Sentence examples for of sufficient age from inspiring English sources

In fact, Hughes did not formally interview the children; she met with them briefly at school with their teachers present, and said in her closing arguments that "the children are only 6 years old and are not of sufficient age and capacity to form a rational judgment" regarding their preference.

He distinguished himself in the assault, causing Admiral Lord Howe to remark "Why, young man, you wish to become a Lieutenant before you are of sufficient age".

Henry VI was only a few months old when he acceded in 1422; he was crowned in 1429, but did not officially assume the reins of government until he was deemed of sufficient age, in 1437.

A The law provides that a child's wishes will be considered by the court and given "due weight" if the child is of "sufficient age and capacity to reason so as to form an intelligent preference as to custody". There is no magic age as to when a child will be considered capable of making an intelligent reference.

The decision by Prime Minister Robert Menzies to appoint a British officer as CAS caused controversy in Australia, compounded by his stated reason that there was "no RAAF officer of sufficient age, or operational experience, to take the post of Chief of the Air Staff", which ignored the wartime records of figures like McCauley.

Therefore, assent should be sought wherever possible in awake, aware children of sufficient age and developmental level to understand basic research concepts and implications [ 12, 21, 42, 101, 102].

Twenty-four wexcludedudue due to lack of sufficient age-matched control subjects, and a further six were excluded because of lack of ethnically matched control subjects for comparison (Table 1), leaving 118 patients.

In children of a sufficient age, contact lenses may sometimes be used instead of glasses.

Liliana Irisson and Alma Lidia had travelled all the way from Mexico and were of a sufficient age to refuse to give their own.

In addition, the pools need to be "filled up" until there were stocks of a sufficient age to be lost through retirement.

Concerning the required temporal resolution of life-cycle studies, our data demonstrate the necessity of sufficient small age classes, at least during the first days of reproduction.