*" To strengthen the European dimension of education at all levels "

*" A 1981 survey ... in Muli found 52 % of the marriages engaged in monogamy, 32 % practiced polyandry ( brothers sharing a wife ), and 16 % practiced polygyny ( sisters sharing a husband ).

*" If people regarded other people's families in the same way that they regard their own, who then would incite their own family to attack that of another?

*" Western, ` family of families ', disbands ".

*" Third from the Sun ", a Twilight Zone episode in which two families flee their planet on the verge of a nuclear war

*" Finding California ", another non-fiction Kindle Single, is set in 1841 and is based on diaries and other accounts of farmers and their families who traveled west to California ( 2011 ).

*" Having a Wonderful Time "-Written in the form of postcards, the story chronicles a young couple who vacation on the Canary Islands, but their flight home is repeatedly cancelled until it becomes apparent that they -- along with thousands of other families vacationing -- will never return home, and have been forever exiled.

*" Individuals, families and groups in the population can be said to be in poverty when they lack the resources to obtain the type of diet, participation in the activities and have the living conditions and the amenities which are customary, or at least widely encouraged or approved in the societies to which they belong.

*" She < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > said the protesters wanted to show it was ‘ hardworking families ’ which would be hit by a hunting ban.

*" Sometimes hard working families need a little help "

*" A Conservative government will give hope to hardworking families – decent people who respect others, who take responsibility for their children and who contribute to their local communities.

*" It is equally certain that there will be something for hard-working families after Tony Blair and the Chancellor have made several public announcements about their commitment on this subject.

*" Chancellor Gordon Brown says that Tuesday's budget was designed to reward " hardworking families ".

*" Is there anyone in particular you'd like me to arrest or should I just round up the sons of the most important families in town?

These marriages often were alliance or succession devices: the Soga lord ensured the domination of a prince, to be put as puppet to the throne ; or a prince ensured the combination of two imperial descents, to strengthen his own and his children's claim to the throne.

During the reign of his elder brother, Emperor Tenji, Temmu was forced to marry several of Tenji's daughters because Tenji thought those marriages would help to strengthen political ties between the two brothers.

Tenji was suspicious that Temmu might be so ambitious as to attempt to take the throne, and felt the necessity to strengthen his position through politically advantageous marriages.

With the death of King Peter, the traditional alliance that had been started by the Plantagenet right since their accession to the throne of England with Castile and Navarre to keep in check the French Crown since the marriages of Eleanor of England and Berengaria of Navarre came to a stop during a critical time and was to be renewed again by the Trastámara and the Tudors to strengthen the legitimacy of each side.

For generations, Creek chiefs had approved their daughters ' marriages to fur traders in order to strengthen their alliances and trading power with the wealthy Europeans.

Interventions may include connecting patients and families to necessary resources and supports in the community ; providing psychotherapy, supportive counseling, or grief counseling ; or helping a patient to expand and strengthen their network of social supports.

* Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House, nonprofit that works to strengthen and empower families through social and educational programs

The official purpose of Relief Society is to " prepare women for the blessings of eternal life by helping them increase their faith and personal righteousness, strengthen families and homes, and help those in need.

Family Re-Union is an annual conference, hosted by former Vice President of the United States Al Gore and Tipper Gore, in Nashville, Tennessee whose goal is to bring together families and those who work with them to talk and design better ways to strengthen family life in America.

Merritt Ruhlen comments that, " At the present time the evidence connecting Indo-Pacific to the world's other language families is sparse, comparable perhaps to the relatively weak links between Khoisan and other families ", but adds that "... there do appear to be some threads connecting Indo-Pacific with the world's other language families, threads that further research can be expected to strengthen.

The foundation also seeks to strengthen individuals and families by encouraging and teaching valuable life skills, by developing honorable citizens and leaders, and by promoting educational excellence.

Family First supports policies and programs that strengthen the capacity of families to care for their dependents and contribute to their communities rather than promoting a reliance on government services.

The stated purpose of this action was intended to " enable both organizations to expand and strengthen their arts education programs to better serve children, families and all people with disabilities around the world.

Several families of the " castle warriors " ( iobagiones castri ) could also strengthen their liberties and they received the status of the " true nobles of the realm " ( veri nobiles regni ) by the end of the 13th century, although most of them lost their liberties and became subordinate to private castle-holders.

The movement works to strengthen the ability of all aspects of the community including the families and schools in order to introduce more positive values.

In 2000 she established the LC Treasures Within Foundation – a foundation with the mission to strengthen kids, families and the world through education, sports and spirituality.

In 2011, the organization and its members contributed $ 175. 5 million to organizations and activities that aim to strengthen families and communities.

According to the LDS Church, the purpose of FHE is to help families strengthen bonds of love with each other as well as provide an atmosphere where parents can teach their children principles of the gospel.

Violence-prevention efforts can also be usefully directed at developing anti-bullying programs, helping teachers with classroom-management strategies, applying behavioral strategies such as the Good Behavior Game, implementing curricular innovations such as the Second Step syllabus, developing programs to strengthen families ( see below ), and implementing programs aimed at enhancing the social and academic skills of at-risk students ( see below ).

At that point, family values were the cornerstone of Bush's campaign platform, to which effect he gave the following speech at the National Religious Broadcasters ' convention in Washington, D. C .: " We are going to keep on trying to strengthen the American family, to make American families a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons ".

" Its mission is to " encourage and strengthen the Canadian family through education and resources based on Christian principles "; its purpose is to " love God and our neighbours by serving Canadian families and encouraging them to pursue a growing relationship with Jesus Christ "; and its guiding principles include the preeminence of evangelism, permanence of marriage, the value of children, the sanctity of human life, the relationship of church, family and government.

Volunteers of America is focusing on family preservation programs through its 2009 Look Up and Hope initiative to help strengthen families.

The requirements of Bahá ' í marriage include that the partners be over the age of 15, and is dependent on the consent of the couple and all their living biological parents, so to strengthen the ties between the families.

Responding to secularization the Way introduced a program called " families in mission ": Families serving to establish the presence of the Catholic Church in countries where there is none ( this is referred as Implantatio Ecclesiae ) or to strengthen the presence of Catholic communities in particularly difficult areas.

Additionally, the proscription of core - Negro marriages for core families, discussed above, would seem to act as a regulative norm governing subgroups and roles.

On the other hand, marriages tend to be between nearby families, and neighborhoods become small networks of direct and indirect affinal relationships with a few further connections of direct agnation or common clan membership.

Property will tend to flow to other families as female inheritors take their shares into their marriages.

Most often called simply " fandom " within the community, it can be viewed as a distinct subculture, with its own rituals and jargon ; marriages and other relationships among fans are common, as are multi-generation fannish families.

The Medici family was connected to most other elite families of the time through marriages of convenience, partnerships, or employment, as a result of which the Medici family had a position of centrality in the social network: several families had systematic access to the rest of the elite families only through the Medici, perhaps similar to banking relationships.

At her request, Edward bestowed gifts of land and titles on her relations and arranged marriages to rich and powerful families.

This was accommodated by Perthe's Almanach de Gotha ( which categorised princely families by rank until it ceased publication after 1944 ) by inserting the offspring of such marriages in the third section of the almanac under entries denoted by a symbol ( a dot within a circle ) that " signifies some princely houses which, possessing no specific princely patent, have passed from the first part, A, or from the second part into the third part in virtue of special agreements.

Although the children, or issue, of morganatic marriages were ineligible to succeed to their families ' respective thrones, some children of morganatic marriages did go on to achieve dynastic success elsewhere in Europe.

Other factors influencing rank included the family's history of military command, high-ranking offices held at court and marriages into other high-ranking families.

Formal marriages between the leading families in the two tribes sealed the peace.

A number of marriages are attested between Norman men and English women during the years before 1100, but these marriages were not common, with most Normans continuing to contract marriages with other Normans or other continental families rather than with the English.

Romanos strengthened his position by marrying his daughters to members of the powerful aristocratic families of Argyros and Mouseles, by recalling the deposed patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, and by putting an end to the conflict with the Papacy over the four marriages of Emperor Leo VI.

At its extremes, the practices may destroy marriages, break up families, and separate children and their parents.

The lineage retained strong ties with the royal family in Alexandria, to the extent that marriages occurred between certain high priests and Ptolemaic princesses, strengthening even further the commitment between the two families.

Through his children's marriages he had made remarkable connections across Europe, including the Russian, Austrian and British royal families.

The Mortimers, de Braoses, de Lacys, Grey de Ruthyns, Talbots, and the Le Strange families eventually acquired much Welsh blood through politically advantageous marriages with the Welsh nobility.

In ancient Greek and Roman civilization, marriages were private agreements between individuals and families.

The children of Earl Ralph's first wife had made good marriages to local nobility, but his Beaufort children married into even greater families.

Through descent in the female line and marriages, the house passed through several families: the Wooleys, the Crokes, and the Thurbanes.

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