Sentences with phrase «of schoolmates»

His film career began in 2006 when a casting director discovered him in a play and cast him as Alex Forbes, a minor who killed one of his schoolmates, in the movie Like Minds.

I had to hide behind desks and hold the hands of my classmates, shaking and praying, hearing the gunshots outside of my door,» said Mei - Ling Ho - Shing, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, telling the 28 other panelists about her experience inside the school as Nikolas Cruz shot and killed 17 of her schoolmates and school staff.

With such sage words from her and others, these students must feel better educated on how 17 of their schoolmates and teachers were killed.

Spencer Blum, one of her schoolmates, said he felt like lawmakers weren't representing him and other survivors of the shooting.

It was a way being popular at school, doing caricatures of my schoolmates and teachers.

«With the help of his rheumatologist dad and researchers from New York University, the fifth - grader handed out questionnaires to 171 of his schoolmates aged 7 to 12 years.»

All students are trained to recognize and value conflict, negotiate to solve the problem, and mediate the conflicts of their schoolmates.

Within three years of arriving, the Pisa tests show the children of new migrants have scores as high as the rest of their schoolmates.

It is a regression in which student achievement is explained by a combination of school inputs (resources such as funding per student, class size, teacher qualifications, etc.) and the characteristics of peers (percentage of schoolmates who are white and who are black, etc.), families (race, ethnicity, parents» education, number of siblings, etc.), and neighborhoods (the share of households who rent versus own, etc.).

For example, the literature on school finance and control is currently absorbed with the question of whether students are affected by the achievement of their schoolmates.

With our pint - sized protagonist wary of how the townsfolk will respond to his second extraordinary discovery, he enlists the help of his schoolmates, a colorful band of eccentrics which include the obese, neurotic pig Runt of the Litter (Steve Zahn), the self - explanatorily named Fish Out of Water, and Abby «Ugly Duckling» Mallard (Joan Cusack), a bucktoothed duck who holds some sage advice and a crush for Chicken Little.

Greg has found a way to avoid the trappings of high school by building vague relationships with a large number of his schoolmates so that no one really relies on him but no one dislikes him either.

They're called upon to go all Buffy when an ancient evil rises from beneath the ground in Manitoba and threatens their invites to a big party thrown by one of their schoolmates.

Fregley and Chirag add their own brand of humor and insightfulness to this little group of schoolmates.

As she develops a friendship with one of her schoolmates (Reece Thompson), Mr. Anderson becomes jaleous.

Growing up in the early 1930s in Edgware, London, Gallant's early childhood was much like many of his schoolmates.

A number of other factors increased the risk of adolescent lifetime smoking and nicotine dependence, including parent education, marital status, quality of parenting, and adolescent beliefs about the risk of smoking, perceptions of schoolmates» smoking, marijuana use, and mental health.

When Stephen Hawking was twelve years old, two of his schoolmates made a bet about his future.

Spencer Blum, one of her schoolmates, said he felt like lawmakers weren't representing him and other survivors of the shooting.

The shared experiences of schoolmates, notwithstanding the rosy glow of memory, gave the achievements added value, lasting for years to come.

Yesterday at my twins» preschool drop - off, one of their schoolmates was in tears.

Like Slonaker, Stevens said that his burgeoning success as an ATV driver had produced little in the way of enraptured awe from any of his schoolmates.

The houseparent had marched me to the school's dining hall, dragged a metal chair across the concrete floor, and slammed it down in front of my schoolmates.

Even as they mourned the deaths of 17 of their schoolmates and faculty, the survivors of the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., channeled their grief and rage into activism as leaders of the newly...

During her time on the March for Our Lives stage, Emma González, 18, who has been one of the most prominent of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas survivor - activists, allotted herself six minutes and 20 seconds for her speech: the amount of time, she noted, that it had taken for Nikolas Cruz to slaughter 17 of her schoolmates and injure many more.

All of my schoolmates were inside keeping dry, but I couldn't miss my dose.

Spencer Blum, one of her schoolmates, said he felt like lawmakers weren't representing him and other survivors of the shooting.

He was taken in by the parents of a schoolmate, according to that family's attorney.

Milton was grieving for the death by drowning of his schoolmate, Edward King, on his way to Ireland in 1637.

While not about a death in the family, this book addresses the death of a schoolmate.

For anybody who's ever felt the sting of a schoolmate's punch or caustic words, that's very good news.

After their mother's death in November, both sons stayed in Lantana with Deschamps, but Nikolas left and went to live in Parkland with James and Kimberly Snead, the parents of a schoolmate of his.

Before the shooting, Nikolas told the parents of a schoolmate, who took him in after his mother's death, that he stood to inherit $ 800,000 when he turns 22.

Before the shooting, Nikolas told the parents of a schoolmate who took him in after his mother's death, that he would inherit $ 800,000 when he turns 22.

Not exact matches

While the primary purpose of a quinquennial General Conference session is to conduct business, it is also a celebration of Adventism and its progress; a «fair» where church publishers, departments, educational and medical institutions and unofficial «self - supporting ministries» show their wares and garner support; an old - fashioned revival meeting; and a «family gathering» where church employees, in particular, meet former schoolmates and colleagues.

To do so would be to neglect the reality that her choice — whatever it becomes — impacts the lives of her family, her boyfriend Tom, Tom's family, her unborn child if she is pregnant, her schoolmates, her youth group at church and potentially many others whose lives intersect with hers.

The poster even said he / she didn't have any problems until the parents of her kids schoolmates found out they didn't go to church and then started a hate campaign against them.

Their loneliness, drunkenness, disease, the early deaths of or abandonment by their fathers, the tauntings and beatings they took from their schoolmates: These and other blows became the fundamental truths about the world and the stuff of their poetry.

And yet, the Millers are finally driven from their Eden by the destructive behavior of their son toward a black schoolmate.

One of my son's schoolmates is allergic to eggs and dairy and I love baking so much, I needed to find a solution that wouldn't single anyone out.

In her home of Letlhakane, a village of mud huts and thatched roofs, schoolmates post themselves at 100 - meter intervals when she trains, to urge her on her way.

VT Tributes The Virginia Tech baseball team observed 32 seconds of silence last Saturday inBlacksburg, Va. — one for every schoolmate slain in an April 16 campusmassacre — before taking the field against Miami.

Sirs: Athletes of the caliber of Tommy Gresham and his schoolmates are scarce.

The reaction of his fellow players or any officials is not recorded, but the advantages of playing the game in this natural fashion were obvious to Ellis's schoolmates who followed his example.

She may not have known my name or anyone else from her shorter term memory, but she could tell me the name of everyone in that album - old boyfriends, schoolmates of hers, homes and cars and vacations (how amazing our minds are).

Regular presentations by the students to their schoolmates, to parents, and visitors give Waldorf students a sense of confidence that students in other educational environments often lack.

If what your kids like is the opposite of healthy, you've got some work to do because even kids who are accustomed to healthy foods will crave schoolmates» junk food and ask for it in their lunch too.

He said, «Nigerians know that President Buhari challenged the elections of 2003, 2007, and 2011, up to the Supreme Court, and not once was he named as trying to compromise any Judge, though some of them were his schoolmates, or contemporary, at one time or the other.

Asked if Mr Cameron could see his former Eton schoolmate make a comeback as a Member of Parliament at the next election, he replied:

Malloy has owned this honor since 2006, and it could be argued that the last eight years of Connecticut history have been one huge non-menstrual retelling of «Carrie» — a fiery redemption after his suffering at the hands of pitiless schoolmates and scornful teachers.