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  • Some became trustees, mentors, and advocates against violence among inmates.†   (source)
  • We see MR. SAWICKI, film club mentor, and 9 STUDENTS, who are casually dressed.†   (source)
  • I learned an invaluable lesson from my old mentor, Dr. L. C. Lindsley.†   (source)
  • She'd been only eight when Arobynn Hamel, her mentor and the King of the Assassins, found her half-submerged on the banks of a frozen river and brought her to his keep on the border between Adarlan and Terrasen.†   (source)
  • Then I remember that Chian had mentored Metias before he joined Commander Jameson's squad.†   (source)
  • Our focus is Health, Education, Leadership, and Mentoring.†   (source)
  • Long ago, in his youth, when he'd been a "troubled teen," as he told her without elaboration, a social worker at his school had signed him up for the Big Brother program, and he'd always felt that his big brother—his mentor, he calls him—kept him on track.†   (source)
  • She raised a hand and smoothed her mentor's white hair.†   (source)
  • There was no counseling, no mentoring, nothing.†   (source)
  • You and your mentor.†   (source)
  • With that camera, Gey and his mentor, Warren Lewis, filmed the growth of cells, a process so slow—like the growth of a flower—the naked eye couldn't see it.†   (source)
  • There was a murder to stop, a superhero to mentor, villains to vanquish, darkness to eradicate.†   (source)
  • Peterson became something of a mentor to Fischer and climbed with him intermittently over the next two decades.†   (source)
  • They can be mentors or guides to the uncureds.†   (source)
  • His focus is one instilled by mentors at the seminary: "Either we are with the poor, or we are not.†   (source)
  • Then my mentor had glanced down on me and smiled.†   (source)
  • Dr. Thomas Wallace, the vice chancellor of the university and an old friend of Sean's, was now serving as Michael's "mentor."†   (source)
  • Hunt, McKim, and Peabody had all studied at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris; Van Brunt and Post had studied under Hunt; Van Brunt had been Peabody's mentor.†   (source)
  • Her mother-in-law and mentor, Baby Suggs, has a bad hip.†   (source)
  • My brother became a successful high-school football coach and a mentor to hundreds of young men, helping them through the difficult transition from adolescence to manhood.†   (source)
  • Yuko was her sister, her mentor.†   (source)
  • While it's true many organizations, churches, unions, neighborhood councils, native sweat lodge circles, community centers, arts programs, poetry circles, hip-hop organizations and mentoring groups continue to transform lives among the most hard-core gang youth, there are still tens of thousands more young people, most not even in gangs, who are being abandoned, pushed aside, condemned to prison, drug addictions or early deaths.†   (source)
  • But somehow I still hadn't quite gotten the hero, the mentor, the teacher for the twins.†   (source)
  • I thought hard about how I defined myself: as a teacher, a computer scientist, a husband, a father, a son, a friend, a brother, a mentor to my students.†   (source)
  • My first mentor called me E'lir because I was clever and I knew it.†   (source)
  • Having spent years under Homer Mensch's wing, he recognized the sound as that of his mentor, and he decided to steal just a minute or two to peek in and watch the master at work.†   (source)
  • This is the man who became my mentor.†   (source)
  • It was an amazing concept that I was only now, in the wake of his death, fully absorbing: Marley as mentor.†   (source)
  • But he didn't claim any as a mentor.†   (source)
  • He was only twenty-one and the Vanger's German agent, a company veteran by the name of Hermann Lobach, was his chaperone and mentor.†   (source)
  • All I knew was that her old mentor, Iskandar, had put her into a magical sleep and hidden her somewhere, replacing her with a shabti to keep her safe; but I had no idea where the real Zia was sleeping.†   (source)
  • Wouldn't it be sufficient to scry with your mentors once you are past the wards along the edge of Du Weldenvarden?†   (source)
  • Jongintaba, he argued, would not only be a fine custodian of the crown but an excellent mentor to the young prince.†   (source)
  • Each fledgling is paired with an adult mentor.†   (source)
  • It was the one touch to put her with the majority, and leave her mentor stranded in a bleak minority.†   (source)
  • Warmed up by the persistence of his mentor, in a few months Jose Arcadio Segundo came to be as adept in theological tricks used to confuse the devil as he was skilled in the tricks of the cockpit.†   (source)
  • He was waiting for his old mentor to show up, hoping to play a few tricks on him.†   (source)
  • Just my luck, my angel mentor was tilted a bit to the sadistic side.†   (source)
  • He went to see Bronzini, his old chess mentor, a sweet-natured man and not-so-willing drillmaster.†   (source)
  • He was a mentor and one of the main reasons I joined the service.†   (source)
  • He mentored me.†   (source)
  • There had been a long story in the paper this very morning about the novelty wedding of the sports guy and the weather girl, which went into detail about the mentoring relationship between Charlie Baker and the intern he'd taken under his wing during her first shaky days at the station.†   (source)
  • They had absolute power and would become our political and ideological mentors.†   (source)
  • There had to be superstars, so he recruited mentors from Apple, IBM, and eventually Google.†   (source)
  • But most important, she paid close attention to her mentor—the father who appeared before her sometimes and told her things.†   (source)
  • John cabled a reply to his mentor, requested a temporary leave, dispatched a note to his wife of less than a year at their home in Oxford, explaining that he would be absent for perhaps several days, and immediately arranged passage to London.†   (source)
  • "By any chance" — I leaned forward, no longer able to control my tone — "were you mentoring Kathy in Cleveland last Saturday, the night she was killed?"†   (source)
  • It would have been the centerpiece of a mentoring program— called Environmentors-with a black executive organized through the EPA.†   (source)
  • He paused, mourning the loss of such a great mentor and friend, before continuing along the town's borders in an effort to quiet his mind.†   (source)
  • "He's my mentor, Adam.†   (source)
  • Aviles also mentors emerging artists and helps young people find their voice.†   (source)
  • One of his strongest admirers and mentors was Samuel Ward of Rhode Island, a delegate to the Continental Congress, who was also the uncle of Nathanael's wife Katherine and presumably used his influence.†   (source)
  • It was nearly time, she thought, opening the dresser drawer and picking out a diamond-clustered wire garrote from among her necklaces, a gift from her mentor.†   (source)
  • Shortly I will lead a team of experts in psychic phenomena through the doors of Rose Red, the Rimbauer Estate, in an effort to awaken this sleeping giant of psychic power and to solve some of the mysteries my mentor, Max Burnstheim, was unable to solve before he went missing in Rose Red in 1970.†   (source)
  • Even supposedly knowledgeable and sensitive people react to good art by a woman as if it were an anomaly, a product of a freak nature or a direct result of her association with a male painter or mentor.†   (source)
  • Even the man she'd grown to know over the past two weeks didn't quite fit the structure of being parent, disciplinarian and mentor to a ten-year-old.†   (source)
  • She was my mentor.†   (source)
  • Determined to adopt his mentor's resolve, Max ignored the dark spires and instead set a brisk pace toward the Sanctuary, where he knew Julie would be waiting.†   (source)
  • "Did you have any female mentors?" she asks.†   (source)
  • Bacon took him on; decided to be his mentor; told him what courses to take and which ones to stay away from; which scholarships to apply for; which professors he must not miss.†   (source)
  • What terrible fate would his mighty mentor impose upon him for his betrayal?†   (source)
  • Acting at his mentor's behest, he carried off some of the most celebrated operations in the history of Israeli intelligence.†   (source)
  • My first mentor was a middle-aged Scotsman who gained his livelihood delivering ice, but who was in fact an ardent amateur mammalogist.†   (source)
  • How could I have failed to have the most helpless crush on such a generous, mind-and-life-enlarging mentor, pal, savior, sorcerer?†   (source)
  • A close personal and political friend elected on Houston's ticket, Clark would later enter the executive office to demand the archives of the state, only to have his former mentor wheel slowly in his chair to face him with the grandly scornful question: "And what is your name, sir?†   (source)
  • He had always considered himself as Dick's mentor, as a man with much longer experience and greater knowledge.†   (source)
  • Metias was very attentive during the time I mentored him.†   (source)
  • More mentor and mentored, it seems, but yeah.†   (source)
  • But Adam never degraded the new guys—he mentored them.†   (source)
  • They were friends in the way that a mentor and one who is mentored are friends.†   (source)
  • The Three Doctors Foundation offers a series of positive community activities including health fairs, leadership presentations, holiday outreach programs, and mentoring sessions for teen and preteen youth.†   (source)
  • Even if they're not mentoring like Haymitch always has to, most return to the Capitol each year for the event.†   (source)
  • My father had worked behind those double doors—Metias had mentored under Chian in overseeing the Trials.†   (source)
  • Most of the Brown application is filled out, and it looks fine: plenty of awards and extracurricular activities-student tutoring, class treasurer (no one else ran)-and all of his' special mentoring programs.†   (source)
  • Sort of mentoring?†   (source)
  • Harley experienced Blade's celebrity firsthand when he paired up with Adam for winter warfare training in Virginia as well as some one-on-one mentoring.†   (source)
  • This is true whether it's a father's coat, a mentor's sword, a teacher's pen, or a mother's hat.†   (source)
  • Langdon searched his mentor's eyes for a glint of playfulness.†   (source)
  • Everything the camerlegno had ever believed about his mentor was shattered before his eyes.†   (source)
  • He was a groomsman at my wedding and remains a cherished friend and mentor.†   (source)
  • Want to keep playing dutiful mentor and show me how?†   (source)
  • Haymitch finally joins us, contributing twenty-three years of tributes he was forced to mentor.†   (source)
  • I was so at sea that I called my mentor, Andy van Dam.†   (source)
  • He it is who has been our best advisor and our constant mentor.†   (source)
  • Some said the mentors we encountered were the key.†   (source)
  • What about your mentor, Haymitch Abernathy?†   (source)
  • "I thought I'd play the dutiful mentor today," he shrugged.†   (source)
  • It was a brick wall surmounted with a huge boost from a mentor and some sincere groveling.†   (source)
  • Maybe he thought it would help me as a mentor.†   (source)
  • I snap, because even though Haymitch is my mentor and trying to keep me alive, this angers me.†   (source)
  • "June," he said, "I think I'm going to appeal for a different mentor tomorrow."†   (source)
  • But Andy van Dam, my "Dutch uncle" and mentor at Brown, advised me, "Get yourself a PhD.†   (source)
  • He gave me ninety minutes and became a lifelong mentor to me.†   (source)
  • It's for Haymitch, who acted as mentor for Peeta and me in the Games.†   (source)
  • One of my greatest mentors was Andy van Dam, my computer science professor when I was at Brown.†   (source)
  • "She was Finnick's mentor, you know," Johanna says accusingly.†   (source)
  • In your very first year of being a victor, you get to be a mentor in a Quarter Quell!†   (source)
  • In a normal year, being a mentor to the tributes is the stuff of nightmares.†   (source)
  • However it falls out, two of us are going to be in the arena again with the other as mentor.†   (source)
  • So at least half the victors have instructed their mentors to request you as an ally.†   (source)
  • I remember seeing the winning tributes with their mentors and stylists.†   (source)
  • You and Peeta, you'll be mentors now, every year from here on out.†   (source)
  • Since we're allies, Haymitch will be working with the District 4 mentors.†   (source)
  • I had enlisted the help of Dr. Louis Freed, a mentor and former teacher of Seth Samuel's.†   (source)
  • He made sure to personally hunt down and kill each of his mentors.†   (source)
  • People don't have bosses, they have sponsors — mentors — who watch out for their interests.†   (source)
  • An editor and mentor at the Post once told me I was "Wobbly.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Arya is right, and experience is the only mentor that can help me now, Eragon thought.†   (source)
  • Nor would it be proper for him to mate with you when he is your mentor.†   (source)
  • She was already taking so much time out of her schedule to mentor me.†   (source)
  • She saw it whenever he looked upon Bruenor, his mentor whether he would admit it or not.†   (source)
  • He saw Minos, his old ghostly mentor, leading him through the Labyrinth.†   (source)
  • Their job was to mentor teens and show them what it meant to think like an engineer.†   (source)
  • Adequate or not, on and off, I have been the mentor ever since.†   (source)
  • Yeah, well, Neferet doesn't think so, and she was her mentor.†   (source)
  • He had been my mentor, my only mentor, the only teacher in whom I could confide.†   (source)
  • And I believe my old mentor, Iskandar, was trying to protect me when he put me into that tomb.†   (source)
  • I am your mentor and I have given you permission, what more could you need?†   (source)
  • Along the way he became the mentor of many young officers.†   (source)
  • Attorney James Putnam of Worcester had been John Adams's mentor in the law.†   (source)
  • You must trust us as your mentors to teach you and Saphira those things of which you are ignorant.†   (source)
  • She hardly ever takes on fledglings to mentor anymore, so she must really believe in you.†   (source)
  • I am proud to be his teacher and his mentor," she said, beaming.†   (source)
  • He was my mentor, my friend, the one man to whom I owed so much.†   (source)
  • His parents were in Arizona, as were his friends and mentors.†   (source)
  • My mentor, Mary, let me take classes at the education center for free.†   (source)
  • That guy, the mentor, I'm not seeing him anymore, either," he says to Mr. Taylor.†   (source)
  • But a call to Shawn, Adam's original hero and moral mentor, meant the most.†   (source)
  • You're not only letting yourself down, but you're letting down your mentor, too.†   (source)
  • I'll go to Planned Parenthood to find a mentor so I can make it seem realistic.†   (source)
  • More mentor and mentored, it seems, but yeah.†   (source)
  • Neferet is my mentor, and High Priestess of Nyx.†   (source)
  • He was my mentor, my teacher, in many ways.†   (source)
  • Leads, mentors, and sets the example—The Definition of a Team Player: Advance to First Class.†   (source)
  • I am Zoey's mentor, so I'll expect my students to welcome her.†   (source)
  • So I headed off to Planned Parenthood in search of a mentor.†   (source)
  • No. Not when I had good friends and a mentor like Neferet to be there for me.†   (source)
  • "I'm looking for a mentor for a school project," I started, and explained my idea.†   (source)
  • To ensure my oath to you I will be Zoey's mentor.†   (source)
  • They were friends in the way that a mentor and one who is mentored are friends.†   (source)
  • Her High Priestess was my mentor and, I had to admit to myself, I already felt connected to Nyx.†   (source)
  • I think you'd better talk to your mentor.†   (source)
  • "Especially when your mentor is Neferet, High Priestess of Nyx," Damien said.†   (source)
  • Anyway, I heard Neferet is your mentor, which is really lucky.†   (source)
  • That's his mentor," Stevie Rae whispered almost soundlessly.†   (source)
  • Not only was he facing the most devastating threat in Vatican history, but he was doing it without his mentor and friend …. flying solo.†   (source)
  • The daydream about his late father, Langdon suspected, had been stirred by this morning's unexpected invitation from Langdon's longtime mentor, Peter Solomon.†   (source)
  • A person five years older could be a credible mentor, though now and then he'd say something that reminded her he wasn't very old himself.†   (source)
  • Regarding Fischer as a mentor and a role model, Lopsang even started wearing his hair in a ponytail, as Fischer did.†   (source)
  • As Cleveland burned, Nathaniel, a black teenager with a white mentor, was hard at work on Beethoven and Brahms.†   (source)
  • And in that moment, I knew that the twins mentor was not Dee: Sophie and Josh would be taught by Nicholas and Perenelle.†   (source)
  • I had other plans because Dr. Long, head of neurosurgery and my mentor, had already told me that I could stay on the faculty of Johns Hopkins after my residency.†   (source)
  • And they saw— from a family friend, an uncle, or a work mentor—what was available and what was possible.†   (source)
  • "Just between the two of us—I do love Henrik and he is my mentor—but when it comes to Harriet, he's almost off his rocker."†   (source)
  • As Vittoria listened to his words, an unexpected grief surfaced as tears …. tears for her own mentor …. her own holy father.†   (source)
  • His mentor's eyes shone with mystery.†   (source)
  • Hands clasped in front of him, suavely collegial, Nathaniel tells Snyder that his mentor, Mr. Harry Barnoff, put in forty-six years with the Cleveland Orchestra.†   (source)
  • At every level of my life and in every environment, I have found family and mentors and lifelong friends who supported and enabled me.†   (source)
  • AT THE BEGINNING of James Joyce's wonderful story "The Sisters" (1914), the unnamed young narrator mentions that his old friend and mentor, a priest, is dying.†   (source)
  • Not surprisingly, they had all commented; not only was the camerlegno responsible for planning the sacred conclave, but he had to do it immediately on the heels of the loss of his mentor, the Pope.†   (source)
  • The shopping excursion was the first of many encounters between my grandfather and this man, who would become a mentor, teacher, and friend to him.†   (source)
  • And finally, how our mentor, Haymitch Abernathy, betrayed us both for a cause he pretended to have no interest in?†   (source)
  • It's the room where Nathaniel auditioned in spring and where he played again for his new teacher and mentor, Homer Mensch, who would decide which of three orchestras Nathaniel would be assigned to.†   (source)
  • It is also, or perhaps primarily, a measure of how much we learn through our friends, colleagues, and mentors.†   (source)
  • Peter Solomon had been a friend, mentor, and, although only twelve years Langdon's senior, a father figure to him ever since their first meeting at Princeton University.†   (source)
  • His mentor was beaming.†   (source)
  • Uncle Howard has remained a mentor and guide in my life and was the co-best-man (along with Justin) at my wedding.†   (source)
  • " Like a good mentor, Haymitch makes me eat a sandwich and then pretends he believes I'm asleep for the rest of the trip.†   (source)
  • Gale fills him in on a lot of stuff about 12; Finnick is the expert on both of Peeta's Games, as he was a mentor in the first and a tribute in the second.†   (source)
  • I spoke with a mentor and great friend, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Fenzel, who had just been named deputy brigade commander of the hallowed 1st Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division.†   (source)
  • And I'm still your mentor.†   (source)
  • I would soon be heading back to the United States, where, in a matter of months, I would be accepting my degree from the president of Johns Hopkins, William Brody, who had become a cherished mentor and friend.†   (source)
  • As my mentor?†   (source)
  • But many of my mentors told me that if I really wanted to understand the changes going on in American and international policy, I needed to understand the global economic system.†   (source)
  • Some of the ones that helped me come to mind, from finding strong mentors to being entrusted with responsibilities that forced me to get serious about my behavior.†   (source)
  • But what all these responses have in common is that they point to the decisive power of information and stories—the kind provided and modeled by friends, family, mentors, or even books—which has only reinforced my initial decision to write this story in the first place.†   (source)
  • What changed was that I found myself surrounded by people—starting with my mom, grandparents, uncles, and aunts, and leading to a string of wonderful role models and mentors—who kept pushing me to see more than what was directly in front of me, to see the boundless possibilities of the wider world and the unexplored possibilities within myself.†   (source)
  • One mentor and one victor," says Peeta.†   (source)
  • As a mentor.†   (source)
  • In a way, it's a good thing Peeta and I will both be available as mentors during the Quell, because it's a sure bet that Haymitch will be wasted.†   (source)
  • I guess it's an indication of rain, of a water source for those who don't have mentors as smart as Haymitch.†   (source)
  • I recognize many of their faces, either from seeing them as tributes or mentors at previous Games or from our recent viewing of the victors' tapes.†   (source)
  • The victors, both this year's tributes and their mentors, are standing around in small groups, talking.†   (source)
  • They're polite but cool, and I spend the whole time thinking about how I killed both the tributes from their district, Glimmer and Marvel, last year, and that they probably knew them and might even have been their mentors.†   (source)
  • I kept looking at her … seeing the son she did not bear behind her, killed by the pig animal that was her mentor.†   (source)
  • You will have to be something of a mentor to me for the time being, and carry a heavier load than usual.†   (source)
  • Besides, he had become something of a mentor for Andersson, who did not seem to object to his personality.†   (source)
  • Whenever I had a free moment, I'd crank out epic letters of my misadventures to my foster parents, my "aviation mentor" Michael Marsh from my days in foster care, and my father.†   (source)
  • My old mentor shook his head.†   (source)
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