Sentences with phrase «rather than the girls»

she is better off being friends with the boys rather than the girls....

And in other parts of the world, the victim is a goat rather than a girl, or the villain is a tiger rather than a wolf.

Is it wrong to totally want this for me, rather than my girls?

«[B] oys rather than girls are now on the short end of the gender gap in many secondary school outcomes,» said Cornelius Riordan in 2000.

My article («Where the Boys Are,» June 12, 1996) argued that, contrary to popular opinion, it is boys rather than girls who are on the weak side of the gender gap.

Not exact matches

Rather than building a sales force from scratch, Get Real Girl hired a sales executive and signed up 15 well - known independent - rep groups employing about 75 salespeople.

Reformed pimp, Isaiah Reed, talks about why girls are shipped overseas to work in the sex trade rather than used in the United States.

When Freitas sat down to talk to young people about their phones, she heard some pretty crazy stories of raging tech addiction, from the girl who gave her phone a name and talked about it like a friend to the boy who claimed he'd rather leave his brain at home than his precious device.

As a result, according to a Willamette Week report, standard grams of weed are selling at $ 4 rather than $ 8, and it now costs almost the same to buy a gram of the Girl Scout Cookies strain as it does to buy two boxes of Girl Scout Cookies.

Our group of girls is such a tight - knit community that I'm so fortunate to be a part of, and they're all so brilliant with what they're able to accomplish, it's absolutely incredible, and I thought it would be great for us to have one place, rather than countless apps, to showcase ourselves and just get to know each other better!

I support this girl if she wants to compete, but I also respect the boy for his decision to forfeit, rather than to attempt to suppress a girl with brute force.

The perceptive piece on «date rape» («Boys and Girls: The Long Way Back to the Obvious,» The Public Square, May) highlights the fact that while many Americans are reinventing the wheel, many feminists are perversely insisting that it be square rather than round.

I would rather be digging holes in the desert and have my family intact than plant a thousand churches and lose my wife and girls.

There are some people out there educating girls to the best of their knowledge and promoting it as a personal conviction rather than a law, and there are other people shaming girls because of their sexuality and life choices, declaring lots of people «unpure» and «sluts» if they disagree.

medical bills and utilities for girls / women who keep their babies rather than abort... and they pay for counselling and living expenses for those who DO abort.

I would rather go on a cross country trip with Reality and HeavenSent than to stomach this girl Sarah's opinions on anything except how to free her friends she left behind.

There are so many amazing options available to young girls now that I ended up simply choosing our family's personal favourites rather than using any other metric.

Lizzy the Lioness by Lisa Bevere — This book was different than I expected — rather than centering bravery on one girl's actions, it centers bravery around knowing when to ask for help.

As a child I used to suffer tortures of shyness, and if my shoe - lace was untied would feel shamefacedly that every eye was fixed on the unlucky string; as a girl I would shrink away from strangers and think myself unwanted and unliked, so that I was full of eager gratitude to any one who noticed me kindly; as the young mistress of a house I was afraid of my servants, and would let careless work pass rather than bear the pain of reproving the ill - doer; when I have been lecturing and debating with no lack of spirit on the platform, I have preferred to go without what I wanted at the hotel rather than to ring and make the waiter fetch it.

«They see girls as a burden rather than seeing a child as precious and honoured in God's sight, and worth of dignity and respect as much as a boy child.»

What young girl believes that the man who loves her will demonstrate his love by marrying her rather than hooking up with her?

Thank goodness — that's one pretty sick cult — the kids get raised to be breeding stock — girls to marry unquestioningly the old man being rewarded with another young bride, the boys to be very obedient in hopes they'll get a bride, rather than kicked out (when you have polygamy, you have to maintain a very high female to male ratio — guess how they do that).

We can rejoice that we are saved not through the immanent mechanisms of history and nature, but by grace; that God will not unite all of history's many strands in one great synthesis, but will judge much of history false and damnable; that He will not simply reveal the sublime logic of fallen nature, but will strike off the fetters in which creation languishes; and that, rather than showing us how the tears of a small girl suffering in the dark were necessary for the building of the Kingdom, He will instead raise her up and wipe away all tears from her eyes» and there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor any more pain, for the former things will have passed away, and He that sits upon the throne will say, «Behold, I make all things new.»

i'm a savory rather than sweet girl.

I'd rather have an Oreo any old day than a Girl Scout cookie (I know, I know).

I'm not a spicy girl, so I cut the chili pepper to 1T and only used 1 of the chipotle peppers in adobe sauce rather than the full amount.

Although I've incorporated avocado in desserts on Girl Cooks World several times before (here and here), I thought it was about time they were given a starring role, rather than being a background ingredient providing texture and body.

Being a northern girl, I'm definitely a Scones with an «o» rather than an «oh».

After all, I felt like my allegiance should be to Polish cabbage rolls, which I've eaten since I was a little girl, rather than the Hungarian version.

I learned from Gluten Free Girl to convert flours based on weight, rather than volume.

Plus now with this recipe, I can have these any time I get the urge for these cookies rather than just during the «girl scout cookie season».

Rather than attempting to become only the second girls tennis player to win three straight NCS titles — and the first in more than 25 years — Chuang decided she'd rather chase a doubles title by playing alongside her younger sister CRather than attempting to become only the second girls tennis player to win three straight NCS titles — and the first in more than 25 years — Chuang decided she'd rather chase a doubles title by playing alongside her younger sister Crather chase a doubles title by playing alongside her younger sister Claire.

Bellerin is more interested in fancy clothes and girls these days rather than playing serious footy

I felt like I had to EXPLAIN why i gave my little girl cuddles rather than letting her scream herself to sleep and explain why I went to her when she was upset in the darkness of her room.

Get your little girl a pink hat and pink booties and a pink blanket rather than dressing her in a pink outfit you can't re-use.

It encouraged young girls to model healthy mothering behavior (rather than purchasing the scantily clad dolls which many girls have been shown to prefer as a result of the a fore mentioned sexualization issues and modeling unhealthy sexual behavior).

We've gotten some flack for this, but I would rather dress my girls in 4 outfits if that's all we have than in lots of clothes that I don't agree with.

A person from the crowd queries his decision to put legos in the girls, rather than the boys collection — because they might not like them.

Just as his backpack designs have transformed from Clifford the Big Red Dog to Star Wars to plain black, someday I'll probably be seeing college applications instead of field trip permission forms and pink paper with a girl's phone number on it rather than torn notebook paper featuring sloppily penned strategy a fellow 11 - year - old has provided for an Xbox game they both love.

Something that can be missing in this discussion though is how to give girls a positive image of their own sexuality, rather than just trying to resist the negative ones.

From the time they're very young, girls are taught to focus on the needs of others rather than on their own.

Both girls were very keen to earn money rather than spend it, the afternoon was brilliant for teaching them the value of money and that they need to work to get rewards.

Rather than being a fast eater, like the little girl, this baby boy was a slow eater.

I just want my little girl to be happy, and I want to use Law of Attraction principles rather than push her into an environment that clearly upsets her.

It's also worthy to note that girls are more likely to survive very early premature birth, as are babies born in singleton rather than multiple pregnancies.

Early studies showed that boys had more problems than girls, but later studies have not confirmed this; rather, boys and girls have different kinds of problems as a result of the divorce

A new theory from New Scientist has found that women who suffer with HG are more likely to have girls rather than boys.

I am not a midwife, nor a doctor... I am a woman who gave birth to a beautiful, healthy baby girl at home, whose birth experience was life changing rather than scarring.

And when it comes down to it, if given the choice, my kids would rather have a (relatively) rested, calm, relaxed and PRESENT mom to come home to after school and to tuck them in at night than one who is their class mom and girl scout troop leader and baseball team mom and who runs the school store organizes the school fundraiser and is on every board there is to be on in town (I don't do all that stuff, but you get the point) and who is also a complete and total stressed out and spread thin raging lunatic from the moment they get home until the moment they are in bed.

It might be strange to see on a small child (boy or girl) rather than on an adult woman but they go away after the first few weeks.