Sentence examples for distant parent from inspiring English sources

Meleagris gallopavo is the wild turkey native to North America, the distant parent of the forty-six million thateys that will be eaten across the country next week.

In a different case, perhaps with an older child, a more distant parent or a greater showing of grave risks to the minor, the agency might consider such a claim.

And the play, directed by Steven Yuhasz, floats several intriguing themes: a child's craving for approval from an emotionally distant parent; the similar ministries of pastors and psychiatrists; the challenge of faith in a God who lets bad things happen.

To be sure, executives at the brands that were cut loose say they have benefited from being able to make their own decisions rather than being constrained by an often distant parent.

Only two Mexican-born players are left playing for a side who at one point looked to have given up all pretense of being anything other than an afterthought of a distant parent club in Guadalajara, before the league stepped in this off-season.

BKT, a local bank owned by a Turkish non-bank company, ends up as one of the few banks able to participate.Given the perceived benefits of developing local capital markets the EBRD's recent annual meeting in London tried to keep the issue alive the EU's rules on bank regulation via distant parent seem in urgent need of revision.

Others blame distant parenting and then over-protective parenting.

What binds the distant parents and occasionally cruel children appears to be a mix of duty and habit.

Three years later, their son, Robert Drew King, was born, but according to King-family diaries they were emotionally distant parents.

Speer's affluent but unappealing childhood would have interested me his sickliness, his distant parents, who employ maids in white aprons and fret about their social standing.

Jude, the narrator (a young woman, despite her name), has been hired as a tutor for Pip, the shy sixteen-year-old son of wealthy but distant parents; she also meets Sofi, the household's young, Polish-born cook.