Child in sentence

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We were to be below the radar, so there was no communication, really, between Bageye and us and us and Bageye, and the sound that we most looked forward to, you know when you're a child and you want your father to come home and it's all going to be happy and you're waiting for that sound of the door opening.

And what he meant was, you as a child of a Jamaican immigrant are being watched to see which way you turn, to see whether you conform to the host nation's stereotype of you, of being feckless, work-shy, destined for a life of crime.

In that initial reunion, I was struck by an idea that I had very few photographs of myself as a young child.

And as we walked, I was struck that I had reverted to being the child even though I was now towering above my father.

It's a beautiful scene, but it's shattered by the cries of a child, and actually several children, in need of rescue in the water.

To give you a feel for this idea, imagine the following scenario: You walk into your child's day care center.

As usual, there's a dozen kids there waiting to get picked up, but this time, the children's faces look weirdly similar, and you can't figure out which child is yours.

I grew up a feral, adopted child on the northern shore of Lake Ontario, following my bricklayer/fisherman father around.

So the United Nations estimates that every year, there are 1.5 million child deaths because of inadequate sanitation.

Even as a small child, Minty was hired out to different owners, who subjected her to whippings and punishment.

So I created this image of Diana, Dodi and their imaginary mixed-race child and this image came out, which caused a huge public outcry at the time.

Man: (In Dutch) Does that sound like fun? Child: (In Dutch) Yes! [(In Dutch) "Handel house concert"] (Applause) Daria van den Bercken: All this was a real magical experience for hundreds of reasons.

In the mentality of my community, only the boy child counted.

For the child of war, an education can turn their tears of loss into a passion for peace.

Being a child refugee has taught me that one could be stripped of everything: food, shelter, clean drinking water, even friendship, but the one thing that no one could ever take away from you is your education.

And the same way, we don't do it when we've got fancy toilets, running water, and soap available, it's the same thing in the countries where child mortality is really high.

If you take our Help a Child Reach 5 campaign, we've created great films that bring the message of handwashing with soap to the everyday person in a way that can relate to them.

Over the last four years, business has grown double digits, whilst child mortality has reduced in all the places where soap use has increased.

When the woman is ready to deliver her child, she lies on her back, she is strapped down to the table, and the table is rotated at high speed.

The child comes flying out through centrifugal force.

However, Afghanistan does have a legal system, and while jirgas are built on long-standing tribal customs, even in jirgas, laws are supposed to be followed, and it goes without saying that giving a child to satisfy a debt is not only grossly immoral, it's illegal.

Child marriages prolong the vicious cycle of poverty, poor health, lack of education.

These laptops, when a child opens them up, they communicate with every single child in the classroom, within that school, within that village.

I was a very, very serious child.

In fact, sometimes it seems like the entire War on Drugs gets justified as one great big child protection act, which any young person can tell you it's not.

Ethan Nadelmann: Chris, the most amazing thing that's happened of late is that I've met a growing number of people who have actually lost a sibling or a child to a drug overdose, and 10 years ago, those people just wanted to say, let's line up all the drug dealers and shoot them and that will solve it.

So that story didn't end that well, but fortunately for millions of other people, like this child who was treated again in the early 1940s, who was again dying of a sepsis, and within just six days, you can see, recovered thanks to this wonder drug, penicillin.

But I've done that ever since I was a child, ever since I was a tiny little girl.

It's a function of reductions in child mortality rates.

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