Sentences with phrase «experience as an outsider»

The inherent awkwardness of this character trying to blend in portrays my experiences as an outsider trying to fit in to my environment.

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During his 2012 campaign, Mitt Romney used his 25 - year experience in the private sector to position himself as a Washington outsider and noted that his time spent as CEO of Bain Capital helped him learn how America competes with companies in the international arena.

And yet this has been my experience and so I admit, I'm a bit wary now of outsiders coming into Canada as self - appointed missionaries to Reach Canada For Christ ™.

We need Hispanic theologians and social scientists who will reflect from within the common experience of faith of our people, not as outsiders but as believers who are seeking to understand, clarify and enrich our own life of faith.

With zero live game experience it's next to impossible for us as outsiders to truly gauge Trask's level of «goodness» as a college QB.

A guy who invested in downtown buffalo when everyone else gave up on the inner city while his opponent was carefully reinventing himself as a calm, aloof, controlled and experienced outsider, who just happened to have a former governor (a crappy one at that), married a Kennedy for her name and got cuckolded in the process, wasted billions on bad sub-prime mortgages and canal money, ran against Carl McCall earning the everlasting respect of the African - Americans in NYS, and now sounds suspiciously like Elliot Spitzer.

Semple, a Navy Veteran, comes to the political gates as an outsider, but what she lacks in traditional political experience, her 16 year record of service to the country more than makes up for it.

In an interview with The Citizen, he referred to himself as «the proven outsider» — a title that recognizes he has never been an elected official but acknowledges his experiences in the private and public sectors.

As with his running mate Teachout, the candidacy of Wu, a Columbia Law School professor, is noteworthy in that he is a bit of a political outsider, though he has experience working in government.

Both Fiorina and GOP gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman emphasized they were the outsiders running against Democratic veterans and said their business experience as former CEOs best equipped them to fix the state's massive economic problems: a $ 19 billion budget shortfall and a 12.6 percent unemployment rate.

In 2012, Williams ran an outsider campaign as a non-politician with experience in the federal government, touting his own ties to allies of President Barack Obama and former president Bill Clinton, who Williams once served as an aide.

Braunstein also shot back at Tabone, saying Tabone's position as executive vice president of the Queens County Republican Party makes him unfit to consider himself an outsider and said his age and lack of extensive experience in politics are good things.

As an outsider, she was prepared to challenge «the way it's done here,» and she had specific experience with and connections to a functioning postdoctoral association.

Statistical agencies have had much more experience in knowing where to draw the line, the official notes, citing as an example the cautious process the Census Bureau followed more than 2 decades ago in creating a network of secure data centers, where outsiders can access sensitive data under tight supervision.

As a woman who started college feeling like a scientific outsider — with no one in my family in the field or in medicine — these experiences were especially empowering.

The best idea is to connect to a swinger club, if you allow, and experience of the first things as an outsider.

As a fellow member of the Turkish diaspora, I sometimes find he totally nails the perspective of the insider - outsider, of the out - of - body experience of belonging to different worlds, even in stories that aren't ostensibly about Turks.

Whether it's as direct as a Māori Dennis the Menace — type kid (Julian Dennison) bonding with a reluctant white father (Sam Neill) in Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) or as abstract as the outsider experience of Wellington's long - standing vampire society delineated in What We Do in the Shadows (2014), Waititi's movies exist at the nexus of native and colonizer cultures, the dichotomy that forms the basis of modern postcolonial theory.

Edward's outsider image in the school only adds to the anguish experienced by these tortured teens as Bella discovers the dark and gruesome truth about him.

For then - Mayor Bloomberg, who envisioned education as an «influence - free zone,» the career lawyer's outsider status and experience attacking monopolies made him exactly right to shake up the status quo.

As someone who has always felt like an outsider I really cherished that experience.

Cheng's feelings as an outsider to New York and American culture at large play out upon its physical edge, where the experience of urban and cultural alienation are described via landscapes of post-industrial abandon.

Norman's experience as a Polish - Jewish immigrant helped to shape his understanding of American society, and he often seemed to observe life in the United States with the shrewd and detached eye of an outsider.

In addition, independent scholar and outsider art specialist Valérie Rousseau will host and organize a series of panel discussions covering such topics as the outside art collector's experience.

Born and raised in Leicester, England and educated in Glasgow, Scotland, Monk's understanding of art and his initial experiences, specifically of Conceptual Art, were as an outsider, a voyeur learning through images found only in books.

I speak from first - hand experience as a member of the MBA who has served on multiple committees and also as the one - time editor of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly who covered the MBA as an outsider.

Obviously a particular community, religious or secular, can treat outsiders with contempt or worse, but they don't have to as a matter of logic or experience.