Sentences with phrase «of blind children»

«Surely, if reasonable people saw the choice between the risk of a daffodil gene in a rice plant and the certainty of millions of blind children, they would descend on Greenpeace offices around the world and demand to have their money back,» he wrote.

The point of departure is a Swedish sex education film from 1970 in which a school class of blind children, urged on by an older female teacher, physi - cally and objectively examines the sexual organs of a pair of healthy youngsters by squeezing them.

According to a report released last year by the National Federation of the Blind, about half of all blind children learned Braille in the 1950s compared with 10 percent today.

Barbara Cheadle, president of the National Organization of the Parents of Blind Children, an affiliate of the National Federation of the Blind, has been working for several years with Guide Dogs for the Blind to extend the outreach of both organizations into schools.

India has the largest number of blind children in the world, many of whom are born with cataracts.

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Between 250,000 and 500,000 vitamin A-deficient children become blind every year, and half of them die within a year, according to the WHO.

Many receive benefits provided under Medicaid, including the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), as well as Aged, Blind or Disabled (ABD), Foster Care and Long - Term Services and Supports (LTSS), in addition to other state - sponsored programs, Medicare (including the Medicare prescription drug benefit commonly known as «Part D»), dual eligible programs and programs with the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Many receive benefits provided under Medicaid, including the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), as well as Aged, Blind or Disabled (ABD), Foster Care and Long - Term Services (LTSS), in addition to other state - sponsored programs, Medicare (including the Medicare prescription drug benefit commonly known as «Part D»), dual eligible programs and programs with the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

They are brain - locked into trying to hit back with the same sort of complaint, yet utterly fail because atheism isn't a system of anything, and so sound like a child repeating the same thing over and over, blind and deaf to anything but the glaring problem of worshipping a disgusting and vicious idiot god and hating disgusting and vicious things.

(Aal - e-Imran, Chapter # 3, Verse # 45) And will make him -LSB-(«Îsa (jesus)-RSB- a Messenger to the Children of Israel (saying): «I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, that I design for you out of clay, a figure like that of a bird, and breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by Allah's Leave; and I heal him who was born blind, and the leper, and I bring the dead to life by Allah's Leave.

And then throw in all the tens of thousands of priests who are aware that Brother Philip is r@ping children but turn a blind eye.

As Karl Barth put it, we «must not blind ourselves to... [the fact] that the kingdom of God has come from heaven to earth, that it has taken solid shape amongst us, and that it has foreshadowed the end of all human history and therefore of the child - parent relationship.»

And these books don't serve up blind patriotism nor are they revisionist in scope — the stories put a human face on some of our most tragic moments and failures as a nation like Japanese internment, the plight of home children, residential schools, flu epidemics, wars, child labour, the Halifax explosion, the Acadian expulsion, and so on.

She slept beneath a counterpane Of rose leaves, till a thieving toad Abducted the unknowing child To make her the unwilling bride Of darkness in an underworld Of labyrinthine tunnels where A blind mole made his fetid den.

Youth workers said that mothers (presumably in such cases there are no fathers) are «too terrified of their own children to confront them and often turn a blind eye to cash or stolen goods brought home».

It falls to John, the oldest of the children, to captain the ship through a harrowing night of blinding fog and bring his siblings safely home.

I was perfectly prepared to skim through the end of the chapter, seeing as I had heard about Blind Bartimaeus since a small child perched nicely in my Sunday School chair.

How, by My permission, you healed the blind man and the leper, and by My permission you brought the dead forth; and how I protected you from the Children of Israel when you brought them clear signs; whereupon the unbelievers among them said: «This is nothing but plain magic».

Concerned to warn against the danger of preconceived ideas blinding one to the reality of the challenge: Laborers in the Vineyard, Two Sons, Children in the Market Place, Pharisee and the Tax Collector.

Indeed, it is You who is Knower of the unseen» (109)[The Day] when Allah will say, «O Jesus, Son of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the Pure Spirit and you spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and [remember] when I taught you writing and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and when you designed from clay [what was] like the form of a bird with My permission, then you breathed into it, and it became a bird with My permission; and you healed the blind and the leper with My permission; and when you brought forth the dead with My permission; and when I restrained the Children of Israel from [killing] you when you came to them with clear proofs and those who disbelieved among them said, «This is not but obvious magic.»

A customary sign at rural fairs across the country asked, «How long are we Americans to be so careful for the pedigree of our pigs and chickens and cattle — and then leave the ancestry of our children to chance, or to «blind» sentiment?»

Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than evident magic; (110) And when I inspired the disciples, (saying): Believe in Me and in My messenger, they said: We believe.

It seems rather ironic that the papacy is very quick to take action against its American nuns, when for decades it has played deaf, dumb and blind to the outrageous number of Catholic priests who have been proven to be child molesters.

The natural man is enslaved to sin; he is a child of Satan, rebellious toward God, blind to truth, corrupt, unable to save himself or to prepare himself for salvation.

The parting with my wife and my poor children hath often been to me as the pulling of my flesh from my bones, especially my poor blind child who lay nearer my heart than all I had besides.

In the midst of our celebrations we also listen to Rachel's lament because today her children and her neighbors» children are still dying with their hands on each other's throats in blind rage over disagreements as old as her own jealousy of Leah.

In the midst of our celebrations we also listen to Rachel's lament because today her children and her neighbors» children are still dying with their hands on each other's throats in blind rage over disagreements old as her own jealousy of Leah.

you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven you make the new convert twice as much as a child of hell you are blind guides... you clean the outside, but inside are full of greed you are like whitewashed tombs... you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

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So, God bless the atheists, because they are like blind children and blind children need blessings as they go about their strictly defined biological needs of being part - timers in God's employment program of which they are not aware.

Evil 24/7 forever and regretting you missed the boat out of blind arrogance to not trust the universal genius to lead you in a postive fulfilling life but rather like a spoilt child you refuse.

Children are blind to much of the world due to their lack of experience so less is to be expected of them, if a child sins its unwittingly in this ignorance there can not be condemnation.

We are now paying the price of that blind and irresponsible folly — in a drug war that we are not winning, in burgeoning crime that has made city neighborhoods uninhabitable, in teenage pregnancies and «children having children,» in rampant abortions, swelling welfare roles, sexually transmitted diseases, self - indulgent neglect of community good, and countless ruined lives.

But when he compares his situation with those of families whose children have a form of dwarfism or were born as a result of rape or are deaf or blind, it feels like an intrusion, if not simple narcissism.

In the pacific islands, there are thousands of children going blind.

But the miserable presentation of the contraceptive movement in terms of women's rights - the right to be free from the burden of child - bearing - has blinded so many women to the peculiar privilege of motherhood.

Severe vitamin A deficiency results in blindness, and half of the roughly half - million children who are blinded by it die within a year.

Young children and pregnant and nursing women are the most vulnerable to vitamin A deficiency because of their increased need for micronutrients — it causes children to get sick, go blind, and even die.

Each year, up to 500,000 children go blind as a result of this condition.

Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of childhood blindness, leaving approximately 350,000 children blind every year.

VAD remains a serious global public health problem where an estimated 250 000 to 500 000 vitamin A-deficient children become blind every year, half of them dying within 12 months of losing their sight.

One was a «blind» study of 20 children, half of whom were given a diet free from gluten and casein — a protein found in mammalian milk — and half who had an unchanged diet.

I understand the frustration, but I think that Wenger has a blind spot for some players regardless of nationality do remember» his love child» Denilson?

Previous winners this season include Children's charity Dravet Syndrome UK, who won the first vote of the season in September, The Brompton Fountain, with the medical charity collecting against Leicester City in January and most recent winners from our armed forces category, Blind Veterans.

In fact, window blind cords injure two children under the age of 6 every single day and kill close to one child every single month, too.

George Abbott, vice president of development and communication for the Hadley School, who is blind, says when he was a child, he could only play with sighted kids «on their turf.»

* The weekend of April 23 and 24 is Chicago Children's Theatre's first Access Weekend and will feature performances geared towards audience members on the autism spectrum, children who are blind or have low vision (and which will feature special Touch Tours of the set), and children who are deaf or hard of Children's Theatre's first Access Weekend and will feature performances geared towards audience members on the autism spectrum, children who are blind or have low vision (and which will feature special Touch Tours of the set), and children who are deaf or hard of children who are blind or have low vision (and which will feature special Touch Tours of the set), and children who are deaf or hard of children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Make sure that when installing curtains and blind in your child's nursery that they are securely fastened to the stud wall and that all cords are out of reach of little hands.

I will turn a blind eye to what others choose to feed their kids on an individual basis, but if there is some policy at the school that demands that what another parent sends must be served to my child, then there needs to be some kind of standard to which those offerings are held.

I've seen a mother go from a «turn a blind eye» enabler to someone who at least gives her children some kind of support once she divorced the father and took out a restraining order against him.