Sentences with phrase «important rite»

Thanks to their association with important rites of passage, such as an engagement or a 60th wedding anniversary, diamonds can be deeply symbolic, but you don't always have to reserve them for special occasions.

Transitions are important rites of passage for all students and are significant milestones for youth with disabilities and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

It's a risk to spend borrowed money — but it's also an important rite of passage.

Find out what other dads have done to get through this important rite of passage into responsible adulthood.

Her wedding is an important rite of passage for you, your partner, your daughter, and her fiancé.

I know I could do it without a midwife, but that is not an important rite of passage for me.

When we live in a culture that objectifies women, it makes it easy to industrialize birth instead of treating it like an important rite of passage for each individual.

I had no strong female role model telling me that becoming a woman was something to celebrate, and that my changing body was part of an important rite of passage.

All of which is too bad, he says, because the college admissions process is an important rite of passage for many in America.

College admissions is an important rite of passage in America — a time for parents to engage their kids in deep conversations about their hopes and dreams, their values, and what kind of adults they imagine they'll be.

Eliminating all these things denies an important rite of passage that is as important as the degree itself.

Prom is an important rite of passage for teenagers, but while they're dancing the night away, their parents are usually pacing the floors.

Across Latin America, a girl's fifteenth birthday is an important rite of passage and a celebration of her transition into adulthood.

Just like going to prom, opening a bank account, or getting an afterschool job, obtaining a learner permit is an important rite of passage for high school students.

Hedy and Yumi provide an ideal to strive for in the all important rite of marriage and the family.

Graduation is an important rite of passage for so many students.