Sentences with phrase «spite of early life»

We know rather little about why some kids manage to thrive in spite of early life stressors.

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In spite of his early and short - lived embrace of nationalist sentiment and language and the military games he played with household objects, he knew that history was elsewhere, away from Jerusalem and what it represented.

This is the earliest material in the Old Testament in which there is an unmistakable description of a resurrection from death to life, and that in spite of the fact that the basic words «rise» and «dead» never occur.

As a distinguished English divine of an earlier generation once put it, Christian «faith is not belief in spite of evidence, but life in scorn of consequence.»

For a people who have constantly been subjected to injustice, cruelty and early death, the image of the crucified is the supreme symbol of life in spite of the multiple daily threats of death.

Deadline (PG - 13 for mature themes) Crime drama, set in rural Alabama, recounting the real - life story of an idealistic newspaper reporter (Steve Talley) who, in spite of death threats, investigated the unsolved murder, 20 years earlier, of an African - American child.

That's not been so for early childhood educators in spite of research that shows that 90 percent of a child's brain develops in the first five years of life and that quality child care programs can fuel the future success of children and stabilize families, especially those who are low income.

Mr. Twombly, a native of Lexington, Va., spent most of his adult life in Italy, where he forged an original artistic path in spite of early criticism and outright mockery.

While animal data would suggest that institutional rearing would lead to reduced hippocampal volume, some investigators have suggested that such effects may not become evident in humans until later in life.18 Consistent with this, decreased hippocampal volumes have been found in numerous studies of adults who experienced high levels of childhood stress / trauma.19, 20 In spite of this hypothesized delayed hippocampal effect, a positive impact of early supportive parenting on hippocampal development has been detected as early as school age.21