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.

Virtually nothing is known of his parents, family background, or origin.

Disraeli's parents were Jews whom he claimed were of Portuguese ancestry, possibly referring to an earlier origin of his family heritage in Iberia prior to the expulsion of Jews in 1492.

Both of his parents were Protestants of working-class origin.

He contributed two harsh decisions to the Fourth Council of Toledo: Canon 60 calling for the forced removal of Jewish children from the parents and their education by Christians and Canon 65 forbidding Jews and Christians of Jewish origin from holding public office.

The prime candidate for a geographic origin of the custom in Africa is Ghana where brooms were waved above the heads of newlyweds and their parents.

The origin of the move toward secrecy began with Charles Loring Brace who introduced it to prevent children from the Orphan Trains from returning to or being reclaimed by their parents.

He never got to discover the origin of his name, as by the time he discovered it, his parents were both dead.

Although born in Germany, the children of these Gastarbeiters are not recognized as citizens by Germany or their parents ' country of origin.

Interpreting the sculpture in terms of its name, one might trace the origin: " The duty children owed their parents, termed pietas, was associated by Romans with the duty humans owed their gods " ( James S. Jeffers, The Greco-Roman World of the New and Old Testament Era: Exploring the Background of Early Christianity, Downers Grove, Ill. InterVarsity Press, 1999 ).

In the Renaissance, the improvisatory mythographer Natalis Comes made for his parents Gaia and Helios, Homer placed Achelous above all, the origin of all the world's fresh water.

He was of Jewish origin, but his parents adopted the Orthodox faith after the birth of his older brother, and Nicolas was baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Honegger had always remained in touch with Switzerland, his parents ' country of origin, but with the outbreak of the war and the invasion of the Nazis, he found himself unable to leave Paris.

Delius's parents were born in Bielefeld, Westphalia, of Dutch origin ; the family had for some generations been settled in German lands near the Rhine.

The origin of the move toward secrecy and the sealing of all adoption and birth records began when Charles Loring Brace introduced the concept to prevent children from the orphan trains from returning to or being reclaimed by their parents.

The identity of his parents, as well as his region of origin in Africa, are not known, but most slaves imported to Haiti came from West and Central West Africa.

This species is of hybrid origin, the parents being Huperzia lucidula and Huperzia selago.

His parents were Lutheran, the mother was a Russian and the father an Estonian of German origin, he was an official in the Tsarist government.

Both of the Krays ' parents were of Irish and Jewish origin, with some sources claiming a Romany background.

Bashir was born in Wandsworth, South London to parents of Pakistani Christian origin and grew up in Wandsworth.

The parents of Henry Knox ( William Knox and Mary ( née Campbell )) were of Scotch-Irish origin.

Unlike the term biracial, which often is only used to refer to having parents or grandparents of two different races, the term multiracial may encompass biracial people but can also include people with more than two races in their heritage, or also may refer to the origin of more generationally distant genetic admixtures of more than one race in a person's DNA.

Kroc was born to parents of Czech origin in Oak Park, near Chicago, on October 5, 1902.

Sieff was born in Paris to parents of Polish origin.

) was born to parents of Swiss origin, who had moved to Finland before his birth.