formative years. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A formative influence. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A formative zone in developing bone. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
What ` s keeping them watching is, in fact, what we call the formative features. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 31, 2007] Reference
Here's an online (e.g. superquick-accessible) resource where I pilfered the midterm formative assessment logistics. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Campus] Reference
Even though I have found it virtually impossible to 'change' somebodies morals after a certain formative period in their lives. From Wordnik.com. [Child Abuse Alert] Reference
Before Messrs. Wright and Ayers, though, there was "Frank," the name Obama gives in his memoirs to a man he describes as a formative influence during his early years in Hawaii. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Malcontents] Reference
I was just at the age which might be termed the formative period of a young man's career. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
Flashman's recollections cast interesting light on what may be called their formative years. From Wordnik.com. [Flash For Freedom]
Because personalities are often formed in the early years, that is why they are called formative years. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
In the meantime, at the start of that ABC interview, John Edwards recalled his formative days growing up in North Carolina. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2008] Reference
Teza is in its "formative" stages, according to its statement. From Wordnik.com. [Programmer Suspended Following His Arrest] Reference
My "formative" years were spent growing up near Pearl City, Oahu - '60-64. From Wordnik.com. [one week from today] Reference
He was born on a military base and spent his "formative" years on U.S. military bases. From Wordnik.com. ["Clinton is pressed to say that Obama is not a Muslim. She does - but then she pulls it back."] Reference
A former colleague introduced me to the difference between "formative" and "summative" reviews. From Wordnik.com. [Dump the Performance Review!] Reference
I was reminded of the importance of this kind of formative, on-going assessment. From Wordnik.com. [TWO WRITING TEACHERS] Reference
Our kids, and their anxious parents, too, were actually lectured on the evils of competition in so-called "formative" years. From Wordnik.com. [GraniteGrok] Reference
"I think that has some kind of formative influence the same way reading Richard Matheson had an influence on me," King explains. From Wordnik.com. [The Hog's Head] Reference
Having Diller as a boss was a formative experience. From Wordnik.com. [Bonnie Hammer’s Hit Factory] Reference
Ten is a formative age — not yet a teenager, no longer a little kid. From Wordnik.com. [Generation 9/11] Reference
"It was probably the most formative single film of my life," Gingrich says. From Wordnik.com. [The Warrior] Reference
Tsvangirai says the entire campaign smacked of Mugabe's formative period. From Wordnik.com. [Mugabe’s Generals] Reference
Paul Tsongas says his "formative experience" was his Peace Corps duty in Ethiopia. From Wordnik.com. [The '60S Democrats] Reference
It also produced formative political experiences for much of Buchanan's inner circle. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Shock Troops] Reference
Gregory Houben Oslo, NorwayThat's a very interesting and in-formative article on London. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: A Tale of Three Cities] Reference
I can't be the only one who is very glad my parents never wrote about my formative years. From Wordnik.com. [Stealing Neverland] Reference
She knows whereof she speaks, having spent her formative years in Huntington, Long Island. From Wordnik.com. [Playing In A League Of Her Own] Reference
I'm just as interested in formative ideas of the Reagan administration as well as new ideas. From Wordnik.com. ['Liberalism is Dead'] Reference
What we need is to remember that what we learn in our financially formative years can be wrong. From Wordnik.com. [BEWARE THE QUIET BEAR] Reference
The same diet that affects the fetus will probably be fed to the child through its formative years. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
Spaniards spent the 1950s and '60s, the formative years of postwar Europe, on the outside looking in. From Wordnik.com. [The Year Of Spain] Reference
Such tests may someday provide the warning we lacked during the formative years of the AIDS pandemic. From Wordnik.com. [Breeding Grounds] Reference
They saw so much horror and deprivation in their formative years that they rarely engage in self-pity. From Wordnik.com. [Living In The Shadows Of Giants] Reference
Clinton's formative experience in politics came in '80, when he was swept out of office after one term. From Wordnik.com. [The Clinton Experiment] Reference
For men over 40, the Clarence Thomas hearings were an important part of their formative training as managers. From Wordnik.com. [The Fallout] Reference
Looking back, the most striking thing about our formative years is the paltry number of media options available to us. From Wordnik.com. [The Boomer Files: The Way We Laughed] Reference
Kosovo isn't Vietnam, but Vietnam was the formative public experience for almost everyone running this new Balkans war. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Soldier] Reference
In one of the more jarring statements on the go-go '80s in which teens spent their formative years, there is a new priority: bucks. From Wordnik.com. [The New Rules Of Courtship] Reference
Jail can be a formative experience for revolutionaries -- think of Gandhi, Castro or Malcolm X-- and it can be useful to reformers, too. From Wordnik.com. [Trial By Fire At The Naacp] Reference
"These are deeply formative and important experiences that build children's sense of competence, initiative, and self-reliance," he says. From Wordnik.com. [No Camp This Summer? No Problem!] Reference
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