Sentence examples for they were wards from inspiring English sources

Lisa Hannum, who lives in Schaumburg, about 30 miles from Chicago but still in Cook County, has three children who qualify for Medicaid because they were wards of the state before she adopted them.

Referring to the challenges faced in casting, he said that while they were canvassing local people for auditions, they were warding off rumors that they were after the people's kidneys.

No person should be subject to deputy brutality and excessive force when they are wards of the state.

But they are wards of a greater sonic metropolis, along with Waterloo Sunset, Up the Junction, Inner City Life and many others.

As inmates are in the custody of the state, they are wards of the state, and therefore the state has full responsibility of the inmate.

They are wards of the state -- legally released from their families -- and waiting in the foster care system, hoping that a caring adult will come along and make the world right again for them.

When members of society are disgusted by a criminal, she says, they are warding off thoughts of their own capacity for moral corruption.

Intervention groups were wards.

They were my ward; they were my wards.

The only difference was that they were made wards of the government, which is what they were prior to the '70s, anyway.

As long as they were back ward, the country was backward.