Sentences with phrase «young minds as»

A time where the pixels flooded the LCD and captivated young minds as you controlled the movement on screen.

As a career educator and the executive director of ASCD, an education association of 170,000 educators worldwide, I have yet to meet a master teacher who would claim to have been born with the appropriate skills to successfully «inspire young minds as well as control unruly classrooms.»

We believe that getting a grip on technology should be fundamental in the early years, as important for young minds as reading and writing.

Witches (1990), based on a Roald Dahl novel (Anjelica Huston's witch has done as much damage to impressionable young minds as Jenny Agutter's skinny dipping in Walkabout), is one of the strangest children's films ever made, but it managed to connect with both its intended audience and armchair auteurists.

This constant involvement with young minds as they deal with old as well as new ideas may be one of the better environments within which to discern future trends.

Not exact matches

Former Harvard president Larry Summers called the program «the single most misdirected philanthropy in this decade,» according to TechCrunch, while Slate Group chairman Jacob Weisberg wrote in Newsweek, «Thiel fellows will have the opportunity to emulate their sponsor by halting their intellectual development around the onset of adulthood, maintaining a narrow - minded focus on getting rich as young as possible and thereby avoid the siren lure of helping others or pursuing knowledge for its own sake.»

Once your business has established a reputation as a great company for outgoing graduates, you'll find students are being referred to you through these recruiting departments, giving you an edge over the competition in getting the best and brightest young minds on your team as soon as they have a degree.

«We struggle to comprehend the warped and twisted mind that sees a room packed with young children not as a scene to cherish, but as an opportunity for carnage.»

Selling T - shirts as a freshman at Brigham Young University in sleepy Provo, Utah, Neff would hone in on potentially like - minded students and pitch them cold.

It was a thrill for me to see their young minds open up as they became more aware about what we use and what we waste.

As part of its commitment to a build a more diverse workplace and address a gender gap within key sectors of the financial services industry, Fidelity has launched its Summit for Young Women, a day - long event designed to open students» minds to the wide range of career opportunities that exist within financial services, years before they are ready to begin their professional lives.

We believe the brightest young minds should be focused on the biggest challenges and we believe in breaking down as many barriers are possible to make that happen as quickly as possible.»

Many of the attendees were actually making trades on their Blackberry's as their guru spoke in tongues of sub prime lenders with supposed «moats» (durable competitive advantages) Finally, after 2 1/2 hours Chew lost his mind and after savagiung the false profit, began eating his young wannabe's.

While not all business minds are fans of giving kids an allowance, it can act as a great way to teach your kids the value of money from a young age.

Groups of young, well - educated, active professionals have gathered in urban churches, smashing the stereotype in many Chinese people's minds of Christians as elderly, infirm, sick, or disabled.

As one who also grew up in a Calvinist church I remember that my young mind was so impressed with the notion that the reformed family of three Afrikaans reformed churches were the only ones «saved».

fear of being chastised and outcast would be all it takes as a young mind is molded to believe.

The very appetite proceeding from labor and peace of mind is gone: we eat just enough to keep us alive: our sleep is disturbed by the most frightful dreams; sometimes I start awake, as if the great hour of danger was come; at other times the howling of our dogs seems to announce the arrival of the enemy: we leap out of bed and run to arms; my poor wife with panting bosom and silent tears takes leave of me, as if we were to see each other no more; she snatches the youngest children from their beds, who, suddenly awakened, increase with their innocent questions the horror of the dreadful moment.

I generally write with an evangelical audience in mind, but as others have rightly noted, it's not just evangelical churches losing young adults, but also Catholic churches, Orthodox churches, and Mainline Protestant churches... sometimes at even higher rates.

A thousand things would never have crossed their minds as they drove through Colorado Springs toward New Life Church's enormous concrete worship center - including the prospect of being assaulted in their minivan by a young man with a high - powered rifle.

As they pester us, we are often tempted to ask for a moratorium on the conversion business until young minds can build defenses against the most exotic and extravagant appeals.

As one watches the scene, the words of a young alcoholic come to mind.

So he was astonished as a young man, new to the sophisticated imperial capital of Milan, to witness Bishop Ambrose reading silently: «When he read his eyes would travel across the pages and his mind would explore the sense, but his voice and tongue were silent.»

Prime Minister David Cameron described ISIS as an «existential threat,» saying on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, `... what's happening here is the perversion of a great religion, and the creation of this poisonous death cult that is seducing too many young minds in Europe, in America, in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Talbot writes: «Moreover, fathers are actively encouraged to help their wives in whatever way the wives find useful, since the job of training young minds is regarded as both singularly important and singularly demanding.

Judging from the agenda then apparent in the minds of young evangelicals and charismatics, I viewed the completed shape of the awakening as including new levels of theological and spiritual depth, a reinvigoration of the ecumenical impulse, and a return to the balance of nurture, evangelism and social transformation present in the original evangelicalism of the 18th and 19th centuries.

There are writers, such as Allan Bloom in THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND, who have actually claimed that the End of History is already here for sophisticated young Americans, and without our any biotechnological help.

I think everyone should have an open mind to all of these as well, since Christianity in it's young form is mostly based on more Ancient Religions such as some of these and others like Hinduism.

It's no good simply telling them to love Jesus, we must tell them about the Jesus they can love as an experience and effectively to directly engage the minds of the young with authentic truth, explained in a lively and jargon free manner, with a sense of joy and shared friendship in God is an act of love and it is received as such.

Elsewhere, Allen justifies human equality in terms of the drive to political speech and the natural powers of the human mind, but these rationales exclude the very young as well as the mentally handicapped.

Rockefeller's subsequent divorce of his wife and 1963 marriage to the much - younger Margaretta «Happy» Murphy, a mother of four who had recently divorced her husband, cemented in the minds of many family - minded Americans an unpleasant nexus between loose morals and weak support for the military; it marked the forging of a large wedge of voters that now consciously identified itself as conservative and would grow to include Democrats as well as Republicans.

A decade ago, as Theodore Roszak and others have pointed out, our young people repudiated the West's scientific mind - set.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

Turning away from orthodox Christianity because of the emotional excesses of frontier evangelism, he found it easier as a young man to accept what was called the Doctrine of Necessity, which he defined as the belief â $ ˜that the human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.â $ ™ Later, he frequently quoted to his partner, William H. Herndon, the lines for Hamlet: â $ ˜Thereâ $ ™ s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough â $ «hew them how he will.â $ ™ â $ œFrom Lincolnâ $ ™ s fatalism derived some of his most lovable traits: his compassion, his tolerance, his willingness to overlook mistakes.

I am glad and sympathized to see the relatives of jailed prisoners but I am not happy to see our Muslims old and young men or women with the signs of «V» for victory which is not our Muslim character and to my mind we Muslims have to create or already exist in Muslim society what we are not realizing to replace the «V «sign as RED CROSS into CRESCENT MOON for Muslims character.

Therein, he tells the story of how his mind changed from when he was young and part of the Democratic party and ethos, through what he read as well as saw,

I am heartened for the future of the world by some of the young people who post here, such as, warmesTghosT, Chuckles, bucky ball and others whose names don't immediately pop into mind, but you, sonny, well, ** sigh **

But the dynamic of getting the first word in, as it were, by seminaries tilling fertile young minds has amazing rewards for theological systems.

Trust me, as someone who grew up as a pastor's kid, I certainly understand the connotation and weight of «full - time ministry» that has been cemented in the young Christian mind.

Conversion, then, is what «Catholic Studies» and Don Briel's life - project are all about: the conversion of young minds, hearts, and souls to the truth of Christ and the love of Christ as manifest in the Catholic Church, to be sure; but also the conversion of culture through those converted minds, hearts, and souls.

If you had not been indoctrinated with that kind of thinking at a young vulnerable age, there is noway that you would have been told that as an adult and believed it if you had been allowed to fully mature before your mind was poisoned.

As more parents express concerns about the consumerist and hedonistic youth culture that their children are exposed to in mass media, they naturally favor schools that filter out its worst elements and focus young minds on worthier things.

As a young theologian, I found this theory mind - blowing.

Hence too, we may admit, the resurgence of Thomism as a living influence upon the young... [He then goes on to speak of the attitude of mind which would] distinguish between credible and incredible doctrines as hopelessly and ludicrously out of date.

Would I cower in the corner — completely losing my terrified mind to the fear I feel now as a young adult who hopes it will never happen to her?

For me all that was coming to mind, was that I had loved Jesus as a young child, since the first time I was taught about a man named Jesus who loved me.

The week of cooking, harvesting, and gathering with like - minded young folk was put on as part of a Slow Food Youth workshop.

Its three founders, initially working as Korean medical doctor, financial analyst, and Economist correspondent, came together with their love of craft beer and the ambition to create a «booth» where young - minded people can gather to change the world while enjoying quality beer, when there was a lack of high quality beer.

Both players arrived from Southampton as young future stars, but neither are regular starters for our club, and I'm torn as to whether I would mind seeing the back of them.

Take a look at the options we have (and bear in mind that we actually have to promote some of our young players as well).