(n.) The state or relation of being a sister; the office or duty of a sister.
(n.) A society of sisters; a society of women united in one faith or order; sisters, collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Sisterhood Method, a community-based survey technique, was used to estimate the Life Time Risk of a woman dying a maternal death in Southern Malawi.
(2) Her family's privacy has been invaded to find the "causes" of her choice and her personal appearance derided, not least within what might otherwise be called the sisterhood.
(3) The rise of the sisterhood to 8 out of 19 elected places in the shadow cabinet is the other story from last night's vote.
(4) We’re told equality can be achieved by putting a few more women on boards in the mistaken belief that all women are ready to usher in a new age of equality for the sisterhood.
(5) When she meets the other clones she finally feels a sense of 'being home' – a sort of sisterhood, like twins have.
(6) It's purportedly a story about falling in love with an unpleasant man, but I read it as a love letter to sisterhood, with a small "s"; a love letter to her actual sister, Caz.
(7) The report highlights three distinct reasons expressed by women who had travelled to Isis: (1) because they believe that Islam is under attack; (2) because they want to contribute to the building of a new society and establishment of the Caliphate; and (3) because they believe in their individual duty to migrate to the Islamic State and a sense of sisterhood among those who do.
(8) This paper details a cooperative sisterhood minority recruitment and retention agreement that was established between a predominantly White university and a historically Black university for the purpose of increasing the numbers of minority personnel in speech-language pathology and audiology.
(9) Others may disagree, but they admit that the appetite for change may not be universal, even among the Sisterhood: the number of members who have taken on more political responsibility since last summer is still small.
(10) The sisterhood method provides a means of obtaining population-based estimates using household surveys for data collection.
(11) But really, the idea that the WI is the face of 21st century sisterhood should be no surprise at all.
(12) In addition to addressing the practical needs of adolescents who come to the Sisterhood, positive examples of healthy ways of relating to others and presentation of a system of values consonant with self and family development are provided.
(13) This field experience with the Sisterhood Method technique combined with an in-depth questionnaire for determining causes of maternal deaths has provided useful information in a simple and cost-effective manner for use in planning intervention strategies designed to decrease maternal mortality.
(14) Inequality and injustice have long existed but as I move to a new role at the Guardian, here, in the spirit of openness and sisterhood, are some things I've learned over the past almost four years.
(15) The Sisterhood began eleven years ago under the leadership of Ms. Daphne Busby.
(16) Trusting that better days will come and yes they will, I am sending you my deep respect and sisterhood … I hope that you find comfort in the fact that your words echo far and wide, reaching hearts and minds beyond the bars of your cell, beyond the walls of your prison, reminding us that the freedom of speech is worth fighting for.
(17) The Sisterhood of Black Single Mothers Inc. (The Sisterhood) is an organization which exemplifies the considerable potential of community members united for a common good.
(18) I'd expected to find a great feeling of sisterhood, and actually didn't.
(19) The sisterhood method uses the proportions of adult sisters dying during pregnancy, childbirth, or the puerperium reported by adults during a census or survey, to derive a variety of indicators of maternal mortality.
(20) Over a glass of wine, one Julie gently prods the question: “Does it represent, like, your mother?” This scene tells you more about sisterhood than any feminist edict ever could.
Sorority
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Example Sentences:
(1) Glee and American Horror Story impresario Ryan Murphy returns with this camptastic take on the slasher genre where a sorority house is besieged by a killer.
(2) We believe correction of alcohol abuse and addiction by college students must focus, at least in part, on social organizations, especially fraternities and sororities.
(3) Racism at Harvard: months after protests began, students demand concrete change Read more “Although the fraternities, sororities and final [single-sex] clubs are not formally recognized by the college,” Faust wrote in an open letter to dean Rakesh Khurana , “they play an unmistakable and growing role in student life, in many cases enacting forms of privilege and exclusion at odds with our deepest values.
(4) Violet is the wonky queen bee of the sorority girls.
(5) Photograph: Supplied Issues with sororities and private clubs aside, it’s not completely the school’s fault that after sorority sisters accidentally kill one of their members, another sister’s boyfriend ends up killing the guilty parties.
(6) We believe efforts to correct alcohol abuse and addiction by college students must focus, at least in part, on social organizations, especially fraternities and sororities.
(7) In the National Union of Journalists or Women in Journalism , I feel a distinct lack of fraternity or sorority with many plying their trade on the other side.
(8) "Everyone in my sorority knows the answer to this one.
(9) Legality, sorority, equality The Arab spring was not about gender equality.
(10) But, just like a sorority house plagued by a serial killer, beware all those who stick around too long.
(11) The university estimates that about 30% of undergraduates belong to one of the six all-male final clubs, five all-female final clubs and nine fraternities and sororities or other single-sex organizations.
(12) Alarmed by the angry, persistent pounding on the sorority’s front door, no one opened it.
(13) After killing the three men, police said, Rodgers drove to the Alpha Phi sorority house.
(14) The first study is of a sample of 132 women who were sorority members or roommates of sorority members living on the campus of a large coeducational state university.
(15) Intent to join a fraternity or sorority (the Greek system) was associated with frequent drinking, binging, and high-risk CAGE and PBDS scores.
(16) Frequent heavy drinkers, cocaine users, and students with psychosocial problems appeared disproportionately among students planning to join fraternities and sororities.
(17) The sorority runs afoul of new dean of students Cathy Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis, getting back to her horror roots) who forces Kappa to accept any pledges who apply or else they will lose their charter.
(18) The order came down as more than 10,000 young people began converging on Washington – campus activists, union organisers, and even members of college sororities – to lobby members of Congress to reduce America's reliance on coal.
(19) Seven hundred sixteen female UCLA students--drawn from Primary Care Clinic, Women's Health Clinic, sorority, athletic team, dance major, and undergraduate psychology class populations--completed questionnaires regarding eating disorders symptoms and attitudes compatible with the diagnostic criteria published by the American Psychiatric Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, (3rd ed., DSM-III), the Eating Disorders Inventory, and related information.
(20) One of these pledges is Grace (Skyler Samuels), who is rushing the sorority because her dead mother was in it and she wants to feel closer to her.