| Dorothea Dix was born in Hampden, Maine, the daughter of an alcoholic Methodist preacher who was the black sheep of a wealthy merchant family. |
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| Now, I'm the black sheep of the family, the ungrateful and neglectful daughter. |
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| At this time Germany and Russia were the black sheep of the European community, so a rapprochement between them seemed only natural. |
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| Sarah is the free spirit black sheep of a rich family who is known for her impulsive, spontaneous personality. |
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| If the UK operation has been the black sheep in the family, its asset management division has been the blue-eyed boy. |
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| I'm happy enough to be the black sheep of the team, just like I'm the most downwardly mobile member of my family. |
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| Sarah is the free spirit black sheep of a rich family and is known for her impulsive, spontaneous personality. |
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| All families are untidy, with their unsolved mysteries, unspoken secrets, black sheep and messy relationships. |
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| Having always been the extroverted black sheep in my family I'd always been very curious about these things we weren't allowed to do. |
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| What we are is a family and like every family we have some black sheep and our behaviour is sometimes totally unacceptable. |
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| The whole thing was debunked by three university professors who quickly became the black sheep of the scientific establishment. |
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| You know how stupefying it is that a black sheep like me could ever get a boyfriend. |
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| I'm already a black sheep as it is, I didn't need to be pushed out further. |
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| Quebec is often pictured as the black sheep or the spoilsport of the system. |
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| As a young man, he was branded a black sheep after leaving his family's granite merchant business in Aberdeen and moving to Falkirk to launch his own firm. |
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| The fact remains that asphalt is still the black sheep of the surfacing universe. |
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| I hope that, from 2004, the digital tachograph will prevent black sheep from finding new boltholes! |
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| This means checking all suspect operators, from the black sheep to those in every tone of grey from dark to light. |
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| Or should the emphasis be laid on a better law enforcement to get rid of the black sheep? |
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| Sometimes copied but never equalled, the approach adopted by the black sheep of news goes far beyond simply reading the stories. |
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| In addition, priority is given to hosts that can be qualified as black sheep, which accommodate significantly more illegal sites than others. |
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| Staten Island is sort of the black sheep of the five boroughs. |
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| I was the black sheep of my family, getting in trouble trying to get rich. |
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| There are black sheep in every profession and in today's society, where the emphasis is on money, there will be those who seek to enrich themselves at all costs. |
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| Such cases are the black sheep to an otherwise impeccable theory. |
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| Every family has a black sheep, and I guess I was the one for our family. |
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| At the moment, the prostitutes are the black sheep in the system. |
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| The black sheep have to be banned from the street. |
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| The poster depicting a black sheep as an illustration of the crime rate among foreigners is part of this stigmatisation of Black non-citizens in Switzerland. |
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| Rather than calling for the continuation of the ratification process in an attempt to isolate this new black sheep, it would be better to knuckle down to a clear analysis of the situation. |
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| And once the ball got rolling, guess who's the black sheep in the end? |
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| Unseemly self-exposures, unpalatable betrayals, unavoidable mendacity, a soupçon of meretriciousness: memoir, for much of its modern history, has been the black sheep of the literary family. |
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| It's Hepburn as Linda, Julia's aimless sister, the black sheep of the family, who perfectly comprehends Johnny's aversion to business, security and stolidness, his aversion to America itself. |
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| Stricter controls mean for me that blacklists will be used rigorously and, in consequence, black sheep, or black ships, will no longer be welcome in European ports. |
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| Portuguese psychologist José Marques and colleagues demonstrated a black sheep effect, whereby people derogate deviants in their own groups relatively more than deviants in other groups. |
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| A certain fractiousness seems to be endemic to every form of human association: religion generates schismatics and heretics, states generate secessionists and dissidents, even families produce black sheep and divorcés. |
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| I also appeal to the social partners to do more for mobility in the various countries and to impose public controls to bring to light the black sheep and stop them from profiting from social dumping. |
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| It is therefore right for fraud to be eradicated and for us to have a Commission regulation that prevents us lapsing back into situations which, as I said earlier, give rise to the same old black sheep. |
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| It is very convenient for Russia and for President Putin for there to be a country that they can look down on in that part of Europe, and for there to be a regime that can be seen as the black sheep of Europe. |
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| For example, the drawing of white sheep chasing a black sheep from Switzerland served to illustrate the 2007 electoral campaign and justify the UDC's position that all foreign criminals should be deported with their families. |
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| This will increase consumer confidence and is also fairer: black sheep who do not meet the standards will no longer be able to profit from the system at the expense of the others. |
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| And what's more: Our debt collection department has a special side effect: Some black sheep are deterred from using our software at the very outset and don't even try to become members with us. |
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| As with any group of institutions, there are some black sheep, companies with no moral sense that scandalously exploit both African people and African resources. |
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| I note with satisfaction that all mobile operators now appear to comply with the law, and that also the few black sheep we noted three weeks ago have returned to the fold in the meantime. |
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| They say the black sheep and the white whale are still spinning? |
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| Many flocks of white Welsh Mountains contain one or two black sheep, but these sheep are now also bred as a consistent black variety. |
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| To call an individual a black sheep implies that they are an odd or disreputable member of a group. |
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| These black sheep were considered undesirable by shepherds, as black wool is not as commercially viable as white wool. |
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| After the appointed time, Yinxi again demonstrates determination and perfect trust, sending out a black sheep to market as the agreed sign. |
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| Though she took back her resignation for an important cause but her gesture proved to be a significant move against yellow journalism and black sheep of media industry. |
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| See the Black Sheep draymen sharing a ribald joke as they lower a barrel down the drop, there it is. |
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| Stalactite-like structures were common in the Black Sheep pocket, forming knobs and fingers of matrix covered with druzy quartz, fluorite, and galena crystals. |
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| At the moment the pub is also serving a range of Daleside beers brewed in Harrogate, including Old Leg Over and Greengrass Old Rogue Ale and Black Sheep best bitter. |
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| Captain Dunne and Jaconet were first and second at York over five furlongs and the pair meet again in the Black Sheep Brewery Handicap at Thirsk. |
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| During the late 14th and early 15th centuries, the Black Sheep Turkmen ruled the area now known as Iraq. |
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| In 1466, the White Sheep Turkmen defeated the Black Sheep and took control. |
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| Captain Dunne and Jaconet were first and second at York recently over five furlongs and the pair meet again in the Black Sheep Brewery Handicap at Thirsk. |
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| Brewing takes place in Masham at the Black Sheep and Theakston Breweries. |
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| At Masham, there is the Theakston Brewery and the Black Sheep Brewery. |
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