But Erica's abductors left her with something besides meager provisions: her irrepressible will and determination.
"In the second attempt, an immature female, which nested 5 metres [16ft] from the boundary of the moor, laid two eggs in Northumberland but the eggs were not viable despite the female incubating for the full term and the male provisioning her well.
It is aplacental viviparous, with the mother provisioning her young with histotroph ("uterine milk").
I end this heartfelt note with a psalm I remember from my youth: (Psalm 132 15)... ..I will bless her with abundant provisions; her poor will I satisfy with food".
The big slice of those high earnings that his ex-wife now gains reflects not her current needs, but provision for her long-term future.That's a step towards the way divorce works in New York, where careers are seen as businesses in which the other spouse is a shareholder.
The child was brought up without knowing who her father was (Poulenc was supposedly her "godfather") but he made generous provision for her, and she was the principal beneficiary of his will.
On 5 February 1349 Johanna Ely, her husband already dead, arranged provision for her children, Richard and Johanna.
He said her award for "reasonable financial provision" against her partner's estate, which she made under inheritance law, was "a fair and reasonable result".
Isabella recently drew up her own will, and in it she included a provision that her head be chopped off and delivered to her father in his vault, to symbolize the way he cut her off… It is hard to overestimate the extent to which Isabella's aesthetic sense has been affected by her family's gothic history.
At some point in the future I think Jade will want to talk about her heritage and her culture, and it might be useful if at that point there was some provision for her to do that – counselling, perhaps.
