Sentences with phrase «think poster child»

While J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon sees promise in blockchain but a bubble in Bitcoin, Twitter and Square's chief executive, Dorsey, thinks the poster child of the cryptocurrency movement will come to replace all currencies.

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While Bitcoin may be the poster child of cryptocurrencies, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian thinks the second most valuable cryptocurrency by market capitalization, Ethereum, will be the real winner.

... switch from using a mac to using a pc and expect the same thing... or go back to religion and get the same shunning from the atheists that you got from whatever church that was that you blindly followed... now you get to be the poster child for atheists the same way a repentant drugged up rock star gets to be the poster child for church... except from the atheists» arrogant point of view, you went from uneducated, ignorant, bigoted, intolerant and stupid to being sophisticated, intellectual, open minded and free thinking... in their opinion you were formerly a stupid a s s...

Many anti-bedsharing posters reflect an authoritative tone as if those in power have the right to address the public as if they are children who have no choice, or rights to disagree, or rights to think for themselves about this issue.

If children walk into a room filled with store bought posters and catchy phrases, they may think it looks nice, but are they reading it?

All of these posters who think only they have the right to have children («use a condom», I really have never heard such obnoxiousness on a mothering site) need to shut up and just raise their own kids.

«Killer whales have been thought of by some as something like the poster child» for the process, «because there are multiple genetically distinct populations [which have not yet been formally described as separate species] with different prey preferences in the North Pacific and Antarctic,» says Phillip Morin, a cetacean biologist at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in San Diego, California, who was not involved in the new study.

I think the much more likely reason is because the Mann Hockey Stick, the poster child of greenhouse warming and justifying the Kyoto Protocol, has been shown to be a dud, and some people are having difficulty coping with that reality.

We give special attention to perhaps today's poster child of the climate denial machine's free market think tanks, the Heartland Institute, which is about to launch a new version of its «NIPCC» or «climate change reconsidered» report next week in Chicago.

Since no pharmaceutical company can patent «positive thinking» and sell and promote it, I will do my best to be the spokesperson (not the poster child) for positive mental attitude.

No matter what your thoughts are on drugs and out of control behavior, The Hangover is your stance's poster child — it spells out why you should or should not go to Las Vegas.

*** Includes 129 original reading passages and comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency practice!

The pack includes: · Two long colourful display banners of «Pirates» and «Treasure Island» each decorated with pirate themed pictures · A colourful display border to print out as many times as you need for use on a display board of any size · An A4 word card - great to use when writing · Topic words - great to add to display or use in the writing area · Word and picture flashcards · Pirate posters - pictures of different pirates · Colouring pictures - a collection of pirate themed sheets for children to colour · Phoneme coins - all of the phonemes from the Letters and Sounds scheme on gold coins - great for display or to hide in the sand tray for the children to find the «treasure» · Alphabet coins - lower and upper case letters · Bingo - a pirate themed colourful bingo game to make and play · Skull and cross-bone bunting · Pirate phrases on posters · A pirate profile worksheet - draw your pirate and then decide what characteristics your pirate will have - three different versions of this for differentiation · Songs and rhymes about pirates · Play dough mats - can you make 3 more pieces of treasure, can you give the pirates new hats etc · Colourful treasure to cut out and use on displays, in the sand tray etc · Board game - move around the treasure island answering questions along the way to try and reach the treasure first - two levels of maths questions are provided as well as blank question cards · Two pirate themed wordsearches · «My pirate adventure» worksheet · Wanted posters for the children to fill in · Writing pages - Four A4 pages with pirate borders for the children to use when writing · Design a pirate flag worksheet · Search for the treasure game - collect coins along the way to fill your treasure chest · Cut and stick treasure map · Pirate acrostic poem · Speech bubble worksheets - write what you think the different pirates are saying · Counting cards up to 10 - count the number of pirate ships, telescopes etc · Design a pirate ship worksheet · Describe the treasure worksheet · A worksheet for the children to draw and write what they have spotted through the telescope

Posters for children on how and why they should wash their hands with soap are crucial to reinforce the message, as is providing teachers with well thought - out lesson plans and activities on the topic.

Resources include: INFORMATION FILES: The Roman Empire — how Rome began, how it was ruled, Caesar, Pompey, the Army, Enemies Daily Life in Rome: family life, jobs, schooling, food, clothing Citizens and Slaves: Patricians, Plebeians, Slaves, Rebellions, Rights, Spartacus Colosseum: information and photos The Emperors: Augustus, Trajan, Hadrian, Nero, Constantine, Vespasian Roman Gods pictures and information Calendar information Italy today information Pompeii information Public baths and toilets information Roads and aqueducts information Roman army information sheet Large key word cards with definitions Timeline posters pack PHOTO PACKS: Roman ruins around Britain Roads and aqueducts Pompeii Public baths and toilets Italy today QUESTION SHEETS: Army worksheet Buildings of Ancient Rome worksheet Emperors worksheet Julius Caesar worksheet Italy today quiz People of Rome question sheet The roman Empire worksheet MAPS: Maps of the world, Europe, italy today, Roman Empire, Roman Britain, Europe outline to colour LARGE FLASHCARD SETS: Ancient Rome Italian cities Italian things ACTIVITIES AND OTHER Acrostic poem All about Rome — writing and drawing booklet to make Alphabetical order worksheet Ancient Rome colouring pages Draw your own Roman shield Draw a roman villa Find the definitions Flag colouring page Week diary booklet Draw a roman feast Dress the roman soldier Draw and write facts about a roman landmark or building Draw and list the things romans gave us Mae a presentation, with cue cards to complete Roman children lunchbox Make emperor photo flashcards Mind map Notes pad Roman soldier worksheet — label the different armour Task cards Word search Blank thought and speech bubbles for display Write sentences for topic evaluation Work booklet cover to keep topic work together Themed borders for written work DISPLAY A4 flags of Europe, display borders, buntings, extra large lettering, long banner, useful images, plus other display resources LANGUAGE Months, days and common phrases flashcards in English and Italian flashcards

As a 30 - something bachelor and driving enthusiast, I'm quite possibly the poster child for the Nissan 370Z's target market, but much as I love the Z, I don't think it could be my primary ride.

Anyway, he thinks he'll be 20 in March, but I'm rooting for him to turn 18 again... then 17 then 16, then 15 then... Anyway, Zack was the poster child for someone who'd be the ideal ereader owner.

Our highly anxious / reactive Habi is a poster child for Prozac, which our behavioral vet put her on immediately after meeting her nine years ago, It took about three months before she was able to think rather than react in a situation, and at that point our efforts at behavioral modification began to take hold.

Therefore, I actually think Final Fantasy IX is the poster child for the very best and very worst aspects of JRPGs in general.

I would think that LA would be a poster child for aerosol cooling but it is not.

I think the much more likely reason is because the Mann Hockey Stick, the poster child of greenhouse warming and justifying the Kyoto Protocol, has been shown to be a dud, and some people are having difficulty coping with that reality.

The poster child recently for this absurdity has been the GPS system, and recently there was some clock put on a satellite which they claimed proved speed slowed down the clock, which on closer inspection showed the same wishful thinking as we note in reading the variety of models produced of an alien world with a cold Sun and no atmosphere passing itself off a this one — here, a real world analysis by a real world scientist blanked out by consensus:

I think I need to attach your arguments as poster - child for kinds of bullshit climate change deniers use.

(Yes, I do think the environmental movement does hold some responsibility for this — Al Gore may have done a lot to raise awareness, but making him the poster child of the issue may not have been the smartest move...)

I think the poster got it right who said they had watched a few too many episodes of «Thunderbird» as children (though I admit I had to look it up on google to realize it was that horrific TV show with frightening marionettes constantly going off on high - tech — for the times — quests to save the world.

This A2 poster reminds young children to «Stop, look, listen and think» before crossing the road with an adult.

When Jennifer Priest bought her house in Norfolk, Va., 15 years ago, she never thought she'd become a poster child for coastal flooding.

Only one nit, I don't think of Bill Gates as the poster child.

It's funny because I don't think of shiplap as «farmhouse» even though it has become the poster child for the style.