Sentences with phrase «schoolmates on»

Bart R: How much application of the scientific method do you use for example while being beaten about the head and having your lunch money stolen by your schoolmates on the playground,

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During her time on the March for Our Lives stage, Emma González, 18, who has been one of the most prominent of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas survivor - activists, allotted herself six minutes and 20 seconds for her speech: the amount of time, she noted, that it had taken for Nikolas Cruz to slaughter 17 of her schoolmates and injure many more.

Milton was grieving for the death by drowning of his schoolmate, Edward King, on his way to Ireland in 1637.

In her home of Letlhakane, a village of mud huts and thatched roofs, schoolmates post themselves at 100 - meter intervals when she trains, to urge her on her way.

To be sure, he didn't go into everything — how he'd take lunch money off schoolmates in Bessemer, Ala. and lend it back to them, with interest; how he'd pay one kid to beat up on another; how he hit a cousin, a girl, with a baseball bat when she tried to take away a Ping - Pong paddle; or how he helped stone to death a local minister's pig.

The young man, for a second time, decided not to accept the honour but pass it on to a native schoolmate instead.

They do their part in expanding the pool from which tomorrow's minority scientists are drawn by helping their schoolmates take advantage of the resources available on the site.

After she tries (unsuccessfully, thank goodness) to attack a schoolmate whose father is reportedly a member of the shah's secret police, God appears to her on a swirly cloud (how is it that kids the world over almost unfailingly see God standing on the same puffy, ethereal area rug?)

There's an instructive scene where Bulger passes on some hard - earned wisdom to his young son, congratulating him for punching a schoolmate while pointing out that his only error was being seen doing it.

Mike White wrote and will direct the film, which centers on Brad, who despite a gainful career and happy home life, finds himself obsessed with his more successful former schoolmates.

Meanwhile, Kolt (India Ennenga), her daughter from a previous marriage, sees Martine and Peter snogging in the car in the driveway and is perhaps inspired to flirt with her Italian teacher (Stacy Barnhisel), along with Peter's assistant, David (Rhys Wakefield), and Avi (Sam Lerner), a schoolmate who has a crush on her.

However, the arrival of Gordon's daughter, Alexia (Michelle Ryan), an old schoolmate of his, on top of some threatening behaviour towards his sister and brother by local thugs, starts to send Clayton spiralling out of control, and down the same path that his father travelled many years before.

Peter's parents are dead, he's being raised by his aunt and uncle (Sally Field and Martin Sheen), and he has a crush on a schoolmate — not the girl next door this time, but Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), the daughter of the police chief (Denis Leary).

She finds herself on an interplanetary journey with a schoolmate and her younger brother to find her father.

Greg has found a way to avoid the trappings of high school by building vague relationships with a large number of his schoolmates so that no one really relies on him but no one dislikes him either.

For example, the literature on school finance and control is currently absorbed with the question of whether students are affected by the achievement of their schoolmates.

An old schoolmate of Khan from Louisiana and MIT — another child of South Asian immigrants — was persuaded to leave McKinsey & Company to head the rapidly growing enterprise, which now includes, as one can see on the Internet, a few dozen young enthusiasts who seem a cross section of Silicon Valley.

In an excerpt from his new memoir This African - American Life, former president of the National Urban League Hugh B. Price describes his elementary and secondary education in Washington, D.C. Price focused on his studies and dreamed of playing major - league baseball — all while he and his schoolmates made history in some of the city's first integrated classrooms after the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.

The authors assert that the world of American parenting changed forever after the events at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999, when two students went on a shooting rampage that killed 12 of their fellow schoolmates and a teacher and then killed themselves.

Hinako's schoolmates, who play important roles during the course of the game, are also quite tropey, ranging from the admiring and nerdish type to the love - sick one and so on.

The first few incredibly basic battles are just Miho and her schoolmates testing their skills against each other — thereby giving the player a chance to get a handle on things — but after that, each mission is a new beast.

Your friends, family, schoolmates, and other acquaintances on Facebook are often the best sources for referrals.

Children may venture on long distance educational trips with their teachers and schoolmates, or they may participate in an educational excursion to a foreign country as part of an exchange program.

PARKLAND, Fla. — The suspect in a deadly rampage at a Florida high school is a troubled teenager who posted disturbing material on social media before the shooting spree that killed 17 people and wounded more than a dozen others, according to a law enforcement official and former schoolmates.

It was Emma Gonzalez standing in silent honor for the six minutes and 20 seconds it took to kill 17 schoolmates and teachers, and injure 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High on Feb. 14.

With such sage words from her and others, these students must feel better educated on how 17 of their schoolmates and teachers were killed.

Students at Excel Academy in West Baltimore haven't experienced a school shooting, but have lost seven schoolmates to street gun violence in the last year and a half, and can share stories going back decades about the outsize role guns have played in their lives and the impact it has had on them.