Sentences with phrase «of bad role models»

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The kingpin of a fictional drug enterprise may not be your typical business role model, but Breaking Bad's Walter White can teach you a thing or two about what it takes to build an empire, including when not to delegate important tasks.

But I'm a bad role model for simplifying finances because I'm on the far side of the spectrum with multiple personal investment accounts and bank -LSB-...]

Those who are around bad role models can not realize their mistakes and thus, create a world of hate and fundamentalists which become percipitating events that lead to war.

Mark McGwire is stalking one of baseball's most cherished records... and suddenly he's engaged in a tabloid - driven controversy that's painting him as a cheater and a bad role model.

While many people tend to believe a single woman raising a son alone will have significant difficulties, and raise a boy who is gender - confused or worse, the fact is that there are male role models all around most boys, whether in the form of grandfathers, uncles, teachers, pastors, or mentors.

«We all know smoking is bad for health so I welcome any measures to reduce both active smoking and its role - modelling in front of children,» she said.

«Although well intentioned, the last Government received very little for their money in terms of social mobility and a reduction in the gap between the rich and the poor, and they have further fuelled a culture of benefit dependency in which children grow up seeing parents and grandparents who have never worked as their role models, in which people are better off living apart than living together, and in which there is no incentive to work because of the fear of becoming worse off.

We are taught in our Muslims, Christians, Buddists, Hindus and the various religious bodies hat leaders are role models, so a role model can be a good or a bad role model depending on the character traits of the person, is much followed by people, Ghanaians are yearning for change,» he said.

He doesn't understand that he is a bad role model for our kids,» stated Phil Rumore, President of the Buffalo Teachers Federation (BTF).

Ackerman soon realized the revolving - door of teenage and young adult defendants who often lack a positive role model and whose misconduct is getting worse had to be closed.

I had no connections, no education, few positive role models, and making matters worse, my self - esteem had been crushed through years of secreted childhood bullying and abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.

Worse than the frizz, though, was the loneliness: No matter how hard I flipped through the pages of my favorite fashion magazines, I couldn't find a curly - haired role model.

Breaking Bad vet Banks hold nothing back in making Pappy McAllan a thoroughly despicable figure, but the quiet revelation here is the deglamorized Blige, a model of understatement and careworn dignity in perhaps the singer's most demanding dramatic role to date.

Charley's mom walked out when he was young, and his dad is a beer - bellied slob (played by one - time Calvin Klein model Travis Fimmel, here looking more like the redneck version of his rugged «Vikings» character), not a bad guy, but no role model either, getting drunk after work and using what remains of his homecoming - king charm to bring home local women (it's a part better suited to Steve Zahn, who appears later, miscast as an abusive, borderline - homeless man).

Although it might be seen as a worst - case scenario, underneath the comedic surface of the material are serious themes about the dangers of bad parenting, particularly in how children learn to be just as corrupt as their parents in the absence of strong role models and people to help mold them into upright individuals.

In the grand tradition of Bad Santa, Bad Teacher, and Bad Words, along comes another comedy about a foul - mouthed, irresponsible role model behaving, well, badly in front of impressionable minors.

No critic, no bad review, nothing could take away the feeling of seeing our first real action role model in film.

(I just had an argument with someone who didn't like Brooklyn because he felt that the indecisiveness of Saoirse Ronan's Eilis made her a bad role model.

Sure, there may not any formal connection between Bad Santa, Bad Teacher, Bad Grandpa, Bad Words, Bad Gymnast (sorry, The Bronze), and the new Bad Moms apart from the universal desire to attract audiences with the promise of zanily inappropriate behavior from people who are supposed to be role models and / or authority figures.

The details: In the grand tradition of Bad Santa, Bad Teacher, and Bad Words, along comes another comedy about a foul - mouthed, irresponsible role model behaving, well, badly in front of impressionable minors.

Walsh is probably best known as one of the founders of the Upright Citizens Brigade, and he's also appeared in supporting roles in tons of films (Elf, Bad Santa, Role Models, Mystery Team, Cyrus, every comedy Todd Phillips has ever done) and television shows (Childrens Hospital, Outsourced, Party Down, Human Giant, Reno 911!

Kim's sassy response didn't stop a slew of other celebrities from adding their own two cents, including Chloe Grace Moretz accusing the reality star of being a bad role model and Miley Cyrus accusing them all of being «tacky.»

Despite all the character stupidity laid out above, there's actually a lot to like about Alien: Covenant, and a good chunk of that is Michael Fassbender playing dual roles as androids David (he's the bad one, from Prometheus) and Walter (the new and improved model traveling with the Covenant colonists).

Rusty's wife Debbie (Christina Applegate) isn't much of a role model either, between overimbibing in a «Chug Run» during a pit stop and «fessing up about having developed a bad reputation in college for showing her breasts to anybody who asked.

Rusty's wife Debbie (Christina Applegate) isn't much of a role model either, between over-imbibing in a «Chug Run» during a pit stop and «fessing up about having developed a bad reputation in college for showing her breasts to anybody who asked.

Nor is a boy going to become a bad guy, say the authors, because he reads some of the books, watches some of the shows, or listens to types of music that portray males as less than exemplary role models.

After we know what we expect of each other from a writing conference, it can be fun to model «good» and «bad» conferences in a fishbowl, having students practice with each other and, sometimes, assign roles («responder» and «student») or even characters (didactic responder and mutuality - driven writer).

But I'm a bad role model for simplifying finances because I'm on the far side of the spectrum with multiple personal investment accounts and bank accounts.

But I'm a bad role model for simplifying finances because I'm on the far side of the spectrum with multiple personal investment accounts and bank -LSB-...]

Rural Australians are definitely people we should consider as role models for the way they work through the good and the bad that the world throws at them; and the presence of community they share, particularly when things get rough.

After the boasting comes an «artist's statement,» in which she sounds «tired, tired of standing up, being counted, tired of «having a voice» or worse «being a role model.»»

But frankly I am tired, tired of standing up, being counted, tired of «having a voice» or worse «being a role model.»

She states, «I am tired, tired of standing up, being counted, tired of «having a voice,» or worse, «being a role model.»

Option 2 can play a role of course but statistical models can be much worse than the worst physics model Option 3, at its worse, is typically better than 2.

If you need a career role model, you could do worse than Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark..

They will be asked to enter comments about any aspect of a child's educational, physical and emotional well - being, including whether or not they consider the parents are providing positive role models or if children are doing badly at school.

For the past 25 years, it has been largely though that the development of childhood aggression was down to learning from bad role models.

In order to avoid repeating our parents» marriage mistakes, we need to seek out healthy marriage role models or mentors who have weathered the bad times and are willing to offer us guidance on how to navigate the difficulties of married life.

Maybe you are afraid of committing to a relationship because you've had negative experiences in the past, bad parental role models, or believe that a good relationship only happens if you «find your soulmate.»