Sentences with phrase «few of my classmates»

The challenge resulted in sacrifices that few of his classmates could ever endure.

I remember one moment very vividly: I was in the bathroom when I heard a few of my classmates complaining about having to go to class and discussing how many more points they needed to pass the course.

The girl complained during the day to a few of her classmates that she was having stomach pains.

As for the cheating scandal from Chapter six, we lost a few of our classmates.

I am absolutely horrendous at bowling — It's so bad that I was super excited to knock down a few pins in each frame last week, but it has been so much fun getting to know new people, catch up with a few of my classmates.

You actually beat me to the punch - a few of my classmates suggested the same idea!

i took the hour + long train out with a few of my classmates and explored the palace.

A few of my classmates in London would compare European museums to the MOMA in New York and I had no idea what the comparison was because I had never been.

The challenge for college counselors at these urban charters: getting their students equipped to survive far from home in an environment where few of their classmates share similar backgrounds as theirs: low - income minorities, some of whom are undocumented.

When you write essays on the civil war and reconstruction, you want to make sure that you choose a topic that very few of your classmates would ever think of.

A few of my classmates did have to re-take Class C and failed the first time through.

Not exact matches

Aside from the few who among us who had master's degrees in business administration, most of my classmates brought to the table the skills and experience specific to theor venture, such as backgrounds in fashion, architecture, medicine, food service and so forth.

We've mentioned a few times the experiences of co-author Jon Burgstone, whose first entrepreneurial success came after he teamed up with a business school classmate named Asif Satchu.

One of his classmates was Barry Hannah, another prominent Mississippi writer whom I eulogized on this site a few years ago.

Even if we are the special few who were not raised with the media as our pacifiers, we definitely had friends, family members, teachers, classmates, colleagues and so on, who were raised believing this is just commonplace behavior, influencing our early - forming minds in the process of simply doing life together.

When I ran for senior class president at my Christian college, a few of my female classmates criticized me for overstepping biblical boundaries, but most supported and encouraged me.

(To be sure, few would want to go so far as a seminary classmate of mine who regularly, and without acknowledging his source, preached Fosdick's sermons in his student church because he figured that his little congregation «deserved the best.»

In a candid article published in Christian Century in 1980, Henry admitted his earlier and more optimistic vision of a grand evangelical alliance had come to nothing, and he placed much of the blame on Billy Graham, one of Henry's few critical comments about his former classmate and collaborator.

With one card from us, and Valentines from classmates and grandparents, we did get to sit and enjoy watching The Bug open his cards and a few small trinkets, and then devour part of a chocolate heart.

She has a few classmates who are allergic to peanuts so this is her way of processing that information.

Syracuse, NY — Carl Paladino may be rattling a lot of cages in his campaign for governor, but he made few waves during his three years at the Syracuse University College of Law, his former classmates say.

A few weeks ago one of my yoga classmates gifted me a bag of rose powder.

Surprisingly, quite a few of my female classmates also received diamond studs or pearl necklace / earrings.

Twenty minutes in, after a few gloriously violent tumbles with classmates and numerous prison wardens, the narrative sort of just sputters out.

Miles» classmate and new love interest, Lauren (Holliday Grainger), is uncomfortable with some of the club's initiation rituals, and more than a few people are troubled when the club's annual dinner grows increasingly out of hand.

The major difference between the original and this remake is that the students actually use a brain scanner as they allow their classmates to kill them off one at a time — obviously with the expectation of being revived in a few minutes before significant brain damage starts.

There's a humorous skit featuring McCarthy and Bell discussing — and fondling — one another's breasts, while a few of Michelle's verbal putdowns of some of Rachel's classmates» mothers are ruthlessly inspired in their unapologetic vulgarity.

Given this housing pattern and the declining share of elementary and secondary school students who are white, African American students are likely to have fewer white and more Hispanic and Asian classmates in the years to come.

What's clear after just a few minutes with Lucy and her classmates is that the six - year - olds have become experts: They can guide you through the life cycle of a frog — from the laying of the eggs (called frog spawn, Lucy explains) to the full - grown frog 12 - 16 weeks later.

The two scenarios serve as an excellent entrée into a discussion of uneven distribution of resources, as students discuss how it felt to get more (or fewer) fish than their classmates.

The hard part is that the only thing they have is an item that was drawn a few minutes earlier by a classmate on the piece of paper.

The transfer was contentious on both sides: while many of these students» academic prospects improved, $ 23 million in per - pupil state funding followed them, leaving their former classmates with fewer resources, according to James Shuls, an assistant professor at the University of Missouri - St Louis.

Ideally, the classmates should be chomping at the bit to answer the week's discussion question as soon as it appears on the first day of the class week — I have been in a few graduate classes like that!

Here are a few examples of what you will learn, how to write a letter of appreciation to an author and mail it to them, have your friends / classmates dress up like the characters from your favorite book, create a word game and make a list of words to describe something you love, make a list of the longest words that you know, make a list of your top 10 favorite things.

As we got off I - 10 at Esplanade Avenue, near my home, it dawned on me that he would be one of the few classmates who had seen where I lived.

Do you remember that classmate of yours who was always a few points ahead of you in the English paper?

My classmates, many of whom did not know who I was a few hours ago, chant my name.

A few of the 14 were published in his Greenwich, Connecticut, high school newspaper, but short of any surviving classmates, odds are good that these stories are reaching Capote fans for the first time.

Most of my classmates were also there because their major required it, but there were a few that were just taking it.

If I could get a not - for - profit job in the U.S., I would but as a few of my former classmates have been on the hunt for some time, I'm not willing to risk going back home to qualify for debt forgiveness.

His son then went to school, and tried a few of the moves on a fellow classmate.

As I approached the entrance with a few classmates, I asked Hamza Walker, Director of Education at the Renaissance Society, «Where do I start?»

I returned to painting in April 1966 by sharing a loft with my former classmate and friend Dan Christensen at 4 Great Jones Street and a few months later Philip bought a 108 «x72» painting and included it in a group exhibition of Minimal Art that was circulating from museum to museum in the Midwest in 1966.

Within a few weeks of joining, he had made several fruitful connections, including one with a former classmate who is now the GC at a company his firm had courted.

A few days later, I got an e-mail from a law - school classmate passing along a post from Draft, a New York Times blog on the art and craft of writing.

Too few of my 3L classmates have jobs lined up for after graduation.

In three years I gave two presentations as part of coursework modules to a few classmates and tutors.

There have been a few sub-par teachers but overall my children had a wonderful education and both are amazed at how ill - prepared many of their classmates in the university are.