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.

His parents were Mahmud II and Valide Sultan Pertevniyal (" Partav-Nihal ").

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.

Eisenhower himself was baptized in the Presbyterian church shortly after assuming the presidency, the only president thus far to undergo such a rite while in office ; and his attendance at West Point was in sharp opposition to the pacifist tenets of the groups to which his parents belonged.

The funeral, held at the Union Presbyterian Church, was the largest ever in St. Peter, and he was buried near his parents in Greenhill Cemetery.

Laurie's parents attended a Scottish Presbyterian church in Oxford.

Crosbie was born in Gorebridge, Midlothian, Scotland, to Presbyterian parents who disapproved of her becoming an actor.

Both parents were Methodists, his father having left the Episcopal church, his mother the Presbyterian.

Though his parents were not churchgoers, as a child Aberhart attended Sunday school at a Presbyterian church.

Like most traditional " mainline " Protestant churches in the U. S., the UPCUSA began to decline numerically in the mid-1960s, reversing a 20-year period of growth on the heels of World War II ; some of those losses can be attributed to defections of conservatives ( sometimes entire congregations ) to evangelical Presbyterian ( or other ) denominations on the one hand, and on the other, by children who chose for various reasons not to follow their parents ' footsteps into church membership.

His parents were James Miller McKim, a Presbyterian minister, and Sarah Speakman McKim.

Following the wedding, performed by Reverend Williamson of the Central Presbyterian Church in Denver, the newlyweds honeymooned a couple days at Eldorado Springs, Colorado a resort near Denver, and then visited the groom's parents in Abilene before settling into the lieutenant's crude living quarters at Fort Sam Houston.

Wes Borland grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, he initially took an interest in becoming a drummer, but because his parents didn't take to the idea of bringing percussive instruments into their household, Borland began taking guitar lessons from a member of his parents ' Presbyterian church.

Tregelles was born at Wodehouse Place, Falmouth, of Quaker parents, but he himself for many years was in communion with the Plymouth Brethren and then later in life became a Presbyterian ( or perhaps an Anglican ).

Her parents, Dr. and Mrs. L. Nelson Bell, were medical missionaries at the Presbyterian Hospital 300 miles north of Shanghai.

Her parents, Dr. L. Nelson Bell and Virginia McCue Bell, were American medical missionaries at the Presbyterian Hospital 300 miles north of Shanghai.

Wallace was brought up by his parents in the Presbyterian faith.

Eugene Dooman ’ s parents ended up in Japan because Presbyterian mission activity in the late 19th century was widespread and Japan and China had become new grounds for work.

In 1946 his father entered the Presbyterian ministry and in 1951 his parents opened Cono Christian School .< ref >

Robert's parents were devout Christians and raised their children to know the Bible and the Westminster Shorter Catechism according to Presbyterian ideals.

W. Laidler, a Presbyterian minister in Newcastle, but his parents were opposed to his new vocation.

Both her parents died, and in 1820 she went to live with her orthodox Presbyterian aunt in Le Roy, New York.

His parents, Jean and George Edwards ( a retired professor of theology and Presbyterian minister ) of Louisville, Kentucky, are pacifists and civil rights activists who influenced Johnny to have as much contact with African-Americans as possible.

His Scottish father was a Presbyterian minister but his parents nonetheless sent him to the Quaker school at Friends School Saffron Walden ( 1925 – 1931 ), probably because of their socialist beliefs.

His parents were Presbyterian but Ely transferred his affiliation to the Episcopal Church when in college.

Frederic was born in Utica, New York to Presbyterian parents.