Sentences with phrase «students at stand»

The students at Stand With Science clearly understand how valuable these national investments are.

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They contended that the school used high - pressure sales tactics to enroll students in the costly classes, promised extensive one - on - one instruction that did not materialize and employed «mentors» who at times recommended investments from which they stood to profit.

But those universities that are left standing, he says, will have to do a much better job at identifying talented students, who can't afford to pay $ 61,000 a year for school.

Michael Dell was speaking to an entrepreneurship class at the University of Texas business school when a bold student stood up and asked the young multi-billionaire why he still kept going to work.

Students acting as «stand - ins» for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump take part in a rehearsal for the first U.S. presidential debate at Hofstra University on September 25, 2016 in Hempstead, New York.

A few days after a gunman murdered 17 of her fellow students in Parkland, Florida, she stood at a podium and, with unbelievable poise and power, said the fearless words that adults couldn't.

When de Bever gives lectures at the University of Alberta, «Let me tell you, it's standing room only for our MBA students,» says Dixon.

Once you have your student loans factored into your fixed expenses budget plan, take a second look at your budget and determine where you stand.

Before the Perdue building opened this fall, business professors and students occupied an old elementary school, where the water fountains still stood at tyke height and where, rumor had it, a pack of squirrels seized their own office.

«The influence of these groups comes not from money,» the Florida Republican said at CNN's town hall «Stand Up: The Students of Stoneman Douglas Demand Action» on Wednesday night in Sunrise, Florida.

Students at nearby Leon High School, just blocks from the Capitol, stood on the front lawn of their school in the hundreds with their families, carrying posters saying «We love MSD» and open laptops with the desktop backgrounds displaying Marjory Stoneman Douglas» name.

WASHINGTON — Standing before vast crowds from Washington to Los Angeles to Parkland, Fla., the speakers — nearly all of them students, some still in elementary school — delivered an anguished and defiant message: They are «done hiding» from gun violence, and will «stop at nothing» to get politicians to finally prevent it.

«Together we can send the unambiguous message that the women of UBC have supporters everywhere who will stand against sexual violence — that the rape chants that students at the Sauder School were participating in are deplorable and must be properly dealt with as a violation of women's human rights; that repeated sexual attacks on young women on campus are a crisis with which we should all be concerned.

The ovation lasted for several minutes as the brothers returned to their places at the back of the gym, eyes down, faces flush, sitting while each student stood and turned to face them.

Since that time I have stood at the Ground Zero site as a student, as an NYPD chaplain, as a New York Muslim leader, but all the while as a New Yorker.

(CNN)- Columnist and gay - rights advocate Dan Savage is standing by his comment that «we can learn to ignore the bulls ** t in the Bible about gay people» at a recent conference for high school students, a line that prompted some to walk out and spurred intense online debate.

The images of him standing at the door at the University of Alabama to prevent two black students from entering had been seared into my mind.

As a college student, Charles Wesley remarked, «Christ Church is certainly the worst place in the world to begin a reformation; a man stands a very fair chance of being laughed out of his religion at his first setting out, in a place where» t is scandalous to have any at all.»

If you are any kind of student of the bible at all you know that any position can be substantiated or refuted by simply selecting verses out of context and presenting them as if they stand on their own.

He said, «It was a full decade before I could stand before a class and answer the searching questions of the students at the end of a lecture without the sense of being a fraud who pretended to a larger and more comprehensive knowledge than I possessed.»

Sometimes students come to my school's library and stand at the desk and tell me things about their lives.

Our educational task, if we accept Whitehead's view of metaphysics, is to assist the student to look on the world or the universe as a process or organism in which God is at work; to understand how God can be in our midst and yet stand behind the process as eternal and changeless.

The death toll from terrorist attacks in Uganda now stands at 74, including one American student who was working with Invisible Children.

At the end, even though he has been fired by the school, we are thrilled as his students find the ability to stand against authority, to think for themselves.

When I spoke at Wheaton College during a public conversation on Christian and Muslim perspectives on religious diversity, I was impressed again and again by the students who stood up during the Q&A session and shared experiences they'd had meeting deeply religious peers of other traditions.

The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children has been told it can no longer have a stand at an event for new students of Dundee University.

Many observers were troubled when Andy Savage, a pastor at Highpoint Church in Memphis, received a standing ovation from his congregation for his admission of a «sexual incident» with a 17 - year - old high - school student when he was a youth leader at Woodlands Parkway Baptist Church in Texas.

Like his more speculative contemporary Ptolemy, a moderate Gnostic teacher, he undoubtedly thought of himself as standing in «the apostolic tradition» in a «succession» of teachers.24 Like pagan teachers and rabbis, Justin laid hands upon the head of each disciple on the completion of the course.25 At his trial, Justin, philosopher - prophet - teacher, describes the «school» where he has been teaching for the examining prefect, who will presently put him and several of his students to death.

Beautiful, intelligent, accomplished young woman, like one of my sorority sisters whose one - night stand «partner» could not be bothered to pay for her taxi ride home the morning after, or a friend of a close family friend whom I saw passed out on the floor at a fraternity house at 2 am with nothing on but her underwear, or a housemate of mine who was dumped passed - out drunk on our front porch one Saturday night by a group of male students with no knock, no doorbell, just a resounding «thud.»

But as it stands now, all we can say for certain is that in 1988 at Clemson University, among the mostly young white students questioned, men had a greater tendency than women to try and like fiery - foods.

He stands at the top of his class academically and is the president of the student council, the first trombonist in the school band, a prize - winning orator and perhaps the world's tallest altar boy.

The few games I've been able to get to this year, attendance in the student section is so bad that you'll see clusters of students sitting down, taking advantage of the leg room available while there is a group down at field level about 10 rows deep, standing and cheering as you'd hope.

It is probably true to some extent that the remarkable habits of discipline acquired during her years of competitive skating stood Tenley in good stead at Harvard; all medical students could use a capacity for seven or eight hours of intense concentration and a habit of getting up at 4 in the morning.

Sit in the stands of Alfond Arena at Maine's Colby College long enough, and her presence simply reveals itself, as it did to the Colby student who walked in five minutes after the start of the White Mules» game against Northeastern on Feb. 18.

Fouled with 21 seconds left and the score 70 - 69, Burroughs calmly toed the line, winked at his dad in the stands and swished the two free throws that, minutes later, had students in Syracuse screaming obscenities out of their dorm - room windows.

Later, as a student in ROTC, I spent three years on the color guard, skipping tailgates to present the colors at windswept Big Ten football games, where my drunken classmates watched from the stands.

Good academic standing includes: satisfying the requirement of at least one semester of residency; full - time student (enrolled for 12 credits); evidence of normal academic progress (successful completion of 24 credits during the two preceding terms); and the completion of four seasons of eligibility in no more than 10 semesters of attendance at any institution.

If you haven't read «Cat Person» yet — Kristen Roupenian's short story in the New Yorker of an ill - fated relationship (aka an uncomfortable one - night stand) between Margot, a 20 - year old college student, and Robert, a 34 - year - old man whom she met at the movie theater where she works — I'm betting you have at least heard of -LSB-...]

«I am willing to stand up at a school board meeting and explain to them why, we, as students would like to see individual rankings done away with.

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

During each lunch period for fourth -, fifth - and sixth - graders, a group of at least 10 students stood in front of Van Wey's table while she quizzed them on what vegetables she brought and handed out tiny plastic cups filled with samples of everything she and her husband, Matt Van Wey, grow at Quackenbush Farm, 2112 N.E. 189th St.

But when I asked this question yesterday at our Food Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting, I learned that not only does stigma remain a real issue at some schools, there's now a troubling, modern - day twist on the problem: on some campuses, hapless kids standing in the federally reimbursable meal line are having their pictures taken by other students» cell phones, with the photos then uploaded to Facebook and / or texted around the school along with disparaging messages about the child's economic status.

Students stood before the Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday and excoriated the members on the food served at lunch and cuts to school sports.

Student smokers at Buffalo Grove High School cross the street to smoke at a hamburger or a hot dog stand.

At graduation, he asks groups of students to stand, honoring everyone from athletes to musicians.

The classes below are for students giving birth at home or in a free - standing birth center.

Schools and processors are realizing 59 % of current potential... Milk potential stands at 6.29 milks per student each week... Actual usage is 3.74 milks per student each week.

As the third in ranking among the universities, Ahmadu Bello University has student - applicants of 75,383 out of which male students are 48,136, while female student - applicants stand at 27,247.

Thousands of students, emboldened by a growing protest movement over gun violence, stood up in their classrooms and walked out of their schools in a nationwide demonstration, one month after a gunman killed 17 people at a high school in Florida.

Two of the three former University at Albany students accused of fabricating a racially charged attack on a CDTA bus last year are scheduled to stand trial today.