Sentences with phrase «young self proclaimed»

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John Collison, the Irish cofounder of Stripe, the payments processing company now powering many in - app purchase systems, has been proclaimed the world's youngest self - made billionaire by Forbes in its new world's richest list.

Flannery O'Connor's novel The Violent Bear It Away does suggest a more satisfactory relation for human beings between the ordinary and the transcendent though it is, on the face of it, a very strange one indeed.19 Her novel is about a fourteen - year - old boy, Francis Tarwater, who, after the death of his great - uncle, a self - proclaimed prophet, goes to his uncle Rayber in order to fulfill the Lord's «call» that he, Tarwater, baptize Rayber's young idiot son.

That the self - proclaimed Academy should have to send young players to Germany to be properly developed is an amazing contradiction.

First is the obvious, that Young is a Republican whose conference has had a long and uncomfortable history with the Mayor (more on that in a minute), so she probably isn't terribly interested in helping the self - proclaimed Progressive Mayor.

During those years she has self proclaimed to having more than 250 different men in her life with some of her gentlemen being as young as 18 - 20.

The self - proclaimed cougar wrote her first book on the topic — Younger Men: How to Find Them, Date Them, Mate Them, and Marry Them — 14 years ago, «and let me tell you something,» she said in a whisper.

Wade, whose real name is Brandon Wey, is a 38 - year - old MIT - trained engineer and self - proclaimed «geek» who is now married to his own decade - younger sugar baby.

With his trademark right eyebrow raised and a penchant for implementing the patented «People's Elbow» to unwary opponents, the self - proclaimed «Most Electrifying Man in Sports - Entertainment» slammed, crashed, and crushed his way to becoming the youngest Intercontinental Champion in WWF history at the age of 24 before winning the WWF title record six times.

What the hell is anyone to make of Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel, in which a self - proclaimed romantic entertains leaving his lover for her much younger stepdaughter?

Dearest Edgar: As an aspiring film maker and a self - proclaimed cinephile, i must say i truly admire your work, although i'm «young» i've always been interested in art and your work is truly inspirational to me, i can't really put into words how happy your movies make me, hopefully in the future i'll get to make great movies like you too, i'd just like to thank you for directing such great movies!!!

But, Charley, who has just entered the «cool» circle at the local high school and is now dating the local blonde bombshell, Amy (Imogen Poots), is approached by Ed (Christopher Mintz - Plasse), his former friend and a self - proclaimed geek that threatens to air his ex-BFF's dirty laundry (complete with embarrassing video), if he doesn't help investigate the local disappearances and stories of a man trying to bite young women in the dead of night.

Peter Quill, the self proclaimed Star Lord (Chris Pratt), is an Earthling who, as a young boy, was abducted by space pirates known as Ravagers, led by Yondu (Michael Rooker), and adopted as one of their own.

The uproar was caused when yet another cop shot yet another young black man, quite outside of any kind of educational setting, but self - proclaimed conservative Holtz feels compelled to go through this kind of contortion to fault the Milwaukee School System under the distant supervision of incumbent State Superintendent Tony Evers.

Raised on a Texas cattle ranch and schooled at the U of Montana (Berkeley of the Rockies), I am the world's most self - proclaimed redneck granola and author of optimistic - dystopian dieselpunk, sci - fi thrillers and young adult literature.

Rintaro Okabe is a young, self - proclaimed mad scientist and the main protagonist.

Thrown back in time to the 1980's, you are turned into a young boy and forced to play video games by an evil self - proclaimed «Game Master», Game Master Arino.

Shantae, the spirited young half - genie, must once again defend Scuttle Town from the pirate captain and self - proclaimed Queen of the Seven Seas, Risky Boots, who plots to steal a newly discovered limitless source of power.

Attendees» social media skill levels varied drastically, from self - proclaimed «baby blogger» Sarah Sansbury to more experienced bloggers like Keith Lee of associatesmind.com, a great research tool for young lawyers.

With so many self - proclaimed career gurus and self - promoters out there, how does a young careerist know where to turn for consistently good career advice?

As an accomplished professional or executive, are you willing to put your career in the hands of a young, self - proclaimed expert who has little or no experience as a hiring manager or resume writer?