Sentences with phrase «own formative years»

The recession hit during their formative years, making them especially circumspect about spending.

Having promised shareholders that Edmark would remain profitable even during its formative years as a consumer - software publisher, Narodick allocated only a nominal budget to promote Edmark's two new products.

«The first generation went through their formative years in the»60s and didn't found their businesses with the idea that they were going to change the world, by and large,» says Grossman.

Through these lean times, he never lost his optimism and credits his fortune in large part to those formative years.

Straight from our formative years we all respond to a well told story.

But those turbulent formative years contributed to both a level - headedness and a stubborn belief that any business challenge can be overcome.

Frind spent his formative years on a grain farm in the northern hinterlands of British Columbia — «the bush,» in local parlance.

It's a great story, especially for people just starting out, since Eric focuses on his formative years.

The son of Macau gambling tycoon Stanley Ho, Lawrence spent his formative years in Canada — from Grade 3 to his 1999 University of Toronto graduation.

At its core, it asserts that our personality become solidified during our formative years spent within an organized family unit.

She built the Philanthropy Roundtable during its formative years, and then helped found DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund, which runs donor - advised funds for conservative and libertarian donors; together, they moved over $ 100 million in a recent year.

It's a Brand New World: In the early formative years of the Edison Awards, we encountered a brand resurgence.

«Much of this is attributable to the financial crisis and Great Recession coming during the financially formative years for many millennials.»

The ages from 14 to 24 were found to be the most formative years.

In the formative years of my trading career (late»90s), I frequently found myself scratching my head over an interesting problem.

Mr. Wheelock spent the formative years of his career, from 1981 to 1999, with Anglo American and De Beers working with gold and diamonds as a geologist and a manager.

The Hollywood Reporter retraces his moves in Queens and Buffalo and interviews dozens of former friends and associates to examine the formative years of Hollywood's most infamous figure.»

Although we grew up in the same family, our experiences related to money were very different during our formative years.

Unfortunately for Knight, the venture capital industry was not developed enough in Nike's formative years to be a source of capital for his business.

The other employees» formative years came in a bear market.

With Sanford, Florida, the site of Martin's killing, just three hours away from their town and Jacksonville, where a black teenager named Jordan Davis was shot and killed in 2012, just six hours away, it is likely that discussions of Black Lives Matter have been a part of their formative years.

He spent his formative years as a shepherd and framed his life's work around the key concepts from his profession.

There has been an effort, for some time now, to wrestle with Lonnie's role in the formative years of our movement.

I was never abused as a child and I had solid role models to guide me in my formative years.

You know, the most formative years in our growth.

I felt a bit the outsider because I could not express how I missed those wonderful formative years (including the time spent as a security guard).

It is usually happening during the spiritual formative years.

Those formative years are never truly forgotten but refined over time, and influences perceptions, behavior, thought - patterns, etc..

It is very difficult to shake off the beliefs and taboos instilled by parents and community during formative years.

Thankfully, the Internet came along and preserved the memory of the art form's more formative years.

I spent my formative years in a foreign country and a state that had a large population of Muslims.

In my formative years, I saw excessive use of alcohol and tobacco by adults who were self - absorbed, bored with life, and, in fact, not very interested in their children.

Obama was raised a Muslim, and even attended a Muslim religious school (Madrassa) during his formative years in Indonesia.

I pity all these children who were not given proper guidance in their young formative years.

Let us allow the Holy Spirit to answer through phrases He whispered to her through formative years — phrases that she eventually pieced together and called her Little Mandate from God.

Why should I have to «join» a church / fellowship I've been faithfully active in for my formative years and beyond?

I have an appreciation for much of the Christian narrative as it is the house I lived in for many formative years.

I learned how to empathize with hardship when I was with the Salesians during a major part of my formative years, and this is what keeps me going.

I firmly believe that the character of our country is stronger now than it was in our nation's early formative years.

Unfortunately, Rush does not know what communism and Marxism are.Having spent formative years behind the iron curtain, I do have some general idea of what it entails having lived it and it is not what the Pope was asking for.

A friend of my parents from before I was born, he and his family were a presence in my life throughout my formative years.

In this view two currents of thought, staffed for the most part by two groups of people, dominated the formative years of the American civil religion.

The genuine conflict between theological paradigms operative in the debates of the Second Vatican Council during my own formative years of theological study in Rome focused the question for me initially as one within my own Roman Catholic Church community.

During the formative years of Dutch influence in the late seventeenth century, the religion of the Reformed Church was given special protection as the vehicle through which the Afrikaner identity was forged.

This sounds exactly like the limbo I was taught in my formative years.

Take your partner to a library and peruse books from your formative years together.

I guess it's time to do more assumption hunting... I «found him» all through my young formative years.

You are an example of why religion shouldn't be taught to children, to no one under 21 because, just like alcohol, it ruins minds if ingested during formative years.

I am a recovered Catholic - after spending my formative years in parochial school, I chose to start thinking for myself.

Each week, forty or fifty million adults and many young people in the formative years listen to a spiritual leader speak on something which (hopefully) touches people where they live.