Sentence examples for of tender years from inspiring English sources

The only exceptions to the general principles I have referred to, so far as they relate to private business, arise out of statutes respecting apprentices of tender years.

Otherwise, the mother beat the father, at least where the children were of "tender years". Both mother and father beat third parties.

In the early 80s, as a child of tender years, I was deeply attached to this revoltingly upbeat commemorative volume, twee guardian fairies notwithstanding.

For those of tender years, I should explain that polytechnics were institutes of higher education, for the young who missed university entrance: for those who were bright enough to say affinity, but still wore cheap nylon coats.

In response to these incidents, in which children of tender years were doubtless exposed to salty language, the F.C.C. decided that prime-time TV must be sodium-free, as it were.

Like that movie, "Weeds" is set in a soulless development that has been thrown up amid the beautiful and still stubbornly wild California hills (you can encroach on the hills, but they — their coyotes, snakes, and mountain lions — will encroach right back), and the family it revolves around consists of a single mother with children of tender years.

He is of course a boy of very tender years.

A female reporter, of relatively tender years, suggests that the challenge of the Premiership could be a considerable contrast to the SPL.

But is a child of such tender years a responsible being, capable of telling right from wrong and accountable, not just legally but morally, for his actions?

Far too often for one of his tender years he wears the face of a man who wonders where his porridge has gone.

However, courts have moved away from a maternal bias since the disavowal of the Tender Years Doctrine, which directed custody of young children to mothers.