`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.

For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.

We consider a rural community as an assemblage of inhabited dwellings whose configuration is determined by the location and size of the arable land sites necessary for family subsistence.

Engaged as it is in a battle for world trade as a condition of national survival, this country can have little patience with labor's family feuds.

There is little doubt if they had a secret ballot, they would vote for food for their family, in place of ideological purity out on the farm.

The family is largely broken up ; ;

For it is the family that, in China, has always provided social security for the indigent, the sick, the down-and-out members of the clan.

Part of the family should be sleeping while the rest is awake.

The Peace Corps should not pay the expenses of a wife or family, unless the wife is also accepted for full-time Peace Corps work on the same project.

Arriving at the waterside, the boat is launched, the family taken aboard and, that easily, another day afloat is begun.

This one was set up here in 390 A.D. on a pedestal, the faces of which are carved with statues of the emperor and his family watching games in the Hippodrome, done so realistically that the obelisk itself is included in them.

Hotei is 23 feet long with an 8-1/2-foot beam and every inch a family boat.

First and foremost: No one -- no, not anyone -- in the family is allowed to issue blanket invitations to his or her own circle.

Follow pool-care instructions to the letter, and be sure that one person ( in the family or not ) is regularly responsible for each aspect of the job, with no chance for claiming, `` It wasn't my turn ''.

They come prepared for family fun because Americans in ever-growing numbers are learning that here is the way to a fine economical vacation that becomes a family experience of lasting importance.

Camping is family fun, and it is helping more Americans see more of the country than they ever saw before.

When a family buys a home the title is subject to a perpetual easement to Tri-State.

In one cartoon a family is shown outside a theater with the head of the family addressing the doorman: `` Excuse me, but when we came out we found that we had left my daughter's handbag and my wife's behind ''.

It is presumed to occur in other members of the Brassica family.

A family of five plans to go together either to the beach or to the mountains, and a coin is tossed to decide.

When this experiment is viewed as composed of five binomial trials, one for each member of the family, the outcomes of the trials are obviously not independent.

The ideal home, they agreed, would be a small private house or a city apartment of four to five rooms, just enough for a family consisting of husband, wife, and two children.

Lungless salamanders in the family Plethodontidae are terrestrial and lay a small number of unpigmented eggs in a cluster among damp leaf litter.

Each family would then have two or three small pieces of land scattered about the village, which they used to grow crops.

A matai can represent a small family group or a great extended family that reaches across islands, and to both American Samoa and independent Samoa.

Abalone ( or ; via Spanish, from the ), is a common name for any of a group of small to very large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Haliotidae.

** Express kidnapping, a method of abduction where a small ransom that a company or family can easily pay is requested

The eighth of eleven children, Maria enjoyed the benefits of belonging to a prosperous family in a small town.

At family or small social gatherings, one mate may be shared by the group, with the host preparing the mate to the preference of each guest.

Abd al-Rahman and a small selection of his family fled Damascus, where the center of Umayyad power had been ; people moving with him include his brother Yahiya, his four-year old son Sulayman, and some of his sisters, as well as his former Greek slave ( a freedman ), Bedr.

Abbasid agents closed in on Abd al-Rahman and his family while they were hiding in a small village.

The wastes of a single family are usually insufficient to produce enough methane for anything more than small amounts of cooking.

In the basal Eocene of North America, the Amblypoda were represented by extremely primitive, five-toed, small ungulates such as Periptychus and Pantolambda, each of these typifying a family.

The Blue Crane is a tall, ground-dwelling bird, but is fairly small by the standards of the crane family.

The relatively low concordance between dizygotic twins brought up together suggests that shared family environmental effects are limited, although the ability to detect them has been limited by small sample sizes.

Members of the family Halictidae, or sweat bees, are the most common type of bee in the Northern Hemisphere, though they are small and often mistaken for wasps or flies.

It reminds him of the injustices committed against his family, and of how, in his small way, he felt responsible and helpless.

A mobile people who engaged in trade and warfare with other indigenous groups, they lived in scattered family clusters and small villages.

# Community organizations: range from informal family or kinship networks, to more formal incorporated associations, political decision making structures, economic enterprises, or professional associations at a small, national or international scale.

Some species form packs or live in small family groups depending on the circumstances, including the type of available food.

American service personnel in their teens or early twenties during the Second World War would be in prime car-buying age by 1960, if only to find an economical small second car for their growing family needs.

Some have seen it more as an aspiration, which has been successfully realised in the short term by commitment to the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity ( these being built into financially independent local cooperatives and small family businesses ), though proponents also cite such periods as the Middle Ages as examples of the historical long-term viability of distributism.

Allen and his family moved to Burlington in 1787, which was no longer a small frontier settlement but a small town, and much more to Allen's liking than the larger community that Bennington had become.

Born into a family of relatively low status, his parents sent him to be educated by the monks of Fulda-one of the most impressive centres of learning in the Frank lands-perhaps due to his small stature ( Einhard referred to himself as a " tiny manlet ") which restricted his riding and sword-fighting ability, Einhard concentrated his energies towards scholarship and especially to the mastering of Latin.