Sentence examples for persons adopted from inspiring English sources

In particular, this article focuses on the question of how race and visible differences of the imagined partner plays a role by comparing attitudes towards having a spouse of non-white migrant origin or transracial adoptee, i.e. persons adopted from a non-European country to a Swedish family as a child.

Critics of this view have pointed to cases where it is imagined that persons adopt what we all would call oppressive and overly restrictive life situations but in a way that meets the minimal conditions of autonomy on proceduralist accounts, so that on such accounts they count as autonomous because of the self-governing processes by which they entered such oppressive conditions.

But as a black person adopted as a child by a white parent I believe this notion is simplistic.

It's as if an overweight person adopted a diet that cut the same percentage from fat, liver, kidneys and other vital organs equally.

As a research and development worker with Coram in the East Midlands, I aim to be the trusted person adopted children and young people can turn to, building their confidence and sense of self-worth while recognising needs that are often invisible to the public It's 8am and I'm in the office on the phone to Alice*, an adopted young person, before she starts school.

Second and more fundamental, is the difficulty in clarifying whether the discourse within which one positioned themselves prompted certain actions or whether having acted in a particular way, the person adopted a particular discourse through which to interpret their actions.

More fundamental, however, is the difficulty in clarifying whether the discourse within which someone located her/himself prompted certain actions or whether having acted in a particular way, the person adopted a particular discourse through which to interpret their actions [ 27].

The county then marks the cat's ears and gives it to the person adopting it.

They seem to have no guile; they are never acting out a role that they have seen another person adopt.

In Orissa, the state where Mr. Staines lived and died, the government has passed an order requiring a police investigation before a person adopts a new faith.

"They'll let one person adopt, but not the other.