Sentences with phrase «of classmates from»

«I saw three of my classmates from that period on the floor and they didn't make it,» the girl said, barely making it through her story.

PARKLAND, FL - FEBRUARY 20: Tiffany Bogert cheers on some of the hundreds of her classmates from West Boca High School as they arrive at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after they walked there in honor of the 17 students shot dead last week on February 20, 2018 in Parkland, Florida.

This is me (the bald guy) and four of my classmates from theater school at Central Park in NYC in 2013.

Two of his classmates from the college were charged this week with throwing out evidence that officials said could have linked Mr. Tsarnaev to the attacks.

Several weeks after the end of the class, I was helping with a groundbreaking ceremony for work when I looked up and saw one of my classmates from the course.

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She, along with several of her classmates, have held gun control rallies in their Florida community and called on government officials to act now to prevent future mass shootings from taking place.

With my $ 500,000, the $ 12 million note from Shell, and the $ 10 million loan from ARCO, I was able to persuade one of my former classmates at Wharton, who was now the executive vice president of Union Bank in Los Angeles, to loan me the remaining $ 20 million.

The program is capped with a business trip abroad, where students meet and learn from local executives, tour businesses in a number of economic sectors, and participate in a consulting project with classmates and students from international host schools.

'» Eventually, with support from classmates and a lot of late nights, Gerstein was able to get her grades and confidence up.

Despite having one of the most famous last names in the world, David Rockefeller Jr. didn't know his family was wealthy until he heard it from a classmate.

While classmates at her all - white elite high school breezed into adulthood and homeownership with help from their parents, she «bought my first home as a co-signer to my grandmother who was next on the list of longtime renters in our gentrifying neighborhood... to be displaced.»

Aside from the few who among us who had master's degrees in business administration, most of my classmates brought to the table the skills and experience specific to theor venture, such as backgrounds in fashion, architecture, medicine, food service and so forth.

CEO Shah and his Cornell classmate Steve Conine started out with racksandstands.com in 2002 and quickly expanded, buying dozens of niche domain names and launching many from scratch—simplydogbeds.com, justshagrugs.com, dinnerplates.com — and in 2011 changing the company name from CSN Stores to Wayfair (700 employees went on a Boston bar crawl in Wayfair T - shirts to help market the new name).

He also launched a series of startups — from selling computers to his classmates going off to college to Zotspot, an internet search engine.

I saw a wonderful example of this principle on Monday when five teams of my «Foundations of Entrepreneurial Management» students at Babson College tried to convince their skeptical classmates to buy from their businesses.

By joining the Rotman EMBA program, you gain immediate access to the knowledge and experience of a network of seasoned international business managers — your fellow classmates, who come from around the world.

As an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Pandey befriended an American classmate from Arizona, Vincent Sanchez - Gomez.

But he's also 16 years old and a survivor of a deadly mass shooting, one that he spent in hiding for two hours, trying to calm down crying classmates until a SWAT team freed them from a classroom closet.

SO... now that you know how many plans we get from portolio companies, laywers, recruiters and entrepreneurs in general (not to mention business school classmates, other VCs, professors, etc.)... still think your plan randomly submitted has a good shot of getting you a meeting?

Here's a discussion of a paper, «Regulating Against Bubbles: How Mortgage Regulation Can Keep Main Street and Wall Street Safe - From Themselves,» by Ryan Bubb and Prasad Krishnamurthy (disclosure: my law school classmates), that sort of takes the idea of a housing bubble seriously as a bubble.

Tallahassee, Florida (CNN) From Arizona to Washington, students walked out of schools in support of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students a week after their classmates were silenced by gunfire.

Standing with a group of families who had traveled to the State Capitol from Parkland, an emotional Mr. Scott called the classmates of the slain students and their parents his inspiration, and praised them for helping persuade lawmakers to pass legislation, even if neither they nor he agreed with all of its provisions.

But when news broke of a mass shooting in a Parkland, Florida, school — which killed 17 people and injured more than a dozen others — Brown said it shocked him: He graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 1999, and Aaron Feis, a football coach who died in the gunfire, was his classmate.

Before going into that White House listening session with classmates and parents of the latest mass school massacre victims in Florida, President Donald Trump had a brief cheat - sheet from an aide advising him to tell them: «I hear you.»

He was also wanted them to put skin in the game by investing in CDL companies they liked, though he made a handful of exceptions for entrepreneurs whose companies hadn't yet paid out from a sale or IPO, such as Geordie Rose, a former UBC classmate who had gone on to co-found quantum - computer maker D - Wave Systems.

We first meet Charlotte Simmons on the eve of her departure from Sparta, North Carolina, where, as a gifted student, she had felt rather isolated from (and superior to) her high school classmates.

The glowing cheeks of my sporty classmates were of no significance to me beside the radiant foreheads of my special friends, lit from within by the lamp of inquiry.

In this particular one, it soon became clear that my concept of group discussion was different from that of my classmates, all of whom were friars as was the professor.

That pitch came from the left arm of Ross Baumgarten, a junior high school classmate in a suburb north of Chicago, who went on to pitch for the hometown White Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates.

Elementary children in the Church can sometimes embrace their parents views and be much more dogmatic about them, so I would be very on guard for a potential negative comments from classmates and would want the leader to cut off any kind of negative peer response as quickly as possible.

Stephen's early years at Clongowes are marked by the physical and emotional torment of his classmates and several of the priests; those days away from home are hard for the reader to bear.

Israeli children as a matter of policy remain with the same classmates from kindergarten through high school, and go into the army together and usually remain there together in the same unit (some experts ascribe the disproportionate military effectiveness of Israel's army to this practice).

Claibrone's heartfelt apology reminded me a little of Donald Miller's story of the «confession booth,» recounted in Blue Like Jazz, in which Miller and a group of young Christians apologized to their Reed College classmates for everything from the Crusades to televangelists.

My son Oliver started feeling very sick last weekend, likely a gift from one of his pre-school classmates, and by Tuesday I was feeling the full brunt of some relentless flu symptoms.

On Valentine's Day, we set the boxes on top of our desks to collect valentine cards from our classmates.

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A lot of my classmates in college were from New York and New Jersey, and I'm guessing that they were also a little upset about this matter — more so than the Washingtonian girl.

I still have a batch of sinful chocolate mousse, the children have bagfuls of sweets from their classmates, there are the boxes of chocolates, and there's even some cupcakes from one of the Bay Area's beloved bakeries.

My classmate, Melissa Thoen, reminded me of another all - time favorite: «One trick that I keep going back to is using agar in everything from vegan buttercream to homemade marshmallows,» she says.

With one card from us, and Valentines from classmates and grandparents, we did get to sit and enjoy watching The Bug open his cards and a few small trinkets, and then devour part of a chocolate heart.

At one of the first team meetings his players raved about the kid who had just transferred in from nearby Santaluces High, after watching video clips of their new classmate.

A lot of players want to go to institutions that they are going to graduate from, next to their teammates and classmates.

His choice revealed an aversion to the expected, as most of his classmates selected pseudo-meaningful motivational quotes culled from pop music and anthologies of wisdom.

While the school is a Catholic school, it is separate from the Archdiocese and is governed like any other independent private school so our kids will make their sacraments at Sacred Heart but have many classmates from outside their own religious tradition (around 30 percent of the student body is not Catholic).

They might have a new classmate that comes from different part of the country that is different from their skin color, if your daughter owns a great variety of dolls that come with different skin colors, then she will not be surprised to see another skin complexion other than her's.

And just as with girls, if your son is an early bloomer, he may feel awkward or like he's the subject of stares from his classmates.

I had a classmate in college from North Platte, Nebraska who had not owned a winter coat since the age of ten, because he was comfortable in just a shirt.

From that vantage point I was able to observe the difference in my classmates of various ages.

Two days ago it seemed sure that the worst homework assignment of the year would be the «go on a date with a classmate and act ladylike» assignment from a Utah Financial Literacy class, but the week isn't even out yet, and a Pennsylvania math teacher is joining the competition with a high school math problem about sexual assault.

The girls are donating a portion of their profits to Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital in honor of Sofie Shields, a classmate who died from cancer.