Sentence examples for unwanted offspring from inspiring English sources

The chaos in the Middle East and much of Africa is the unwanted offspring of the first world war.

The left-wing government of Mauricio Funes, whose officials helped broker it, treat it like an unwanted offspring.

In 1999, Holroyd wrote: "Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.

There are mother monkeys that act like hipster zombies, greeting unwanted offspring with a ghoulish demand for brains; and there are infant caecilians — limbless, soil-dwelling amphibians — that grow fat by repeatedly skinning their mother alive.

Blackmun noted, for example, that pregnancy can be harmful to the physical health of the woman, that unwanted "offspring may force upon the woman a distressful life and future," and that "bringing a child into a family already unable, psychologically and otherwise, to care for it" can have devastating consequences both for the woman and the family.

However, the use of these non-vinifera parents, which are less suitable for winemaking, often introduces unwanted traits in the offspring during breeding, resulting in a serious reduction of wine quality.

The removal of the unwanted elements in the offspring of such crosses was detected by standard PCR (Fig. 5D).

This process is space- and time-consuming (because it requires complex breeding schemes that involve multiple crosses), inefficient (due to unavoidable generation of offspring with unwanted genotypes), and expensive.

Mr Levitt, along with co-author John Donahue, boldly surmised that legalised abortion might have reduced the number of unwanted children born to parents likely to raise criminal offspring.

Unwanted births may also cause poor relations between mother and offspring, even after the child has become an adult [ 12].

Even if interventions are carried out purely for the purpose of selecting sex, these choices can affect other children in the family who might feel that they are of the unwanted gender, particularly in Asian countries where there is a marked preference for male offspring, creating a huge gender imbalance.