Sentences with phrase «example of the old boys»

Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen said it «smacks of cronyism» while Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson described it as an «example of the old boys» network».

Not exact matches

If, for example, you sell high fashion women's business apparel and you contact a YouTube prankster who has a demographic of 10 - to 25 - year - old boys, how relevant is this audience to what you're selling?

If, for example, we are dealing with a juvenile delinquent, at what point are we to see this fourteen - year - old boy as responsible in spite of the social misery and disorder or family disintegration in which his life may be lived?

Take these sweet nori bars as an interesting example of what can come out of reading an old issue of an unknown women's magazine while sweating to the beat of Rihanna's «Rude Boy» on the elliptical.

For example, one study showed that 12 - 15 yr old boys lost about 30 - 40 oz of sweat during a one - hour simulated indoor basketball game.

Our boys, now 15 months old, are the perfect example of this.

In many respects, baby care for newborns or older babies is the same regardless of whether you have a baby boy or girl - such as feeding for example.

If the doctor tells you that your 3 - year - old son is in the 75th percentile for weight, for example, that means 75 percent of the boys his age in the United States weigh the same or less than your child and 25 percent weigh more.

For example, older boys were more likely to present with an extremity injury, while girls of all ages and younger children were more likely to present with concussion symptoms.

And yet, there's nothing innately new going on here, the old curmudgeon that secretly has a heart of gold opening up to a young boy in need of a friend is innately the gist (look no further than last year's Bad Words for another recent example).

They've served, for example, as the quintessential naive boy - scout and provincial maid in their early films and as older, more tortured versions of the same in the chapters that bookend Krzysztof Kieslowski's Trois couleurs trilogy, whose ironic casting suggests a blueprint for Haneke.

It is one more example of Hollywood at its most cynical — an R - rated movie made for 13 - and 14 - year - old boys, filled with acts and activities that would earn the screenwriter a Ph.D. in abnormal psychology, if anyone would admit to having thought these things up.

The selection of the thirty - six - year - old artist — one of the boys in the band at Goldsmiths College and a veteran of the 1988 «Freeze» exhibition, that now - famous example of Thatcherite private enterprise — seems all but natural.

The «B - Boy» room, for example, features photos of break - dancers from around the world juxtaposed with old - school album covers and embedded boom - boxes that carry audio beats throughout the gallery.

Some of the examples I heard were that many law firms suffer from an «old boys» club» culture where advancement for women is limited because they are not perceived as rainmakers.

For example, one of the privacy violations concerns a status posting by an 11 - year - old boy sharing that he had contracted the swine flu.

Another example may be a father of a seven year old boy purchasing a level fifteen year term life policy.

For example, among 12 - to 17 - month - olds, a cutpoint of 15 would identify fewer girls than boys (18.5 % vs. 24.3 %, Fisher exact test = 0.0586).

Coffin uses a practical example of the management of an 8 year old Aboriginal boy by a speech pathologist to define these three levels:

A tragic and extreme example of this happened recently in Greene County, Virginia, when a four - year - old boy with attention deficit disorder was hauled out of his pre / k classroom in handcuffs by the sheriff after the principal failed to calm an outburst that included throwing blocks and climbing over desks.