(1) As of July 1987, 10 states have prohibitory laws, five states have grandmother clauses authorizing practicing midwives under repealed statutes, five states have enabling laws which are not used, and 10 states explicitly permit lay midwives to practice.
(2) She said it could indicate Bernardi’s grandmother was Indigenous.
(3) As a mother and a grandmother I am deeply concerned about the impact that fracking will have on our environment, our water sources, air and way of life.
(4) (I leave it implicit, but that's the age the child would be when his — or her — grandmother completed two full terms in the White House.)
(5) "Everyone and their grandmother would have done it better, of course."
(6) I found it very moving,” she said, “an extraordinary period in our lives too that is now coming to an end.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Four-year-old Torin Weston, dressed as Richard III, waits with his grandmother outside the cathedral.
(7) Britain’s most controversial landlords, Fergus and Judith Wilson, whose property empire extends to nearly 1,000 homes in Kent, have begun evicting families with more than two children, banned tenants on zero-hours contracts and thrown out extended families where the grandmother comes to stay.
(8) And as someone who spent a lot of time with their grandmother, it seemed only natural that bank robbers would meet their match in a benevolent pensioner.
(9) Presumably one of these "gangbangers" is Carmen Ortega (pdf), a 62-year-old grandmother of 14 with Alzheimer's who has been ordered deported to the Dominican Republic, a country where she has no remaining family, after living in the US for 40 years.
(10) The authors present three cases of multiple, intra-cranial meningiomatosis with contact hyperostosis affecting the grandmother, mother and daughter, in a very stereotypic manner.
(11) My grandmother doesn't understand unpaid internships .
(12) The origin of the defect arises spontaneously in the grandmother of the proband and must be assumed to be a de novo mutation.
(13) It’s something that has always baffled and amused me about my grandmother.
(14) He survived but two days later his 13-year-old sister died, followed by his grandmother eight days later.
(15) The mother, aunt, and grandmother had varied features of the condition.
(16) The paternal grandmother was thought to carry the abnormal Factor X I gene, although her Factor XI level was normal, because of a significant bleeding history.
(17) They had a grandmother, her daughter and her grandchild all in the same ward.
(18) Bond yields continue to soar and it's become increasingly clear that markets read the papers like my grandmother used to: only registering the bad news.
(19) There has already been speculation that the baby’s birth could coincide with the 89th birthday of its great-grandmother the Queen on 21 April.
(20) The members of this family have since been followed-up regularly by the author, examination of the corneas of the grandmother and the grand'daughter made by electron microscopy, the morphology compared, and an attempt made to establish the progression of the lesion.
Granny
Definition:
(n.) A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two polls underline the extent to which the coalition parties have been hit by a budget that has led to a slew of bad headlines over the granny tax, pasty tax and charities tax.
(2) Granny flats, designed as standardized units using panels, offer privacy yet proximity to family members.
(3) But if you provide a street environment where it’s much more egalitarian, where your granny can cycle to the shops safely and have somewhere to park her Dutch-style bike – that’s when we’ll get those kind of cyclists.
(4) Tinker with the tax treatment of the elderly and prepare to be accused of imposing a "granny tax" .
(5) Top 20 shows on the iPlayer – Christmas 2013 1 Doctor Who – The Time of the Doctor (Christmas Day) 1.96m 2 EastEnders – (Christmas Day) 1.59m 3 EastEnders – (Boxing Day) 1.38m 4 Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Day Special 1 – 1.36m 5 EastEnders – (27 December) 1.25m 6 Call the Midwife Christmas Day Special – 1.02m 7 Gangsta Granny (Boxing Day) – 1.01m 8 EastEnders - (New Year's Eve) 960,000 9 EastEnders - (30 December) 937,000 10 EastEnders – (Christmas Eve) 922,000 11 EastEnders – (23 December) 872,000 12 Still Open All Hours – (Boxing Day) 842,000 13 Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Day Special 2 – 820,000 14 EastEnders – (20 December) 793,000 15 Death Comes to Pemberley (Boxing Day) – 771,000 16 Citizen Khan Series 2 Episode 7 – 751,000 17 Michael McIntyre's Showtime (Christmas Day) – 643,000 18 Strictly Come Dancing Final (December 21) – 626,000 19 Nativity!
(6) We are obviously very concerned about the wellbeing of the fund, which is heavily invested in energy stocks worldwide,” said Pete Grannis, New York State deputy comptroller, whose office is the sole trustee of the fund, which has one million members.
(7) There’s no doubt that the grannies living in houses worth £2m are beneficiaries of the property boom, as their children and grandchildren will be.
(8) My granny, who was working incredibly hard in a fish factory, was not going to take the day off.
(9) In private all three parties are negotiating to find a consensus over the issue – and the government is aware of mounting anger among campaigners already smarting from the "granny tax" in March's budget.
(10) This weekend the very accomplished Rona Fairhead, former FT chief executive and now the government’s choice to be the new chair of the BBC Trust, was described namelessly in a Telegraph headline as “mother of three.” It was decidedly reminiscent of that Sunday Times front page headline in April, “Grandmother, 71, tackles slave traffickers for the Pope” , sparking condescending mental images of a sweet little ol’ granny pummelling evil-doers with her cane.
(11) As Miliband sought to defend the so-called mansion tax as a principled way of raising extra funding for the NHS, Klass said the levy would hit “little grannies” living in modest homes in London rather than the super-rich Miliband claimed to be targeting.
(12) Bronwyn Wolfe, London Makes 2 glasses 6 carrots 3 apples, such as granny smith 1 red pepper A thumbnail-sized knob of ginger 1 Top and tail the carrots; there's no need to peel them.
(13) My mum, her cousin, my granny – they’ve gone for 30 or 40 years and never told anyone,” Anna says.
(14) They think it’s just looking after granny.” Apprentices at aVida spend six blocks of 10 weeks in different parts of the organisation, which can include working with schedulers to put rosters together, going out with team leaders to see clients and shadowing managers.
(15) Only gut, polyglycolic acid, and polydioxanone granny knots were as secure as square knots; no loosely tied (500 g tension) asymmetric square knots were as secure as snug square knots, and only polydioxanone and polypropylene loose square knots were as secure as snug square knots.
(16) The Gastronomy of Italy by Anna del Conte (Pavilion) Crispy apple dumplings with walnut butter and anise cream Braeburn and granny smith apples bring flavour and texture.
(17) My sister and I ended up watching the royal wedding at my granny’s house.
(18) Jim Moir, the man who turned BBC Radio 2 from granny's favourite station into a service that trendy thirtysomethings are happy to be caught listening to, has agreed to continue running the network for another year.
(19) Rather a lot of 'grannies' reside there; but contrary to popular belief I do not spend all day, every day making and repairing dentures!
(20) They have seen a summer campaign demonise him as an amalgam of Stalin, Hitler and Big Brother, bent on sending America's frail grannies to their deaths in the name of a new socialism.