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And my husband and I have a son who lives with us all the time, of whom I am the biological father, and our surrogate for the pregnancy was Laura, the lesbian mother of Oliver and Lucy in Minneapolis.
Mrs. Lois Doery, whom I later came to call my surrogate mum, read me many thousands of hours onto tape.
For about two years, Robots for Humanity developed ways for me to use the PR2 as my body surrogate.
Well, you have to find someone who is willing to be a surrogate.
Being a surrogate donor only requires you to say a few hundred to a few thousand utterances.
Samantha's voice is like a concentrated sample of red food dye which we can infuse into the recordings of her surrogate to get a pink voice just like this.
For Samantha, her surrogate came from somewhere in the Midwest, a stranger who gave her the gift of voice.
In the case that the intended mother has a problematic uterus, or lacks one, another woman, called the gestational carrier or surrogate, can use her uterus to carry the pregnancy.
He also offers invisible surgery, where there is no cutting, and surrogate surgery, where he supposedly can treat somebody who is thousands of miles away by performing a procedure on a loved one.
Pre-Depression audiences, giddy with optimism, may have rooted for this ambitious go-getter in whom they saw their surrogate; Depression audiences despised him as the person likely to foreclose on their mortgage and throw them in the gutter.
Out of their element, Duchess and her kittens befriend a street smart stray cat known as Thomas O'Malley (voice of Phil Harris who did the voice of the big bear Balloo in the Jungle Book); after making a pass at Duchess, unaware that she is a single mother, O'Malley decides to escort them back home, with Duchess genuinely falling for O'Malley as the usual codependent surrogate family bond develops; chaos and mayhem ensues, culminating in a violent clash between O'Malley, his brother cats from the streets and Edgar.
His dresser prompts him gently,mouthing the words.There is an air of desperation about both these men.The great actor knowing his powers are slipping away,his valet cum major domo cum conscience cum surrogate wife - aware of his boss's decline into madness and knowing he is powerless to do more than ease his passing.
The complexity of having a twin serve as a surrogate father and even husband added great tension towards making this film emotionally interesting.
He is a hitman for his surrogate father John Rooney(Paul Newman)an elderly Irish mob boss.
In regard to substance abuse, Ray pretty much limits himself to a refrigerator full of beer, plus dinner wine and the occasional bottle of whiskey (contributing to the delinquency of a minor through promoting under-aged drinking with his 11th-grader surrogate son Dave Tibbel, played by Trevor Morgan), while The Ram seems to keep his life in shambles through over-medicating himself with every drug known to mankind.
When Leung is forced to kill his surrogate father after Chow's spectacular warehouse ambush, we can only marvel at Leung's performance as he conveys his inner turmoil.
(Gay men will still be barred, because they would require a surrogate, and surrogacy remains prohibited.)
In fact, before long, all international trade is conducted in V$, which is universally accepted as a surrogate for gold.
At a time when the US is reluctant or unable to project military might to back up its foreign-policy goals, it is seeking to use financial might as a surrogate.
During the GCC deliberations, Iran was singled out as the root cause of all the region’s problems (although the Saudis did invite Iraq which it often suggests is nothing but an Iranian surrogate).
For example, in one case, Germany – where surrogacy is illegal – refused to accept twin children of a German father born to an Indian surrogate, while India demurred at giving the father an exit visa so that he could remove the children.
Offenses under the law are punishable by up to ten years in prison – for the surrogate and commissioning parents alike.
These actions are usually justified as policies for boosting domestic demand, but they end up fueling a surrogate, low-grade currency war.
By contrast, India’s most important national security concerns – the unsettled border between the two countries, and Beijing’s ties with Pakistan, which often operates as a Chinese surrogate – are closely connected to China: Both factors are directly linked to China’s perceived threat to India’s Himalayan territory and its rapid development of strategic infrastructure in that region.
Ideas matter in politics and having only a few simplistic ones of his own, Bush found his agenda shaped and dominated by his clever surrogate and deputy.
No perfect substitutes for the market in the area of scientific discovery exist, but a good surrogate, which enables scientists to compete effectively, is the system of peer review , i.e., the anonymous evaluation of research by scientific colleagues.
The OECD is thus a weak surrogate for a globally representative intergovernmental forum.
Like the Roman Catholic Church in the years of Solidarity's struggle in the 1980s, the Serbian Orthodox Church is widely seen as a surrogate for our lost national identity.
He was given the benefit of the doubt, and his anti-Communism was elevated to a surrogate of democracy.
The next day there was another visit to Doctors' Commons, and a great to-do with an attesting hostler, who, being inebriated, declined swearing anything but profane oaths, to the great scandal of a proctor and surrogate.