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5833 examples of Father in a sentence

My father was responsible for building roads in Bihar, and he had developed a firm stance against corruption, even though he was harassed and threatened.
These are the lonely warriors like my father and many, many others, and a key frontier of development work is to help these lonely warriors join hands so they can together overcome the odds.
These examples give new hope, new possibility to the problems I witnessed in Uganda or that my father confronted in Bihar.
Two years ago, on April 8th, 2010, I called my father.
I can master shock of "The Crying Game" with the awe of a child being called an AIDS victim by a bully who didn't know that it was his father who gave it to my mother, and that's a double entendre.
It was a family, a mother, father, child, talking about the seating.
My name is Ronny Edry, and I'm 41, I'm an Israeli, I'm a father of two, I'm a husband, and I'm a graphic designer.
Within a decade or two, most American children will be born into homes with no father.
So throughout my childhood, my mother was incarcerated and I didn't have my father because I didn't even learn his first name until I was in the sixth grade.
Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo and a father who was faceless, I was angry.
And when I was 17, I met my father for the first time, upon which I learned I had a brother and sister I had never known about.
And on the day I met my father for the first time, I was rejected from the Rhode Island School of Design, my one and only choice for college.
I'll never forget that one girl looked in her father's eyes with that camera and said, "Daddy, when you look at me, what do you see?"
I have had my father in my life always.
Because a father is locked in does not mean he should be locked out of his daughter's life.
There was no kind of compensation for, you're a Tutsi, you're a Hutu, you might have killed my mother, you might have killed my father.
Kafka did not show his work to his father.
He was not on good terms with his father.
Had he shown his father, "My boy has finally lost it," he would've thought.
When I was 15, and I called my father to tell him that I had fallen in love, it was the last thing on either of our minds to discuss what the consequences were of the fact that my first love was a girl.
Am I the one that you choose to disown as your child or your brother or your sister or your mother or your father, your neighbor, your cousin, your uncle, the president, your police woman or the fireman?
My mother has an accent that is so different to my father, and we're all a population of about 300,000 people in the same country.
My father was listening to BBC News on his small, gray radio.
my father shouted.
I didn't know what it meant, but I could see that my father was very, very happy.
A total maverick from a remote province of Afghanistan, he insisted that his daughter, my mom, go to school, and for that he was disowned by his father.
I would want to quit, but my father, he would say, "Listen, my daughter, you can lose everything you own in your life.
That's not his real name, and I cannot show you his face, but Ahmed is the father of one of my students.
What I've come to realize about Afghanistan, and this is something that is often dismissed in the West, that behind most of us who succeed is a father who recognizes the value in his daughter and who sees that her success is his success.
My language would force me to tell you whether or not this was an uncle on my mother's side or my father's side, whether this was an uncle by marriage or by birth, and if this man was my father's brother, whether he was older than or younger than my father.
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