Sentence examples for parents utility from inspiring English sources

More daughters report helping to pay their parents' utility bills, housing costs or long-term care costs.

Measures include a law to expropriate homes temporarily being repossessed by banks from mortgage defaulters and schemes to feed poorer children three times daily at schools while paying their parents' utility bills.

Houtenville and Conway (2008) consider a theoreticalmodel in which student achievement depends on parental effort and school resources,and parents maximize utility, which is a function of student achievement, leisureand consumption, subject to time and budget constraints.

He fired multiple times at a young woman in the house, killing her, and fled in his parents' sport utility vehicle, they said.

THE drunken-driving arrest last May of a 17-year-old girl who had overturned her parents' sport utility vehicle was not the sort of thing that typically makes waves beyond the family living room.

Parents maximize utility with respect to consumption and their children's leisure.

Children's leisure is considered a luxury good, and only enters the parent's utility function once some minimum subsistence level has been achieved.

The parent's utility function is given by: U_{it - 1} = left( {1 - alpha } right)log C_{it - 1} + alpha log y_{it}, (8)such that parent care about the own consumption and their offspring's income level.

However, each parent gets utility from the total bequest left to sons only.8 The bequests left from the father and from the mother are denoted by, (b_{m}) and (b_{w}),  respectively.

The alliance of companies is hoping to tap stimulus money for the project, but "the rules for application are still being written" for how to apply for stimulus funds, said Lewis Hay III Lewis Hay III, chief executive of FPL Group, the parent of utility Florida Power & Light.

Many parents question the utility of an exam that their children think "determines their destiny".