(1) It is suggested that the Act has had little effect on the birth rate or illegitimacy and that there may have been an increase in criminal abortion.
(2) In Sweden, the illegitimacy ratio is currently close to 1 out-of wedlock birth in every 2 births.
(3) The rate of illegitimacy among scoliotic patients was half that expected.
(4) This is consistent with the findings of previous research and with our hypothesis; with the black family pattern of lower rates of marriage, higher rates of illegitimacy and higher divorce rates, the sequencing of marriage has no long lasting consequences on marital stability.
(5) The cultural construction of illegitimacy and maternity is shown to be a dimension of class relations having an impact on health policy throughout Jamaica's history.
(6) The rising degree of illegitimacy among teenagers has prompted many physicians to provide contraception to such groups.
(7) Yesterday, his voice was among those that cropped up in a hatchet-job run by the Times – titled "the fall of new Labour", and focused on the supposed illegitimacy of the younger Miliband's leadership win.
(8) Possible reasons for this change include an increase in 'anomie' shown by a rise in the rates of crime, illegitimacy and admissions to hospital for alcoholism, a decline in social cohesion revealed by a fall in the marriage rate and a rise in the number of separated couples, and an increase in unemployment.
(9) Julian Fellowes has done a fine job of portraying many of the difficulties experienced by women in the early 20th century: death in childbirth, destitution due to illegitimacy, the impact wrought by the horror of war.
(10) What has been the recent trend in illegitimacy in the United States?
(11) Risk of spontaneous pre-term birth was found to be related to low maternal age, low maternal smoking, low social class, illegitimacy, threatened abortion, and a previous history of antepartum hemorrhage, perinatal loss, or low birth weight livebirths.
(12) He holds informal seminars with local ranchers, proselytizing for the militia’s cause about the federal government “tyranny” – and the illegitimacy of federal land management and custody.
(13) We argue that the illegitimacy ratio is the better index of the social consequences of out-of-wedlock childbearing and that the high ratios of recent decades are unlikely to abate in the foreseeable future.
(14) No significant associations were found with illegitimacy, area of residence, previous spontaneous abortion, essential hypertension, mild toxaemia, chronic or acute infections or other conditions.
(15) The trend towards increasing illegitimacy was slowed down, but not reversed.
(16) Review of other demographic findings indicated that other factors potentially predisposing to retardation, including low socioeconomic status, illegitimacy, high birth order, poor maternal reproductive history and increased consanguinity, were more common in the histories of native children.
(17) In 1968 Illsley and Gill examined the rise in illegitimacy in the decade 1955-65 and showed that this rise, unlike rises in the first and second world wars, had not been accompanied by a fall in prenuptial conceptions but by a rise.
(18) Socio-cultural variables are assumed to play a minimal role, given the high rate of illegitimacy.
(19) An adjustment was made to eliminate the effects of some potential confounding variables, namely high parity and maternal age and illegitimacy, without basically changing the results.
(20) An especially high mortality was associated with the maternal risk factors illegitimacy, age below 20 and Turkish nationality.
Illegitimate
Definition:
(a.) Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper.
(a.) Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child.
(a.) Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference.
(a.) Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word.
(v. t.) To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aeromonas caviae is a later and illegitimate synonym of Aeromonas punctata.
(2) Statutes in all countries in the region provide that a man must support his legitimate and illegitimate children; there are, however, weaknesses in the laws on the books.
(3) Transcripts including V-D beta 1-J beta 2-C2 sequences were found with a high frequency (greater than 10%), suggesting that "illegitimate" joinings may constitute a cis-complementing rearrangement mechanism capable of substantially increasing the TcR beta chain combinatorial diversity.
(4) Before she met my father, my mother was a single mum with an illegitimate child.
(5) "We have seen the illegitimate and indiscriminate use of teargas," Heba Morayef, a researcher with Human Rights Watch in Cairo, said, of Egypt's most recent street protests, as well as the original revolution in February.
(6) This suggests the existence of a novel mechanism of illegitimate recombination.
(7) 1991 is illegitimate due to the existence of a fungal genus Serpula Pers.
(8) Karen Spring, of the NGO Rights Action , said: "Honduras has been a dream for multinational corporations since the coup as the illegitimate government hammered through laws to favour international investors in tourism, mining, dams and model cities, while communities trying to protect their land have been criminalised and militarised."
(9) "Illegitimate" mating of yeasts (alpha x alpha), either spontaneous or induced by uv light or ethyl methanesulfanate, in a selective system for "cytoduction" revealed that about 95% of cytoductants expressed their original (alpha) mating type.
(10) Blacks appear to display less anxiety than whites over illegitimate births.
(11) Having survived a situation in which she'd factored a "50% chance to come out alive", Zuabi said she is now facing a different threat, "of racist, illegitimate ideas that have turned violent".
(12) Illegitimate recombination between repeated sequences containing lambda 2 and lambda 3 may be responsible for variable amplification of the lambda genes.
(13) These results prompt a translocation model with illegitimate pairing of a staggered double-stranded DNA break at 18q21 and an immunoglobulin endonuclease-mediated break at 14q32 and with N-segment addition, repair, and ligation to generate der(14) and der(18) chromosomes.
(14) Use of the polymerase chain reaction indicates that each of the illegitimate products carried a different deletion, but that all deletions mapped within a rather well defined portion of the precursor replicon.
(15) It was concluded that (i) snakebites were rare, since only 39 cases were recorded, none of which ended fatally; (ii) 86% of patients were men (mean age was 24 years); (iii) 80% of bites were on the hand and arm; (iv) 28% of patients had had previous snakebites; and (v) 60% of bites were 'illegitimate', i.e.
(16) The crosses where the normal strains carrying Tn10 near the terminus are donors and the inversion strain is a recipient, yielded unusual Tetr His- recombinants, which arose from illegitimate recombination leading to the replacement of a chromosomal his+ region with a transducing fragment carrying proC.
(17) Cameron calls him unacceptable and illegitimate, haughtily scorning Juncker's drive to become the next head of the EU executive in Brussels.
(18) These results showed that abnormal excision is a type of illegitimate recombination.
(19) The television and movie community is working every day to develop new and innovative ways to watch content online, and as the internet’s gatekeepers, search engines share a responsibility to play a constructive role in not directing audiences to illegitimate content.” But Michael Beckerman, president and chief executive of the Internet Association, hit back at the MPAA, saying it was "blaming the internet and technology for its problems".
(20) This is probably due to the fact that the illegitimate rate for whites dropped sharply in the 1960-1965 period, then rose sharply.