Sentences with phrase «ward of the state»

That city government and its schools are a financial ward of the state.

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

Aboriginal stockmen were treated as wards of the state under the «protection» of the Crown.

Facebook Useful in Finding Kin for Wards of the State Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (2013) Highlights the success the agency has had in Lincoln, NE, using Facebook to locate family members of children in care.

«If the youths are not wards of the state, bringing with them [federal] funds, then either the state, the locality, or private funds must be raised.»

These government - controlled mortgage guarantors have been wards of the state ever since their near - collapse in 2008.

Will you institute a Brave New World where all children are seized at birth and made wards of the state to protect them from the vaguaries of mere parents?

The mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac remain wards of the state years after the credit crisis receded into memory.

In the case of the comptroller against the Department of Social Services, DSS is claiming that the financial information on about a dozen wards of the state under its administration is not subject to comptroller scrutiny.

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.

In 2008, for example, the assumption based on his campaign platform was that President Obama would put gunmakers out of business, turn health care providers into wards of the state, and usher in a golden era for alternative energy.

Citigroup and BofA are, for all intents and purposes, wards of the state while the media and Washington spar over whether they will be formally owned by the government.

And leave the 98 % to the rest of us (half of which your team has labeled as worthless wards of the state).

sleeping around, fathering children, not taking care of the children, dumping them as wards of the state etc..

Earlier, the Minister had addressed a mammoth crowd of party leaders from all the 177 wards of the state at the APC leaders meeting held in Ishan Ekiti, where he urged them to be united in the battle to unseat the incumbent PDP - led government.

Bradley Cooper plays a bipolar ward of the state released from an institution eight months after landing there on assault charges.

Quvenzhane Wallis) and her fellow wards of the state caught in the clutches of cruel Colleen Hannigan, (Cameron Diaz), an abusive alcoholic with a mean streak who takes delight in exploiting the little girls entrusted to her care.

Thus have the automakers, some perhaps additionally influenced by their recent time as literal wards of the state, come to identify with their captor, the government.

Under colonial administration, Aboriginal communities did not control their own economic and social development destinies, particularly those with registered Indian status who were considered wards of the state.

The group provides assistance to those struggling with substance addiction, as well as boys who have become wards of the state for a variety of reasons including abuse and neglect.

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.

The legal age for entering into contracts is eighteen (18) years of age in every state except Alabama where it is nineteen (19) years old, Nebraska where it is nineteen (19) years old (only for wards of the state), and Mississippi and Puerto Rico where it is twenty - one (21) years old.

Unlike the banks, though, they have been wards of the state ever since.

«While 677 candidates have been cleared to contest for the position of councilors across the 325 electoral wards of the state,» he said.

Soon, he turned to attacking the Democrats, whom he accused of keeping people «in bondage as 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.

As a result, Kotok says Brits generally see a need «to be self - reliant and not a ward of the state,» and that's not a major concern in the eurozone.

The industry would typically contest such a proposal vigorously, but Obama caught manufacturers at a weak moment: most were in turmoil, and GM and Chrysler were wards of the state.

Those human beings have arranged themselves in economic and political relationships that needed moral parsing to avoid abuse including: butlers, live - in maids, serfs, indentured servants, apprentices, the military draft, wards of the state, prisoners, and «suspicious» citizens rounded up into internment camps.

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.»

Where does it say that his 3 children, or wife are wards of the state.

War Against the Weak relates how many groups with prominent board members from the fields of religion, business and government pushed for state laws to sterilize both people on public assistance and those thought likely to breed children who would become wards of the state.

now a ward of the state has spawned 4 more wards of the state (incl.

Where did you read anything about this family being a ward of the state??

The Little children became wards of the state.

When she refused, they stated they would take custody of the girl, then give her up as a ward 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.

However, only 71 out of the 319 wards of the state are where elections will take place as the State Independent Electoral Commission has declared that candidates in all other wards have withdrawn from the exercise leaving the fields for the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The city and the school board remain a ward of the state.

«In other words, not one man determines the results of the congresses in the 305 wards of the state.

The deal would create a new panel to hear abuse and neglect cases involving inmates and wards of the state as well as a table of penalties covering serious misconduct.

«When SIECOM was demonstrating the new acquired machine meant for LG election across the 255 wards of the state, our party, the PDP had the highest vote during the demonstration exercise.

In previous congresses held two weeks ago, Shettima's key loyalists were elected as executives of the party in each of the 27 local government areas and the 312 wards of the State.

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

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State has congratulated the newly - elected party executive members in the 193 wards of the State.

Rockland County will become a ward of the state.

«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.