Sentences with phrase «come of age at»

Having come of age at the same time, I really thought I'd relate more to this book.

She has come of age at a time when women took on the toil of men and claimed independence that was difficult to relinquish.

The result is that this third generation, now moving into the ranks of power in North Korea, has a greater understanding and interaction with the West compared to their parents, who came of age at the height of the Cold War.

«A shift in focus to increasing profitability, a unified platform solution coming of age at the right time, and a go - to - market...

I can personally attest to this — I was coming of age at a time when Elisabeth Elliot's Passion and Purity and Joshua Harris» I Kissed Dating Goodbye sat on nearly every dorm room shelf at my Christian college.

Ambersons tells the story of George Amberson Minafer, a spoiled young man coming of age at a time of upheaval in his fictional Midwest hometown (modeled on Tarkington's Indianapolis), and headed for a «comeuppance» as the world changes and his Gilded Age lifestyle collapses.

In particular, I believe there is the need for a new creative campaign which is aimed at winning over the votes of the millennial generation — those who came of age at the turn of the century.

Based on the novel by Philip Roth, Indignation is set in 1951 and focuses on Marcus (Lerman), the 18 - year - old son of a kosher butcher in Newark who grapples with anti-Semitism, sexual repression and the escalating Korean War as he comes of age at a Midwestern Lutheran college.

Indignation centers on the 18 - year - old son (Lerman) of a kosher butcher in Newark who grapples with anti-Semitism, sexual repression and the escalating Korean War as he comes of age at a Midwestern Lutheran college.

That's a tall order, but is essential learning for students coming of age at a time of daunting challenges — social, political, economic, and environmental — and also remarkable opportunities.

The story of a young man's coming of age at an agricultural university, it's a personal favorite, and I have been begging for its license for years.

Certainly, it is relevant that he came of age at a time when Abstract Expressionism, the house style of the New York avant - garde, was running out of steam.

Coming of age at the center of the New York School with its eclectic cultural influences and interdisciplinary experimentation, Susan Weil studied under Josef Albers at Black Mountain College.

Born in 1930, he came of age at the height of abstract expressionism during the reign of Jackson Pollock.

Woelffer came of age at a time when the dreamy philosophy of Surrealism merged with the individual angst of the Abstract Expressionists as well as the distinctly modern ideas of European expatriates who came to America and transformed commonly accepted views of art.

Xu Zhen was born in 1977, and came of age at a time when China was transitioning from an era marked by politics to one defined by economics.

The conversation takes place within the exhibition Coming of Age at Sector 2337, and discusses the recontextualization of historical and formal heritages, the intersections of immaterial and material forms, and the capacity of attention to transport.

Lois Dodd came of age at the very heart of the 10th Street avant - garde scene.

Along with Martin Parr, Paul Graham, Graham Smith, Jo Spence and Victor Burgin, Griffin was included in the most important exhibitions devoted to contemporary British photography: Young British Photographers at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford in 1975 (later touring Europe and the United States); Portraits of Our Time at the Photographer's Gallery in London in 1978; Three Perspectives on Photography: Recent British Photography at the Hayward Gallery in 1979; Ten Contemporary British Photographers at MIT in 1982; and British Contemporary Photography Coming of Age at the Houston Fotofest in 1986.

Brian Griffin has been early on recognized as one of the most eminent British photographers of the seventies and eighties and as part of the «British Photographers of the Thatcher Years» with Martin Parr, Paul Graham, Graham Smith, Jo Spence and Victor Burgin, with whom he has exhibited in many iconic exhibitions: Young British Photographers at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford in 1975 that toured in Europe and the United States; Portraits of Our Time at the Photographer's Gallery in London in 1978; Three Perspectives on Photography: Recent British Photography, Hayward Gallery, 1979, among Martin Parr, Graham Smith, Jo Spence, Victor Burgin; Ten Contemporary British Photographers at the MIT in 1982; British Contemporary Photography Coming of Age at the Houston Fotofest, the Texan photo festival in 1986.

Despite coming of age at a time when modernism and abstraction had achieved a firm hold on the prevailing modes of art instruction throughout the country, West Fraser has remained a traditionalist, earning a place among the region's leading practitioners of traditional realism.

It's almost like we — the twenty - and early thirty - somethings — are coming of age at some weird potluck of every social issue staring us in the face: food insecurity, epic natural disasters, stock market crashes, three wars, droughts worse than the Dust Bowl, banks getting away with robbery, extreme poverty, corporate - purchased elections, rising childhood obesity, rising deficit, salmon run extinctions, flocks of birds dropping out of the sky, college debt surpassing credit card debt, you name it.

I think that precisely because you are coming of age at a time of such rapid and sometimes unsettling change, born into a world with fewer walls, educated in an era of constant information, tempered by war and economic turmoil — because that's the world in which you're coming of age, I think you believe as deeply as any of our previous generations that America can change and it can change for the better.

And, at least in his recent video interview with Carbon Brief, it seems Lee, like many economists who came of age at the peak of the traditional environmental movement, has a very locked - in view that raising the cost of polluting is the critical way to shift global economies away from cheap fossil fuels.

Coming of age at the turn of the new millennium and the largest cohort since the Baby Boomers, this demographic is characterized as incredibly sophisticated (* ahem), tech - savvy and immune to most traditional marketing and sales tactics.

Co-author, «Securities Litigation Comes of Age at the Supreme Court of Canada», Supreme Court Law Review, published December 2016.

Not exact matches

«I am of the belief that although we all declare our independence at 18 years of age, we come from a place of dependence from infancy.

The report found people at the beginning and middle of their careers, aged 25 to 35 and 35 to 44, have the highest participation rates when it comes to entrepreneurship.

It's a great story to read along to at any age, but I particularly loved seeing a group of friends in a vulnerable time in life (and a hyper - vulnerable station in life) come together and show each other the loyalty they couldn't get anywhere else.

Some of the required $ 72,200 could come from Old Age Security (OAS), with full benefits going to Canadians at age 67 (the age is currently 65, but will be gradually raised to 67, starting in 2023), regardless of work histoAge Security (OAS), with full benefits going to Canadians at age 67 (the age is currently 65, but will be gradually raised to 67, starting in 2023), regardless of work histoage 67 (the age is currently 65, but will be gradually raised to 67, starting in 2023), regardless of work histoage is currently 65, but will be gradually raised to 67, starting in 2023), regardless of work history.

Unfortunately, that day came much sooner than he expected when his dad passed away only a few years later, at the age of 59.

«One of my most valuable failures came at an early age, when I failed to convince a major publishing house to buy out Student magazine,» Branson recalled.

As in, yes you can buy into a private plan at age 60 for example, but it will be very expensive and you'd better pray they don't come up with an exclusion if a disease of age catches up with you.

So, in theory at least, serving anti-abortion ads to women of child - bearing age who have been reading about abortion online and who come near an abortion clinic is a spot - on example of how marketing should work when it's well tuned.

Coming from losing my dream of playing professional football, not having a college degree at the time and looking to jump into the business world at a young age was pretty daunting for me.

She has come a long way from the day she fled Cuba with her parents in 1967 at five years of age.

As the mighty smartphone has risen in popularity, it comes as no surprise that the number of armbands to choose from have multiplied — especially in an age when most people have their phone on them at all times.

Their pursuit of money, status and professional success from an early age often comes at the cost of their personal relationships.

As Hitched.com editor Steve Cooper put it in a rebuttal to the Facebook divorce stories, this has been the case since the times of our caveman friend Blaaarggg: «I'm sure at some point during the Stone Age a woman was frustrated because her mate wouldn't step away from the fire and come to bed.

But at the same time, the seemingly endless economic doldrums (the flicker of optimism from this week's jobs numbers notwithstanding), the rise of the Occupy movement, and the general sense that young people are being particular battered by coming of age in a monster recession, suggests that while the»90s and naughts didn't offer much to rebel against, the current decade certainly does.

You're aiming more for their parents — at least the parents of children up to age 10, those who still make the executive decision when it comes to their children's clothes.

Nicolas Bouchard saw a change coming 15 years ago when, at the age of 21, he founded Duproprio.com.

The generation with the largest chunk of savers holding equity stakes at least 10 percentage points above Fidelity's recommended allocation for their age is baby boomers, coming in at 26 percent.

The court order, issued on Thursday, came in response to a flood of individuals seeking a piece of an estate some have valued at more than $ 500 million, left by Prince when he died unexpectedly in April at the age of 57, apparently without a will.

«We have baby boomers coming down the pike and getting close to that age, and so we want to look more frequently at flexible arrangements,» says Nicole Arienzale, AltaGas director of human resources and administrative services.

The physicians allowed that at least some of what the diplomats had experienced could have come from other sources, including «viral illnesses, previous head trauma, aging, and even stress,» Dr. Rosenfarb said.

At Wealthfront — the largest robo - advisor, with $ 2 billion - plus in assets under management — 90 percent of the firm's 21,000 - plus accounts come from clients under age 50.

Much of that wealth comes from Kellyanne's political - polling business, which she started in 1995, at the age of 28.

In its early years, a number of her students in the program were teenagers who had come to the country, unauthorized, at a young age and finished high school, but then could not obtain citizenship or receive any state or federal funds for college.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!