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.

Alexander was born in London, England, to parents of noble heritage, and was educated at English public schools before moving on to Sandhurst for training as an army officer.

His parents state that he was moved by stories of atrocities allegedly perpetrated by the Afghan Northern Alliance army against civilians.

Marie ’ s parents opposed the idea of their daughter marrying Blecha, who was about to enter the imperial army.

The next year, his parents committed suicide as Octavian and his army invaded Egypt.

In 1912, in what Céline described as an act of rebellion against his parents, he joined the French army, two years before the start of the first World War and its mandatory French conscription.

Born twenty-three years into his parents ' marriage, Giovanni had two much older brothers, both of whom outlived him: Count Galeotto I ( 1442 – 1499 ) continued the dynasty, while Antonio ( 1444 – 1501 ) became a general in the Imperial army.

Born in Tel Aviv, British Mandate of Palestine, to Jewish parents from Hungary and Austria, Geller is the son of Itzhaak Geller ( Gellér Izsák ), a retired army sergeant major, and Manzy Freud ( Freud Manci ).

His parents wanted him in the army, but he told them that he wanted to get a degree first, which acted as his " cover story ", and immediately began playing in bands

Eugen Schauman was born to Swedish-speaking Finnish parents Waldemar, a general-lieutenant in the Russian army, a Privy Counsillor and senator in the Finnish Government, and Elin Maria Schauman in Kharkov, Russian Empire ( now Ukraine ).

Born with the surname Chen ( 陳 ) in Huarong District, Jing Prefecture ( 荊州華容 ), Zhiyi left home to become a monk at eighteen, after the loss of his parents and his hometown Jiangling that fell to the Western Wei army when Zhiyi was seventeen.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Tappan's sympathies lay with the Confederate cause ( despite his Northern parents ), and he joined the Confederate army.

Alexander spoke to his army and tried to persuade them to march further into India but Coenus pleaded with him to change his opinion and return, the men, he said, " longed to again see their parents, their wives and children, their homeland ".

His parents will not shame him by informing the army about his true age, and so Dunstable can wait out the rest of his Deptford days in a romantic fling with Leola, who assures Dunstable that she really loves him over Percy.

Naturalization, for instance, is available under certain circumstances for the non-Jewish parents of a citizen who has completed his or her army service.

Charles was the son of Sir John's elder brother, Sir Thomas Lucas ( 1598 – 1649 ), a royalist army officer, and technically illegitimate as Thomas's parents married after he was born.

Both of her parents were Partisans during the Second World War: her father Vojo was a commander who was acclaimed as a national hero after the War ; her mother Danica was a major in the army, and in the mid-sixties was Director of the Museum of the Revolution and Art in Belgrade.

Jergović has written in his novels and stories about his great grandfather with German roots and his family, about his uncle who was sent by the parents to the enemy army and died as an enemy soldier, and about other important and not so important figures from his childhood.

He lived at home with his parents and three siblings and at the time of his disappearance was a shop assistant at an army disposals store at Moonee Ponds.

Her parents were mountain peasants from Chekfa, Jijel Province, and she fled with her family to the city of Annaba, after her parental home was bombed by the French army during the Algerian War of Independence ( 1954 – 1962 ).

His parents were John Joseph Power, a doctor in the Australian army and once the president of the Queensland Turf Club, and Hilda Power.

Iorga considers the army to have been composed of both auxiliary ( τολδον ) Romanised Thracians — speaking πιχωρί τε γλώττ ( the “ language of the country ” /” language of their parents / of the natives ”) — and of Byzantines ( a mélange of ethnicities using Byzantine words of Latin origin as official command terms, as attested in the Strategikon ).

Raised up without his parents, with the only company of his older friend Adonis ( another orphan ), Might became an ambitious teenager training for his dream to become a soldier of the royal army.

During World War II, Katz's encouraged parents to " send a salami to your boy in the army " which became one of the deli's famous catch phrases along with " Katz's, that's all!

His parents had seven children, of which three survived: one daughter, Catinca, and two sons, Iancu — a future army colonel — and Vasile.