Sentences with phrase «life peers on»

[2] She was created a life peer on 18 September 2013 taking the title Baroness Humphreys, of Llanrwst in the County of Conwy and, unusually, taking the oath in Welsh.

[4] He was subsequently created a life peer on 17 October 2007 taking the title Baron Wallace of Tankerness, of Tankerness in Orkney.

The seat had become vacant when the constituency's long - serving Labour Member of Parliament (MP), Reginald Sorensen, was made a life peer on 15 December 1964.

Not exact matches

Jo Freeman spent much of the 1960s living with her activist peers on communes — including a stint as part of a women's liberation collective in which everyone had equal say and stature.

Contestants pitch live, on stage with a crowd of their peers for the chance to be featured in season two of the web series «Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch.»

For starters, recognize those on your team who have beaten a tough challenge (on the job or in their personal life) and share it with their peers.

In the studies, women who adopted all five factors enjoyed roughly 14 extra years of life, on average, compared with their peers who adopted none of them; men got an average of an extra 12.2 years.

If a jury of its peers were to grade Dash on its performance in 2017, the majority would say it lived up to its billing.

To determine our peer group of companies, we considered public cloud - based services providers and selected those most similar to us based on various factors, including, but not limited to, financial risk, company size, geographic diversification, profitability, growth characteristics and stage of life cycle.

Shanghai - based Greenland Real Estate Group contracted Cumming to carry out a peer review of their current budgets on phase one of its $ 1.2 billion, 6.33 - acre Metropolis development located north of LA Live.

The Forum is a monthly venue for CIO's and CTO's to discuss topics of relevance in their daily lives, and has afforded these leaders the opportunity to develop a close network to discuss current challenges in a peer group environment on a confidential basis.

What I refuse to do is accept some external force based on the mere stories of man, especially when those men a) never met b) lived in a time when stories were largely passed verbally and c) those stories have been shown to be wrong by studies that have been peer - reviewed.

And the back story remains that most of us non-believers have been excoriated in «real life» (as opposed to «blog life») for so much as QUESTIONING beliefs that people (parents, pastors and peers) did indeed presume to IMPOSE on us.

Statistics so far indicate than on May 21st, life will go on, and these folks will join their peers in the history of apocalypses that never were.

Filling a young mind with such nonsense, and worse, uprooting thier lives, subjecting them to the criticism of their peers, abandoning their futures, and in some cases, abusing them by telling them «they will not be saved», is beyond the pale and to me, boarders on child abuse.

Legislation that would allow terminally ill people in England and Wales receive help to end their lives is due to be discussed by peers on Friday.

They adopted these beliefs through peer pressure and maintained them through a vast support group that revolves around promising unearthly rewards in the after life for believing them, while convincing people that paradise can not exist on this earth because of these beliefs.

The program gives girls self - esteem enhancing tools, tips on how to develop and maintain healthy relationships with their peers and action plans on how to handle bullying situations in life that match their own personalities.

But I worry that if I leave my children to cry it out, then they will not see the point in reaching out to us if they have problems later in life and could try to deal with serious issues like bullying, drug addictions, teenage pregnancy, gambling problems, or flunking out of school on their own or turn to peers.

Unfortunately, she is typical of a breed of teenagers who have become so focused — by their parents, their schools, the culture, their peers and themselves on gaming the system, cheating when necessary and believing that money and material goods are the foundation of a life well - lived — that they have little opportunity to develop the kinds of ideas that used to be typical of teenagers.

Pairing children who are close in age is best because they are on the same timeline developmentally and serve to be good peer examples for one another throughout life.

Since boys at highest risk of becoming early fathers can be identified from age eight (see below) engaging with such young males in highly specialised programmes early on (to teach basic life skills, address negative peer influences, promote school success and direct them to alternatives other than early parenthood) is indicated, in order to reduce sexual risk - taking and early fatherhood (Thornberry et al, 2004)

His theory is that in a low - income, high - crime neighborhood, if you offer social and educational supports to just a few of the kids who live there, their participation will always seem a bit oddball, and they won't have much of an effect on their peers.

In the early days of the federal War on Poverty in the 1960s, researchers provided three - and four - year - olds from impoverished Ypsilanti, Michigan, with enriched preschooling, and then compared their life trajectories over several decades with those of Ypsilanti peers who had not received any early childhood education.

Organization Goals From it's beginnings in 1994 as a local Washington DC parent group to its growth as an international, multi-region support resource, FRUA continues to focus on the following goals: * To improve the lives of children * To strengthen families * To share the culture and heritage of our children * To provide peer group support for our children * To provide peer group support for parents * To promote a reality - based perception of our children

The study showed that the likelihood of committing crime later in life comes down to the quality of services on offer and whether young people have a chance to mix with better - behaved peers, guided by structured activities and respected youth leaders.

Asking a peer «dumb» questions or sharing fears may be more likely to take place depending on the maturity level of the pregnant woman and the level of support that she has in her life.

This year has been a year of great independence — Tyler began first grade, joined the French Immersion Program that requires him to complete his homework independently, speaks a language that neither of his parents understand, runs around the neighborhood alone calling for friends, plays independently at home with his sibling and peers, and generally has a whole life at school and on the playing field that feels mostly separate from his father and me.

She concedes that squaring her business life and role as a peer is a difficult balancing act, but relishes the «curiosity and appetite for knowledge» on the red benches.

On the Today programme, the Tory peer said he had done «three, four days a week» over the last six years, but «the point comes in life when you have to do what you believe to be right».

Everyone knows that Nancy Astor was the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons, but who was the first woman Life Peer to take her seat on the red benches?

On 16 May 2005 he was created a life peer as Baron Adonis, of Camden Town in the London Borough of Camden, [10] elevation to membership of the House of Lords making possible his appointment as a Government Minister.

He is now gone from our lives, his Assembly seat as vacant as his eyes, completing his shuffle from Manhattan State Supreme Court, where he began as a law secretary in 1971, to the federal courthouse on Foley Square, where 12 of his peers finally got a chance to judge seven of his felonies.

The Green Party also has one life peer, three Members of the European Parliament, two members of the London Assembly, and a small number of councillors on various local councils in England and Wales.

Speaking ahead of the Lords session, the peer said: «It was seriously incompetent and inhumane for the home secretary and the immigration minister to put Isa on a plane considering his life - threatening state.

Although the monarch had for centuries been empowered to create hereditary peers, with rights to sit in the House of Lords, the Life Peerages Act 1958 had a profound impact on the honours system and parliament.

The President said Ghana had the highest life expectancy of 63 years among its peers in Africa, but admitted that, there was still a lot more to be done to improve on the quality of life of the people.

Political economist and life peer Your question is based on the assumption that Labour will lose the next election.

Culture Secretary Matt Hancock urged the peer to look into the camera and make a proposal on live television.

Past forums were streamed live on PEER's Facebook page, and Tuesday's will be as well.

Shinwell was created a life peer as Baron Shinwell, of Easington in the County of Durham, on 19 June 1970.

On 19 November 2010, it was announced that Flight was to be created a life peer and would sit as a Conservative in the House of Lords.

He stood down from the Commons at the 2015 election and was created a life peer, [2] as Baron Young of Cookham, of Cookham in the Royal County of Berkshire, on 29 September 2015.

Young was created a life peer as Baron Young of Cookham on 29 September 2015.

On 2 February 2011, he was created a life peer as Baron Stephen, of Lower Deeside in the City of Aberdeen, [14] and was introduced in the House of Lords on 7 February 2011, [15] where he sits on the Liberal Democrat bencheOn 2 February 2011, he was created a life peer as Baron Stephen, of Lower Deeside in the City of Aberdeen, [14] and was introduced in the House of Lords on 7 February 2011, [15] where he sits on the Liberal Democrat bencheon 7 February 2011, [15] where he sits on the Liberal Democrat bencheon the Liberal Democrat benches.

Shepherd remained an active member of the House of Lords for the rest of his life, and on 16 November 1999 he was created a life peer as Baron Shepherd of Spalding, of Spalding in the County of Lincolnshire [2] in order to keep his seat after the House of Lords Act removed the right of hereditary peers to an automatic seat in the House.

On 30 January 1992, he was created Life Peer as Baron Prentice, of Daventry in the County of Northamptonshire.

On 19 November 2010, it was announced that Marks would be created a Life Peer.

When I was in school, I saw the same story play out again and again: my peers who were given the resources to excel academically and encouraged to live up to their full potential graduated and went on to colleges and careers, while those who lacked these opportunities and felt ignored by their schools often fell by the wayside.

On 18 June 2010, she was created a life peer as Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top, of Crook in the County of Durham, [11] and was introduced in the House of Lords on 6 July 201On 18 June 2010, she was created a life peer as Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top, of Crook in the County of Durham, [11] and was introduced in the House of Lords on 6 July 201on 6 July 2010.