Sentences with phrase «poor supporting roles»

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It even plays the role of what Paul Nizan calls «watchdog»; that is, to the extent that it calms passions or preaches patience or permits the poor man to bear his poverty or holds up the light of hope, to that extent it becomes a party to injustice, inhibits revolt against it and supports evil.

Religious or secular, it is a difficult task to compile supporting evidence that Jesus was / is a poor role model for human beings.

He said at the event with the theme; «Role of human capital investment in supporting pro- poor and economic growth agenda» Gates urged Nigeria» to face the facts so that you can make progress»

«The House will agree that the BBC World Service performs an invaluable role, reflecting British democratic values overseas and supporting British influence in the world, and that the services it provides are a beacon to many in some of the poorest and most insecure countries in the world.

«Current women engineers become a flight risk when they experience a career plateau with few advancement opportunities, poor treatment by managers and co-workers and a culture that stresses taking work home or working on weekends with no support for managing multiple life roles,» Fouad said.

Family and social problems, lack of community support, poor access to quality education, relocation from their communities, and a shortage of science and technology role models are just some of the problems that youth living on reserves have to deal with, says Mervin Dewasha, founder, president, and treasurer of CASEA.

The campaign for The role of children during this time depends mostly on the economic status of the class (poor) children needed to work to help support.

Having appeared in one film (1913's Shylock), in 1933 he began taking film roles to support his theatrical work; his subtle, forceful, witty performances redeemed poor movies and intensified high - quality work.

No such excuse for Blood Ties, which is lifeless from Chris and Frank's first encounter, and finds poor James Caan and Marion Cotillard lost in fuzzy supporting roles.

Poor old Jason Isaacs, on the other hand, is saddled with a role that is the textbook definition of «one - dimensional», and it is hard to work out what an actor of his class gains from a supporting role like this.

While I think the supporting roles helped the film greatly, they also reminded the audience of how poor the younger actors were in the film.

And I'd like to single out Moritz Bleibtreu (Run Lola Run), one of my favorite German actors (also very good in The Baader Meinhof Complex) as one of the supporting characters whose role — unlike poor Vikander's — does add to the depth of the story.

Support networks of teachers and administrators are critical for rethinking our curriculum and our role in larger community issues, to best serve the needs of poor, inner - city second language learners.

Local school wellness policies support the HUSSC initiative and affirm that schools play a critical role in promoting student health, preventing childhood obesity, and combating problems associated with poor nutrition and physical inactivity.

Further evidence of how the Obama administration's waiver gambit is rendering poor and minority kids invisible is clear after one reads through the Education Trust's latest report, which partial reverses its support for the waiver gambit (and largely disavows its troublesome role in helping the administration, as well as Florida, in instilling Plessy v.Ferguson - like accountability targets).

Women and Development Under this heading, the expert panel considered measures to increase and improve girls» schooling; providing support for women's reproductive role; microfinancing for poor women; and affirmative action.

As co-deans of the law school, the Cahns pioneered legal programs for poor residents of the District, and, many years later, when the school fell on hard times, the Cahns returned to Washington to play crucial roles in mobilizing the community and securing support to launch the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law as a successor to the Antioch School of Law.

Relatives of people with psychosis / bipolar disorder (BD) provide a large amount of unpaid care, 1 2 but at high personal cost in terms of distress and burden, 3 — 5 and increased use of healthcare services.6 The UK Government recognises the need to support relatives in a caring role, 7 and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends all relatives are provided with information and support, and offered structured family intervention to enhance family coping and communication.8 9 However, a recent national audit of Early Intervention (EI) teams for psychosis showed poor implementation: only 50 % of relatives are receivingreceiving a carer - focused education and support programme; only 31 % offered structured family intervention and only 12 % receiving it.10

Specifically in the domain of adaptation to poor vision, several studies have documented that support from family members and friends can play a key role (e.g., Horowitz, 2004; McIlvane & Reinhardt, 2001; O'Donnell, 2005; Reinhardt, 1996; Thomas & Urbano, 1993).

Scales used to assess inconsistent maternal enforcement of rules, loud arguments between the parents, low maternal educational aspirations for the child, maternal possessiveness, maternal use of guilt to control the child, maternal anger toward the child, parental cigarette smoking, parental supervision of the child, paternal assistance to the child's mother, paternal role fulfillment, and maternal verbal abuse were obtained from the DPI and instruments assessing maternal child - rearing attitudes and behaviors that were administered during the maternal interviews.28 - 31 Measures of maternal punishment, parental affection toward the child, parental time spent with the child, and poor parental communication with the child were administered during the maternal and offspring interviews using scales assessing parental warmth, parent - child communication, and parental support and availability.28, 29,31 Data regarding parental home maintenance and maternal behavior during the interview were provided by interviewer observations.

However, in the meantime, the role of PBCs is in jeopardy because of the poor level of support available for them and the role that they are expected to play in the community.

These findings suggest that social support plays a positive role to relieve the adverse impact of poor family function on self - esteem of the adolescents with grandparenting experience.

Although the full and partial mediating role of life satisfaction (Model 1 and Model 2) was not supported by the present findings, this is not to say that the mediating role of life satisfaction should be denied — these models still showed adequate fit indices, but both models were slightly poorer when compared with Model 6.