Sentence examples for exchange daughters from inspiring English sources
Neither wanted to exchange daughters.
With chimps, territorially based bands also exchange daughters to avoid incest but continue to fight with one another to the death because the males cannot recognize their kinship with relatives in neighboring bands.
I continue behind mom and daughter and hear the following exchange: Daughter: "How do you know the money wasn't yours?" Mom: "It was already on the sidewalk when we walked by".
When two bands met, they sometimes exchanged daughters.
In his book "Primeval Kinship" (Harvard, 2008), he describes a further stage in human social evolution that occurred when individual bands allied with those with whom they exchanged daughters.
She was married at 15 in an exchange of daughters between two families, a common practice in Afghanistan.
"My request is that, if you can, take the message through TV to all parents – that they should not exchange their daughters for money and they should not worry about the honour of the family," she adds.
When a young girl is married off, money, or the lack thereof, is implicated in every part of the exchange: the daughter is being married off because her father doesn't have the resources to support her; the daughter, with her limited education, doesn't have any earning prospects; and the mother must suffer in silence because she cannot finance an alternative.
Two years ago, my Danish exchange student-daughter and I walked into a local market that was going out of business, to see what bargains we could find.
Cruz was asked to speak about gun control in the context of a specific "Simpsons" episode from 1997 in which Homer becomes obsessed with guns, leading to the following exchange with daughter Lisa.
