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1. We were half afraid that coming across might affect your mind … you’d been very young when your mother ran away with you and you had spent your formative years on Earth
2. He had spent his formative years in an urban area of
3. Indeed, many of those ‘retrieved’ underwent psychiatric counseling for the time beyond their formative years: It took on average six years to adjust to being brought back, essentially, from the dead
4. (Our) failure to attain (our) full spiritual, moral and intellectual potential as human beings places a heavier burden on those entrusted to (our) care, especially (our) children who, requiring the best instruction possible, predicated upon the highest formative examples, otherwise suffer a grave disservice
5. Young boys coming into their own, especially during their formative years, should not be discouraged from engaging in physical activities; that is to say, the type of ―horse play‖ or ―rough housing‖, common among growing boys, that gives vent to their masculinity; that is to say, gender characteristics underlying decidedly masculine attitudes inherent in the male species
6. Most Opinions are oftentimes impressed upon an individual during the formative stages of that individual‘s moral and intellectual development
7. As a graying sixties generation quickly approaches middle age, sustained by a wistful desire for the ―good old days‖ that typified its youthful idealism, many can‘t help reflecting on those formative years without forlorn regret over a progeny whose slackening awareness and indifference to social ―causes‖ and other immediate issues that continue to trouble our society has given way to self-gratifying designs, like amassing ―huge‖ fortunes, for example
8. Either way, its designs, however natural or artificial, must inevitably lend themselves to impressions that shape formative (young) minds
9. This can be done by carefully analyzing repetitive patterns and identifying the experiences when they are still in the formative state
10. “It is a custom in my family to spend some formative years in the north to prevent becoming jaded
11. my formative years – but I cant help but wonder what would have
12. Those formative years seem to have been spent in Muslim schools by a child whose father is a Muslim
13. His children were truly fortunate to have had a mother such as Josie in their formative years
14. Génis Laval, near Lyon, France, where he recalled his formative years with the Marists
15. formative, but we can no longer assume, for instance, that a proposition composed of plant words is about plants, and today it requires new
16. understanding of belief, and have only hinted at the formative and spa-
17. formative years, there isn’t any ‘teaching’ that’s done at all – it’s
18. formative experience of my life occurred when I was about twelve
19. In his formative years, since coming to Slough, he had always had to be strong in combating adversity and this had left him very guarded about his inner feelings
20. Then there came a period of blind impulse and movement, when the atom that was she mingled and merged with myriad other atoms of spawning life in the yeasty morass of existence, molded by formative forces until she emerged again a conscious individual, whirling down an endless spiral of lives
21. Mendez had spent his formative years on ranches and was experienced on a horse and he had all the ID he would ever need
22. Selene Barchelle was unlike most of the women to have made a lasting impression upon Peter during his formative years
23. During those formative years of school, I excelled in all
24. rule of my life during those most formative of years
25. Throughout the formative period, between 1815-1880, Indian frontiers were deliberately extended, largely to keep secure their investments, and it is not surprising that threats - real or imaginary - to the security of the sub-continent were a major pre-occupation of successive British Governments for the whole of the 19th century and into the next and India remained the key to British foreign policy at the turn of the century, especially in relation to Imperialism in Africa
26. ‘So to in Turkey where an earlier revolution was still in its formative stages and where territorial adjustments at her expense were as much resented; the Turkey of Kemal Ataturk posed as great a problem to the victors as Lenin's Soviet Union
27. It’s in those early, formative years
28. This idiot woman was raising idiot offspring who were making idiot social interactions with my clone and bringing down his intelligence during these crucial, formative years
29. What this means is that if God calls you to be a stay-at-home mom for the first 20 years of your marriage so that you can properly raise up your children in their earlier formative years, that call will be just as important as someone who is being called by God to become the next president of the United States
30. The formative years of Putin and Louis-Napoleon have little in common, though
31. These are triggered by abuse or trauma during the formative years in infancy or during early adolescence
32. So their successes must be down to hard work, helped by an excellent training infrastructure – in all these cases there was a sports club in the locality which the stars belonged to in their formative years, led by a charismatic coach
33. But then, that way I should’ve offended her sensitivity in the formative period of her affection for me
34. •Education in its broadest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual
35. During these two formative years, children will be given the opportunity to practise their motor skills through sport, and provide an opportunity to learn the basics of music
36. The Indian Musalmans might realize that these and many such Quranic injunctions exhorting them not to mix with the Jews, the Christians and the idolaters (poor guys who are denied even a capital I in Islam) are but contextual for they were meant to address Muhammad’s compulsion to keep his meager flock together against their being poached by ‘the others’ in the formative years of Islam! That the faith got more than cemented in the minds of the Musalmans for so long now, would these Quranic exhortations still be valid? It is as well the Indian Musalmans realize that Islam is more than safe in Hindustan, in spite of its Quranic partition, and thus they might as well venture out of their ‘ghettos of faith’ to interact with the Hindus, who have no agenda for reconverting them into Hinduism
37. still in his formative years was
38. During my formative years and on into my young adult years, my mind was repeatedly exposed
39. g Oh, how our formative years' experiences impact our adulthood expectations! Indeed, it would
40. all those unprecedented (FIRSTS) formative years' categories of experiences common to almost all
41. Of all the adults I encountered during my formative years, Silas
42. It is adaptive and creatively formative
43. to the world, based on the sum-total of all his experiences in his formative years
44. He spent some of his formative years hitchhiking and hiking around the great state of Alaska
45. Much had happened during those formative years at Court Street, both on the job and in my private life
46. formative years in a classically rugged Montana, replete with
47. formative years in a classically rugged Montana, replete with the cowpunchers, lawmen and desperadoes who would later
48. During these formative years, they suggest to us what our goal(s) in life should be, what our focus should be, how we are expected to behave, their ideas of what is right and what is wrong, and so on, sometimes some of these suggestions and beliefs are backed with some superstitious consequences
49. – the FORMATIVE Evolutional Branch and the MONOMIGRATING Involutional Branch;
50. At the formative age of 4, Gary still had his dilapi-
