Sentence examples for relative able from inspiring English sources

The group filed the lawsuit on behalf of 29 adults and children from more than a dozen families, including a grandmother who lives with her same-sex partner of nine years and is the only relative able and willing to adopt her grandchild, who is now in state care.

If there is another relative able to keep this relative "in line", sometimes it can useful to go to this person and express your concerns.

These include the risk of falsified documents for children who have relatives able to care for them, middlemen out to profit and perhaps bribe officials, and even the willingness of poor parents to send a child to a promised land without understanding the permanence of adoption.

And the marbled crayfish is the only one among its 14,000 crustacean relatives able to clone itself.

However, unlike the child with parents who are able to make a decision about refusing donation, the mentally incompetent adult may have no living relatives able or permitted to make such a refusal on his/her behalf.

Cancer patients' understanding is often affected by anxiety or denial then the presence of relatives, able to repeat and to discuss the information given during the consultation, should facilitate the doctor-patient communication.

Results: NCS responses were obtained at a decreased frequency relative to able-bodied subjects.

The purpose of this study was to use angular momentum to evaluate dynamic balance in individuals with a transtibial amputation using powered and passive prostheses relative to able-bodied individuals during stair ascent and descent.

To ensure that data can be gathered by questionnaires and that relatives are able to participate in the PGIR, patients and relatives need to be able to read and write in German.

None of us close relatives were able to go because our passports have expired.

According to the statement, the victims' relatives were able to identify six of the bodies -- all men between the ages of 20 and 57 -- by their clothing and personal effects.