I guess it looked like that because of my family background.
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But her family background is also a factor in the scandal.
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Eventually, she recognized the parallels between bartending and her family background.
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They were challenging unequal political treatment on the basis of family background.
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Yidam secured a 10-year land lease because of his family background.
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He said that was partly a result of his "humble" family background.
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He was proud of both his Japanese and military family background, they said.
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Instead, the film spends a lot of time sketching out Austyn's family background.
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These findings hold true when accounting for family background, cognitive ability and self-esteem.
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But how much is attributable to family background, and how much to Bridge's teaching?
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He was polygraphed by counterintelligence authorities and his family background was investigated and vetted.
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Mr. Xi's family background also fed hopes that his oversight might be rather mild.
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Family background and tribal politics are two of the main strands of his story.
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The inquiry includes information about Ailes' early life, family background, education and professional experience.
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Here's a look at the family background and career that helped form Yates' steely resolve.
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The articles alleged that she had lied about her age, birth name, and family background.
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She closed it out by playing Ghanaian music, in a nod to her family background.
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I never thought about people singling me out for my skin color or family background.
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The French rapper also has a Congolese family background ("makasi" is the Lingala word for "strong").
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Maybe it was coming from my family background in Texas where, you know, guys are guys.
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Mr. Trump's senior strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, boasts of his "blue-collar, Irish Catholic" family background.
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Looking back, I was naive in thinking that these comments weren't targeted toward my family background.
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Coming from a fractured family background, he's the first person I trusted with the idea of marriage.
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Coming from a family background steeped in design, he understood craft on a level that I didn't.
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And the correlation almost vanished when the study authors controlled for factors like family background and intelligence.
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A troubled child from an unstable family background, Howell had become a born-again Christian in the 1980s.
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That paper also found that graduating from college tends to benefit black students regardless of their family background.
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Some good predictors of this cannot be changed, such as a troubled family background and previous criminal history.
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Q. What is your family background, and how did the coming of the Cultural Revolution affect your family?
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These ideas struck a chord among people who had suffered discrimination or persecution because of their family background.
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Q: You have such an unusual family background - what early lessons on money did you learn at home?
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My family background is Iraqi Jewish, so witchcraft mixed in with the bible was part of our culture.
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A child of immigrant parents Kim's family background is one that many children of immigrants can relate to.
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Beck previously told Business Insider how he overcame a tough family background to land a job at Darktrace.
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We learn about a DNA test that proves there are Native Americans in her family background, however distant.
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I've long been puzzled by the seemingly arbitrary mention of the family background of subjects in Times' obituaries.
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And the correlation almost vanished when Watts and his colleagues controlled for factors like family background and intelligence.
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Johnson is not the first political opponent of Obama to try to make capital out of his family background.
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"When we were younger, my father hid our family background from us," said Mr. Kong, the 78th-generation descendant.
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Despite her family background in the sport, Wang, 16, said Li's success was crucial to her reaching her potential.
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Insufficient preparations were cited, and the palace said that tabloid criticism of her fiancé's family background played no role.
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I knew his family background: a single mother working two low wage jobs to support him and his siblings.
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A new paper found this correlation, but when the authors controlled for factors like family background, the correlation went away.
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That would be unworthy, which is why Mr Johnson was ill-advised to try to raise the president's family background.
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They were asked about their civilian lives as well, including their previous occupation, family background, regional identity, religion, and education.
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A. Even though my family background was considered bad, at the beginning I really wanted to participate in the movement.
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This was not the family background expected of a gentleman tennis player, as Fred soon found out to his cost.
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"They don't care what's their religion, what's their nationality, they don't care what sort of family background" they have, he said.
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Every citizen — regardless of location, family background or wealth — should have hope that hard work and dedication can transform their lives.
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Kushner&aposs family background in Democratic politics might suggest he&aposs an unlikely figure for a position in the current administration.
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Over that period, 2,046 people were picked by a computer which prioritizes them on factors including their age and family background.
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With the announcement of their engagement, every detail of Markle's past is magically interesting to the general public — including her family background.
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We learn a good deal about Maupin's seven decades: his family background, Navy career, Southern sexual frustrations and subsequent San Francisco awakening.
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ARTS An article on Monday about a new Broadway production of "West Side Story" misstated the family background of a character, Tony.
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" The eight elements in a woman's M.V. are her "age, looks, height, bra cup size, weight, academic degrees, personality and family background.
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The influence of family background on test scores fell by more in America than in any other OECD country over the past decade.
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While both are famous, including her husband of 12 years, actor Seth Gabel, Howard says her kids aren't affected by their family background.
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Because of his "bad family background," Mr. Wang was denied jobs and, for years as a result, the opportunity to find a wife.
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This was the case even after researchers controlled for differences in students' qualifications, family background, neighborhood characteristics, and support from teachers, counselors, and parents.
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In 2012, Zameer Kassam, a former McKinsey analyst with a family background in jewelry, made the leap from the business world into jewelry design.
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The study shows that, as in all societies, family background plays a powerful role in determining people's level of schooling, especially parents' educational attainment.
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The movie fails to give her a family background, a sense of which part of China she came from, or even a first name.
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" Harvard's Alexander Bell told CNBC: "It seems like that family background and the environment seem to matter a lot in terms of these disparities.
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Judges Chin, Liu, Nguyen, and Srinivasan all share an immigrant family background, and they attained the American dream that their parents had hoped for.
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In response to criticism related to her family background, she said she had "never worked at the company or had any influence in it."
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He did not know about his mother until he was in college; he needed information about his family background to fill out a form.
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An individual may, however, be granted asylum in the UK if they can prove they'd be persecuted for their political opinion, religion or family background.
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Unlike the typical Russian activist in Moscow or St. Petersburg, Mr. Davydov is not a refined intellectual, nor his family background that of Soviet dissidents.
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"Nobody in my family background had ever been involved in politics," he said, recalling a childhood spent working on his grandparents' farm in Terre Haute.
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After adjusting for family background and postsecondary characteristics, black youth reported 85.8% more debt than their white peers when starting their careers, according to the authors.
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"The case can be made that George W. Bush is a smart man — two Ivy League degrees, his family background, and he becomes president," Kennedy said.
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She thinks about degree of religious practice, family background, if they want to go to foreign countries — Lubavitchers often travel to promulgate the religion — and personality.
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She opened up about her troubled family background — from witnessing domestic violence and being abandoned by her father, to her issues with men, not unlike Khloé Kardashian's.
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Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, and Golda Meir were exceptional leaders not only for their staying power, but in part due to their family background and political history.
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"Coming from a family background that didn't include business, finance, or higher education, I leveraged the resources and connections around myself that I already made," Torbert said.
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As my acting career took off, I avoided interviews out of fear of being asked about my family background in the midst of the hateful political climate.
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Ms. Park, though, had always appeared above the fray, which is one reason, along with Ms. Choi's shady family background, she has fallen so hard, so quickly.
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Although Mr. Ohana grew up in the middle class, in that simplified division his North African last name and family background place him in the second Israel.
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Mr. Rizwan didn't tell me how he got to know his wife, but I told him to double-check on her family background before he made a decision.
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It isn't quite the same impetus that divides us as sports fans; the teams we choose have more to do with our birthplace and family background than anything else.
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Back when I believed in him, I thought it had something to do with his high profile family background (he claimed he was related to celebrities and political figures).
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The idea that the best marriage partner is someone with the same family background and belonging to precisely the same social group seems to be rooted in the subcontinent.
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"Poor dad" believes that one should work for money as a single-salaried employee at a stable job, and that a person's wealth largely depends on their family background.
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But what about the increasing number of people who have no religious heritage (either by education or family background) but may nonetheless be deeply committed to the common good?
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The Korean government is seeking to overturn the résumé photo requirement in sweeping regulations that would also ban employers from asking applicants their height, weight, family background, and hometown.
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I was feeling as curious about the man himself as I was about his writing, as intrigued by his family background as by his knowledge of the country's history.
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But context, emotion, bringing in my own family background and making it a personal memoir — balancing all those things had to come in stages, one thing at a time.
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It follows the story of a young couple, Rachel Chu and Nick Young, who travel to Singapore for a wedding, where Rachel finds out about Nick's wealthy family background.
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Friday's headlines fit with a pattern of negative coverage she has endured in the British press for many months for everything from her family background to alleged "demanding" behavior.
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After turning back to her family background and struggles for a bit, the video returns to Trump's suggestion that she lied about her heritage to advance her academic career.
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"Instead the schools look at the students entire portfolio, including academic record, rigor of courses taken, in addition to non-academic factors like leadership skills and family background," he said.
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Other crimes like having a sibling-in-law who had flirted with conservative Islam—a transgression of which Tony Blair is also guilty—pointed to Mr Khan's Muslim family background.
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The Massachusetts senator carved out populist economic ground with her opening message, stressing her humble roots and wholesome family background and accusing billionaires and corporations of attacking the middle class.
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The tool will spit out median levels of debt, by school, for people from your family background, as well as the median national first-year salary for someone with that major.
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The effect was small, enough to explain between 4% and 16% of the difference in viewpoints (family background, economic circumstances and other factors would presumably account for much of the rest).
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"My own family background, my own privilege, has been produced by a racial double standard that my father benefited from, but my black friends' fathers did not benefit from," he says.
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In an August 218 piece, City and State New York reporters Zach Williams and Ben Adler dove even deeper into her claims about her family background, interviewing her mother and her brother.
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If you have kids with real emotional problems, you would likely see a larger effect than if you have normal kids who are doing well at school and have a good family background.
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Family background can matter for the health of diabetic children, according to researchers in Denmark who found young patients' blood sugar control was linked with the level of education their mothers had attained.
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The report, by a Seoul-based non-government group, said the often extra-judicial decisions for public executions are frequently influenced by "bad" family background or a government campaign to discourage certain behavior.
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Researchers believe each is the result of genetic and environmental factors, and with my husband's family background of mental illness and an abusive childhood, it's not hard to see why he was sick.
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In an outgrowth of the dispute, several citizens of Mr. Stitt's own tribe have voiced doubts about the governor's family background, raising questions as to whether the governor has any Cherokee ancestry at all.
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Harvard has denied any unlawful discrimination as it has defended a "whole student" approach that takes account of many factors, including academic achievement, extracurricular activities, family background and personal character, as well as race.
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That Murkowski had a shot at all was the result of a combination of factors — from her family background to an unusual grassroots coalition — that would be hard to replicate in Alabama in 2017.
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I was not able to fully detail his extraordinary family background or use much of the information that I had gathered from the interviews I had done at the time in the Rolling Stone article.
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The theory goes that there's about 20 million or 30 million consumers who are naturally interested in learning more about their family background, and it's not that challenging or expensive to sell tests to them.
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"Everybody who read the Eribon book ended up talking about their own family, background or history, so I thought it might be a good idea to make that fruitful in the production," Mr. Ostermeier said.
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" Asked whether gun accessibility was a factor in recent shootings, Scott dodged the question, and suggested a range of other underlying causes for Sunday's violence, including technology, family background, and a lack of "male role models.
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Tatianna Morales, a bruja and tarot reader based in New Orleans who goes by Tatianna Tarot (and has 49,000 fans who follow her practice on Instagram), also attributes her calling for magic to her family background.
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In some ways, Mr. Assange, 20143, has never fully shed the rebellious, secretive ways of the precocious Australian teenager with a complicated family background who, with two pals, formed a hacking collective called the International Subversives.
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The idea that being "truly" a member of the nation depended at least partly on family background found favour among 72% of Christian worshippers, 52% of non-practising Christians and just 42% of those with no affiliation.
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Details were recorded like family background, religion, where a quiltmaker learned the craft, why they made the quilt, and where they obtained textiles, and a small tab was sewn into the back of each quilt for identification.
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Kurz, of the Christian Conservative People's Party (OVP), is working on a draft law with Muna Duzdar, a junior minister from the OVP's senior Social Democrat coalition partner who has an Arab family background and is Muslim.
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Though economically disadvantaged Americans face a similar plight, in South Korea, job prospects can be tied to family background, as when employers ask about applicants' parents, a practice that could favor the privileged, Kim, the professor, said.
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But elections are won and lost at the margins, and this experiment suggests that telling people about Trump's family background and business career does have an impact at the margins — including among Republicans predisposed to like Trump.
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Recently, we have been building a mass shooter database of 135 mass shooters, coded on 50 life history variables like family background and mental illness, to be used to create a more complex understanding of mass violence.
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This team, which includes an Apple software architect and founder with a family background in trucking, is an enterprise SaaS-only solution for shippers who prefer to work with their pre-vetted trucking companies in a closed loop.
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"You see early in life with that kind of a family background the way in which the most powerful men in America wield power for good and for ill," said Farrow, who is also actress Mia Farrow's son.
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Officials who practice "holistic" admissions — examining family background, recommendations and essays in addition to grades and test scores — say they can figure out who is truly disadvantaged by looking at how candidates overcome obstacles, whatever those may be.
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Mr. Roof chose to allow his court-appointed legal team to represent him during the guilt phase, but sidelined them during the penalty proceedings to prevent them from introducing any evidence regarding his family background or mental capacity.
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The Colorado senator looked to his own family background to criticize the administration of Republican President Donald Trump for separating families seeking asylum at the U.S. border with Mexico, days after squalid conditions at detention centers drew international attention.
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"One of the first explanations that comes to mind is that unequal access to healthcare may be a factor linking family background and blood sugar levels," said study leader Nick Nielsen from department of economics at University of Copenhagen.
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And when the younger Mr. Xi came to power in 2012, some people held hopes that his family background and experiences of suffering under Mao would encourage him to tolerate, if not heed, more liberal voices in the party.
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The story had nothing to do with her son, who was then working as a paralegal, but in a society where family background carries great weight, it fueled suspicion that he was courting the princess for status and money.
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Culture Audio V1 Noise-Cancellation Bluetooth Headphones — $723 See Details DNA kits offer a more in-depth look of your family background, but this one goes the extra mile: it also provides actionable diet and exercise plans based on your DNA.
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Security checks at borders were longer and more intrusive ordeals for me than for my non-Muslim colleagues, and I grew frustrated and exhausted with constantly having to provide details on my family background and nationality to prove my identity.
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The school guaranteed admission to Texas students in the top ten per cent of their high-school class; from those under the threshold, like Fisher, admissions officers chose applicants through a process that considered, among other criteria, race and family background.
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Despite the Baathist family background — his father headed the Venezuelan branch of the Iraqi Baath Party — and his Lebanese Druze origins, El Aissami seems to prefer the Islamist Shiite revolutionary Hezbollah and Iran over the Baath's supposedly secular pan-Arabism.
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While some studies found that regular cannabis use by adolescents changed brain structure and long-term cognitive functioning, follow-up studies disputed those findings and concluded that alcohol use, cigarette smoking and family background were the main drivers in I.Q. reduction.
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Research commissioned by the federal government in the late '60s concluded that family background was a bigger predictor of sexually deviant behavior than access to porn, and sexually well-adjusted adults "reported more experience with pornography as teenagers" than their maladjusted counterparts.
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" And earlier in the year, at the PEN Literary Awards Ceremony, Brooklyn Poet Laureate Tina Chang remarked, "Taking my [family] background into consideration, we would be most unpopular with certain presidential candidates...I think we need fewer walls and more book awards.
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When family background already matters so much, do America's best universities really want to put their thumb on the scales to help already privileged children — or allow their families to make a donation that buys a second thumb to press on the scales?
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People were more interested in external factors such as your family background, the schools you graduated from, the company you work for, your income level ... and those were considered to be the most essential points, almost like the formula for a happy marriage.
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According to a 2018 paper by Timothy J. Bartik and Brad J. Hershbein at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, graduating from college tends to boost women's earnings regardless of their family background (although still not even half as much as it boosts men's earnings).
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The data show that attending an elite college is a good way of securing an upper-middle class lifestyle—graduates of Ivy League-calibre universities have roughly the same chance of breaking into the top 20% of the income distribution, regardless of family background.
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Every person that the organization has moved off of the streets of Austin has come from some kind of traumatic family background, Graham said, which means that providing food and shelter is important but addressing a need for genuine human connection is the key.
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Like many tech companies, Dell has undertaken initiatives to inject more diversity into its company culture, including training its executives to understand unconscious biases that go beyond gender and look at disability, sexual orientation, different ways of thinking, family background and socio-economic status.
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Her speech positioned her own daughters — both eight years older than the young girls they were when their father stepped into the Oval Office — as symbols of an America that aims to raise up as many children as possible, regardless of their family background.
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Knowing he would be sidelined when allowed to present evidence of Mr. Roof's family background and psychological history, Mr. Bruck, one of the country's foremost capital defenders, used his opening statement to plant notions that the rampage was the work of a disturbed man.
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David Card and Jesse Rothstein, economists at Berkeley, found in a 2006 study that: Holding constant family background and other factors, a shift from a fully segregated to a completely integrated city closes about one-quarter of the raw black-white gap in SAT scores.
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A Chinese imam and three of his sons were detained by China's government because of their religion and family background, despite Beijing's claims it has only targeted extremists in its detention of the Uighur ethnic minority, according to data reviewed by The Associated Press.
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No one is denying that a violent crime happened here, but the reason that he became involved and his own family background are things that I wish had played more strongly into the consideration of his sentence, which was pretty harsh: life without parole.
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Men and women dance the Viennese waltz together; debutantes are presented in a tiara and diamonds to a suitor suitably reputable to marry; etiquette, dress code, and family background are paramount values; and any diversion from these somewhat archaic values would have you deemed unsuitable for ball culture.
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Over decades in public life, Clinton struggled to find the best, most poignant way to invoke her family background and tell her life story, but she never got it as right as Oprah did in the brief autobiographical parts of her remarks at the Golden Globes on Sunday night.
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But it appears, based on this new analysis, that the massive gap between black and white women's salaries can be explained by differences in family background: In other words, the fact that fewer black women grow up in affluent families accounts for the ongoing inequality between white and black women's wages.
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Clive Bates, a former public health official in the United Kingdom, acknowledged that some studies can show vapers are likely to become smokers, but it's because "the same things that incline people to vape also incline them to smoke"—demographic factors like family background, mental health, and level of self-control.
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But most of the things it tried — Jimmy and Gretchen wending their way toward a proposal; Jimmy's horrific family background; Edgar's struggles; a bunch of other things — didn't have enough meat to them to sustain a season of TV. This gave the third season a slightly scattered quality, which it retroactively tried to pull together by having Jimmy propose to Gretchen, then immediately ditch her after she accepted.
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Chosen, according to reports from An Chan-Il, a defector who runs the World Institute for North Korea Studies, by strict criteria on height and family background — Ri Sol-ju, the wife of Kim Jong-un, was originally in the cheer squad — they have worn everything from traditional Korean garb to Nike baseball caps and T-shirts, and often use flags and fans in the routines they do from the stands. Nike!
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