Sentences with phrase «gather young faces»

«Beirut39» is a unique initiative that aims to identify and highlight contemporary literary movements among Arab youth, and to gather young faces and names and provide them with an opportunity to meet, exchange expertise and ideas, and work together in literary workshops.

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The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

Last Thursday afternoon, hundreds of Bronxites, young and old, social entrepreneurs and business leaders gathered at the historic Old Bronx Courthouse on Third Avenue and 161st Street for Assemblyman Michael Blake's «New Faces of Technology» event.

Very well, not the right build, and plump of face alone, but oh so instantly sympathetic on his very first entrance into a St Petersburg society gathering, so capable of registering complex thought processes — and so young.

«All schools should gather evidence about any mental health issues facing young people and take steps to provide the right support.»

Under the guise of relationship building and becoming familiar faces in the community, TAVIS officers have aggressively assaulted and drawn guns on young people on the streets of their neighbourhoods, performed strip searches in broad daylight, and arbitrarily stopped hundreds of racialized people without cause in public areas to question them and gather intelligence — a practice known as carding, which has been targeted primarily at Toronto's Black community.

Many younger members of the Speakers Association will tell you the number - one value they get from membership is not at the local chapter or even national; it comes from the 24/7 access they get to like - minded professionals in the XY Facebook group and the face - to - face gatherings of this unique population of younger speakers.