Sentences with phrase «told by female»

She was once even told by a female dealer in the 1950s, «You are a wonderful painter, but I will not give you a show because you are a woman.»

From Greta Gerwig's buzzy coming - of - age dramedy Lady Bird to riveting documentaries like Nancy Buirski's The Rape of Recy Taylor, the diversity of stories being told by female filmmakers at this year's festival was difficult to narrow down.

, the diversity of stories being told by female filmmakers at this year's festival was difficult to narrow down.

I am 40 years young, (been told by my female friends that I look young for my age) 5» 9, brown hair and blue eyes.

I was once told by a female supervisor that I could have it all, just not all at once and I completely disagree.

Early in her career, she says she was told by a female leader at a former company to not wear red nail polish or red lipstick in the workplace.

Not exact matches

Years later, when Corcoran was in contention to be one of the judges on Shark Tank, she had the job, lost it to another female entrepreneur, and then won it back by writing a letter to the production team telling them what they would lose out on if they didn't hire her for the team.

The nadir, perhaps, was the «boom boom room» scandal at Smith Barney, where female employees were told by colleagues to remove their tops and «entertain» clients.

She added that the Gamergate incidents, as well as the stories of sexism in the industry described by many female game developers, have spurred some women to tell Edwards that they're thinking about leaving the industry or discouraging their daughters from working in it.

Pretending to be Men For decades, female entrepreneurs have been told that, yes, they absolutely can get funded by high - profile angels and venture capitalists.

He uproots family existence by telling people that they must be willing to leave behind familial structures and that marriage is decidedly this - worldly — while also grounding the union of male and female, and thus the biological offspring of that union, in creation.

Truth be told, he was afraid of getting his ass kicked by a female and this was his cop out.

the exact passage in genesis is «let us create them male and female» then god goes on to tell these first two all about the garden, then adam is lonely for some reason (hint: his wife left him) and god names adam by name and puts adam to sleep to create eve second after adam was created.

David Lynn (pictured above holding a placard, library image), a pastor from Canada, was detained outside Barking underground station after a female passer - by told officers he made homophobic comments.

I have been told (by female leaders) that there is a «real concern over my insensitivity», that they were talking to me in a particular way because «men have the power and that I am speaking to you prophetically because that is how God deals with things by adressing the men first».

GLOW, an acronym for «Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling» tells a heavily fictionalized version based on true events of what happens when down - on - his - luck Hollywood director Sam Sylvia (celebrity podcaster and comedian Mark Maron) attempts to cash in on the 1980s professional wrestling craze by creating a Saturday morning wrestling show with an all - female cast.

MPs were told by senior church officials yesterday evening that boards who had to chose between male and females for a bishop role will be encouraged to choose the female.

At one point, a female state security agent told him, «You're just looking for trouble» by defending churches.

Meantime, given his propensity for drawing trouble on himself, it wasn't surprising that, as soon as he was back in England, Both managed to insult a whole nation and a major segment of the female sex by telling a BBC man, «I hope I will never have to go to Pakistan again.

A calm female voice on the other end told «Sir, from today onwards ESPN - Star has been cancelled out for non-payment by all cable operators in the country!»

So there is a young mom, 18 actually, very young mom, Darcy Pennington, and she was visiting her grandmother at Royal Liverpool Hospital, and she needed to feed her baby Vincent, and she was approached by a female nurse, and she was told to go to a private room, so that other hospital visitors didn't feel quote on quote «uncomfortable».

Information is hard to come by, but the BBC article Rape and no periods in North Korea's army tells the story of a female defector's service.

The report, released Wednesday by JCOPE, lays out a string of «sexually inappropriate behavior» by Gabryszak, including one incident in which he told a female staffer he was «aroused» when talking about going to strip clubs.

Both male and female members told a meeting they were pestered or groped by party figures, while others claimed there remained a «cultural problem» with sexism.

The lone female legislative leader, Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, was told in February by an aide to the governor that she would be included this year to help shape the state's anti-sexual harassment policies.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP & WXXI News)-- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told a female journalist she was doing «a disservice to women» Wednesday by asking what his administration was doing to confront sexual harassment in state government.

Rep. Yvette Clarke (D - Brooklyn), the only black female New York congressional lawmaker, told Observer that she was motivated by issues at the federal level which affect her community, including comprehensive immigration reform and minority - and women - owned businesses.

Nixon told me earlier that progressive issues like passing the Paid Sick Day bill is more important than making history by electing New York City's first female or openly gay mayor.

ALBANY — In a tense exchange with the Capitol press corps on Wednesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo tried to deflect questions about how his administration handles allegations of sexual harassment and told a female reporter she was doing a «disservice» by asking about it.

Alongside that troop of northerners yet to appear, we were told this would be an opportunity for both David Cameron and Ed Miliband to promote more women — the PM because he's pledged to get a third of government posts filled by female politicians by 2015 (and the number of women in cabinet fell last time), the Labour leader because, well, he's got loads of good ones.

The lone female legislative leader, Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins, was told back in February by an aide to the governor that she would be included this year to help shape the state's anti-sexual harassment policies.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told a female journalist she was doing «a disservice to women» Wednesday by asking what his administration was doing to confront sexual harassment in state government.

Earlier in the programme, Nigel Farage faced accusations of «inflammatory» scaremongering and he slipped up by telling a female audience member to calm down.

New York governor Andrew Cuomo, never one to mince words, answered a female reporter who asked about sexual harassment by telling her she was doing a «disservice to women.»

Another female staffer at Westminster has told how she was let down by parliamentary authorities after being attacked by an MP on a foreign trip.

Rather than trying to catch females in the act, a team led by behavioral ecologist Ben Sheldon of the University of Oxford, U.K., let the eggs tell the story.

After an egg is laid, researchers can tell how much sperm the female has left by counting the number of sperm caught between the egg membrane and the shell.

Numerous / Xam stories tell of female initiates who disobeyed the puberty seclusion rules, sneaked off, and were then abducted and drowned by the Rain Bull.

To determine whether females could tell one bleat from another, Charlton played six consecutive calls from one male, followed by the call of a second male, then another call from the first male.

It very difficult to tell a male and female goose or guineafowl apart by their visual characteristics but the differences are obvious with peafowl.

Female baboons try and get around this by being as promiscuous as possible to confuse the paternal identity — so males find it harder to tell if they are killing a rival's offspring or their own,» added Dr Carter.

When she was asked why she wanted to star in Atomic Blonde, she told Entertainment Weekly it was because she «was looking for something that had a female protagonist that was unapologetic and played by the same rules as men.»

«By analyzing the molecules they've left behind on their phones, we could tell if a person is likely female, uses high - end cosmetics, dyes her hair, drinks coffee, prefers beer over wine, likes spicy food, is being treated for depression, wears sunscreen and bug spray — and therefore likely spends a lot of time outdoors — all kinds of things,» said study first author Amina Bouslimani.

I'm also a bit put off by a number of female friends who have told me their negative experiences.

I know for me, I had to do deep, deep bond - breaking work about my ancestral wounds that I was holding onto coming from a family of child marriage and female suppression in Iran in the Middle East where, you know, I grew up with my grandma telling me, «I was married at 11 years old, and was raped by your grandfather.»

It's a story told by Cam, the female cardinal, pictured above.

I was told by a very high level female researcher (not an AESer), that if I was going to succeed in this field, I needed to start dressing more like a man.

Research by Jeffrey Hall has argued that «women often take a leading role in attracting men's attention through non-verbal sexual displays».1 Dating coach Kimberly Seltzer likewise emphasises the importance of female body signals, telling us «women will engage in these alluring motions to subconsciously encourage men», using «unconscious acts like shrugging the shoulders, twirling her hair, flashing the inside of the wrists and massaging her own neck» as an invitation to get closer to her.

And I was recently told by a guy I'd left a voice mail for that he wanted to leave it on the phone so he could listen to it again and again, but that his female supervisor thought that was creepy and erased it.

He already had two females in his family, but «he was very taken by Calaya from the get - go,» Becky Malinsky, the zoo's assistant curator of primates, told me.