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Without our help the children might grow up in a world without the tender loving care of an omnipresent advertising-media complex.
Children who are overweight tend to grow up into adults who are overweight.
The couple, who describe themselves as Anglophiles moved to this country because they wanted their daughter to grow up here.
They grow up to be mature, responsible, happy adults with good jobs that they enjoy and a family who loves them very much.
The newborn measure eight inches in length and they are known to grow up to 20 feet in the wild, say the Croc Bank authorities.
Anger is one of those emotions whose expression is sometimes subject to taboos, so people can grow up unable to recognize it.
Quite apart from the explicitness, I do not wish my children to grow up to be bores.
I wondered what it was like to grow up as a beautiful person and to know it, from a very young age.
Nor should anyone be surprised if little boys grow up with a liking for the apparent brutality they have witnessed at an ice-hockey game.
Women no longer have to face a living death, as their families grow up and leave home.
He explained that trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
It's not like a newborn cares about bows and ruffles, and it's not like she'll grow up any more or less feminine as a result of what she wears.
Mothers should train their daughters from a young age to protect themselves so that they grow up to be assertive.
I want children to grow up under the influence of the wisdom of the ancient sages.
Also the environment you grow up in is bound to be reflected in the lyrical content of the songs you write.
I quickly had to grow up and take care of myself and be safe and go to school and study.
Half of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardised tests.
As for telling us to grow up and grow some hair, I'd love to, baby, I really would.
I did not grow up using Maori language or really understanding tikanga Maori.
Minkes are baleen whales that grow up to seven metres and are known to spend time around South African shores.
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Examples from Classical Literature
His child could there grow up, unwithered by the associations of her mother's disgrace.
I want thim to remimber their father as something besides a blatherskite phin they grow up.
This chicken feed consists of the foreign seeds, the tares, which grow up with the wheat, and which are separated before milling.
When I grow up a little more and learn how, I am going to sculp such a wonderful statue that Zebedee can stop working.
I s'pose 'ee want to grow up an' be like the dook, some o' these vine days.
But when the boy began to grow up he had no wit, and the goban knew by that he was no son of his.
For her to stay here, even with schooling at the Corners, is to let her grow up like a hoyden.
She wanted to be indispensable to him and was unwilling to let him grow up.
The Chinese had supinely permitted this dangerous power to grow up among their tributaries on the north.
This tartarous enamel must therefore be scaled off, that the gums may grow up to their proper place.
They grow up accepting the politics of telegenic competition, a poor substitute for competence and commitment.
I have brought an old gniagnia who watched me grow up, Ermolai, and the Orel servants.
Many of the garden plots lay fallow during the war and were allowed to grow up in thick stands of papaya.
If a branch does grow up over in summer, a wind like this the next winter just cuts it off like pruning shears.
Here we lived and farmed for forty-one years, seeing the town of Puyallup grow up on and around the homestead.
At what are you going to earn your living when you grow up, fil?
If you grow up and have muscles like them, you can call yourself a man.
Calceolarias generally grow up to 30cm and flower in shades of red, bronze, orange and yellow, often with contrasting speckles or marbling.
Anacondas can grow up to 25ft long and the snake Niall and the team came across measured 19ft, weighed 100kg and had a 27-inch girth.
Look at the opportunities here for a man of knowledge, brains, pluck, and enterprise to sail in and grow up with the country.
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