Sentences with phrase «young woman of that time»

For deaf young woman of that time it was very important to have high study and they had won it.

Parallels are drawn between slavery as a commodity and the lives of young women of the time, who were seen as property to be «sold off» to the most suitable bidders for their hands in marriage.

Not exact matches

Even in situations where abortion is legal, the process of finding a legitimate provider is time - consuming and difficult, forcing many women — particularly those who are young, poor, and uneducated — to seek out illegal options.

The trend is probably going to persist going forward, the economists suggest, especially as younger groups of women have become more educated — affording them the affluence to work more and spend time with their families while hiring someone else to do the dusting.

«I spend a lot of time, building young women entrepreneurs across the continent.

At the same time, Intel announced similar initiatives, such as its massive Diversity in Technology Initiative, which through a partnership with GirlsWhoCode is helping to provide more educational support to a greater number of young women.

In a relatively short amount of time, Saujani has gotten the likes of Twitter, General Electric, Square and Google to sign on to her initiative: two - month long programs that teach young women to code and offers mentorships.

The rise is stark when compared to previous generations: less than a quarter of young adults lived at home in the «50s — a time when, it should be noted, the average woman was married before 21.

It was really before there was a general awareness of sexual harassment, so it was a bit of an unkind environment for a young woman at the time.»

His specialty, however, is open - water swimming, the granddaddy of extreme endurance sports: since 2000, Bell has virtually owned the Bay Challenge, winning the individual category of the annual 10 - kilometre marathon across Vancouver's English Bay 10 times in competition with much younger men and women.

This strategy of searching for common ground before a meeting was particularly effective when a new contact was more obviously dissimilar from a director, for example when a young black woman meeting with an older white man spent time considering their career parallels before their get together.

It's the Times itself, of course, that has done so much to spark the current conversation around harassment with its exposés on Harvey Weinstein and Louis C.K.. There's probably no loftier perch in all of political journalism from which one could teach the trade and enlist young women into the calling — or, as the case may be, betray them.

Additionally, this year Ernst & Young LLP was named one of WBENC's 2012 America's Top Corporations for Women's Business Enterprises, an honor it has received four times.

«It's time for you to stop being politely angry,» Gbowee told CBS news anchor Norah O'Donnell in a sweeping conversation that moved from her native Liberia to the women's marches in the United States last year to the young activists who have emerged in the aftermath of the shooting in February at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Beneath all the pathos, the subtext remains the same: Woman's chief adversary is Unreliable Man, who does not understand her sexual and romantic needs and who walks off time and again at the first sashay of a younger thing.

They freeze a moment in time when young women knitted argyle socks for their boyfriends, including Roiphe who paradoxically claimed, «All that interests me is the making of art, the writing of poetry, the life of rebellion.»

Jackson has heard bullets fly through her front door; lost sleep due to the noisy drug - dealing going on nearby; shared her small apartment for months at a time with children taken from crack - addicted mothers; calmed hysterical young women beaten by their drunk boyfriends; wept at the funerals of young boys; and battled obstinate government bureaucracies to get a swingset for the rusty and littered «playground» at the center of the Smith Homes.

The New York Times: Musicians on Trial Over Crude Anti-Putin Song in Moscow Cathedral At the opening of their trial on charges of inciting religious hatred, three young women who performed a crude anti-Putin song on the altar of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior said on Monday that they were prepared to take responsibility for «an ethical mistake.»

Sarah lives in Canada — the west - coast — and works part time for Mercy Ministries of Canada, an organization that supports young women that struggle with life - controlling issues like drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders, depression, physical and sexual abuse and self - harm.

«Friday prayers bring all people of a society together at one time - rich or poor, man or woman, senior citizen or young child,» said Arsalan Iftikhar, an international human rights lawyer and founder of TheMuslimGuy.com.

At the same time, it was clear that, for all their wrong - headed and occasionally malicious attacks on the Church, these ladies were giving voice to something which was also generally felt within society and particularly by younger women who knew nothing of the Network or its antics but who were not comfortable with answering the Church's critics.

Religion News Service: Mormon missionary applications soar by 471 percent Just two weeks since Mormon President Thomas S. Monson announced that young men could go on full - time missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints at age 18 (down from 19) and young women could go at 19 (down from 21), the Utah - based church has seen applications skyrocket from an average of 700 a week to 4,000 a week.

And if pro choice was truly pro choice they would spend the same amount of time educating women about their choices regarding adoption, programs to help young mothers and other options and not just abortion.

When I speak to (students), that's such a time of young men and young women's lives that there's a lot of things that are thrown at them.

For the first time in modern history, we have had Popes who as young priests met and worked with women at university as a matter of course and on ordinary terms.

Riding the publicity wave of Brittany Maynard, a young woman who suffered much and became the human face of the death - with - dignity movement, they have redefined compassion as respect for a patient's autonomous determination of the time, location, and method of death.

It took the story of a young woman who was 16, pregnant for the second time.

The followers of Joey Smith, a man who was married to over 57 women at the same time, some as young as 14 years of age, and some a mother - daughter combo is your Mormon prophet.

By the time these young women reach sixteen the figure rises to one in three, and by the time they are seventeen the number is one of every two.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

The reaction videos of young women told they'll be joining the squad of «angels» walking down the runway for the first time go viral and new generations of supermodels share emotional tributes to Victoria's Secret in Instagram captions admitting it's always been their dream to participate in the show.

2) Here's a brave documentary by one Sophie Peeters about the constant sexual attention and harassment endured by the young women of Brussels, Belgium, and 9 times out of 10 at the instigation of immigrant men, it appears most of them Muslim (or «Muslim - raised,» if you prefer).

Catholic schools have a wonderful opportunity to invite trained NFP instructors to teach this part of the programme which will enable girls to gain a fuller understanding of their bodies and their fertility, while at the same time assisting young men better to understand and appreciate the miracle of fertility, the special role played by the woman, and the implications for her physically, psychologically and spiritually as the natural cycle plays out in her daily life.

We now live in a culture in which about half of all marriages end in divorce; in which nearly half of all children spend part of their childhood in fatherless homes; in which women and men who put their families first are falling behind economically and professionally; in which many of the nation's youngest citizens are starving for parental time and attention, and often for basic material necessities.

But the value of the nursing breast as a symbol of God's provision might need to be reconsidered in our own time, a time in which the technological capacity for, and interest in, objectifying women's bodies contributes to eating disorders among young women as well as to rape.

Some time ago, a young woman of my acquaintance phoned in tears.

I did like, for the first time, young Mr. DeCaprio in the lead and his excellent portrayal of a young man who loved a young woman so much he was willing to do anything to exist in that love.

When I met sometimes with merry companions, and my heart was ready to sink, I would labor to put on as cheerful a countenance as possible, that they might not distrust anything, and sometimes would begin some discourse with young men or young women on purpose, or propose a merry song, lest the distress of my soul would be discovered, or mistrusted, when at the same time I would then rather have been in a wilderness in exile, than with them or any of their pleasures or enjoyments.

The scene around the young woman is kind of dark, and that is how life can feel some times.

For instance, I'm incredibly proud of my mother - in - law who went back to school when her youngest went to university and then she started her new vocation as a chaplain right around the time that most women of her generation were retiring.

I had already seen it half a dozen times on my trip — always followed by a quick apology, and something along the lines of: «It's just so rare for a young woman to be traveling in Puerto Rico alone.»

Or consider the report by Caryn James in the New York Times on the recent Sundance Film Festival, in which she describes the film Care of the Spitfire Grill as «a manipulatively heartwarming story about a young woman just out of prison who finds spiritual redemption.»

I've often marveled at the fact that Jesus» instructions to the rich young ruler to sell all of his belongings and give to the poor are rarely applied universally (because we interpret them as being spoken to a specific person in a unique circumstance), while Paul's instructions to Timothy are often applied to all women at all times, (despite being written to a specific person in a unique circumstance.)

Here again, I think young people and especially young women today are cheated of truth, are brought up to think first and foremost of careers, with the expectation that marriage and family will somehow just happen at the right time.

Their research finds that roughly 800 are enslaved in Canada's sex industry at any given time, the majority of which are young women between 12 and 25 years of age.

Comments a young woman: «For me the baptism of the Holy Spirit was a particular moment in my life; a moment when all time seemed to stand still and I truly felt the presence of the reality of Christ.»

98 % of these are young girls and women, and some of these girls are forced to have sex with men up to 50 times each day.

Before delivering his message at the Holy Thursday Mass (an extremely important mass in Catholic tradition), Pope Francis spent time on his knees, washing the feet of young women incarcerated at a nearby prison.

Also, as much as I love the thought of Beth being back full - time (in any capacity) + having women involved in commentary, it seems like they could just use Renee Young for that role.

All across the land, riding their thumbs, marking time on irrelevant campuses, rapping in youth bistros, there are ponytailed young men and women who — along with a set of tie - dyes and a guitar — own a Nikon, Leica or Rollei.