Sentences with phrase «neighborhoods who»

Adolescents in neighborhoods who were more closely connected had greater social competence.

Many of Meisler's photos document members of the «The Mystery Club,» a group of eleven couples from nearby neighborhoods who would take turns planning «mystery» outings.

As a Westside outpost for art, it's a local destination for all the collectors scattered around L.A.'s tonier neighborhoods who ordinarily find themselves trekking into West Hollywood or beyond in order to get their fix.

Many of Meisler's photos document members of the «The Mystery Club» — 11 couples from nearby neighborhoods who would take turns planning «mystery» outings to places such as haunted houses, recording studios and nudist camps, according to the Steven Kasher Gallery.

Another panelist wrote: «Though e-books are important, we must keep an emphasis on our physical libraries as a community space and option for lower income and lower education neighborhoods who may not have access or knowledge of e-book devices and e-book use.»

At the time, some charged that those in favor of the idea were catering to white parents in gentrifying neighborhoods who wanted easier access to high - performing charters, like E.L. Haynes in Petworth.

Ms. Moskowitz and a number of her teachers saw the network's exacting approach in a different way: as putting their students on the same college track as children in wealthier neighborhoods who had better schools and money for extra help.

The argument is that students in low - income neighborhoods who are most likely to come to school hungry or sick, and have unstable or unsupportive family environments, will need to be fed, healthy, and supported before they can excel academically.

Demand for the film has been high, and some fans have even been organzing special viewings for children in their neighborhoods who may not otherwise be able to attend, courtesy of the Black Panther Challenge, started by Frederick Joseph, who was surprised by star Chadwick Boseman and talk - show host Ellen DeGeneres for his efforts.

Project BOOST (Building Options and Opportunities for Students), a program targeting elementary and middle school students from underprivileged neighborhoods who show academic talent, provides resources and extracurricular activities to build and develop their talents.

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- Children from poorer neighborhoods who are hospitalized are more likely to die before discharge than kids from wealthier areas, according to a new study.

For instance I have had some teen patients who are African American and who live in poor neighborhoods who have chosen to breastfeed.

It upset her to think that these perfectly good toys were being thrown away when at the same time there were so many kids in the same and other neighborhoods who couldn't afford to have toys.

Indeed, I have a treasured memory that gives me hope in this regard: I was once a member of an inner - city Reformed congregation that was also home to a woman from the neighborhood who considered this congregation her parish church, as it were.

There are families in my neighborhood who have relocated here with their kids, and one thing they tell me is that they want their kids to grow up knowing that not everything is okay in this world — that racism exists, that injustice exists, that just because someone smells doesn't mean we have to be afraid of them, and so on.

How many of you personally know someone at school, at work, or in your neighborhood who is named Peter?

God does not want your bread, but we all know someone in our town or neighborhood who does.

Having said that, there are some kids in my neighborhood who love the motorcycle and playing with my dog — and have never had any problems here in Glasgow Scotland with that.

A strange thing I have noticed — Those who were never involved with their neighbors in a middle class neighborhood who moved to the worst / poorest neighborhood in the city usually end up with similar relationships in the new neighborhood.

As a wife and as a mother, what Val can't afford to not think about is this: anyone in her neighborhood who might be out walking their dog after dark does not want to turn around and see a black man in sweats running toward them.

I don't want anyone in my neighborhood who thinks jihad means kill Americans.

We feel a responsibility to make the most of our platforms and our privilege by demanding that those around us — those who come to our games to support us, those who voted for us, or those in our neighborhood who have high hopes that we will bring a higher level of thinking to our criminal justice system — are treated with respect, dignity, and fairness.

Usually I fault the parents a bit more than the kids but one time some little shitty girl in our neighborhood who spent all of last year playing with my kids decided that now she's grown as an 8 year old and she started bullying the shit out of my son.

Attend local craft fairs, their may be someone talented in your neighborhood who makes and sells matching dresses

Get in touch with other parents in the neighborhood who will be schlepping their kids to the same places as you will.

«He loaned tools to people in the neighborhood who needed them.

But I vaguely knew of his son from the neighborhood who was arrested in a prescription drug - selling ring last year.

Rather, he told WBFO, the purpose is to give communities information about those who live or move into their neighborhood who might be worth watching more closely.

«In Western New York, without an active duty base, a guard or a reserve family... a lot of times a child may be the only one in a school district that has a parent who is serving, and they're the only family in the neighborhood who understands what words like deployment mean, ot TDY (temporary duty assignment), those sorts of things,» Lauer said.

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — Northern Manhattan paid tribute to a fallen soldier Sunday afternoon, by naming an intersection after a 23 - year - old Army sergeant from the neighborhood who was killed while fighting in Iraq.

Remember, normal gut flora acts as a physical barrier to foreign flora; they are stubborn tenants, old ornery relics of the neighborhood who refuse to leave and who dissuade pathogenic flora from settling in.

Check out the wild match dating portal and see some of the freaks in your neighborhood who are looking for sex tonight!

Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games 67) plays Elissa, a young girl new to the neighborhood who becomes friends with Ryan (Max Thieriot), the young boy down the street.

He also sees the spirit of a girl from the neighborhood who disappeared months ago — and Jake sees the spirit as well.

That said, this movie is really funny and ultimately pretty moving, the story of a black geek from a bad neighborhood who ends up on the dark web trying to sell a backpack full of drugs.

A suspicious Chris begins to unravel a horrifying truth as he meets more people in the neighborhood who are acting just as strangely.

His drug running business is under watch of Rocco (Harvey Keitel, filling in for De Niro) and members of the neighborhood who verbally object to horrible misdirection young men and women are making, in either selling or buying drugs.

On one end is Carlos Nuñez (Jay Hernandez), a bright student from a rough L.A. neighborhood who takes a two - hour bus trip in each direction every day to attend the posh Pacific High.

«Do you know people in the neighborhood who don't talk to the police?»

This comedy focusses on a young black nerd living in a tough Los Angeles neighborhood who is attempting to get into Harvard while at the same time dealing with a drug situation he has been forced into while being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

But the movie implies Connolly is acting out something other than a repressed crush: It's the need of a bullied child in a tough neighborhood who looks to the biggest, meanest kid to protect and define him.

But long before this plot is hatched, Costello is positioning his own rat: Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon), a loyal kid from the neighborhood who becomes a state trooper and wins an assignment to a special investigative unit on organized crime.

Before leaving for the United States, though, she decided to start a reading clinic at her house on Sunday afternoons for Ryan, his friends, and children from the neighborhood who also needed help.

Nearly two decades after they attended an experimental preschool program in a low - income neighborhood in Ypsilanti, Mich., the small group of young people monitored in a now - well - known study continue to fare better as students, workers, and citizens than children from the same neighborhood who did not attend the preschool.

«But parents in the neighborhood who were middle - class parents and were educated people banded together and decided, «Well, if we all send our child to the local public school, it will get better.»

At the Charlestown community meeting on school choice options that was held last week by Boston Public School (BPS) officials, two goals that will affect the children in our neighborhood who attend or might attend the public schools were brought to light.

For our analysis, we calculated public charter school participation rates for each in - boundary neighborhood, or the proportion of students living within an in - boundary neighborhood who attend public charter schools anywhere in the city.

Alendra Lyons, a community leader in the Dunbar neighborhood who both works at the school and serves on its site - based decision - making committee, was told at a committee meeting in June that the community schools pilot had been moved elsewhere.

It would be more than three decades before the mystery of Marcia's disappearance was finally solved, and during that time, the case took a toll not only on the little girl's family and on several young men in the neighborhood who were falsely suspected of involvement in the crime — but, more broadly, on the city as whole.