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Smith quoted from a 1953 report by Kathleen Forest, an inspector for the government's home affairs department, who wrote: "I find these homes utterly depressing and it appals me to think that these hundreds of children are being reared in bleak lovelessness".
The last time this debate reared its head, when the much-lauded incoming ECB chairman, Colin Graves, suggested there may be a route back for Kevin, I see I remarked that none of us should rule out the argument being the last thing we heard before we died, even if that expected departure date was decades away.
Monitoring only direct sales to meatpacking companies leaves the supply chain open to cattle laundering, where cattle may be reared in deforested land but sold to other compliant farms before they arrive at slaughterhouses.
RSPB negotiators expressed their fears about the long-term implications: if nests of one of the rarest breeding birds in England were removed and the chicks reared in captivity, which rare species would landowners want to control next?
Related: McDonald 'sto axe deforestation from its global supply chain Cattle rearing in Brazil is a complex process in which cattle are calved, reared and fattened in different locations before arriving at slaughterhouses.
I'm going to live for ever... you know, so long as the cattle in the cheeseburger was reared humanely and everyone involved in its production was paid a decent living wage, which I doubt.
I jail, Ben's intolerance for thoughtless authority reared up almost immediately, following an arbitrary cell search.
Racism has reared its head at an AFL game again, as Essendon terminated the membership of a supporter who racially abused Sydney's Adam Goodes during Friday's game at Etihad Stadium.
A steak? Yes, he had something good – locally reared , of course.
Only a feed from his mum would quell his ferocity so, whenever trouble reared its head, I had no choice but to hand him over to someone better qualified.
Weird, really, that we rarely see the same humour, pathos, etc in her similarly reared oldest son.
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The word "reared" functions primarily as the past tense and past participle of the verb "rear". It commonly describes the act of raising children or animals, as demonstrated by Ludwig. It can also metaphorically mean something came to the surface or became apparent.
Expression frequency: Very common
