remained in diverse churches since.

Eighty - two percent of adult smokers began smoking as teenagers.

I've been autonomously spiritually seeking since I was a young boy and independently began going to the Baptist church as a teenager, left that, became secular hedonistic, burned out, traversed back through Buddhism into the 12 - steps and ultimately converted to Catholicism.

Women do not receive the priesthood, though at the age of 12 they also begin learning skills to become wives and mothers (at appropriate ages, not as teenagers — not to be confused with the FLDS, devout mormons aren't even allowed to date or wear makeup until the age of 16) There is a hierarchy, though it isn't as rigid as you are describing.

Although I never met Brittanie Cecil, and I've never been to Columbus, Ohio, I can not begin to express the grief that wells up inside my heart whenever I see the school photograph of the little teenager, on the cusp of adolescence, her blonde hair pulled back into a ribbon, and her blue eyes sparkling at the prospect of all those summer pool parties, those early - fall hayrides, her prom, her high school graduation with the cap and gown sailing high into a sky as wide and full as her hopes and dreams.

Here is the language of the opening point in the Statement of Fundamental Truths as it read when, as a late teenager in the early 1950s, I first began the study of theology:

As a teenager, Jesse began his culinary career at his uncle's Neapolitan style pizzeria.

Revie was born and raised in Australia, and began working in vineyards in the country's acclaimed Margaret River winegrowing region as a teenager.

Aaron and Kelly had begun dating five years earlier as teenagers in Mississippi.

Matz trusted hisinstincts, which were honed through four decades, beginning with the afternoonin 1966 when George Kohl, for whom Matz did weekend chores as a teenager on afarm in Adamstown, Pa., invited him on a horse ride.

The 31 - year - old return to the club where it all began for him as a teenager in 2002, this summer, as he moved back from Manchester United — the club he'd left Goodison Park for in 2004.

Sissoko's past is a colourful one, from when he became a Spanish champion as a teenager under Rafa Benitez during Valencia's glory years at the beginning of the millennium.

In essence, as our beautiful children become teenagers, their minds innately begin carving out their own path based on a very self - centered set of wants and needs.

She will likely begin day dreaming about what he will look like as a baby, and perhaps as a little boy, a kindergartner, or even teenager, fantasizing that he has the ideal traits she chooses.

Before you let your child get her driver's license, or let her begin riding as a passenger with other teenagers or young adults, have her sign iMOM's Driving Under the Influence Contract.

Mischel intended the experiment merely as a look into how children resist temptation, but when he began tracking down the marshmallow kids in the early 1980s, he found that those who'd waited for two marshmallows at age 4 had much higher SAT scores and better academic records as teenagers.

Dajnowski, who began studying art restoration as a teenager in Poland, worked for the Park District in the 1990s.

If your child did not begin to participating in household chores until they were teenagers, the experience seemed to go wrong and had a negative effect on your child's success as young adult.

Plenty of towering teenagers began life as small babies, and the biggest baby on the block can grow up to be a petite adult.

As a parent you have to understand that teenagers are beginning to form their own opinions and those opinions may not always be the same as yourAs a parent you have to understand that teenagers are beginning to form their own opinions and those opinions may not always be the same as youras yours.

According to the Times, Quinn began bingeing and purging while caring for her cancer - stricken mother as a teenager, with drinking going hand in hand.

But her testimony Wednesday was a dramatic retelling of a pivotal moment in the decades - long relationship between Cuomo and Percoco, which began when Percoco worked for Cuomo's father Mario as a teenager.

Lacewell's testimony Wednesday was a dramatic retelling of a pivotal moment in the decades - long relationship between Cuomo and Percoco, which began when Percoco worked for Cuomo's father Mario as a teenager.

A proud product of New York City's public schools, Jenny began volunteering as a teenager in activities that encourage Asian American citizens to become registered voters and participate in the electoral process.

A proud product of New York City's public schools, Jenny began volunteering as a teenager in activities that encourage Asian American citizens to become registered voters and participate...

She estimated Buffalo schools would be owed more than $ 100 million in aid from the state, had Albany followed the decision that came out of a landmark school funding lawsuit won by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, a group Nixon got involved with when her oldest teenager began as a kindergarten student in a New York City public school.

Long before I began stockpiling a rather eclectic collection of curiously homoerotic Men's Fitness magazines in my closet as a randy teenager, decades still before the global pornification of the 21st - century Internet age, my tender childhood libido found a secret refuge amidst the colorful scenes contained in a handful of old university textbooks placed happily among my parents» bookshelves in the family room of our home.

As I watch them on the screen, Provine's teenagers remind me of an old Carl Sagan riff, which begins with his describing «a species of primate» that likes to gather in packs of 50 or 60 individuals, cram together in a darkened cave, and hyperventilate in unison, to the point of almost passing out.

He began intruding into private online communities as a teenager, and he attended his first DEFCON convention — which has become the best - known underground hacking conference in the world — at age 14.

They say that limiting teenagers» access to tobacco products is vital, as long - term smoking usually begins in adolescence.

As a teenager he began to sell his own comics — a graphic novel about two people falling in love in one case, a dreamy series of meditations about philosophy in another.

Let the Games Begin Nintendo, king of thumb - reflex games such as Mario Bros., has long targeted teenagers who have the speed of a mongoose.

As a teenager, I grew braver and began to know you more and, dare I say, became very fond of you and the time we spent together.

He began his career in strength sports as a teenager with an interest in strongman.

Testosterone begins to decline in your twenties, which is why you don't respond to weight training with the same gusto that you did as a teenager.

Sarah began practicing yoga with a Rodney Yee DVD in her parent's living room as a teenager, but her love affair with mindful movement of the body began with 10 years of training in classical ballet & modern dance.

Longtime readers will remember Mathias and Zachary, the unfortunate children suffering from Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation, a genetic disorder that leads to horrifically painful spasms beginning in early childhood, and death as a teenager.

Bev began sewing as a teenager and made her own clothes and room décor even then.

Things have changed quite a bit since we first began dating as teenagers.

She began competing in beauty contests as a teenager, and won the Junior Miss Georgia pageant, which took her to the national competition in New York City.

Based on the novel by David Nicholls, Starter for 10 follows small - town teenager Brian Jackson (James McAvoy) as he begins his stint at a well - respected college and eventually signs up for a televised trivia challenge - with the film primarily detailing Brian's relationships with two very different women (Alice Eve's Alice and Rebecca Hall's Rebecca).

Orlando Bloom began reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy as a teenager before abandoning the books in favor of sports and girls.