"The crucial part of the formative years of children is between four-nine years, " says Okoya.
The benefits of learning to speak more than one languages fluently are not necessarily limited to the formative years.
Ultimately, fashion is a form of self-expression, and students should be allowed to experiment with their personal style, especially during the formative years of middle and high school.
My childhood (at least the formative years) was spent reading novels like Neuromancer and Snow Crash, and poring over stories about a future promised by Mondo 2000 and Wired.
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Watching the financial media early in the day on Tuesday, I lost count of how many middle-aged money managers were scolding Zuckerberg in abstentia and in advance with hoodie jokes and the ever-present, unfavorable comparisons to the formative years of Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG).
Unfortunately, those are memories you'll have to cling to a lot, because here is your dilemma: You, the best-prepared college generation ever, have just spent four of the most formative years of your lives in an environment that's the exact opposite of the real world.
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For 10 years in one community, there were kids in that community who couldn't get the nutritious food that they needed during some of the most formative years of their lives.
The son spent formative years there, attended Midland public schools, and formed friendships that stayed with him into the White House.
With passion backed by strong financial commitments from each founder that are designed to sustain the association during its formative years, AfBAA members and staff have the resources, experience and energy to create a forum for implementing ideas that will amplify the inherent benefits of business aircraft.
S. La Grace to obtain money they claimed was owed to them by Anderlecht for training the player in his formative years.
Most adults in the region spent their formative years under communism.
One of the great figures of global central banking, Jean-Claude Trichet - president of the European Central Bank during many of the euro's formative years - made a similar point.
The more television children watch during these formative years, Dr. Christakis says, the more likely they are to develop attention problems later on.
During its formative years, the Classic used to attract mainly people and horses from Yorkshire and the surrounding areas.
Indeed, the older ones spent their formative years fighting Chinese-backed communists.
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The brothers spent 10 years in the U.S. during a formative period of their lives, exhibiting normal behavior for first-generation immigrants, said Mitchell Silber, a former intelligence official in the New York Police Department.
Several other countries have in the past fielded outstanding players whose formative years were spent elsewhere.
After school in England, the Bombay-born Kipling spent formative years in India as a young man.
It has been a homecoming of sorts for Aung San Suu Kyi to the country where she spent many formative years as a young girl.
On the ground where he spent his formative years in English cricket with Nottinghamshire, he had previously failed to reach fifty in six Test innings.
His mother and father had been to every soccer match through his formative years, enduring the travel schedule with its weekends away from home, long hours, horrible weather.
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Romney has had lots of formative experiences in the intervening 47 years college and graduate school, a Mormon mission, marriage, raising five children, founding a successful company, running the Olympics and a state.
For we had a least one other thing in common (as I learned from her book): we both spent our formative years the time in our lives when we were most impressionable watching Perry Mason.
Similarly, the upcoming generation of American politicians will not have spent their formative years goggling at Checkpoint Charlie in divided Berlin, or feeling their spirits soar at the courage and triumph of dissidents such as Andrei Sakharov.
Kids spend their formative years being judged on the basis of tests that are more about knowing the ways of the test than about knowing the subject.
We've dramatically expanded early childhood education and will continue to improve its quality, because we know that the most formative learning comes in those first years of life.
We have dramatically expanded early childhood education and will continue to improve its quality, because we know that the most formative learning comes in those first years of life.
Former Wales assistant coach Lynn Howells, who coached Williams in his formative years at Pontypridd, said the flanker's return to Test rugby is a huge boost for Wales.
Where the US puts a large emphasis on those formative years and attaining high popularity status among ones peers, Brazilian students tend not to be pressured by that part of the classroom culture.
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Hence, the provision of appropriate literacy training to children in their formative years has a long-term effect on their entire educational performance.
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