Sentences with phrase «challenge the woman who»

I can in no way challenge the woman who wrote this in her field of study.

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It is an honor and it is a privilege to share the evening with all of them and also with the incredible men and women who have inspired me, who challenged me, who sustained me, and made my journey to this stage possible.»

As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

In his resignation speech, Franken alluded to wanting a woman to replace him, telling the Senate, «Minnesotans deserve a senator who can focus with all her energy on addressing the challenges they face every day.»

Recently I had the distinct pleasure of speaking with Allyson Kapin and Craig Newmark about the Women Startup Challenge, an initiative of the nonprofit organization, Women Who Tech.

Adding to the challenges facing the advancing forces, retreating Islamic State fighters have forced women and children from outlying villages to march alongside them as human shields as they withdraw into the city, according to villagers who spoke to Reuters by telephone from Mosul.

«For them to see women who are succeeding and have faced challenges and overcome them, I think it's incredibly important to spread that — not just internally in the U.S but globally.»

I see it as a challenge, particularly for women who stick to women's - only networking groups.

Balancing parenthood and business is a challenge, but anyone who says it can't be done has not met the millions of dynamic women who do it every day.

I spoke to three successful CEO moms about what drew them to leadership; their parenting and business challenges; and their advice for the hundreds of thousands of women who are likely to start new businesses in 2014.

A former Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with Donald J. Trump sued on Tuesday to be released from a 2016 legal agreement restricting her ability to speak, becoming the second woman this month to challenge Trump allies» efforts during the presidential campaign to bury stories about extramarital relationships.

The challenge is particularly stark for women, who face higher lifetime costs due to longer life expectancies.

Women Who Tech has hosted six previous Women Startup Challenges, connecting women - led startups with more than $ 1 million in prizes, crowdfunded dollars, and investmWomen Who Tech has hosted six previous Women Startup Challenges, connecting women - led startups with more than $ 1 million in prizes, crowdfunded dollars, and investmWomen Startup Challenges, connecting women - led startups with more than $ 1 million in prizes, crowdfunded dollars, and investmwomen - led startups with more than $ 1 million in prizes, crowdfunded dollars, and investments.

Selecting women who are «growth - oriented» can be challenging: mindsets may matter as much as recent performance; and

On June 30, 2015, Women Who Tech held the first - ever Women Startup Challenge Pitch Competition at General Assembly / 1776 in Washington, D.C.

Twelve finalists from the Women Startup Challenge crowdfunding campaign presented their innovative and disruptive ventures to a panel of investors, who selected three winners.

Then, when we learned about the Splash, we knew that this was our opportunity to celebrate a group of women who are challenging the expectations of just how good 80 years can look.

The system has been challenging for women with demanding careers, says Martin, who recalls hearing female scientists share their concerns at a conference.

Grace is a middle aged woman who writes about the challenges of saving for retirement and minimizing debt late in life, with a middle class income.

The discussion explored how women are challenged by pay inequity, the perception of being too ambitious and by company policies and culture that leave many women who are mothers averse to taking risks.

We can talk about wanting to show love towards women who have been hurt by gender injustice — and this is important — but it's even more important to challenge the status quo that allows it to happen.

Other Facts: Is a conservative, considered the driving force behind crackdowns on liberation theology, religious pluralism, challenges to traditional moral teachings on issues such as homosexuality, and dissent on issues such as women's ordination, according to CNN's John Allen in «Who is Pope Benedict XVI.»

When they deign to reply to a woman, which is itself far more rare than their replying to men who issue identical challenges, it almost invariably is for the purposes of condescension and dismissal.

World Watch Monitor reports that Bibi's attorney Naeem Shakir challenged the testimony of the women who feuded with Bibi, arguing to the appellate court that their testimony had been hearsay because the complainant in the case had not heards Bibi's words himself.

Let's be a community of women, gathered together to live more whole - hearted, to sharpen, challenge, love and inspire one another to then scatter back out to our worlds bearing the mandate that my friend Idelette wrote, we are women who love.

In our preaching of the gospel we must get at it, present its «offense,» in such a fashion that it is a challenge to decision for men and women who live in the middle half of the twentieth century.

Now she looks back on the men and women who surrounded her, and thanks God for their grace with her, thanks God for the ways they challenged her and made her uncomfortable, thanks God for the risk of community — what is that compared to London and Paris?

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

The good news here is that these two brave women stand in a long tradition of women who have challenged male religious and political authority in the name of freedom.

A poor woman has been hailed as a hero after she died challenging a gunman who opened fire at a church... More

The women who are ignored by theologians are the first to challenge oppressive structures.

The emergence of the women's movement in the 1960s and its criticism of the role of the Bible in the oppression of women posed a challenge to those who identified themselves as both Christian and feminist, or both Jewish and feminist.

These are painful for me to watch though because these particular challenges are laced with the early learnings that come from a toxic culture about what and who women are supposed to be.

This is a wonderful story and Jesus made here a generous challenge to a woman who had been raised in a culture that thought of her as mere chattel: show me who you are, he said.

Among Syrian refugees, this includes victims of torture or women heads of households who can not safely return home and face challenges in their current living situation.

And when Jesus was given the opportunity to participate in the execution of an adulterer, he refused, challenging those who had gathered around the woman to drop their stones and walk away.

He may also have discovered that the Song of Solomon, often called the Greatest of Songs, lifts the soul beyond the «thou shalts and thou shalt nots» of our pedestrian lives and gives us courage to confront and challenge the barriers that limit women and the assumptions that limit all who are different.

But he also quotes another expert who complains that the middle - class white women are portrayed in such a cartoonish way that they don't really challenge the audience.

Last week you posed some thoughtful, challenging questions via our «Ask a...» series to Austin Channing Brown, a woman of valor who does just that.

One of the most rewarding parts of my journey so far has been reexamining the stories of biblical women (and female saints) who consistently challenge and transcend our notions of «biblical womanhood.»

Julie is one of those women who never fails to challenge me with her wisdom and insight.

This turned out to be one of the most rewarding experiences of my blogging career, as I heard from so many readers who were challenged and changed by God's good news for men and women.

Erik Erikson (who coined the term generativity) sees the development of generativity as the central life task and challenge in these years: «In this stage, a man and a woman must have defined for themselves what and whom they come to care for, what they can do well, and how they plan to take care of what they have started and created.»

Who today would share Paul's anti — Semitic attitude, his belief that the authority of the state was not to be challenged, or that all women ought to be veiled?

When the issue is female - male relationships, then it is important that the first group in the center circle be women, since it is women who are challenging the traditional relationship between the sexes.

It becomes more of a challenge when it involves someone who is going to have gender reassignment and they can't take the dress off... they must live as a woman for at least a year.

«I'm now married to a beautiful woman who sharpens, challenges and inspires me, and we have amazing children who I totally adore — to think that they would not exist if I hadn't made that choice is unthinkable.

Second thought (and not really relevant to the intent of this cartoon and accompanying article): as a woman and a wife who was never smokin» hot, it is difficult and challenging to constantly negate feelings and emotions that say I am less than, constantly.

Honestly, the only Christians I read on a regular basis are bloggers / writers who are willing to challenge the orthodoxy, the ones who tell the church it's wrong when it comes to science, homosexuality, its treatment of women, etc..

When I became a Catholic twenty years ago, I was profoundly affected by the men and women I met who had taken up the challenge of celibacy, individuals whose affirmative response to God's call, like Mary's yes, redounded to my benefit.