30s/40s You have an egg timer on your desk to keep track of exactly how much value your house loses every 60 seconds; you've spent the last five years trying to conceive, only to discover you utterly despise all children.
The plan, as initially conceived, only allowed Chinese state entities to buy certain technology products if their patents were developed and registered in China, excluding foreign suppliers.
6 At one extreme are those women whose pregnancy was an unwelcome surprise, through to those who consider the baby to be mistimed, to those who actively planned and conceived, and on to those who conceived only after a period of infertility or after assisted reproductive technology.
Sue Anne conceived only once, and although they (she, to be honest) had vaguely considered adoption, Lynn remained their only child.
It is of course possible to refer to 'adult children' in everyday speech but that qualifying adjective was also absent in these discussions, which further underlines the view that the prevailing tendency was to see the person conceived only in their infant status.
These words are all the more remarkable when one considers how many historians continue to insist today that the Nazi genocide was conceived only after the experience of total war had "radicalized" Hitler and his henchmen.
Later, he remembers how much he and his wife had wanted a daughter and how conscientiously they had tried, until it was clear to them that their "conception events," as they called them, conceived only frustration.
The origins of the group behind the Confucius prize are still a mystery, but it was first conceived only a few weeks ago here in Beijing, as the Nobel ceremony began to loom.
Passage to water from a formamide-based chemically active environment may be conceived only if advantageous under Darwinian selection.
