Sentence examples for becoming wards from inspiring English sources

But by the 1930's, the economic reality of the Depression had dislodged the assumption that labor and capital were able to compete on equal terms in the laissez-faire marketplace, and redistributive legislation was seen as a way of helping the public generally by preventing vulnerable workers from becoming wards of the new welfare state.

When Olvera was finally permitted to attend a hearing, nearly a year after becoming a ward, he expressed his desire to live with his daughter in California, rather than under Shafer's care.

His on-court behavior may have contradicted that claim, but he contended that 21st century young players could still succeed in the sport without becoming a ward of a sun-splashed tennis academy.

Citigroup's top executives and its 10-member board of directors have a lot to answer for, not least of which is the massive loss of investor wealth and the bank becoming a ward of the state, with $40 billion in capital and a guarantee of $306 billion of its assets.

These arrests led to his briefly becoming a ward of the state.

During her tenure, she grew to take her work more seriously, becoming a ward sister and accepting more personal responsibilities by adopting her half-niece Mia (Jada Wallace-Mitchell).

Unfilled gaps result in the doctors on duty on wards becoming responsible for far more patients than usual.

Now it has to worry about becoming the sick ward of the East.

On June 8 , 1969 she was hit by shrapnel and killed instantly during a rocket attack on her ward, becoming the first (and only) U.S. military woman to die from enemy fire in Vietnam.

"Now those paediatric wards are becoming ghost areas, because of the lack of manpower there.

Psychiatric wards started becoming attached to general hospitals.