Sentences with phrase «despite challenging circumstances»

Pat is determined to rebuild his life, remain positive and reunite with his wife, despite the challenging circumstances of their separation.

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Ricky's parents are like those heading many immigrant families in that, despite their own challenges, they are fiercely driven to help their children rise above their own circumstances.

He was an English as an Additional Language student and he had achieved extraordinarily well at school, despite his challenges with language and migrating to a new country in difficult circumstances.

Even though these dogs are the result of ignorant breeders, we should still give them loving homes and help them through their challenges, despite the circumstances under which they were born.

Starting in Vriend v. Alberta, [1998] 1 SCR 493, the Supreme Court of Canada permitted someone to challenge Alberta's (then existing) human rights legislation despite the fact that his personal circumstances only engaged certain discrete sections of that Act.The Supreme Court rejected a strict reading of the third stage of the test, because it was inefficient and imposed an unfair burden on unknown people (Vriend at para 47).

This review will define resilience as «the process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation despite challenging or threatening circumstances» (Masten, Best & Garmezy, 1990, p. 426).