Sentences with phrase «family as my father»

He does his best to protect his family as any father would.
A native of Brazil, she spent a year in Cambridge with her family as her father completed his postdoctoral degree in engineering.

Not exact matches

David Rockefeller Jr., who purchased the farm from his father's estate, said that as much he and the family will miss the properties and artwork, he's happy they will be sold to fund important causes.
Oddo's father adopted the same mentality for the family business — each of his three sons needed their own company as part of the larger business.
As a kid growing up on the shores of Baie Sainte - Marie, Louis noticed his own father put goémon de roche (the Acadian term for the seaweed harvested from the rocky shoreline) on the family's vegetable garden.
It is my firm belief that whoever may succeed my father as Chair at each company should be someone who is not a Trustee of my father's trust or otherwise intertwined in Redstone family matters, but rather a leader with an independent voice.
Born in the» Peg, Waugh had a working - class upbringing; his father, a firefighter, supported their extended family by taking extra jobs as a house painter and stonemason, while his mother raised the family.
My father and I counted at least five Ford Taurus (including several Taurus station wagons) as having cycled through our family while I was growing up — overlapping some of the car's peak years — including my first car.
As investigations at the federal and local levels close in on White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and the Kushner family business, Jared's father Charles Kushner has come out of the shadows to defend his family name.
Not only did he leave the family firm, but, using his marine industry contacts, Caliedo eventually began to compete against his father as well.
Rossi O'Donnell says she appreciates that her own mother stayed home while her father worked, but a working mother can be an asset to a family, as well.
Over seven days in the last week of June, the Globe recounted everything from the tribulations Romney's great - grandparents faced as Mormon pioneers to the now - famous incident in which Mitt as a young father loaded his wife and five sons into a station wagon, loaded the family dog into crate strapped to the top of the station wagon, and proceeded to embark on 12 - hour journey, stopping only when the eldest son noticed doggie diarrhea streaming down the rear window.
Summary: «Sitcom following estranged foster - brothers Stephen (David Mitchell) and Andrew (Robert Webb) as they vow to take over the family business following the death of their father
After the family settled in California, his mother worked as a seamstress; his father had jobs as a dishwasher and janitor.
She also grew up in a political family, with her mother having worked as a legislative aide to a Tennessee Democrat her father as chief of staff to a Congressman from Connecticut, according to Heavy.
The day Linda Hasenfratz's father, Frank, suggested it was time she took over as CEO of the family business, she told him, «That sounds like a good idea, but what are you going to do?»
«Bourbon is a uniquely American spirit and we are blessed to be part of a bourbon revival that I think is going to last a long time,» said Wes Henderson, who co-founded the company as a family business with his father Lincoln, who passed away in 2013.
«The pitch meeting, according to Steph's father, Dell, who was present, kicked off with one Nike official accidentally addressing Stephen as «Steph - on,» the moniker, of course, of Steve Urkel's alter ego in (the TV show) Family Matters.
He just didn't see that what went into the pots could be as big a business, Preau says, adding that her recipes had been cooked for generations by both her mother's and father's families.
I would love to move to a state with enough land and a warmer climate for my sons to ride their race bikes, my daughter to have the horse she dreams of and me to finally be at peace, I also believe that there should be someone home with the kids no matter what their ages are and as a single Mom with no family support or father involvement being at home for me is even more important, especially now that they are teenagers, There are no more nap times or time outs and the things you worry about during this age are so much more dangerous than falling down and hitting their heads as toddlers.
At age 14, after his father died, Li had to work as a factory apprentice to support his family.
The anguished father and his family made it to Germany, as it turns out, where they now have a chance to live normal lives in a safe environment.
Born into a political family, his father Hugh Horner was Lougheed - era minister, his grandfather Ralph Horner was a Senator, and three of his uncles served as Members of Parliament.
Kalanick was absent as he is still with family following a tragic boating accident that killed his mother and seriously injured his father, according to a source familiar with the matter.
And when the Southern Baptists issued a statement in 1998 affirming the father's headship of the family as defined in the New Testament letters of Paul of Tarsus, we heard journalists Cokie Roberts and Steve Roberts warning the nation that this sort of thing could «lead to abuse, both physical and emotional.»
The religious conservatives, beset by this sea change in the secular culture, might have been expected to retrench into their conventional media stereotypes: authoritarian, emotionally uninvolved husbands and fathers, a rigidly patriarchal family style, deeply gendered domestic roles that kept women at home» plus, as Wilcox puts it, «high levels of corporal punishment and domestic violence.»
NOW YOU KNOW WHAT ORWELLIAN UNITED STATES CONGRESS (USSR # 2 which consists of lawyers or what are liars, physicians / doctors and family members of effected individuals who suffered some sort of brain desease etc.... lawyers, so crime per physicians OR WHAT IS HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION can get away with it) AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS WORLDWIDE ARE SOOO BUSY WITH WHEN PLAYING / CLOWNING (acting) IN FRONT OF CAMERAS ONLY HOW SOMETHING HAVE TO BE DONE (deliberately omitting / delaying facts of genocide as seen on this complain)... NO DIFFERENT FROM ROMNEY WHOSE FATHER EXCELLED AFTER GM WAS DELIBERATELY SCREWED / BANKRUPT LIKE AMERICA TODAY (soon to be success based on deliberate sabotage which is nothing else than grand treason / betrayal with acts of genocide against targeted white population)!!!
NOW YOU KNOW WHAT ORWELLIAN UNITED STATES CONGRESS (USSR # 2 which consists of lawyers or what are liars and physicians as well as family member of health efected individuals... Why lawyers!!? So crime per physicians OR WHAT IS HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION can get away with it) AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS WORLDWIDE ARE SOOO BUSY WITH WHEN PLAYING / CLOWNING (acting) IN FRONT OF CAMERAS ONLY HOW SOMETHING HAVE TO BE DONE (deliberately omitting / delaying facts of genocide as seen on this complain) NO DIFFERENT FROM ROMNEY»S FATHER WHO EXCELLED AFTER GM WAS DELIBERATELY SCREWED / BANKRUPT (LIKE AMERICA TODAY = success based on deliberate sabotage = known as grand treason)!!!
In fact the song is about a family being split by divorce, sung as if by a father to his son.
In sum, although a few apologists such as Stephanie Coontz still insist otherwise, just about everyone else in possession of the evidence acknowledges that the sexual revolution has weakened family ties, and that family ties (the presence of a biologically related mother and father in the home) have turned out to be important indicators of child well - being — and more, that the broken home is not just a problem for individuals but also for society.
Like the line from the hymn «Let There Be Peace on Earth» says: With God as «Our Father» WE (meaning all of us) are Family.
I have been a professional standing by as people die — with or without family present, as a daughter whose father died, and as a wife, watching as my husband — the father of my still young children died.
All this imagery illustrates the trinity of the family, just as God the Father relates to the Son and the Spirit.
my point was a different one: if the findings show that people tend to talk about their family before they die, then the people who are part of God's family (and thus have two families) would definitely be inclined to talk about BOTH of their families, especially as they are about to meet their Heavenly Father who is... GOD!
«The roothas been sociological factors — as family breakdown has increased and children are split between their mothers and fathers at weekends, regular Church attendance is less consistent and is having an impact.
I recall quiet Saturday mornings, walking with my father block to block, as he pointed out the landmarks no one else knew: the spot where the Third Avenue El of old stopped (he pointed out the supports hidden beneath the black asphalt); the apartment house where another close - knit family lived in cramped quarters, the three boys studying in dim lights under their mother's watchful eye to become a lawyer, a doctor, and a priest (and later a bishop); and the double spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the place of my parents» wedding and the baptisms of their three boys.
It's funny, isn't it, that the lessons we learn from our mothers, from our fathers, from our families or other role models are the ones we most need as adults?
The familial structure referenced in the household codes was that of pater familias [father of the family], which positioned the man as the ruler and authority over an economic / familial unit which consisted of the ruling patriarch, his wife, children and slaves.
Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child By Michael Bérubé Pantheon, 284 pages, $ 24 Michael Bérubé, a professor of American and African - American literature at the University of Illinois and, since 1991, the father of a son with Down syndrome, has producFather, a Family, and an Exceptional Child By Michael Bérubé Pantheon, 284 pages, $ 24 Michael Bérubé, a professor of American and African - American literature at the University of Illinois and, since 1991, the father of a son with Down syndrome, has producfather of a son with Down syndrome, has produced....
The father died a year ago in May, in his bed, surrounded by family who loved him enough to have gone on caring for him indefinitely, who had not tired of him and his needs, who bore his sufferings with him, who found him even in his infirmity to be good company worth having for as long as he stayed.
The structure of that world centered around the pater familias [father of the family] as the ruler and authority over an economic / familial unit — the household, which consisted of the ruling patriarch, his wife, children and slaves.
After his nine - year - old son's serious accident, one father said, «Terry's hospitalization forced us to pull together as a family.
He was born from a Romeo and Juliet romance, as his father and mother are the son and daughter of two competing funeral home families.
As a young man in 1840, abandoning the upstate New York towns to which his family retreated after his father's bankruptcy and death, he visited Manhattan with his friend Eli Fly.
Being part of the communion / family of Jesus means acknowledging our mother Mary and our brothers and sisters in Heaven and purgatory as well as on earth - and our Father on earth, the Holy Father, with his magisterium - not Nicky's!
The father of the family or the patriarch of the clan slew the animal and poured or rubbed its blood upon the sacred stone or altar as the portion of the god.
Dear Father Editor, As anti-family legislation gathers pace, as recorded by John Deighan's articles, -LCB- Faith, «Learning from homosexual Activism» March 2009, «The Undermining of the Family: Where are we at?&raquAs anti-family legislation gathers pace, as recorded by John Deighan's articles, -LCB- Faith, «Learning from homosexual Activism» March 2009, «The Undermining of the Family: Where are we at?&raquas recorded by John Deighan's articles, -LCB- Faith, «Learning from homosexual Activism» March 2009, «The Undermining of the Family: Where are we at?»
Paul's description of God as the «Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named» (Ephesians 3:15) is typical.
In most areas, Paul allowed others to make their own choices, but some «spiritual fathers» today want families to check with him regarding such things as vacation planning, job transfers, financial management, and child rearing.
Just as the Prodigal Son did not have fellowship with his father while he was in the far country (Luke 15:11 - 32) yet continued to be a son the entire time, so also, those who are children of God will stay a member of His family even when they stray into sin and rebellion, but they will not abide or remain in fellowship with God when they are away from Him.
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