"Will you state the circumstances under which you became his foster-parent?".    From Wordnik.com.  [That Mainwaring Affair] Reference

First of all, denying foster-parent status to Amish families is meaningless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Religious, Cultural, and Personal Right To Eat Bacon — Even When Your Foster Parents Don’t Allow It in Their Home] Reference

State becomes a foster-parent, and as far as possible provides a substitute for the home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference

A luxurious nest, a plethora of squashy food, a foster-parent who watched over it with stern vigilance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Leaves from Dunk Island] Reference

George and Lizabeth, both Mormons, started formal foster-parent training, and George began weekend visits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irreconcilable Differences] Reference

And a lot of people complained when I wanted to write this book, you know, "Nobody's going to want to foster-parent.".    From Wordnik.com.  [What Happened to Johnnie Jordan? The Story of A Child Turning Violent] Reference

Any nice middle-class foster-parent would have turned purple, but Gerald burst out laughing and has begun to take quite an interest in the school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presumption of Death]

However, as one who wanted children so much that I initiated a foster-parent application before meeting my husband back in the 1970s, I can understand its appeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Some Single Women] Reference

The Tokyo-based nonprofit Life Funds for North Korean Refugees raises money from Japanese housewives and other donors for its foster-parent program in China and to help refugees flee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riding The Seoul Train] Reference

The Duke of Richmond endeavoured to show that Lord Mansfield was its foster-parent; and a scene of mutual recrimination took place between them, in which other noble lords took an active part.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

Book-crossing involves leaving books in public places - heartlessly orphaning them - in the hope that a sympathetic foster-parent will pick them up, read them, then pass them on in the same way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

The Tennessee General Assembly is determined to strip LGBT citizens of the right to adopt children, the right to foster-parent children, the right to enter civil unions, and any and all hope of the right to marry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tennessee Lawmakers Determined to Strip Gays/Lesbians of Civil Rights] Reference

Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond The Rocks A Love Story] Reference

In a Northumbrian case the foster-parent lost his charge and both eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology] Reference

Imperialism has been tried; it is the foster-parent of this great agony.    From Wordnik.com.  [vBulletin Community Forum] Reference

His first war was with the city of Alba Longa, the foster-parent of Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality] Reference

Henrico A foster-parent information meeting will be held Monday from 6 to 8 p.m.    From Wordnik.com.  [News for Richmond Times-Dispatch] Reference

With all his faults Lewis Langley had been a good foster-parent to his adopted children.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent Bullet] Reference

She had never seemed so grown-up and pretty to her foster-parent as she did at that moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road] Reference

Professor Lloyd Morgan was foster-parent to two moorhens which grew up in isolation from their kindred.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference

The foster-parent lingered as if he were weary, and his plumage looked as if he had not dressed it for a week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

In the process of nature in such cases the stronger of the two birds would retain the nest, and thus assume the duties of foster-parent.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Studio Neighbors] Reference

Eustace left the arms of this foster-parent, at the breaking out of the second civil war, which took place during the King's confinement in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel] Reference

Assuming an Amish family was willing to apply for foster-parent status, I don't see why a lack of telephones or harmonicas should be held against them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference

Assuming an Amish family was willing to apply for foster-parent status, I don't see why a lack of telephones or harmonicas should be held against them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference

The egg is always laid betimes, and is usually the first to hatch, the period of incubation being a day or two less than that of the eggs of the foster-parent.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Studio Neighbors] Reference

For more on the importance of foster-parent training and retention, you can listen to the testimony of Michael Orlans and Dr. Terry Levy at the October 2008 meeting of the here.    From Wordnik.com.  [BlueOregon] Reference

Connected with it only as separable parts of its structure, the cuttings might have been lopped off again without influencing perceptibly the condition of the foster-parent stem.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soul of the Far East] Reference

And so far as we know, he is the first man in England to declare that the teacher should be the foster-parent of the child, and that all successful teaching must be born of love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers] Reference

As the robin is a favourite foster-parent with cuckoos, my first thought was that this might be an unusually small egg of the parasitic bird, which was very plentiful thereabouts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds in the Calendar] Reference

In Arkansas, for example, voters easily passed an initiative that did what state legislators had refused to do: ban adoptions or even foster-parent roles for unmarried couples, including gays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack & Jill Politics] Reference

And I can’t imagine Amish entering the foster-parent system either.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Religious, Cultural, and Personal Right To Eat Bacon — Even When Your Foster Parents Don’t Allow It in Their Home] Reference

'an' take such measures as ye'er noble healin 'ar-rt sug-gists,' he says; 'an' may th 'prayers iv an agonized foster-parent go with ye,' he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War] Reference

Assuming an Amish family was willing to apply for foster-parent status, I don’t see why a lack of telephones or harmonicas should be held against them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Religious, Cultural, and Personal Right To Eat Bacon — Even When Your Foster Parents Don’t Allow It in Their Home] Reference

Chris Travers: Assuming an Amish family was willing to apply for foster-parent status, I don’t see why a lack of telephones or harmonicas should be held against them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Religious, Cultural, and Personal Right To Eat Bacon — Even When Your Foster Parents Don’t Allow It in Their Home] Reference