Sentences with phrase «father role he had played»

But Borde, 44, of Ashburn, Va., says a major concern when he and his first wife separated nine years ago was not to relinquish the involved father role he had played for his two sons, now 11 and 13.

Not exact matches

The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday morning that May is lining up Rudd to take over from Hammond after the election as a reward for Rudd's loyalty and the significant role she has played in election campaigning — including standing in for May at a leaders» debate earlier this week despite the death of her father just 48 hours earlier.

In a matter of a few days, the mother of five, who at the time was living as a housewife in London, had to decide whether to take up the role her father had played.

Science Daily reports: Active father figures have a key role to play in reducing behaviour problems in boys and psychological problems in young women, according to a review published in the February issue of Acta Paediatrica.

Jesus Christ sacrifice represented 4 very important points: (A) channel for us when praying in forgiving our sins (B) The opportunity to learn the truth about Jehovah God's Universal Soverign Government and the role Jesus would play as King of the government along side his Father Jehovah God.

You filled this role at President Bush's inauguration in 2001, and your father has also played this role.

He asked why Rev. Jackson and Father Pfleger would level such charges when he stridently believed that race played no role in the matter?

My father having been a Michigan fan and from the state of Michigan plays a big role to me, but he knows it's my decision.»

Sergio is too good to check out and not be competitive here, although you'd forgive him if that happened as he plays the role of host champion and new father.

Evolving expectations about the roles that fathers and mothers play have also set you up.

Of all the powerful and complex dynamics in the circle of life, a father's critical role in teaching his baby to play has got to be one of the coolest.

What is known is that, unlike Mark, many have had only a fleeting relationship with the mother but still want to play a positive role as a father.

Testosterone might play a role — and has some surprising consequences for the well - being of fathers and their partners.

There is a wealth of studies, articles, and reports about why boys need to have their fathers in their lives, but seldom do we see information that reflects the significant role an active father plays in shaping, developing, encouraging, and building confidence in their daughter (s).

The role that fathers play in childcare has increased too — fathers do thirty per cent more childcare than they did twenty years ago.

Johnson says he doesn't know why Persephone's mother left, but that «We suspect postpartum depression played a part,» and that in his early days of parenting without a partner «I was so nervous and scared about being a father in general, but now I was a single father and had to fulfill two roles.

But the precise risk of these conditions developing in children of older fathers has not been calculated, and other predisposing genetic and environment factors are likely to play a role.

It is clear from the research that fathers have a critical role to play in the lives of their children.

Dr. Gail Gross noted in an article published on the Huffington Post that fathers have important roles to play in the life of their children.

Children of fathers who play an active role in their care have fewer discipline problems, more confidence, and a greater ability to handle stress.

«Research in the field has begun to investigate the role that fathers play in children's development, as separate from the effects of mothering.

In addition, attitudes towards gender roles and expectations have also evolved over the years, in turn allowing fathers to play a more active role as caregiver.

Research has consistently shown that most fathers want to play a greater role in their family's life.

He devoted the ranking to his mother, father, wife and all friends as well as loved ones who in diverse ways have played significant roles in the success of the company.

An uplifting front page story in the Buffalo News showing that fathers have a role to play in the education of their children.

He conceded that the party at this juncture lacks a father figure who could unify the various factions adding, President Kufuor who would have been the right person to play that role has compromised himself with his alleged support for Mr Kyeremanten.

At present, I lead EA but my father — now a member of the advisory board — has always played an important role behind the scenes.

A parent's age may play a role — children have a greater risk of Down syndrome if they're the offspring of older parents, and a child born to a 45 - year - old father is 3.5 times more likely to have autism than a child born to a 24 - year - old father.

His television resumé includes the part of Alex Haley's father in the 1979 miniseries Roots: The Next Generation and the title roles in the made - for - TV movies The Jessie Owens Story (1984) and Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story (1987); he has also played recurring roles on such series as Glitter, The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, and Viper.

Cooper had a busy 2011, first playing Howard Stark (also known as Tony Stark's father) in Captain America: The First Avenger; followed by a commanding performance in the dual roles of Uday Hussein and his look - a-like in The Devil's Double; and finally, a smaller part as famed photographer Milton H. Greene in My Week With Marilyn.

It's possible that he could be playing Star - Lord's father, but it has been widely speculated that Kurt Russell has landed that role, although his character's identity has yet to be revealed, and most likely won't be announced until the movie hits theaters next summer.

Continuing on the perfect casting train, the goddess that is Emma Thompson (who has been long rumored for this role) will play Mrs. Potts and the brilliant Kevin Kline is set to play Belle's father, Maurice.

My lingering problem is the amount of fluttering butterflies that the film creates, it paints a picture that any wedding you wish to have is possible, which is untrue, but I don't believe the film was about creating a realistic explanation, but more show the journey the parents make, but again, the journey only seems to consist of daddy, as esteemed actress Diane Keaton, who plays other Nina, plays a largely unimportant role, perhaps a traditional scenario calls for a father and his daughter, but the mother is as equally important.

Ed Bagley Jr plays the father who doesn't have a lot of screen time, but is a pivotal role to Ally's final decision.

We have the conflict between old and new Republicans (headed by David Wilmot and Martin McCann respectively), the black ops military intelligence unit (with Sean Harris in a key role) playing both sides against each other while maintaining links with the UVF and a father / daughter couple (Richard Dormer and Charlie Murphy) conflicted as to whether they should help the wounded Hook.

Angelica Huston plays his worried mother with just the right amount of weight, though Serge Houde has a thankless role as Adam's father, suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's; he seems underdirected, looking around as if he were perfectly satisfied not knowing what to do.

Richards, 66, played the role of Johnny Depp's character Captain Sparrow's father in «Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End» and it has been confirmed he will reprise the -LSB-...]

Long before John Krasinski came on board his Sundance premiere «The Hollars» as director, he had been eyed by screenwriter James Strouse as a strong contender to play the film's leading role, as father - to - be with a lot on his shoulders, John Hollar.

He has that power and strength that grabs your attention with every scene he's in no matter if he's playing the role of father and husband with Carmen Ejogo, when he's fighting with Tom Wilkinson, or being a leader of the people when he's delivery King's speeches.

The 29 - year - old Wayans appeared in a plenty of his father's work as a younger man: he played the younger version of David Alan Grier in his father's film «Blankman,» and would later appear in a recurring role in his sitcom «My Wife And Kids,» as well as being a regular on his short - lived Showtime sketch comedy series «The Underground.»

Reynolds has signed on for the role and according to some new information, the story of The Detective Pikachu movie is «kicked into gear when Tim Goodman's (played by Justice Smith,) father is kidnapped, forcing the teen to team up with Pikachu (Reynolds) in order to find him.»

Danny McBride will play an «arrogant, lazy prince who must complete a quest to save his father's kingdom», and we have also learned that James Franco is attached to co-star, although his exact role has yet to be revealed.

It has a lot to say about sexism and power structures in the workplace, and the complicated father - daughter relationship at its core evolves in a most unusual way — through role - playing and pranks in public.

In the last couple of years, he's gone from the romantic lead in About Time to Konstantin Levin in Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Anna Karenina; there's his leading role in the forthcoming Star Wars Episode VII; and there was the recent Calvary, in which he had a cameo as a creepy serial killer enduring a prison visit from a priest played by his father, Brendan, an experience he found «really cool».

Bridges is attached to play the title role (to give you an idea of how long this has been brewing, it was once eyed for his late father Lloyd Bridges) but as the trade's source notes this «is very early, as there are a lot of moving parts to this.»

His career has been so varied and winding: a recurring role as Cowboy Curtis on «Pee - Wee's Playhouse» in the back half of the»80s, then playing father to Cuba Gooding Jr. (who is just 6 1/2 years his junior) in Boyz n the Hood.

With the exception of Charles Grodin, who plays Tom's father - in - law, Jason Bateman, who plays Chip, is the most assured comic actor in the cast, and he has the best role.

So his loving ex-wife, Inez (Sofia Vergara, playing a variation on her «Modern Family» role), invites him to tag along on a trip to see her father in Miami, ostensibly so he can finally have some time with the son, Percy (Emjay Anthony, cute), he rarely sees.

Robert De Niro (Showtime, The Score) plays the role of the cop and father, Vincent LaMarca, a New York homicide detective who tries to make a good name for himself despite the fact that his own father had been executed for murder himself.

The fees must have been eye - wateringly expensive but Edna didn't blink, enlisting the support of a suave actor boyfriend — an Errol Flynn lookalike — to play the role of «father figure» at the make - or - break interview with the headmaster.