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They had these big black gates that surrounded the school, and every time they would turn their backs, I would just simply run out of the black gates and take them up on their offer that if we don't want to be there, we can leave at any time.
I hear you and I know that you would want me to be strong, but right now, I am being sucked down, surrounded and suffocated by these raging emotional waters, craving to cleanse my soul, trying to emerge on a firm footing one more time, to keep on fighting and flourishing just as you taught me.
The main difference is, at work, I'm surrounded by cyber materials, and cyber seemed to be the problem in this situation.
At home, I'm surrounded by everything else I've ever learned.
When I meet her in her office in Herat, she enters surrounded by four large men with four huge guns.
I grew up surrounded by different types of hardware stores, and I like going to night markets.
The East Germans knew, of course, that they were surrounded by informers, in a totalitarian regime that created mistrust and a state of widespread fear, the most important tools to oppress people in any dictatorship.
That understanding today leads to innovative medicine after innovative medicine, and although there's still so much work to do, we're already surrounded by people who have been cured of cancers that were considered untreatable a generation ago.
It has a very symmetric central body surrounded by a circular outer ring, with nothing visible connecting them.
I knew nothing about Wofford and even less about Methodism, but I was reassured on the first day that I taught at Wofford College to find, among the auditors in my classroom, a 90-year-old Hungarian, surrounded by a bevy of middle-aged European women who seemed to function as an entourage of Rhinemaidens.
He hides his sensitivities and romantic side, because in Russia, among guys, that's not cool to be romantic, but it's cool to be surrounded with women and look like an aggressive hulk.
My mother, sisters, brother and I, we surrounded him in a cocoon of healing.
I photographed the care and the love that surrounded him.
It was surrounded by three isolated tribes and thanks to the Colombian government and Colombian colleagues, it has now expanded.
When I arrived in Kiev, on February 1 this year, Independence Square was under siege, surrounded by police loyal to the government.
Or one evening when electricity had failed for eight hours in our community, and my dad sat, surrounded by all of us, telling us stories of when he was a little kid struggling to go to school while his father, who was a farmer, wanted him to work in the fields with him.
All we had to do was remove the barriers that surrounded them, and that's what we decided to do.
Probably surrounded by cats ... OK, another risk is, let's imagine, instead, that the first people that you dated in your first 37 percent are just incredibly dull, boring, terrible people.
full of cars; surprise at finding a street draped by leaves and surrounded by trees.
That's 90 percent of our time surrounded by architecture.
This indirect protection that the unvaccinated people within a community receive simply by being surrounded by vaccinated people, is called herd immunity.
I was in the grips of real loneliness back then, but I was surrounded by people all day, so it never occurred to me.
That's nicknamed "gladiator school," because you have a young individual coming in from the street thinking that they're tough, being surrounded by a bunch of other young individuals from all of the five boroughs, and everybody feels that they're tough.
When I entered my flat in Vladikavkaz with a guard, we were surrounded by armed men.
And in the Dallas mini-mart, a Dallas mini-part surrounded by tire shops and strip joints a Bangladeshi immigrant works the register.
But because of my amazing mother, I got the ability to dream despite the poverty that surrounded me.
If I'm standing far away surrounded by defenders, that's generally a bad shot.
I found myself surrounded by people who celebrated intellectualism and engagement, and who thought that my ironic oh-so-cool disengagement wasn't clever, or funny, but, like, it was a simple and unspectacular response to very complicated and compelling problems.
So, I had one learning community in high school, then I went to another for college, and then I went to another, when I started working at a magazine called "Booklist," where I was an assistant, surrounded by astonishingly well-read people.
But I came back to Africa at the age of 17, as a volunteer teacher to Lesotho, which is a tiny country, surrounded at that time by apartheid South Africa.
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