Sentences with phrase «of their classmates in»

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.

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.

A few of my classmates in London would compare European museums to the MOMA in New York and I had no idea what the comparison was because I had never been.

One of my classmates in Susan Khalje's Classic French Jacket Class chose this silk charmeuse for her jacket lining:

You don't need to mention hiding the paint brush of a classmate in kindergarten!

A favorite activity for my elementary students was to draw the name of a classmate in morning circle, secretly observe that classmate during the day — looking for behaviors to appreciate, and then in our closing circle each student would reveal the name of their buddy and appreciate him / her.

«Maritza Torres stands out this year as a strong force in promoting the learning of her classmates in the School Leadership Program, says Lecturer Lee Teitel, director of SLP.

Students took more responsibility for their behavior and the behavior of their classmates in small schools.

Muslim Alkurdi, 18, of Albuquerque High School, joins hundreds of classmates in Albuquerque, N.M, Monday, March 2, 2015, as students staged a walkout to protest a new standardized test they say isn't an accurate measurement of their education.

Unlike your typical Western over-scheduling soccer mom, the Chinese mother believes that (1) schoolwork always comes first; (2) an A-minus is a bad grade; (3) your children must be two years ahead of their classmates in math; (4) you must never compliment your children in public; (5) if your child ever disagrees with a teacher or coach, you must always take the side of the teacher or coach; (6) the only activities your children should be permitted to do are those in which they can eventually win a medal; and (7) that medal must be gold.

R.C. v. Beverly Hills Unified School District took a video of some friends at a local restaurant, talking about one of their classmates in a negative way, and uploaded it to YouTube once she got home.

Stein has a bachelor's with honors in economics from Columbia, studied econ at the graduate level at Yale, and is a graduate of Yale Law School (valedictorian of his class by election of his classmates in 1970).

There have been a few sub-par teachers but overall my children had a wonderful education and both are amazed at how ill - prepared many of their classmates in the university are.

Not exact matches

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.

Eight years after he started the menswear e-tailer with University of Victoria classmate Heikal Gani, CEO Kyle Vucko is stepping down in favour of online veteran Drew Green.

Girls, for example, now make up about half of the enrollment in high - school science and math classes and are scoring almost identically to their male classmates on standardized tests.

After watching 17 of their classmates and teachers be shot dead in just minutes, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas — and other schools around the country — taught us all a lesson in leadership.

McRaven talked about being in SEAL training and reflecting on a crew of physically small classmates, none of whom was more than five - feet - five.

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 tech company, which she co-founded with MIT classmate Scott Sundvor in 2013, is the maker of a portable sensor that detects allergens in food.

In starting Pinrose, Stanford Graduate School of Business classmates Erika Shumate and Christine Luby had a vision to make high - quality fragrance a playful, effortless, everyday experience for the modern millennial.

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.

«We call upon you, as our friend, our classmate, and as a fellow American, to resign in protest of President Trump's support of Nazism and white supremacy.

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.»

«You're seeing all of your classmates coming in and saying this is the job I want and they went and got it,» Webb says of the tough decision to pass up the offer.

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.

«Beginning in November 2014 and continuing until his arrest in March 2016, CASPERSEN engaged in a Ponzi - like scheme to defraud investors, including his close friends, family members, and college classmates, by falsely claiming that their funds would be used to make secured loans to private equity firms and would thereby earn an annual rate of return of 15 to 20 percent.

In January, when fellow classmates spent the first week of spring semester interviewing for traditional internships, Xu and Rai flew to craft brew - rich — and alcohol legislation - lax — California to drive up and down the coast, enlisting brewery owners to join their yet - to - exist platform.

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).

The challenge resulted in sacrifices that few of his classmates could ever endure.

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.

But over the last 40 years, every British minister has done what our bosses (usually their former classmates at Oxford and Cambridge) tell them to do: keep income tax rates low, make evasion easy with a ton of loopholes, turn a blind eye to our bonuses and our market - rigging, hand over tens of billions of pounds in bailout money when necessary, and pass the check to those mythical non-Londoners in their seaside retirement homes and Amazon logistics centers.

(Poets & Quants)-- While most of his MBA classmates at Stanford Graduate School of Business rushed off to lucrative internships with some of the world's most prestigious firms this past summer, Matt Ivester holed up in the school's library.

Until alums Glynn LoPresti, Michael Rihani and Patrick Gartlan stepped in by founding Koofers Inc. in 2006, students had to be friends with a classmate to share notes — and had to be part of Virginia Tech.

Jack Abraham, a Twice investor, serial entrepreneur, and former classmate of Ready - Campbell's, had also invested in the pair's first business idea, a micropayment company.

Then, in the fall of his sophomore year, he hacked into the online «facebooks» of Harvard's residential halls to create Facemash, a site that encouraged students to rank their classmates» looks.

A Thornlea classmate, Ari Blaff, told CBC News he recalls Minassian was «sort of in the background,» not the center of any particular group of friends.

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.

For his part, Blankfein said he did well in school not because he was «some roaring genius» but because he wanted to succeed, whereas most of his classmates couldn't have cared less.

Two months later, in June 2016, they were manufacturing the first couple of prototypes in the factory in Mexico (one of their classmates at Wharton introduced them to the owner).

In collaboration with his former University of Waterloo mechatronics engineering classmate, Jaclyn Konzelmann, Haldenby recently launched the Amulyte system.

So after hustling nonstop to get a Silicon Valley internship of his own, he took matters into his own hands and started personally brokering intros for his classmates to Bay Area companies, earning $ 60k in referral bonuses in less than one year and paying his way through college.

We must also work together to create a culture in our country that embraces the dignity of life that creates deep and meaningful human connections and that turns classmates and colleagues into friends and neighbors.

A student took this video of classmates hiding in a classroom at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, as a gunman opens fire.

In Miami's Liberty City neighborhood, where the debate over guns is old and fraught, protesting the shooting death of a student proved far more challenging than his classmates expected.

He's heard a university geology grad complain that two years on, barely one - tenth of her classmates have jobs in their field.

Before her were hundreds of mourners, seated in row upon row and crowding every wall and corner: her cousins, her classmates, the governor and so many others.

He preened with guns and knives on social media, bragged about shooting rats with his BB gun and got kicked out of school — in part because he had brought bullets in his backpack, according to one classmate.

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.