Sentences with phrase «years earlier his father»

Mr. Wang recalled a story of how on a long drive near his hometown years earlier his father pointed out all of the tunnels and bridges in China built using his cement.

Some years earlier her father had come home drunk and abusive one Saturday night and had kicked this child down the stairs, splitting her head open.

Three years earlier his father, the Reverend Mervin Cheechoo, pastor of the Cree Gospel Chapel, had told Jonathan that if he wanted to play pro hockey, he would have to live «outside,» away from the tribe.

Five years earlier his father, Sylvester, in classic immigrant style, had gone on ahead, and he had saved enough money hefting cartons in a London supermarket to set up a home for the family in the city.

Not exact matches

In an essay for Time earlier this year, Jay - Z announced that he would be donating to organizations like Color of Change and Southerners on the New Ground to advocate for the release of jailed fathers who have not been convicted of a crime but are unable to afford bail.

In the early days, I relied heavily on my father's advice because of his near 30 years of experience owning and operating businesses.

According to Statistics Canada, last year nearly 30 % of fathers took at least some leave to be with their new baby — up from 3 % a decade earlier.

The closeness between the two men changed earlier this year, however, at about the same time that Redstone started to become closer to his daughter Shari, who had been estranged from her father for a number of years.

After all, Wallace had been founded 51 years earlier by Watts's father - in - law.

In late 2013 his father, Riley Bechtel, who had served for 24 years as CEO, retired four years early at 61 after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

I learned that when I was starting the business and in those early years, when I got very intimidated by the fact that the real estate brokerage field was owned by men who inherited the business from their father, and they had access to cash all the time.

Since 2006 (the first year in the ProxyMonitor.org database), the three most frequent sponsors of shareholder proposals at Fortune 250 companies have been corporate gadflies: John Chevedden (including, in earlier years, his family trust and now - deceased father, Ray); William Steiner (and son, Kenneth); and Evelyn Davis.

He finally returned his old home where he had lived with his father two years earlier.

A few years ago Pope Benedict XVI gave a series of lectures on the early church fathers, and they have been collected into a book: Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to Augfathers, and they have been collected into a book: Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to AugFathers: From Clement of Rome to Augustine.

I find it interesting how mega-church prosperity teachers want to talk about the very early days of the church of mega-crowds — without talking about their scattering — and how the persecuted church grew in people's homes and catacombs (I like the rhyme) for the next 300 years — until Constantine — the true father of many mega-church ministries.

I don't call myself «Christian» anymore, because I definitely don't believe most of the basic tenets of the church that have been put forth for two thousand years from the time of the early church fathers, through the development of the Eastern Orthodox patriarchs, and that have been kept by both Roman Catholic and Protestant churches.

The letter showed that my rejection of classical theism was something like an elaborated repetition of what Father went through fifty or sixty years earlier.

The CTS has done a competent job with Jim Gallagher's simple booklet telling the story of John Paul's life - the childhood marked by his mother's early death along with that of his brother; the deep, strong bond with his father; the grim years of the German occupation and his tough job in a stone quarry; the mysticism and prayer - life; the youth drama groups; the ordination in a Poland coming to grips with what was to be a decades - long imposition of Communism.

Pastor Richard, later Father Richard» and of those two titles, I knew him longer under the first than the second» seems to have had from very early years a sharp sense of «living toward death.»

Just over a year earlier, John and Charles Wesley had stood at their father's bedside as he died.

A mix of mostly Boston Irish, he spent his early years at Fort Dix, New Jersey, where his career - army father was stationed.

Jesus warns the people of Chorazin and Bethsaida of such, as did His Father thousands of years earlier.

The six ages, each spanning 350 to 400 years, are The Early Church (30 - 330), The Age of the Fathers (330 - 650), The Dark Ages (650-1000), The Middle Ages (1000 - 1450), The Protestant and Catholic Reformations (1450 - 1789), and The Modern Age (1789 onwards).

I was born in Liberia, West Africa, where my father served in the Special Security Service of President Samuel Doe (no relation), who had come to power through a violent military coup ten years earlier.

One often finds that the Fathers of the early years of the Church are more direct and better at this than modern writers.

The liturgical scholarship of the past hundred years has uncovered some fascinating insights into the rites used in the early Church but these indications are often incidental to the principal concern of the Fathers, which was to affirm that the Eucharist was the perfect sacrifice prophesied by Malachi, to emphasise the awesome mystery of the sacred action, and to exhort the faithful to approach it with a clear conscience.

I wrote that as a Roman Catholic convert stunned and dismayed by the Holy Father's inclusion of African shamans in his peace summit in Assisi earlier this year.

However, after less than a year of study of early Christian teachings about the Scriptures from the primary Church Fathers (far less than one to two hours a week of study) I can totally answer the whole issue of God commanding the death of the Caananites, etc..

Inevitably, heirs as they were of the Greco - Roman world in both its pre-Christian and its Christian stages, the schoolmen utilized the forms of thought developed by the Greeks, the creeds shaped in the early centuries, of the faith, the writings of the Church Fathers of those years, and always with reference to the Bible.

As a man of faith, I take great responsibility in being a good steward of my talent,» the father of two wrote in a blog post earlier this year.

The controversies of the early years of the church's life were conducted in the terms of Greek philosophy, and the issues were about what sort of being Jesus was («fully human, fully God» is how the creed was finally formulated), and how he was related to God the Father (homoousion, or «one in being,» was the conclusion).

He is the son of Colin Cooter from Lengs & Cooter wines.Kimberly Cooter is also a hands - on winemaker, having learned the early years of her craft in the hands of her father, Walter Clappis, a veteran McLaren Vale winemaker, best known for his much celebrated time running Ingoldby Wines, and more recently, The Hedonist Wines.

In the early years, the Albanos and their business partner, Greg Seitz, found a mentor in Seitz's father, Harry, who worked in the food distribution industry for many years.

I spent my early years in Statesboro, Ga., when my father taught at Georgia Southern College.

Early last year Harmon recognized that Woods was becoming confused by the conflicting putting advice from his father and his teacher.

My father used to take me to 2 - 3 games a year back in the 80's and early 90's, but after the disaster that was the 1993 season followed by the strike - shortened 1994 season, that pretty much stopped.

The 26 year old Colombian international is being linked with the likes of Chelsea, Manchester City and Real Madrid with his father suggesting he could be on the move away from the Vicente Calderon Stadium as early as January.

KM — As early as when I was 13 years old, and my father was very supportive of my desire to become a professional footballer, I'm happy because so many people share same dream but never made it this far.

That's why we're calling on the government to require early years, schools, social work and maternity services to publish data on their engagement with fathers; and be inspected on this by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission.

We also run Fathers» Story Week, a «taster» event held in schools and early years centres, during the week of Father's Day every June.

Fathers Reading Every Day is our supported reading programme for fathers of children in schools and early years cFathers Reading Every Day is our supported reading programme for fathers of children in schools and early years cfathers of children in schools and early years centres.

To enhance team skills, we delivered a 3 - day Working with Fathers in Early Years and Children's Centres accredited course, as well as training staff to deliver our pioneering peer mentoring programme for expectant and new dads, Hit the Ground Crawling.

Fathers» Story Week is upon us — creating an opportunity for schools and early years centres to take part in an annual celebration of fatherhood, from 11 - 18 June 2017.

Section 3: early years provision «Fathers are as important as mothers in supporting early learning.

Its report said the Government should «encourage early years services to actively engage fathers by clarifying guidance, promoting activities that are accessible to fathers, and promoting the participation of men in the early years workforce.»

A Fathers» Early Years LifeCheck, which will provide fathers with tailored information on their baby's health and deveFathers» Early Years LifeCheck, which will provide fathers with tailored information on their baby's health and devefathers with tailored information on their baby's health and development

Where early years settings and schools are pro-active in their approach to engaging fathers they see a significant increase in the numbers of fathers involved in the life of the setting / school — both in supporting children's learning and in governance.

Our training is designed to work for staff and volunteers who work, or plan to work, directly with fathers in early years settings and schools.

Check out our free resources for Fathers» Story Week Fathers» Story Week is upon us — creating an opportunity for schools and early years centres to take part in an annual celebration of fatherhood, from 11 - 18 June 2017.

A recent, substantial, UK / US study, which controlled for mothers» depression, found high levels of emotional and behavioural problems in children (particularly boys) aged 3.5 years associated with earlier depression in their fathers (Ramchandani et al, 2005).