By the time Lilian had been graduated from public school, her parents were doing quite well.

It met a serious rebuff in New Orleans, where the two schools selected for the first moves toward integration were boycotted by white parents.

Amy had to be safe, had to come back to them -- if only to reap that share of life's experiences that were her due, if only to give her parents another chance to do better by her.

Their two boys were `` well adjusted '' and, like their parents, always did the right thing at the right time and damn the consequences.

and they censured parents who `` never disciplined and were too permissive '' or who `` never explained how easy it was to get pregnant ''.

`` -- had enough brains to call ya up so as ya could do sompin about it when the parents -- I coulda let her go go '' -- His eyes were lowered, so he couldn't have seen the narrow, pointed face of his companion suddenly writhe with fury ; ;

It was one thing to awaken outside a restaurant where your parents were eating and quite another to awaken in a strange garage and know your parents had gone on home without you.

Now prosperous, his parents were able to send Nobel to private tutors and the boy excelled in his studies, particularly in chemistry and languages, achieving fluency in English, French, German, and Russian.

His parents were working-class Rusyn emigrants from Mikó ( now called Miková ), located in today ’ s northeastern Slovakia, part of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.

His report of life there covers a wide range of topics, such as marriage in heaven ( where all angels are married ), children in heaven ( where they are raised by angel parents ), time and space in heaven ( there are none ), the after-death awakening process in the World of Spirits ( a place halfway between Heaven and Hell and where people first wake up after death ), the allowance of a free will choice between Heaven or Hell ( as opposed to being sent to either one by God ), the eternity of Hell ( one could leave but would never want to ), and that all angels or devils were once people on earth.

His parents were Joseph Chatfield Alcott and Anna Alcott ( née Bronson ).

His parents were Scots-Irish colonists Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, Presbyterians who had emigrated from Ireland two years earlier.

Certainly his parents, who had worn the purple, were slain by it.

According to Porphyry, the parents of Ammonius were Christians, but upon learning Greek philosophy, Ammonius rejected his parents ' religion for paganism.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

We are not certain that the word " democracy " was extant when systems that came to be called democratic were first instituted, but around 460 BC an individual is known whose parents had decided to name him ' Democrates ', a name which may have been manufactured as a gesture of democratic loyalty ; the name can also be found in Aeolian Temnus, not a particularly democratic state.

He believed the poor possessed an advantage over the wealthy due to their receiving more attention from their parents, and were taught better work ethics.

* No foreigner, even if naturalised ( unless they were born of English parents ), shall be allowed to be a Privy Councillor or a member of either House of Parliament, or hold " any office or place of trust, either civil or military, or to have any grant of lands, tenements or hereditaments from the Crown, to himself or to any other or others in trust for him.

His parents were Abdallah's son Muhammad and Muzna ( or Muzayna ), a Christian concubine.

Hoshiar and Ibrahim were the parents of Isma ' il Pasha.

To address the concerns of parents that home computers were a better investment than consoles, the system was designed to be upgraded to a full-fledged home computer.

His parents, who separated shortly after World War II, never married, and Ayckbourn's mother divorced her first husband to marry again in 1948.

His older brother, who was born during World War II, was named Savaş (" war " in Turkish ) while he was named Barış (" peace " in Turkish ) by his parents to celebrate the end of the war.

Bellarmine was born at Montepulciano, the son of noble, albeit impoverished, parents, Vincenzo Bellarmino and his wife Cinzia Cervini, who was sister of Pope Marcellus II.

They were parents to a daughter, Louise Borgia, Duchess of Valentinois, ( 1500 – 1553 ) who first married Louis II de La Tremouille, Governor of Burgundy, and secondly Philippe de Bourbon ( 1499 – 1557 ), Seigneur de Busset.

After World War II, Kosiński remained with his parents in Poland, moved to Jelenia Góra, and by the age of 22 had earned two graduate degrees in history and sociology at the University of Łódź.

John's parents, Henry II of England | Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine | Eleanor, holding court

The firm helped Yamasaki avoid internment as a Japanese-American during World War II, and he himself sheltered his parents in New York City.

The disaster had brought her very close to " Nixa's " parents, and she received a letter from Alexander II in which the Emperor attempted to console her.

He was born to secular Jewish parents who had escaped Austria just before the onset of World War II, and he was exposed via Unitarian Universalism to a diversity of religious faiths during his upbringing.

At about the age of ten, around the time of his parents ' divorce, Sondheim became friends with James Hammerstein, son of the lyricist and playwright Oscar Hammerstein II.

He flies to Saipan — the site of his parents ' suicide during the American invasion of the island at the close of World War II — to buy a large tract of land.

Halonen's parents married each other at the beginning of World War II and Tarja was born a few years later.

Her maternal grandfather was the Ban of Slavonia Count Herman II of Celje, whose parents were Count Herman I of Celje and Catherine of Bosnia, who apparently descended also from Nemanjić kings of Serbia and from Catherine of Hungary, a daughter of Stephen V of Hungary.

* Pope John Paul II says that sex education is " a basic right and duty of parents.

Since the end of World War II, there has been debate over the terminology used to refer to Manzanar, and the other camps in which Americans of Japanese ancestry and their immigrant parents, were incarcerated by the United States Government during the war.

Among these, in addition to Richeza were named Anno II and her parents.

William's parents, William II, Prince of Orange | William II of Orange and Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange | Mary Stuart, Princess Royal

She was the daughter of Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy, and Philip's second cousin Anne Marie d ' Orléans, also the parents of the Duchess of Burgundy, Philip's sister-in-law.

After his coronation, in 1451, Constantine XI sent a commission under George Sphrantzes asking Mara Branković, daughter of the Serbian Despot Đurađ Branković and Byzantine princess Irene Kantakouzene, by then the widow of Murad II, to marry him ( Maria had been allowed to return to her parents in Serbia after the death of Murad ).

Through his parents he had claims to both the Scottish and English thrones, as he was descended from both James II of Scotland and Henry VII.

* Requiem for a Wren ( 1955 ; U. S. title: The Breaking Wave ): The story of a young British woman who, plagued with guilt after shooting down a plane carrying Polish refugees in World War II, moves to Australia to work anonymously for the parents of her ( now deceased ) Australian lover, whilst the lover's brother searches for her in Britain.

While Book I of Finnegans Wake deals mostly with the parents HCE and ALP, Book II shifts that focus onto their children, Shem, Shaun and Issy.