Sentences with phrase «become wards of the state»

Age - old institutions such as the Royal Bank of Scotland and Northern Rock in the United Kingdom were so badly mismanaged that they became wards of the state.

Like many parents whose children become wards of the state, Abby Rose's birth mother has, to borrow Paul's potent phrase, «a spirit of slavery.»

The Little children became wards of the state.

«The ailment has been fundamentally misdiagnosed: banking has become a ward of the state, a cosseted, subsidised industry with captive consumers, and it is that which has crippled it,» he writes.

It's no wonder that cities like Buffalo have become wards of the state after having their wealth systematically drained to pay for the liberal social agenda.

«When someone died, and the families were unable to pay for burial, their bodies became wards of the state,» Watkins says.

My sister, damaged by her own father, was now the victim of another man and was removed from the house and became a ward of the state of California.

But today, Fannie Mae has essentially become a ward of the state.

Can we send them back to Somalia — an anarchic corner of East Africa that hasn't had a functioning central government since 1991 — or do they become wards of the state that imprisoned them?

The child would be reliant on kinship guardianship or become a ward of the state.

In the general population, four times as many African American children as Caucasian children become wards of the state; the former also spend a longer time in the child welfare system [Everett et al. 1991; Edelman 1987].

Public agencies generally place children who have become wards of the state for reasons such as orphanage, abandonment, or abuse.

If this new bill passes, children with same - sex parents will become wards of the state, similar to children who are deemed to have «unfit» parents for reasons of abuse, negligence, or drug addiction.

Upon becoming a ward of the state, the child is a commodity of the system, one with physical structure and financial value, and is a subject and object of inquiry and investigation.

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If the Illinois General Assembly could provide a basic level of certainty about the long - term growth of state government, and thus ward off future tax hikes, Illinois could once again become an attractive destination for families and businesses.

In the wake of the scandal, those SUNY Poly affiliates became wards of ESD; good government groups want to transfer responsibility for all state economic development awards to the same auspices.

In the wake of the scandal, those SUNY Poly affiliates became wards of ESD; good government groups want to transfer responsibility for all state economic development awards to

He noted that Buffalo has become a financial ward of the state and that income inequality between whites and people of color is especially pronounced in the region.

He noted that Buffalo has become a financial ward of the state and that income inequality between whites and people of color is -LSB-...]

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today declared that recent scientific advances in HIV / AIDS have created a «historic opportunity» to change the course of the pandemic and usher in a generation where no children are born with the virus, the risk of becoming infected plummets for teens and adults, and those who do become infected receive drugs that both ward off disease and make them less infectious.

More than a Dozen States Report Trouble With Computerized Common Core Tests / / Washington Post Grading the Common Core: No Teaching Experience Required / / NY Times Mayor Scott Lang [Democrat] Launches Sharp Criticisms of PARCC citing that Commissioner Chester «miscalculates the problem of unfunded liability, when kids fall off the school system and become wards of society.»