Sentences with phrase «just as a boy»

Tehachapi's typically blustery winds were rather calm in the lead up to their race but just as the boys rolled up to the line a light breeze began to build into a not so breezy headwind.

A four - year - old girl can be expected to compete with her mother for her father's attention, just as a boy may be vying for his mother's attention.

This is because, just as every boy and man can, so must every girl and woman be able to, reach out to a better world.

Not exact matches

Is it possible, perhaps, that some teenage girls are just as risky a class of drivers as some teenage boys?

She begins clobbering computer chips with a hammer, just as the stereo switches to «Still,» the gangsta - funk Geto Boys track made famous in the printer - whupping scene from the 1999 film Office Space.

The storyline is about an orphan girl in the early years of Great Britain, Mary «Jacky» Faber, who has to disguise herself as a boy to sneak onto a Navy ship just to have a chance at life.

Just as Goodman has prioritized his health and his family (wife and baby boy, Calvin), you can too.

When the organization surveyed the websites of toy makers and sellers, it found 31 percent of science and tech toys were labeled «for boys,» while just 11 percent were listed as «for girls.»

When it's so common to write off the hatred and abuse of women as «locker room banter,» of course many women believe that lie, too — that boys are just being boys, that men don't really mean what they say.

Median Salary: $ 92,060 The little boy or little girl in you just tends to think of being a pilot as cool (and it is) but it's also pretty stressful.

It's been just as many years since Hawkins, who is 42, started stacking produce as a boy in the store run by his father.

I also have some investments outside of farming, mostly real estate, but some stocks and bonds as well.Maybe it's just because I'm an ignorant South Dakota farm boy who happens to like open spaces and seeing the stars at night.

He was part of President Clinton's task force on school violence, and today he works with some of the biggest celebrities like Lebron James, Denzel Washington and Jennifer Lopez just to name a few as vice president of sports and entertainment and alumni development for the Boys and Girls Club.

A pedophile who preys on girls is just as bad as a pedophile who preys on boys.

is transformed in the brain of the smallest boy into the burning plea: «Almighty God, bless our arms when the time comes; be just as thou hast always been; judge now whether we be deserving of freedom; Lord, bless our battle!

«Free at Last» was a track from dcTalk's days as a Beastie Boys - aping rap outfit, when Michael Tait and Kevin Max mostly seemed to just be sitting around waiting for TobyMac to let them do something.

So, you end up switching the Saturday games as well, which puts the boys back at 2 pm on Saturday, and we have the same issue, just a different day.

The other men just let him be, sitting there with his memory as he tries again to make it all come right, tries to be there, miraculously, at just the right instant to pull his boy from the water.

To find out that it was their first responders that aided our boys just warms your heart,» the mayor said as his voice cracked.

I remember as a small boy just liking him enormously and thinking, «That's what I'd like to do.

He got along well with the despised customs officials (whom we probably translate inadequately as «tax collectors,» not to say «publicans») and the equally unwelcome centurion of the Roman army of occupation stationed at Capharnaum, who implored Jesus to heal his boy, pointing out that Jesus could do it by just giving a command without even having to profane himself by entering a gentile house.

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They just don't want to debase it by using it as a cheaper alternative to seeing a movie, or (for boys) as a way of asserting machismo in the absence of positive male role models, or (for girls) as a desperate ploy to hold on to a boyfriend — or any of the other sad, dead — end abuses of sex that become common whenever a society sheds its «repressed Victorianism.»

So tell us Billy boy, do you think the media ragged on the story of the new pope or did they just report the news as it unfolded?

Too many boys treat women as if they are objects — which shows they are really just selfish boys.

Strickland recalls a BBC report of a young boy who had just been rescued from life as a slave chocolate plantation.

We are keenly sensitive to the problems of childhood; we have thoroughly learned the proverb that just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined; we feel confident that if we can give a boy a good beginning we can insure him against a bad ending.

Each and every one of you boy humpers and your accomplices will recieve due recompense for what you have done and are doing, and long before the last day will you yourselves be destroyed just as you have destroyed.

Just as God loosed the mighty pagan Roman Empire on Jerusalem which along with the Jewish Temple was completely destroyed in the year 70 A.D., so will God loose today's powerful governments on organized religions led by men rayping our boys.

The Greek historian Herodotus, author of «History of the Persian Wars» wrote just 25 years after the reign of Xerxes and provides some insight into his might and cruelty, including the fact that 500 young boys were gathered each year from the kingdom and castrated to serve as eunuchs in the Persian court.

«When I saw him hold up that disabled boy and embrace him in St. Peter's Square,» said Mr. Wright, «I just lost it,» as indeed even some usually reserved reporters did.

As I gazed on this beautiful, new daughter in the nursery just moments after her birth, I distinctly heard an audible voice declare, «There will yet be another, and it will be a boy.»

Here before me was just such an attractive community that was eager to question, joke, and console me as I planned to explore the same distressing cultural trends that could prompt a young boy to compare the Catholic Church to ISIS.

girls are worth just as much as boys!

Although intended as a gender reveal cake (blue candy for a boy and pink for a girl), I think this would be fun to make and eat for just about any type of party!

I've never been much a fan of mayo (I was always more of a ketchup girl when it came to condiments), but boy do I love me some chicken salad just as much as the next girl.

Ben is playing tackle this spring and Rob and I just realized we're going to be living out our own version of Friday Night Lights each weekend starting in May, as we travel from town to town to watch our boy play.

This should be a fairly simple task, as I just need to set up a couple closet organizers and move clothes from the nursery closet to the «big boy» closet.

Like you I love cranberry orange muffins we have them at work and every time I see one I grab them I have been recently switching to the Paleo diet and found your recipe for blueberry muffin bites and I made them they're wonderful but still my craving for the orange cranberry muffins out way the blueberry muffins so I altered your recipe a bit I used cranberries instead of blueberries and an orange instead of a lemon and boy it turned out just as wonderful as the blueberry muffin bites thank you for posting your recipe my family is enjoying all of the yummy goodies I am making

As I write this, my boys and I are watching the It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown... just to extend the celebrations a bit longer.

I am sure it was loaded with sugar, so I just had a bite of it as a special treat but boy was it delicious

Just for the record the pints of ice cream costumes that we made were totally ridiculous, as we made them for a gay Halloween costume party, where the invite specifically said «Remember boys.

I raise girls (10,8,6,4) and they can be just as dirty, if not more dirty, than little boys.

If you're feeding growing boys, grown men, have a need for more carbohydrates yourself, or just want a starchier comfort food, I recommend you use jasmine rice (or another polished white rice) as the base.

I'm planning to put the boys on tortilla duty just as soon as I can get my hands on some masa flour!

In fact, neither boy is really partial to avocado, but seeing as it's loaded with healthy fats and protein I try to sneak it in whenever I can, and burgers are just as good a place as any.

Just set your oven to 350, peel the parsnip, slice that bad - boy as thin as you can, smother with the smoky spices, arrange on a baking sheet, and pop «em in the oven for about twenty minutes, flipping once for an even bake.

I expect to be lashed for that, because a lot gooners see him as our golden boy, but it is just my opinion.

Honestly of we had lost I wouldn't knock the lads as that is what majority of fans ask for, just give ur all & on that note what Iv been extremely impressed with about Joel he does gives 110 % week in week out the boys on his last legs when ever he's substituted.

Back then we played so good, creating chances after chances, only to be led down by school boys defending mistakes, and today we play with our hearts out just to have the same results as years ago.