Forza Italia's aim was to attract moderate voters who were " disoriented, political orphans and who risked being unrepresented " ( as Berlusconi described them ), especially if the post-Communist Democratic Party of the Left was to win the next election and enter in government for the first time since 1947.

Founded in 1853 as a boys ' school to provide support for poor members of the medical profession such as pensioners and orphans (" Foundationers "), Epsom's long-standing association with medicine was estimated in 1980 as having helped almost a third of its 10, 000 alumni enter that profession.

The orphans are recruited into Olaf's troupe as are the other freaks.

While Olaf sees embezzling orphans ' inheritances as the " greater good ", Esmé wants only the sugar bowl and Olaf's affection.

* Kage Baker has written a series of novels about The Company in which orphans from various eras ( who fit certain physical requirements ) are recruited by a time-traveling corporation, augmented and turned into immortal cyborgs, and trained to rescue valuable artifacts from history.

The Major-General and his many daughters escape from the tender-hearted Pirates of Penzance, who are all orphans, on the false plea that he is an orphan himself.

The two eldest, Jennifer and Geoffrey, are from his previous marriage ; middle child Emma is from Andrews ' first marriage ; and the youngest children are two adopted orphans from Vietnam, Amelia Leigh and Joanna Lynne.

Shakers are no longer allowed to adopt orphans after new laws were passed in 1960 denying adoption to religious groups, but adults who wish to embrace Shaker life are welcome.

" As a testament to his unchallenged leadership of the Arab people, following his death, a Beirut-based newspaper stated, " One hundred million human beings — the Arabs — are orphans.

Sheri Tepper's novel Plague of Angels contains archetypical villages, essentially human zoos where a wide variety of archetypal people are kept, including heroes, orphans, oracles, ingénues, bastards, young lovers, poets, princesses, martyrs, and fools.

The characteristics of those upon whom God's wrath will fall is as follows: Those who reject God ; deny his signs ; doubt the resurrection and the reality of the day of judgment ; call Muhammad a sorcerer, a madman or a poet ; do mischief, are impudent, do not look after the poor ( notably the orphans ); live in luxury or heap up fortunes ; persecute the believers or prevent them from praying.

In her essay Pied Piper Revisited, Sheila Harty states that surnames from the region settled are similar to those from Hamelin and that selling off illegitimate children, orphans or other children the town could not support is the more likely explanation.

Little Orphan Annie was also parodied in an episode of the stop-motion television series Robot Chicken in which Little Orphan Annie fails to grasp the true meaning of a hard knock life when a fellow orphan shows that their lives are relatively decent compared to orphans around the world.

Now you really are orphans of the Pacific.

" German war orphans, who in 1945 evaded in other than German surrounding to survive and therefore had to live as adult persons in foreign countries ( Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and others ) under false identity are called Wolf children.

It is encouraging that politics and the media report more and more on these orphans, of whom many up to now are not aware of their German descent.

The main classes of painkillers are NSAIDs, opioids and various orphans such as paracetamol.

It was and still is a psychiatric hospital, although it speculated that they also took care of orphans who they wrongly labeled as mentally ill to conduct medical experiments, they are called the Duplessis Orphans.

In his last letter, Dow warned, " Mining securities are not the thing for widows and orphans or country clergymen, or unworldly people of any kind to own.

The series ' principal characters are Louise and Jean Dana, teenage orphans who solve mysteries while attending the fictional Starhurst School for Girls in Penfield, not far from their hometown of Oak Falls.

The original Boxcar Children tells the story of the four Alden children: Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny, who are orphans.

Just as they are preparing to leave, another fifty orphans appear from a neighbouring town, so Aylward and Li have no choice but to lead one hundred children on a trek across the countryside.

The orphans are listening, and decide to dance and sing to the song they have just heard (" You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile " Reprise ).

Similarly, Lavinia Smith's spinsterhood, lack of biological children of her own, and her eagerness to care for orphans ( i. e., Sarah Jane and Brendan ), are traits passed on to Sarah Jane who later adopts Luke and Sky Smith.

Although many people presume that most children who live in orphanages are orphans, this is often not the case with four out of five children in orphanages having at least one living parent and most having some extended family.

Major charities are increasingly focusing their efforts on the re-integration of orphans in order to keep them with their parents or extended family and communities.

In other countries, such as Indonesia, orphanages are run as businesses, which will attract donations and make the owners rich ; often the conditions orphans are kept in will deliberately be poor to attract more donations.

The 97 children were taken from their homes in October 2007 by a then-obscure French charity, Zoé's Ark, which claimed they were orphans from Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.

Poor boys and orphans were taken under his care.

The orphans were taken when quite young, were fed, clothed, and given a basic education, and when old enough positions were found for them in “ good Christian families .” Some of them before leaving were taught to earn their own living.

At age twelve, he was taken in by an American family and enrolled in a school for orphans.

After escaping Olaf once again, the Baudelaire orphans are taken into the care of a whole village, only to find lots of rules and chores, evil seniors, and Count Olaf and his evil girlfriend lurking nearby.

Petrovitch had taken her to Department X, with other young female orphans, where she was brainwashed, and trained in combat and espionage at the covert " Red Room " facility.

He was found by the Morlock Caliban and taken to a human-looking mutant woman named Annalee who raised him and several other young mutant orphans as her children.

It is assumed that the women's children would have been taken from their mothers and would be treated as orphans or adopted soon after birth.

When Lupe was still a child, her father died and she was taken in by the local church orphanage which was funded by ChildCare, an American charity for international orphans.

The Baudelaire orphans are taken captive and subsequently interrogated, but they manage to escape, thanks to Carmelita Spats ' actions.

In another place, Surah 2: 83 mentions that the covenant taken by Musa ( i. e. Moses ) from Bani Israel had also included the condition that they should indulge in good and worthwhile conversation, while being kind to parents, kindred, orphans and those in need, practice regular charity and to worship God alone.

Sunny, Klaus, and Violet, now orphans, are taken in by Count Olaf, a villain that has come up with so many terrible schemes to get the Baudelaire fortune.

The vote on the offer was taken by a show of hands in a closed-door session overseen by Committee chief, the author Bruno Roy, one of very few orphans who enjoyed a successful career following the traumatic experience of youth detention.

They were placed in a kibbutz, like many European orphans escaping the Holocaust, but soon left the kibbutz and hiked to Tel Aviv, where they were taken in and raised by a distant cousin.