Sentences with word «kin»

Taken under the wing of Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson, Zombieland), the pair travel to tell next of kin of war fatalities, racing against the 24 - hour news stations to be first to break the terrible news.

Veterans, or their family / next of kin in many cases, are charged upwards of $ 70 to obtain records, which are necessary for determining eligibility for benefits and / or service medals and honors.

But how does our closest kin in the animal kingdom handle social unrest?

Biologist E. O. Wilson first put forward this idea of kin selection as an explanation for homosexuality in 1978, but for some time now it has been considered an unlikely scenario.

I have no problem with kin selection when it is properly formulated.

What fraction are recognizable as kin of our rocky, terrestrial globe?»

Using Kinship Navigators to Assess the Needs of Kinship Caregivers (PDF - 232 KB) Sutphin (2015) GrandFamilies: The Contemporary Journal of Research, Practice, and Policy, 2 (1) Describes a kinship navigator program for kin caregivers involved in the child welfare system and explains supports that kinship caregivers need to be successful.

They are met by the course leader (Mark Strong) and informed that their first task is to write their names and next of kin on a provided body bag.

The article provides recommendations for considering greater compensation for kin caregivers and the adoption of new approaches to care that strengthen a child's kinship network.

Cochran's family also received shipments of whale meat from kin living farther north, near Barrow.

They were enchanted by kin selection because it appeared to have a basis in mathematics.

If you consider Mark 6:4 - 6, «But Jesus, said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.

Summing up his thoughts on what kin tokens will eventually provide for the messaging app, Philp concluded:

If an employee is a spouse, child, parent, or next of kin who is caring for a covered service member with a serious injury or illness, then that employee can be granted up to 26 weeks of unpaid leave during one 12 month period.

In Bwa Mawego, by contrast, families tend to be fluid, amorphous entities, with kin networks extensive enough to guide and support children well past adolescence.

fictive kin People not related by birth or marriage who have an emotionally significant relationship with an individual.

Some of these arthropods (whose closest living kin include insects, spiders, and crabs) were fierce hunters that grew to the size of an adult human, whereas some — such as those without claws or tail spines — likely filtered the water for prey or scavenged the sea floor for food.

Living in small, interacting groups consisting mainly of those who weren't kin made sense for people roaming near - arctic parts of Europe and West Asia starting around 40,000 years ago, says paleoanthropologist and study coauthor Marta Mirazón Lahr of the University of Cambridge.

He suggested that natural selection could encourage altruistic behavior among kin so as to improve the reproductive potential of the «family.»

The animations are multi-layered and feature a range of kin relationships, cultural roles and responsibilities, environments and experiences.

One of their guest speakers, Andrew Jackomos, the Victorian Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People, has been sounding the alarm for years about the highly vulnerable «second stolen generation «of young Aboriginal kids who are removed from kin at increasingly high rates.

If you look carefully it turns out to be things like kin selection rebranded as group selection.

Her general interests include kin support in the LGTBQ community, aspects of older adults lives, and strengthening family and interpersonal relationships, particularly stepfamilies.

Normally, people generally speaking won't donate if they've thought about it before, because it comes as a pretty serious shock to the next of kin when somebody's in that position.

----------------------------------------------------------- Ah reckon it shore does beat all whut yew kin do with them corn - pewter «sim - yew - lay - shuns» these days, don't it?

Kik reported that over 10,000 people from 117 countries participated in the token sale, making kin «one of the most widely held cryptocurrencies in the world,» according to the release.

MSPCC's Kid's Net Program provides support and respite for grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other kin raising children.

Fiction can make history seem more alive and thus more kin to life as we know it.

So you cooperate with close kin because it helps get some of your shared genetic heritage into future generations.

At treatment termination, however, foster / kin parents in the KEEP intervention condition reported significantly fewer child behavior problems than those in the control condition.

It seems as if kin selection could actually damage the group.

This includes kin carers who might be an aunt, uncle, grandparent, adult brother or sister, or a relative who has been involved in the care of a child.

A new online database can help grandparents and other relatives raising kin children to find support and services.

Tensions between kin arising from sexual jealousies and misdemeanors may be socially and economically destructive.

In a growing number of cities, bicycle lanes have achieved a status entirely independent from their car - lane kin through physical separation created by parked cars, curbs or other barriers.

Aspiring gold miner KIN Mining says it has rejected a proposal from Victoria - based MHM Metals to merge the two companies.

We must reimmerse God and humanity in nature, so that we can once again interact with nature as our spiritual kin, rather than as an enemy to be conquered or an object to be dominated.

Donald and Stormy look like they could be blood related brother and sister, blood kin at the very least.

We really need a model that supports the maintenance of kin ties as much as much as possible rather than favoring stranger adoption.

We'll be collecting your insurance details and next of kin information at this meeting.

(Sea scorpions, more formally known as eurypterids, were arthropods, a group that includes insects, spiders, and crabs as well as their extinct kin such as trilobites.)

They also do well in populations of close relatives, since helping kin helps the same genes reach the next generation.

Judicial Tip Sheet for judges to question kin first preference for placements and to encourage maintaining family connections for all children.

Regardless of what is happening among biological kin in any given week, members of the Body of Christ are helped by remembering that God loves and forgives them as they participate in the incarnation; the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ; the birth of the church; and the giving of the Holy Spirit.

Planning for permanence for children should also include seeking appropriate support services for kin families.

A new study found that female baboons that had the most stable relationships with other females weren't always the highest up in the dominance hierarchy or the ones with close kin around — but they were the nicest.