Sentences with phrase «of the classmates who»

I was surrounded by a bunch of classmates who were guaranteed success, because no matter what they did, they had generations of wealth and connections to rely on.

With typical use rates like that, even if the girl was only coming to Planned Parenthood for a prescription, it was a certainty that some of her classmates who came for contraception would find themselves considering whether to return for an abortion.

Nor did it occur to any of my classmates who knew about the incident to discuss it with any authority figure.

The late Captain Mahama's year group from St. John's School, Sekondi, has urged against the politicization of the death of their classmate who was murdered at Denkyira - Obuasi in an incident that shocked the nation.

I know plenty of my classmates who were surprised that certain professors knew their names when they were called on in class.

Furthermore, immigrant children who were learning English and participated in the intervention had achievement scores on those state tests that were nearly as high as the achievement scores of classmates who were proficient in English.

«You might think that's a little thing, but in every way possible we can send a message to our students today who may be considering a career path that requires a two - year technical college education, that is just as noble and needed and accepted as those of their classmates who go on to a four - year college or university,» he said.

Try this: have students fill out an exit slip where they identify a short list of classmates who they do feel comfortable talking to.

And when at least 1.2 million fourth - grade students, or one - third of the nation's students in that grade are likely to drop out — and nearly 1 million more of their classmates who are barely reading at Basic proficiency unlikely to succeed in college and career — we have a moral, intellectual, and systems - change obligation to focus on stemming achievement gaps.

She said she was the only one of her classmates who survived the war.

In Tear Duct (2001), he replaced the top of a drinking fountain with a stainless - steel mold of the face of a classmate who had to support herself through prostitution, a prevalent social problem in Cuba at the time.

Sharrow has been thought of often as being a part of the «Chicago School» of imagist painters, fitting generationally into the «Monster Roster» group of artists from that city, including the most well - known of her classmates who lead the charge of image and ideas over pure abstraction, Leon Golub and Nancy Spero.

I grew in confidence and skill, becoming more comfortable even though I was still behind many of my classmates who already knew how to build resumes and network.

But she knows the events will be bittersweet because of the classmates who are missing.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

«I want all of my classmates to know who I am.»

Although Tyson, who was Yancopoulos» friend and classmate at the Bronx High School of Science, was quick to point out that he was not a winner or semifinalist in the competition (in fact he didn't even enter), knowing other students who were was a point of pride for him.

Nargis Sakhibova, who hopes to launch a tech startup after graduation, was immediately won over by the potential classmates she met at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Penn State's Steve Ettinger, 55, who earned his classmates» respect for his insightfulness and helping hand, is ranked among the country's top doctors, And the University of Chicago's Sebastian Cerezo Montañez, 39, has already founded a leading independent M&A house and served as CEO of two companies, before he turned 40.

Parker faces renewed criticism after details of his 2001 trial on charges of raping a college classmate resurfaced earlier this week, and it was disclosed that the 18 - year - old woman who accused Parker and the film's co-writer, Jean Celestin, of raping her had committed suicide in 2012.

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.

Glenn Stevens, who is now the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia — and who was once my classmate — put it this way:

After talking to one of Facebook's co-founders and students who were at Harvard when Zuckerberg and I were classmates, there's one outstanding question about the creator and CEO of the 500 million - member website that today is valued at somewhere between $ 24 billion and $ 32 billion.

The calls show the brave, but terrified voices of students who were trying to get help for wounded classmates.

Classmates said they were concerned he fit the profile of a school shooter and Fort Lauderdale police sought the order after, they said, he wrote an essay describing a home invasion and murder at the home of a girl who did not return his affections.

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.

«However, the decision of an adult to personally criticize a high school student who has lost his classmates in an unspeakable tragedy is not consistent with our values.»

Nardi and his classmates were some of the thousands of students who walked out of class on Wednesday.

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.

-- State Attorney General Xavier Becerra on the federal government report filed Monday detailing numbers of Dreamers who have been able to renew their status — and are guaranteed two more years of DACA protection: «As a result of the nationwide injunction we secured, at least 30,000 Dreamers who have renewed their DACA status — our colleagues, our classmates, our teachers — can go home to their loved ones at night and keep helping build a better America.

Even as a gay male, it was strange for me showering with my straight classmates or at the gym just as its strange for straight people in the same situation but I am a human being who is capable of respect for others privacy and personal boundaries.

I'll be praying for you and your classmates, who clearly were not well instructed in the ways of the Church.

As the investigation continues to unravel the seeming paradox of how two apparently normal young men could commit acts of violence, classmates, neighbors and relatives of those who knew them have expressed surprise and disbelief.

I think of how every Latino kid taunted by classmates, every soldier sent to war, every autistic kid who will lose his therapy when ACA is repealed, every black man shot by police is somebody else's baby boy, somebody else's most important person in the world.

I had a classmate at an evangelical Christian college who repeatedly defined faith as «stepping out of airplanes, knowing that God will catch you.»

My religious views were no secret to my family (who mainly shared them) or my close friends (who had long known them) but were at the time unknown to the rest of my classmates in high school.

who, in front of his classmates, is questioned by his teacher as to whether his father comes home drunk.

Even if we are the special few who were not raised with the media as our pacifiers, we definitely had friends, family members, teachers, classmates, colleagues and so on, who were raised believing this is just commonplace behavior, influencing our early - forming minds in the process of simply doing life together.

And even for those of us who do (three of my college classmates died that day, Tom Glasser, Doug Gardner, and Calvin Gooding), to go there and remember will involve complex patriotic emotions.

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.

Even though I was doing different things, my classmates who weren't Muslim never thought of me as different and I didn't think much of it.

(To be sure, few would want to go so far as a seminary classmate of mine who regularly, and without acknowledging his source, preached Fosdick's sermons in his student church because he figured that his little congregation «deserved the best.»

Why should we congratulate a person who refuses to stand next to classmates in quiet reflection because of religious bigotry.

Professors and classmates who challenge them to think in new ways or who critique their preformed notions of truth are often dismissed as less than Christian.

A former St. Albert's classmate introduces Eddie to a screenwriter and website operator who asks Eddie whether he owns any pornographic home videos of his old girlfriend Martha Martin, who since her breakup with Eddie has skyrocketed to fame as the star of the cheesy NBC medical drama Dr. Drake.

The student at University of California, Merced who last year stabbed four classmates now appears to have been inspired by ISIS.

I took some of this soup to my husband and a classmate of his while they studied for a test, then shared the rest with our other friend who is a surgery resident.