Sentences with phrase «child performs an act»

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The Prime Minister's Office explained, «Like all families of prime ministers, a small number of staff provide assistance,» and, «Given the nature of the Prime Minister's responsibilities and his young family, the Trudeaus employ two household employees who, in addition to performing other duties around the house, act as secondary caregivers to the three children.»

Catholic is not apart of christanity; every time you turn around this particular religion is performing horrific acts toward children.

David Turpin was also charged with performing a lewd act on a child under the age of 14.

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The Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act provides that unless a physician can establish that he «reasonably believes» an unborn child is younger than 24 weeks, or, if the child is older, he can establish that continuing the pregnancy will result in either the death of the mother or «the substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function,» the physician can not perform a late - term abortion.

Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.

The image of a trusting child being led away to have gross, disgusting, perverted acts performed on him by someone he trusted should be forever before our eyes.

Code § 13A -6-1 (2006) defines «person,» for the purpose of criminal homicide or assaults, to include an unborn child in utero at any stage of development, regardless of viability and specifies that nothing in the act shall make it a crime to perform or obtain an abortion that is otherwise legal.

A four year old child who describes performing an act of fellatio on her father did not acquire that knowledge from watching Sesame Street.

Practical guidelines explicitly saying that any priest found to have performed se - xual acts upon children or those protecting him will be defrocked immediately and turned into the police.

More than 20 million children nationwide are expected to perform 2 billion acts of kindness during the 2018 Great Kindness Challenge.

When your child does perform an act of kindness, be effusive in your approval.

When researchers randomly assigned some primary school students to perform three acts of kindness each week, those kids became more popular than did children in a control group (Layous et al 2012).

Before anyone today performs this serious (potentially lethal) surgical act on any child for any reason, parents must be fully informed of the immediate and long - term consequences and potential risks to their child.

The Brown sisters, who are still performing with their siblings as The 5 Browns, join a growing chorus of other national figures who have joined the fight to enact the Child Victims Act in recent months.

In a third of grooming reports made by children under 18 the offender incited a child to perform a sexual act.

32 year old Christopher Jennings is accused of performing sexual acts with a child under 13, he was arrested & arraigned in the Village of Bainbridge Court and remanded to the Chenango County Jail on $ 200,000 cash bail.

A Pearl River couple who suffered the unspeakable pain of losing a child, quietly took it upon themselves to perform an act of kindness that will brighten Christmas Day for youngsters they will likely never meet.

When I saw her perform on the computer screen (I saw this instantly on Netflix), this thought came to my head: Why can't children act like this anymore?

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

Performed between musical acts, the monologues were adapted from stories written by children from Rammulotsi, a rural township in South Africa.

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The acting is good, but as is expected of child actors, some more emotional scenes are performed quite poorly (and dare I say it; laughably).

The West Virginia Department of Education is handing out awards to low - performing schools that apparently need a morale boost after falling short of federal standards under the No Child Left Behind Act.

Back in 2011, states chafing under the badly outdated No Child Left Behind Act leapt at the Obama administration's offer of relief from the mandates at the center of the law — and the chance to forge a new and innovative partnership with the federal government to bolster standards, pinpoint good teachers, and fix low - performing schools.

As districts nationwide struggle to meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, the U.S. Department of Education has shifted its focus to turning around the nation's lowest - performing schools.

For nearly a decade, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has focused the attention of policymakers and researchers squarely on the achievement of low - performing students, with some apparent success.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law last year, represented a victory for the advocates of public school choice: the law rejected funding for private school vouchers, but did mandate that districts allow children in persistently failing schools to transfer to public schools that perform better.

The public school choice and supplemental services provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act were to be the most tangible lifelines for parents whose children attend low - performing schools.

The authors of the No Child Left Behind Act wanted to force districts and states to take more aggressive steps to improve low - performing schools.

While the demands of the federal No Child Left Behind Act have some districts fighting to raise the achievement of students who aren't performing at grade level, the 185,000 - student Philadelphia district plans to expand greatly the number of enrichment programs for its students.

Labeled as chronically under - performing under the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, all electives had been stripped away to make more time for reading and math drills in an effort to boost state test scores.

Most importantly, we wanted to make it inclusive and to give all children, regardless of their level of experience in acting or singing the opportunity to perform in a musical.

The U.S. Department of Education's plan to grant states broad flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act will free up as much as $ 800 million in money school districts now must set aside for tutoring students, but may mark a significant financial blow to an education industry that has grown up around serving low - performing schools.

This blueprint builds on the significant reforms already made in response to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 around four areas: (1) Improving teacher and principal effectiveness; (2) Providing information to families to help them evaluate and improve their children's schools; (3) Implementing college - and career - ready standards; and (4) Improving student learning and achievement in America's lowest - performing schools by providing intensive support and effective interventions.

In one example, Ms. Rhee said she is seeking external organizations to take the reins of low - performing schools identified for «restructuring» under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

The No Child Left Behind Act prescribed sanctions for schools and districts failing to make «Adequate Yearly Progress,» and even under the waivers that most states have now obtained from NCLB's accountability provisions they must still show how they will take action on their lowest - performing schools.

As is well known, the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB) required states to test students annually in grades 3 - 8 (and once in high school), to report the share of students in each school performing at a proficient level in math and reading, and to intervene in schools not on track to achieve universal student proficiency by 2014.

With the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, we codified the expectation that every child should perform on grade level by requiring proficiency rates of 100 percent by 2013 - 14 and mandating that student achievement data be reported for each student subgChild Left Behind Act of 2001, we codified the expectation that every child should perform on grade level by requiring proficiency rates of 100 percent by 2013 - 14 and mandating that student achievement data be reported for each student subgchild should perform on grade level by requiring proficiency rates of 100 percent by 2013 - 14 and mandating that student achievement data be reported for each student subgroup.

Virginia, under No Child Left Behind Act flexibility waivers granted by USED, established annual measurable objectives (AMOs) in reading and mathematics for reducing proficiency gaps between students in the commonwealth's lowest - performing and highest - performing schools.

As many states embark on implementing their waivers from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, New Jersey is taking an approach centered on the creation of seven Regional Achievement Centers that will monitor and intervene in the state's lowest - performing schools, which ultimately could be subject to closure by the state.

In addition, Pryor said the reduction of funding in a proposal aimed at low - performing districts and the removal of specific strategies to help those districts could weaken the state's chances for a waiver of some requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

While the No Child Left Behind Act, or NCLB, required states and districts to identify persistently low - performing schools and take action to improve student learning, it provided very limited resources or support to actually help these schools improve.

DeVos and the state of California have been at odds over the state's plan for how it will measure academic progress and intervene at low - performing schools under the Every Student Succeeds Act, which replaced the justifiably reviled No Child Left Behind Act.

In order to qualify for student loan forgiveness under the American Arts Revival Act, individuals must be employed full - time in the performing, visual, or musical arts that provide services to seniors, children, or adolescents.

As a child — which is assuming I've actually progressed mentally from that point, which I clearly haven't — I had freaking loads of teddies in the shape of monkeys and apes that had pride of place on my bed, their job being to defend me from the potential horrors that lurk within dreams and to act as unwilling test dummies for attempts at performing wrestling moves.

presents itself as a Vaudeville act, in which the titular frog is performing to entertain an audience: perhaps you and the child you're trading turns with...

Drexler had considerable exposure to the performing arts as a child, attending vaudeville acts with her friends and family.

She had to perform sexual acts at the whim and insistence of her employer, she was humiliated and degraded by her other employer, and she was even made fun of by the children who were in her care.

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