Sentences with phrase «stories of adopting»

I was encouraged by the love of one mom, Jess who shares her story of adopting and past struggles and blessings from it.

Less obvious to Vikander at the time of filming was the thematic dovetailing of The Danish Girl with Ex Machina as a story of adopted female identity.

The story of an adopted, professional black British woman (Marianne Jean - Baptiste) who tracks down her white, working - class birth mother (Brenda Blethyn) came with its own themes and ideas.

is often raised when sharing stories of adopted dogs.

«Telling the story of your adopted dog inspires others to help, and encourages them to adopt, not shop, when adding a pet to the family.»

Producer / writer Jane Ryan of The Boarder tells her own story of adopting children with reactive attachment disorder.

Not exact matches

«There are lots of elements of the story that cast doubt on the efficacy of this law, the way in which it was adopted, whether it would advance any counterterror objectives — it just all looks bad.»

«There's a technological determinism story you can tell where this is the future and China will eventually buckle under and cave and eventually adopt all of these things,» he said.

While millennials adopt these tools faster, older colleagues have some of the best long - term success stories.

It will be full of stories about how companies both large and small are adopting Lean Startup methods to scale successfully and operate in conditions of extreme uncertainy.

What if I find there is no Examiner, and that there never was a test, and that all this was a fabrication of my fearful mind to concoct and adopt stories that made sense... for a time... and that all I ever needed to do was live in the Blessing of the Benediction of Here and Now and Forever?

Well Bob, let me try to be brief... the old testament is the history of the nascient people of Israel, and tells the story of the hammering process God used to mold them into His people... They frequently adopted the gods of pagans and idol worshippers, and the OT describes how God so wanted them to be His people... So many of the old testament prophecies actually point to a coming Messiah.

The stories of both her Korean birth mother and the Korean woman who adopted her had shown her, she said, a history of classism and cultural imperialism.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France, recently raised a commotion by trying to educate his country's youth: Every fifth grader, he said, should adopt the story of one of France's 11,000 Jewish children killed during the Holocaust, in order to teach them about prejudice and the evils....

A more likely explanation was first put forward by Wellhausen, 15 and it has been widely adopted.16 This states that the story of the discovery of the empty tomb ends with these strange words in order to explain to readers why, as late as the mid-first century, they had never heard of this story before.

It may also be noted in this connection that the story of Jesus» birth in Bethlehem which Luke adopts had apparently taken form before this belief emerged.

When Christians» worship is understood in this fashion as a «practice» (in the somewhat technical sense of «practice» we have adopted), then James Hopewell's description of a congregation turns out to be unusually fruitful: «A congregation is a group that possesses a special name and recognized members who assemble regularly to celebrate a more universally practiced worship but who communicate with each other sufficiently to develop intrinsic patterns of conduct, outlook, and story.»

To be sure, those categories are not simply adopted but also transformed to tell the story of Israel's God and why Israel should worship that God rather than the gods of the other nations, a constant source of temptation.

It was adapted to other belief systems and adopted in the stories of bible along the way.

Even Hanukkah is really a story celebrating Taliban type Jews killing Jews who adopted some of the sophisticated, rational and humanist views of the Greeks.

Like Voltaire, who was ready to vouch for the sincerity of his professed belief in God, but who added «as for Monsieur the Son and Madame His Mother, that's a different story,» more and more Americans are giving lip service to belief in God, while adopting the discourse of «spirituality,» and treating conventional religious doctrine as a very different story.

Classic American Catholic historians, as eager to challenge the nativist canard as other pre-conciliar Catholic intellectuals, adopted the «Catholicism / Americanism» tension as the principal theme of their story line.

With humor and poignancy, Jillian interweaves her struggle to become a mother with her own story of being adopted as an infant.

In his wonderful cookbook Africa: Soul of a New Cuisine, Samuelsson, adopted from Ethiopia at the age of 3 by a Swedish family, tells the story of his first night in Sweden.

Mention you're adopting, and people will often lean in with bizarre schadenfreude shining in their eyes and share some terrible story of a friend of a friend whose adopted kid with an attachment disorder burned their house down.

More than just a sexy read set in an exotic land, Some Girls is also the story of how a rebellious teen found herself - and the courage to meet her birth mother and eventually adopt a baby boy.

This book not only highlights important issues for those who have or plan to adopt a child of a different race and / or culture but it also offers a compelling story about a young woman who spends most of her life searching for answers about her past, her identity, and where she belongs.

Every adoptive family and each adopted child brings with them an inspiring story of hope and courage.

The story he tells about his family's journey through adopting and gently parenting his daughter, Elena, is an inspiration to all parents struggling through the newborn phase, coping with the realities of a special - needs child, or hoping to parent their children in a more healthy way than they themselves were raised.

The story of my friend dying and the story about adopting my son are one and the same.

More than just a sexy read set in an exotic land, Some Girls is also the story of how a rebellious teen found herself - and the courage to meet her birth mother and eventually adopt a baby boy.

We were happy to see families connect on different levels whether it be through sharing stories about how they adopted and offering advice to others interested or witnessing the first meeting of «Diblings» — donor siblings.

We are now in the process of making a life book to actually explain the whole story about how he came to be adopted.

Some stories of beautiful hospital births, some of brave women having cesarean's (some by choice, some because of emergency), some of ecstatic parents meeting their adopted children for the first time, and some of peaceful home - births.

I was adopted and I thought, I'm going to feel so much more connected to this world if I have a baby out of my body, and that baby looks like me, and looks like Scott, if I look into it's eyes and see myself, but really what made me feel connected to the world was meeting all of these adoptive families who have similar stories.

Mike: It is so important for your adopted child to know her story and be comfortable and proud of it.

There's lots of stories of adoptive parents nursing their adopted children!

The 2016 Permanency Campaign which will feature adoption stories and photographs on the Five Acres website and on social media throughout the month of November, has a focus on raising awareness for the need for more foster families to adopt sibling sets, (with the campaign titled, «Siblings 5A».)

When naming our Zella Carrier, we were inspired by the story of «Zella Zack and Zodiac» which is a heartwarming story about a mama zebra who adopts a baby ostrich, creating an unlikely family.

This course guides parents through a series of adoptee stories giving a unique view into the hearts, minds and souls of the adopted person experience.

Girard, Linda WE ADOPTED YOU, BENJAMIN KOO Albert Whitman, 1992 A loving, reassuring story of interracial adoption and how the family copes as the child grows and asks about his origins.

Complete with smiling faces and happy endings, the book closes with Susan and Gordon adopting a baby who, the story goes, will be part of their family forever.

Adoption Guide 2011 -(Page 88) BEST RESOURCES FOR ADOPTION FROM AFRICA Must - read articles and personal stories: • «My Ethiopian Daughters,» by Rita Radostitz www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=1663 • «Transracial Adoption: A History of Black and White,» by Phil Bertelsen, www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=290 • «A Hard Lesson,» by Sharon Van Epps www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=2158 • «Braiding Barbara's Hair,» by Erika Solberg www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=1660 • «Raising a Child of Another Race,» by Jana Wolff www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=155 Books: • There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children, by Melissa Fay Greene • Love in the Driest Season, by Neely Tucker • You Can Adopt: An Adoptive Families Guide, by Susan Caughman and Isolde Motley Websites and e-mail listservs: • AdoptiveFamiliesCircle adoption community, adoptivefamiliescircle.com • Rwanda Embassy, www.rwandaembassy.org • Lesotho Embassy, www.lesothoemb-usa.gov.ls • Embassy of Ethiopia, www.ethiopianembassy.org • Ethiopian Adoption Blogs, www.ethiopianadoptionblogs.

Those findings echo a similar approach that's been successfully adopted in Utah, the subject of Mother Jones «April / May cover story.

Interesting Nielsen results for newspaper sites in a Huffington Post piece by Blake Fleetwood: The NY Times is well ahead of the Washington Post, something that surprises me, considering that the Times has blocked access to many stories for non-subscribers and the Post has been very aggressive in adopting social media techniques to build an audience.

That was the approach Darling adopted in the budget today, as he did in the pre-budget report at the end of 2009, and which looks set to be part of a developing story of departmental cuts that will be announced from Whitehall this afternoon... As ever, one must guard against exaggeration and oversimplification, but the 2010 budget, which may be Labour's last for a long time, was a very Mandelsonian speech.

Yesterday I noted a News of the World story that purported to suggest women weren't being adopted as Tory candidates because female Conservative members feared they might run away with their husbands and so on.

«It is apparent that those peddling negative stories about the war on insurgency do so because they believe they can instigate Nigerians to force the military to divulge full details of its strategy in the counter-insurgency war because there has been reported changes in the approach adopted against the terrorists.»

A recent story in the Buffalo News found that the Thruway Authority, during a sale of authority bonds, told investors that it believed the toll hike would be adopted.

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