Sentences with phrase «finer than some of their peers»

But, as David Sandberg, a psychologist at the University of Michigan, has long argued, short kids do fine in the long run — finer than some of their peers, in fact, because of the adversity they've experienced and the resilience they've developed.

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But that freedom is just one of many that we enjoy in the United States — and religious tolerance is no more, or less, valuable than are rights to free speech, to bear arms, to be free from search and seizure, to be presumed innocent until proven otherwise, to be tried by our peers, to have our day in court, to not be imprisoned or fined without cause, to ensure State's rights, to be free from slavery and involuntary servitude, and on, and on, and on.

If the child's work habits or ability to sustain attention or fine motor skills are less advanced than those of his peers because he is younger, parents fear that the child will be left behind.

Perhaps the most extraordinary aspect of this period at the California School of Fine Arts was the mutual collegial respect between teacher and student, a respect more like that between junior and senior or peer and mentor than between students and professors.