(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July 1987, 10 states have prohibitory laws, five states have grandmother clauses authorizing practicing midwives under repealed statutes, five states have enabling laws which are not used, and 10 states explicitly permit lay midwives to practice.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.
Niece
Definition:
(n.) A relative, in general; especially, a descendant, whether male or female; a granddaughter or a grandson.
(n.) A daughter of one's brother or sister, or of one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law.
Example Sentences:
(1) When she died in 1994, Hopkins-Thomas and his mother – Jessie’s niece – were gifted the masses of drawings and poems Knight had collected over the years.
(2) But Abaaoud, the man thought to be a key planner for the group behind the Paris attacks, boasted to a niece that he had brought around 90 militants back to Europe with him.
(3) In this study, six patients, the proband, his four siblings and a niece, representing a kindred of fifty-two subjects, were examined for aymptomatic cutaneous nodules mainly on the back and chest.
(4) Even more haunting were stories from his wife's village, where the fleeing family found the bodies of her sister and an eight-year-old niece lying in pools of blood.
(5) Murrawah Johnson, 20, who is Burragubba’s niece, took time out from revising for her university finals to meet the bankers.
(6) But Ukip is not the NF nor Trump, Nigel Farage is not Le Pen, father, daughter or niece Marion.
(7) The insert consisted of 8 extra copies of a repeating octapeptide coding sequence in the region between codons 51 and 91; it was identified in the proband and a presently unaffected at-risk niece by full sequencing of the open reading frame, and was visualized electrophoretically in the proband and 6 of 12 at-risk relatives.
(8) If he comes back it’s like he’s got away with it.” In the club’s superstore, Zak Dilly and his girlfriend Hannah Betts – who have just chosen a babygrow for their niece with the slogan “Mummy taught me ABC, Daddy taught me SUFC” – are clear about whose side they are on.
(9) After she died I was sent away to a school and six years on I received a letter – as you do – saying that a Mr John Jarndyce wanted me to be a companion to his niece and nephew.
(10) Enoch Mark, a Christian pastor whose daughter and niece are among the kidnapped, told Agence France-Presse “Chibok was taken by Boko Haram.
(11) Without sounding like a cynical heartbroken niece, I welcome the Sports Charter and above all hope it will finally bring tolerance and change in one of the most loved games in the world.
(12) Mariela Castro, the daughter of President Raúl Castro and niece of Fidel Castro, has given an unprecedented "no" vote in the Cuban parliament to a workers' rights bill she felt didn't go far enough to prevent discrimination against people with HIV or with unconventional gender identities.
(13) Binnie has said that even when he was young, he looked like a middle-aged woman; she’d pretend to be his niece.
(14) I understand there are rules about uniform,” said one mother, Sian Williams, whose year 7 daughter managed to pass the uniform check, “but to be so strict and allow children to feel that way on their first day of school must have been petrifying for them.” Another parent, Phillipa Turner, wrote on Facebook: “My niece was one of these children sent home today, first day of a new school and she didn’t even make it into the school gates.
(15) His niece showed the typical neurological and metabolic abnormalities of WD.
(16) She is the granddaugher of Jean-Marie Le Pen and the niece of Marine Le Pen, the new party leader, who won the party's highest ever presidential election score of 17.9% in April.
(17) It has also emerged that the current director of public prosecutions in Northern Ireland, Barra McGrory QC, was Gerry Adams's solicitor in 2007 at a time when the Sinn Féin leader was still allegedly holding back information on his niece's allegations about his brother Liam.
(18) Less frequent are uncle and nephew or uncle and niece and, again less frequent, aunt and nephew or niece; grandparents and grandchildren were rarely found.
(19) Only when her 14 year old "niece" was investigated (1) and treated for similar problems she realized hers.
(20) Fifty years later, Frostie, as his aristocratic nephews and nieces sometimes called him (his wife, Carina, was a daughter of the Duke of Norfolk), was still warding off brickbats from high-minded critics.