Sentences with phrase «city youth turned»

It's about a troubled inner - city youth turned seething young man, Adonis (Michael B. Jordan, the fiercely alive lead from Fruitvale Station), who knows his impulse to fight comes from his out - of - wedlock father, heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before they ever met.

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Having moved to Barca in 2005 to join their youth ranks before making the grade at senior level, it's no surprise that Thiago holds the Catalan giants and the city close to his heart, and in turn he has suggested that he would be open to the idea of a return further down the line.
The Independent confirms that both Man City and Arsenal are keen on Sterling, who turned down a treble - your - money contract worth # 100k a week, and that Liverpool refuse to be held to ransom by the former QPR youth team graduate.
And this season, heads are being turned by the likes of Manchester City midfielder Phil Foden, who in December became the youngest English player ever to start a Champions League match but continues to gain experience with the club's Youth League side.
The President cum chief revealed that okada business is mostly engaged by the youths of Zongo and inner city communities hence the need for the Zongo Minister to turned it into a motorcycle institute where the youth can be trained to ride professionally.
«Go into any inner - city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.»
Donohue pointed out that eliminating 400 beds in the mental health system, turning violent youth over to non existent programs in New York City, shortchanging localities and some hocus - pocus with the school funding formula will not improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers.
Whitaker continues to show why he's one of the most reliable character actors in Hollywood with yet another nuanced turn, this time playing Titus «Tick» Wills, the prickly gym owner and inner - city youth mentor who has his own demons to wrestle from a career he saw end just when it seemed about to begin.
«Go into any inner - city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn.They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.»
It tells the true story of Wilkerson's first five years in New York City, where he ministered to disillusioned youth, encouraging them to turn away from the drugs and gang violence they were involved with.
When city planners in Portland, Oregon, were looking for ideas to make public spaces more inviting to youths across the region, they turned right to the source.
These «city coordinators,» as they're called, in turn build out a network of youth ministers, who create their own mentoring programs — the same multilevel approach Amway has championed for the past 60 years.
It is also called the «dream city» of India which turns the vision of many aspiring youth to get into the film industry into a reality.
Its... Read more location in the old city centre turns the youth hostel into the ideal starting point for a city trip in this metropolis!
While her work shows the influence of the abstract expressionism of her youth, she ultimately tired of pure abstraction and turned to creating intensely personal representational paintings of Long Island landscapes, New York City scenes, interiors, and still lifes.
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