Sentences with phrase «made life peer»

Jeffrey Archer was made a Life Peer in the Queen's Birthday Honours List of 1992.

Nash was made a life peer in 2013 so he could become a junior schools minister under former education secretary Michael Gove.

After several attempts in his constituency party to deselect him, he finally stood down from the House of Commons at the 1997 general election, and in the dissolution honours he was made a life peer, being created Baron Shore of Stepney, of Stepney in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets on 5 June 1997.

Settling down to some kangaroo anus with a fallen Hollyoaks star is the last word in dignity compared with settling down for an after - lunch snooze on the red benches next to Douglas Hogg, who has just been made a life peer (he is already a viscount, but clearly the Tories want him to be «operational»).

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.

When Wilson resigned again, in 1976, Kagan was made a life peer.

Lord Puttnam, made a life peer by Tony Blair in 1997, was delivering the annual Marketing Society lecture in Piccadilly, central London.

He not only published the assurances he gave when made a life peer in 2000 to take up permanent residence in the UK once again and to relinquish the post of Belize's permanent representative to the UN.

«While there are quite reasonable steps [in the trade union bill] to increase transparency, the main thrust of the measures seems to be both partisan and disproportionate to the supposed problems that they are seeking to address,» wrote Kerslake, who was made a life peer in March.

Oates was subsequently made a life peer in October 2015.

In February 1974, he was once again elected to Parliament, now for Newham South, but left the House of Commons soon afterwards when he was made a life peer, as Baron Elwyn - Jones, of Llanelli in the County of Carmarthen and of Newham in Greater London.

In 1964, Byers was made a life peer [6] and three years later he became leader of the Liberal peers.

He was chief economist at Goldman Sachs before being made a life peer in 2015 and entering the government.

Not exact matches

As much as recent efforts to encourage women in STEM education and STEM jobs have helped move the needle a bit, the culture of science has often made life for women scientists harder than it already is — excluding them from clubby publishing and peer review networks and sometimes outright snubbing their achievements.

The founders point out how attendance at conferences in general has gone up dramatically over the last five years because people are making these digital connections with brands and peer - to - peer, and want to meet people in real life.

«This means companies that make it easier for everyone to play a part, companies that really bring peer - to - peer into everyone's life.»

It would be absurd to generalize about how happy these people are compared to their indebted peers, but I can tell you that accumulating a sizable nest egg through living small doesn't seem to be making them obviously miserable.

Ways of being are choices you and your peers make about how you live, behave, and how you show up to others.

We all go to work each day to provide for our families, make a difference in the lives of our clients, community members and industry peers, while building a business we can be proud of!

Then I was seeking to live out my life mostly in accountability to contemporary academic peers; now awareness of final judgment makes me only proximately and semiseriously accountable to peers.

We want to be as sure as we can be that our life choices are not made for us by someone else — parents, friends, peers or teachers.

I have very little doubt that our generation will be looked back upon with jaw - dropping incredulity by future historians who will marvel at how, in the 21st century, having peered at the mind numbing infinity from Hubble, delved into the quantum irrationality of CERN and unraveled the beautiful simplicity of the DNA codons, we still made important life decisions based upon the presumed wishes of some hokey, invisible, all - powerful sky - fairy dreamed up by some illiterate Arab tribesmen in a tent in the Middle East 2,000 years ago.

If I lived the last four years of my life believing that I was a surefire One and Done prospect (like Hami) and then saw «everyone» leaving (I put the everyone in quotes, because its the same «everyone» I get when my 14 year old daughter says «everyone is doing it») I would think a certain amount of peer pressure would make me feel like I needed to go.

What I liked most about the book is that it doesn't shy away from addressing the real - life challenges that can trip up the best - intentioned parent, whether it's the growing influence of peers as a child moves into elementary school, the «I don't need your advice» attitude of the high schooler, or the scheduling conflicts that can make healthy, communal eating seem impossible.

In high school and college, young people are usually communicating with peers who are nearby and living lives with similar patterns, but as they all move into adulthood, their lives will scatter and diverge in ways that often make delayed / deferred communications more useful than immediate communications.

The bill would have made the house predominantly an elected one by 2025, although limited numbers of bishops and life peers would have remained.

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.

She makes a positive difference every day, touching the lives of her peers and making a better community for all,» said Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz.

With the exception of some experts, the same is not true of the politically appointed Life Peers who make up the bulk of today's House of Lords.

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

Admitted to the Privy Council in 1959, he was made a baronet on 29 December 1964 [2] and after leaving the Commons, was created a life peer as Baron Redmayne, of Rushcliffe in the County of Nottinghamshire on 10 June 1966.

In 2001, he was made a Conservative life peer.

It wasn't all men and it didn't happen all the time, but it happened, and it was part of my life in academia: grant writing, teaching, publishing in peer - reviewed journals — oh, and dealing with creeps and the messes they made.

During his doctoral work in genetics and molecular biology at Johns Hopkins Medical School, Munoz - Sanjuan grew «disillusioned about the dependency on peer review to make a living [in academic science], and universities» lack of appreciation for teaching excellence when evaluating for a tenure position.

Most of us make our way through life without peering too closely under the bonnet of epistemology — the theory of knowledge.

Ever since Antonie van Leeuwenhoek peered through his crude microscope and confirmed that life is indeed packaged in very small containers, biologists have recruited physicists to focus stronger lenses, train more powerful rays and run ever tinier probes on cells and the molecules that make them live — and die.

You'll make a new network of peers, mentors, and friends that will open up opportunities and new experi - ences to you for the rest of your life!

And if you look at all those photos and videos of me doing the physical practice of yoga or peer at my life from the outside, it might look like I have it made, like I don't have a care in the world, and I never did.

Apparently it's «normal» at this age and stage of life and yes, looking at my friends and peer group they are nearly all rounder and larger, especially around the abdomen but they also don't do anything and make questionable dietary choices.

For instance, much of the heightened depression risk among women living alone was attributable to their tendency to have lower incomes, less education, and poorer housing conditions than their peers — all of which could independently make depression more likely.

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

The characters are an entertaining group of misfits, of particular note is central protagonist and narrator Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with aspirations of stability, and of happiness in his life, but who is utterly unable to survive without «one more hit», the violent and psychotic Begbie (Robert Carlyle), who refuses to take heroin but makes up for not doing drugs by «doing people» instead, and the childlike Spud (Ewan Bremner), the innocent fool of the group, and the most vulnerable to peer pressure.

Red Oaks is no better or worse than its peers in this genre; certainly it will trigger fond and awkward memories for those who lived it or something like it, but the pilot episode released earlier this year doesn't make a case that these feelings have much thematic potential beyond the usual cliches.

Other highlights are ADAMA a deeply moving animation about the life of a young boy in West Africa in 1914; Mamoru Hosoda's THE BOY AND THE BEAST, an exquisitely animated fable about a boy who has run away from home and is alone in the human world following the passing of his mother; Jury Feting's CELESTIAL CAMEL, a fascinating and thrilling tale about a 12 year old herder whose father has sold a young colt who may be the fabled «celestial camel»; Academy Award ® winner Gabriele Salvatores» THE INVISIBLE BOY, a charming coming of age tale about a shy boy, picked on by his peers, who gets his wish to hide from the world when he discovers a Halloween outfit that makes him invisible; Alexandre Heboyan and Benoît Philippon's hugely enjoyable CGI animated adventure MUNE, about a faun who lives in a faraway world; Studio Ghibli's beautiful drama WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi; and the World Premiere of Tim Clague and Danny Stark's WHO KILLED NELSON NUTMEG?

I make a really good living, and I'm proud to be an actress who's making as much as many of my male peers at this stage,» she told Cosmopolitan.

In response to that question, students from both communities will make day - in - the - life films, with the Effingham / Teutopolis kids teaching their urban peers the art of videography and storytelling.

Under the theme, #OwnYourMagic, these young leaders will attend leadership workshops and interactive sessions to learn the 21st century skills and strategies needed to make a difference in their own lives, in their Clubs, among their peers and within their communities.

But as they confront their chaotic lives, kids in jail share the same goals as their peers in the world outside: get a high school diploma, secure a decent job, go to college, make something of themselves.

Students learn through a logical and step - by - step learning journey, including: - Defining the key term «patriotism» and considering its pros and cons; - Understanding key information about E.E Cummings» life; - Reading and interpreting the poem; - Investigating the structural make - up of the poem, and considering how this links to the poet's message; - Identifying the language features used throughout the poem, and considering how these link to the poet's message; - Analysing how language and structure create meaning through the poem; - Peer assessing each others» learning attempts.

Making Peer Mediation a Part of Campus Life Teen skirmishes over rumors, perceived put - downs, and he - said - she - said arguments might seem inconsequential to adults, but to kids they can be major distractions.