Sentences with phrase «younger than my peers»

In fact, when you line up Ryan against his direct opponent, Vice President Joe Biden, you can see two versions of the same person — at least in that they both came to Washington in their 20s, were elected to office far younger than their peers, and never left.

I was always younger than my peers, and I was short to begin with, so I was extra extra extra short for most of my schooling.

If your child seems younger than her peers, you may want to group her with slightly younger kids.

Survey shows time secondary teachers in England — who are younger than peers abroad — spend on admin and preparation

Gifted and talented children can face particular challenges when they go to child care, preschool and school, including being younger than peers, learning differently and underachieving.

Not exact matches

Ho, of Young Guys Finance, thinks many of his generation would sooner consult their peers or an algorithm than an adviser.

People over 50 are launching more businesses than their younger peers, and many corporate types are boomeranging out of retirement and back to their former firms to work part - time.

«Experienced leaders are more likely to overestimate their abilities,» writes Eurich, «Similarly, older managers tend to misjudge their performance relative to their boss's ratings of them far more than their younger peers do.»

While young / first - steps content marketers can learn many things from their more mature peers, one of the most striking — and encouraging — observations about those in the early phase is that 71 % agree that their organization is focused more on building long - term relationships than on getting quick results from content marketing.

The event brought together a diverse field of young thought leaders, ages 21 to 32, representing more than 20 countries from around the world, all with a common goal of building their brand, networking with peers and talking entrepreneurship.

The move on the part of Citigroup to woo a top player in digital commerce comes at a time when banks are trying to lure younger customers who are way more comfortable with technology than their older peers.

More perhaps than by formal schooling, the young male is influenced by peer relationships.

While I think it's irresponsible to blame family and friends for a loved one's suicide, I believe it's just as irresponsible to ignore the reality that gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide as straight peers, that nearly half of young transgender people have considered taking their lives, and that LGBT youth who come from families who reject their gender identities or sexual orientations are more than eight times more likely to attempt suicide than those who come from supportive families.

Now they have a young shortstop who should be better than most of his peers for a while.

Also of note is the finding that the best performing young footballers who will go on to play the sport professionally display superior dribbling skills, endurance capacity and tactical awareness compared to their peers, from as early as 14 years of age.9 17 These differences appear well before it is possible to accumulate 10 000 h of practice, but allow predictions of which players will go on to achieve best performances in adulthood, suggesting that the effectiveness of and response to training, rather than simply training, determines success.

They spend more time with their peers, away from parents, than younger children do.

Although girls seem to be entering puberty at younger and younger ages, little boys with ADHD may find themselves entering manhood a little later than their other male peers.

Since boys at highest risk of becoming early fathers can be identified from age eight (see below) engaging with such young males in highly specialised programmes early on (to teach basic life skills, address negative peer influences, promote school success and direct them to alternatives other than early parenthood) is indicated, in order to reduce sexual risk - taking and early fatherhood (Thornberry et al, 2004)

Older kids wind up costing more in clothes than younger kids do, thanks to peer pressure to purchase certain kid clothing brands and trendy clothing pieces that are the «must have» items of the season.

In high school and college, young people are usually communicating with peers who are nearby and living lives with similar patterns, but as they all move into adulthood, their lives will scatter and diverge in ways that often make delayed / deferred communications more useful than immediate communications.

«This unfair practice places some of our youngest New Yorkers in a prison system where they are more likely to be assaulted, to be injured by prison staff, and to commit suicide than their peers processed as juveniles.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Young adults who use electronic cigarettes are more than four times as likely to begin smoking tobacco cigarettes within 18 months as their peers who do not vape, according to new University of Pittsburgh research.

It seems that young people with the variant tend to be smarter, more educated and have better memories than their peers.

Taiwanese teenagers — and especially females — who become sexually active at a very young age are more likely to be rule - breakers and be more aggressive than their peers.

Only the apocryphal tale about a young George Washington seemed to inspire the kids to admit to peeking: Children who heard the tale in which the future first president is praised for confessing his transgression were three times more likely to tell the truth than their peers who heard other stories.

Studies show that young people who spend most of their time with responsible adults rather than with peers — one of the hallmarks of homeschooling — seem to be able to avoid the turmoil that is so typical of American adolescence and, in turn, the immaturity and uncertainty of the post-teen years here.

Nine - and - a-half-week-old fish that nibbled at young fish poo lived about 40 % longer than their peers, and swam as actively as younger fish, even at 16 weeks old, the scientists report in a preprint on bioRxiv.

Dandona and his colleagues also are interested in how obesity in young men affects testosterone levels, a topic they published on in 2012, when they found that obese teen boys have 50 percent less testosterone than their lean peers.

Overweight young adults may have poorer episodic memory — the ability to recall past events — than their peers, suggests new research from the University of Cambridge, adding to increasing evidence of a link between memory and overeating.

Survivors of adolescent and young adult cancer often have stronger social networks than their non-cancer peers, according to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital researchers, who hope to translate that support into better lives for the nation's growing population of cancer survivors.

Young children with disruptive behaviors have fewer opportunities to learn in school than their focused peers, and are at risk for lower levels of academic achievement.

The $ 720 million observatory has surpassed expectations, peering through dust to see planetary nurseries and cauldrons of young stars more clearly than ever before.

Young people across the United States who smoke electronic cigarettes are considerably more likely to start smoking traditional cigarettes within a year than their peers who do not smoke e-cigarettes, according to an analysis led by the University of Pittsburgh Center for Research on Media, Technology, and Health (CRMTH) and the Dartmouth - Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center.

The researchers based their recommendations on data gathered from more than 40 peer - reviewed studies on how infants and young children develop preferences for healthy foods, especially vegetables and fruits.

These trends signal that over time, younger generations will likely experience more exposure to Latino peers than adults do, Owens said.

«Factors other than parental eating behaviors such as community and school, food environment, peer influence, television viewing, as well as individual factors such as self - image and self - esteem seem to play an important role in young people's dietary intake,» said May A. Beydoun, PhD, co-author of the study and a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Bloomberg School.

The NAS and Annenberg group identified several ways to change incentives for quality and correction, including rewarding researchers for publishing high - quality work rather than publishing work more often; mentoring young peer - reviewers to increase clarity and quality of editorial responses during the journal publishing process; and using «voluntary withdrawal» and «withdrawal for cause» instead of the blanket «retraction» term, which has negative connotations that can prevent some researchers from taking action when a paper is wrong, but not as a result of fraud or misconduct.

Mud looked 25 years younger than her 70 - something peers.

THURSDAY, June 3, 2010 (Health.com)-- Young men with low IQs are much more likely than their peers to attempt suicide later in life, a new study has found.

When there is a deficiency of human growth hormone in children, the child is usually retarded in height and actually looks a great deal smaller or younger than the rest of his or her peers.

An eye doctor once told me that petite women need reading glasses at a younger age than our taller peers.

Whether it's that football knee finally needing a surgery or that hip issue you've had for years now requiring a replacement, singles in their 50s are used to having to manage their health more concertedly than their younger peers.

In a cougar dating relationships, men will expand their horizons and ideas and mature quickly under the influence of cougars; women will be younger, more active, and more vigorous than their peers under the influence of young men.

You feel tempted to stop dating peers or dump your partner and start dating someone younger than could be your son or daughter in age.

Younger men are more than willing to enter into a relationship with older women because it gives them bragging rights over their peer group as well as a sense of adventure.

«Teachers are placed under enormous pressures to mold the young minds of tomorrow, but are expected to do so with less wages than their peers, and by working longer hours.»

That's still pushing it for her to even make Major (averaging at 10 years of service), and we're still in this place of demoting the character to cast a younger actress when a character who is her peer in the comics gets to keep his rank in the movies (For the sake of reference, Terrence Howard was ~ 38/39 for Iron Man 1; Cheadle is about 4/5 years older than he is.

That's why, when you look at my peers, they're 10 years younger than me.

Perhaps most intriguingly, MDRC found that the young men who years earlier had graduated from a career academy were 33 percent more likely to be married, and living with their spouse, than their peers in a control group.