Sentence examples for figures of children from inspiring English sources
Titled "Homage to Arts and Letters," it features 21 figures of children with a head of Minerva at the center.
His graceful and often sentimental works include religious groups, pastoral scenes, and characters from mythology, but he is particularly noted for his warmly animated figures of children.
It consists of a hundred-and-fifty-square-foot cage, a couple of dozen figures of children molded from birdseed, and a hundred and fifty hungry pigeons.
Walk down St Petersburg's Theatre Street before dawn and you'll see the figures of children at the windows of the Vaganova Academy, where she trained, warming up for morning class.
Afterwards Satyarthi explained what had driven him to rescue tens of thousands of children from slavery and to campaign for the millions – five million, according to Indian government figures – of children who still work in India "I am not the most peaceful person and I am angry because of how people can treat children like that.
No doubt some exist in reality, doing jobs for the CIA, the KGB and similar organisations, but most are literary and dramatic constructs, much loved by movie-makers and favoured fantasy figures of children of all ages, who transmute self-pity into romantic melancholy.
The latest annual Tony's Fair report shares current statistics on figures of child slavery in the cocoa industry, including incidences at Tony's own partner farms.
The figures of child exploitation makes appalling Christmas reading: of the 61 million children who do not go to primary school one in four work full-time.
It says the practice was particularly prevalent in rural areas where girls as young as 11 are married, although inaccurate birth and marriage records made it difficult to calculate exact figures of child marriage nationwide.
"A recording error that gave the person a default age of zero when no address was entered has led to an inaccurate figure of children under 10 years old who were allegedly searched.
Between 2001 and 2003, the figure of children orphaned due to AIDS rose from 11.5 million to 15 million.
