Sentences with phrase «abandoned by their relatives»
Many of these had been abandoned by their relatives.
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And yet the intent of the ceremony, in making the union of the couple part of a wider commitment involving family and the community, is often abandoned, as evidenced by the typical bridal couple's excuse for a lack of consideration for the wishes and comfort of relatives and other guests: «Well, it's our wedding, so we get to do whatever we want.»
I do feel abandoned by my siblings, relatives and friends.
The willingness of President Bush (in his better moments) to spend money to shore up civil society — making it perhaps less necessary to spend money down the road, as the promise of the «ownership society» was fulfilled — was taken as an opportunity by those not invested in that «limited» project (I have in mind here both the conventional Republicans in the Bush White House and the pork - barrelling Republicans in the House and Senate) to open the federal purse with relative abandon.
Even relatives separated at birth shared expressions: The blind young man mentioned above was abandoned by his mother two days after birth and not reunited with her until he was 18 years old, yet they shared at least three facial expressions, which reinforces what Darwin suspected more than 100 years ago.
Adapted by a small army of screenwriters from the bestselling novel by Max (son of Mel) Brooks, the pic abandons its source material's choral «oral history» structure to hone in on the Lanes, who, after once again negotiating a narrow escape, find themselves ensconced in the relative safety of an aircraft carrier somewhere in the Atlantic.
In 2001 FASA went bankrupt, and the BattleTech franchise was gradually confined to relative obscurity after the MechWarrior Mercenaries video game series was abandoned by Microsoft Game Studios.
After a portfolio analysis for our client, the client saved approximately $ 250,000 per month in maintenance fee payments by abandoning patents around the world that no longer provided benefits relative to cost, based on lifecycle and importance to core products.