Sentence examples for protect adopted from inspiring English sources

Supporters of the ban say the United States government has not done enough to protect adopted Russian children and has not lived up to an agreement on heightened oversight that went into effect on Nov. 1.

Child-care advocates asked Congress on Tuesday to do more to protect adopted children — often foreign-born and suffering from behavioral problems — who are being given away to people solicited over the Internet by adoptive parents who no longer want them.

The international community affirmed its commitment to these values in the Responsibility to Protect, adopted by the United Nations in 2005, which asserts the duty to intervene when nations fail to protect, or persecute, their citizens.

I had to leave the country to protect my adopted son from state-appointed protectors.

His antimissile efforts, obsessive by most accounts and dismissed by critics as doomed to failure, were his way of trying to protect his adopted country from the horrors he helped bring into the world.

The remarks by Mr. Ban came in his opening speech to a General Assembly meeting on the "responsibility to protect" principle adopted by the United Nations in 2005, which asserts that the organization has an obligation to prevent mass atrocities.

Liz Hamper, a Greens volunteer who migrated from Britain in the 1980s, believes that immediate action is needed to protect her adopted home from environmental disaster.

Queen Louise's efforts to protect her adopted country from French aggression secured for her the admiration of future generations.

Prof. Hamilton and UNICEF urge the Kyrgyz Republic to ratify the Hague Convention to bring local legislation into line with international procedures to protect children adopted internationally.

In September 2008, international expert Prof. Carolyn Hamilton met the Parliamentary Working Group on Inter-Country Adoption to discuss international legislation used to protect children adopted overseas.

But some abortion opponents do, and they have argued that the thousands of excess embryos created by fertility clinics every year should be protected and "adopted" by childless couples.