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  • She wasn' really the maternal sort.†   (source)
  • Mariam's soft maternal voice went on, brought a degree of comfort to her.†   (source)
  • The notion of maternal instincts in giant dinosaurs-and the drawings of cute babies poking their snouts out of the eggs-had appeal around the world.†   (source)
  • I looked forward to going to synagogue services with my maternal grandparents, with whom I was especially close.†   (source)
  • One of the faculty wives—one especially prolific with progeny, and one whose maternal girth was more substantial than well coordinated—slipped under the Volkswagen as it was being returned to its wheels; although she was not hurt, she was wedged quite securely under the stubborn automobile.†   (source)
  • Brusque, maternal.†   (source)
  • Wasn't there supposed to be a maternal bond?†   (source)
  • She asks what the streets are like, and the houses, and so on the blank back page of his book on perspective Gogol draws a floor plan of his maternal grandparents' flat, navigating Ruth along the verandas and the terrazzo floors, telling her about the chalky blue walls, the narrow stone kitchen, the sitting room with cane furniture that looked as if it belonged on a porch.†   (source)
  • They fell prisoner to a childlike fear of maternal authority.†   (source)
  • A little apart from the rest, sunk in deep maternal bliss, lay the largest sow of the lot.†   (source)
  • On the other side of Henrietta's family, her maternal great-grandfather was a white man named Albert Lacks, who'd inherited part of the Lacks Plantation in 1885, when his father divided his land among his three white sons: Winston, Benjamin, and Albert.†   (source)
  • ADDICTION Enrique, now fifteen, gathers his clothing and goes to his maternal grandmother.†   (source)
  • If I were still friends with Lilly, she would probably say that my mother was lying to compensate for having traumatized my perception of her as a strictly maternal, and therefore nonsexual, being.†   (source)
  • "Actually, your maternal grandmother is still alive, as well as your mother's brothers and sisters.†   (source)
  • He says I have different personalities: that my Lingala is sweet and maternal, but in English I'm sarcastic.†   (source)
  • And no matter how old they are, many still have a strong maternal instinct.†   (source)
  • "How did your first day go, dear?" the receptionist asked maternally.†   (source)
  • One might say that the story is about fatherly neglect (the stand-in for the father simply abandons the children to the governess's care) and smothering maternal concern.†   (source)
  • She gave him a strange maternal grin.†   (source)
  • She was keen for them to realize that they (like herself) lived on sufferance in the Ayemenem House, their maternal grandmother's house, where they really had no right to be.†   (source)
  • I'd just mailed my mother (I didn't tell her anything of significance, it was a sort of test-the-waters email, to gauge how maternal she's feeling towards me at the moment) via my Yahoo account.†   (source)
  • I adore Ellen Abbott, I love how protective and maternal she gets about all the missing women on her show, and how rabid-dog vicious she is once she seizes on a suspect, usually the husband.†   (source)
  • Transito Ariza could not hide a feeling of pride, more carnal than maternal, when she saw him leave the notions shop in his black suit and stiff felt hat, his lyrical bow tie and celluloid collar, and she asked him as a joke if he was going to a funeral.†   (source)
  • The old woman studied Paul in one gestalten flicker: face oval like Jessica's, but strong bones …. hair: the Duke's black-black but with browline of the maternal grandfather who cannot be named, and that thin, disdainful nose; shape of directly staring green eyes: like the old Duke, the paternal grandfather who is dead.†   (source)
  • Or Sonja, who needed salve on her own maternal wounds.†   (source)
  • Through his very helplessness, he was showing Jenny she could handle this maternal nurturing thing.†   (source)
  • I had a picture of Mrs. Willard, with her heather-mixture tweeds and her sensible shoes and her wise, maternal maxims.†   (source)
  • Nobu made himself comfortable at the table, and then at once, Hatsumomo suggested in an almost maternal way that I go and pour him sake.†   (source)
  • He imagined his project for women—gynecological services, health education, and family planning—to reduce local maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • Well, that severed maternal relations for the afternoon, and I had no intention of waiting for Bore to come home.†   (source)
  • After dinner that night Ameh Bozorg reasserted her maternal power over her younger brother.†   (source)
  • But her maternal grandmother, Munawar, made a point of acknowledging and aiding the poor whenever she could.†   (source)
  • Madame Ceausescu, known officially as the Best Mother Romania Could Have, was not particularly maternal.†   (source)
  • Annette had a maternal instinct that was a force of nature and helped me navigate the official rules, like remembering the counts, and the PAC numbers, and what thy I was allowed to bring my clothes to the laundry to be washed.†   (source)
  • I give the word decent an extra push, hoping to appeal to some maternal sense of shame and propriety.†   (source)
  • She never knew her father and was raised mostly by her maternal grandparents instead of her mother, who had to work two jobs in order to support her three children.†   (source)
  • Jahan had completed her maternal health training course, but elected to stay in Skardu and continue her studies.†   (source)
  • Staring not so much from maternal joy as from a wish to avoid seeing his legs dangling almost to the floor.†   (source)
  • No, I decided the upbringing of the last heir to the Silver Throne required a more…maternal touch.†   (source)
  • She was caressing his hair with a maternal, distracted air.†   (source)
  • He must have heard that his maternal grandparents had been reduced to this life.†   (source)
  • The most maternal of the peculiars, Bronwyn was more like a mother to the young ones than even Miss Peregrine.†   (source)
  • There's nothing wrong with the naked body, the woman said with maternal affection.†   (source)
  • Every maternal instinct in Matron came alive, and she kept vigil.†   (source)
  • "How I would react to a two-faced control freak who didn't have a maternal bone in her body?"†   (source)
  • Charley rattled them when he said, "My maternal grandmother was a Rinds, and I think you are too, Lettie."†   (source)
  • Apart from a persistent paternal aunt, two less persistent maternal aunts, two distant cousins, and one second cousin, Mikael and Annika had only each other for family.†   (source)
  • Tía Alicia told her once that the ceiba is a saint, female and maternal.†   (source)
  • Lulled by the maternal heart sound of the rhythmic surf, weighed down by weariness, wondering why he had escaped the plague of suicide at the Delmanns' house, he slipped into sleep with nightmares.†   (source)
  • "I know nothing about our maternal grandparents," he said.†   (source)
  • Richter came around the table to give Max a maternal hug and flick a stray leaf from his shoulder.†   (source)
  • My maternal grandmother was born Winifred Kennedy, and my Irish-Catholic family had deep emotional ties to the young president and his family.†   (source)
  • But she had to admit, she felt maternal toward Christina.†   (source)
  • But her maternal grandmother, her treasured Nan, had given her a gift with so many questions.†   (source)
  • So far, it's going really well with Beanie and Steph (Beanie's been watching Oliver a lot for her, and she actually seems to really like the little rug rat—maybe something maternal has kicked in with her).†   (source)
  • Abby used to worry about becoming forgetful, because her maternal grandfather had ended up with dementia.†   (source)
  • As she was in early clan marriage (Stone Gang) and shared six husbands with another woman, identity of maternal grandfather open to question.†   (source)
  • The truth is that I was named after Willie Ezell, my maternal grandfather, who passed away from a heart attack when Kay was only fourteen.†   (source)
  • A strange sorcery which I could never quite pin down, it had to do both with her Europeanness and something that was obscurely, seductively maternal.†   (source)
  • She towered over me and seemed authoritative and maternal, so I did not object when she said before I could haveany cake she would have to take off my pants.†   (source)
  • Later, in the spring, of course, I was introduced to the winds and thunderstorms and the fog seemed almost maternal in comparison.†   (source)
  • That might require your maternal influence.†   (source)
  • Coaxingly maternal.†   (source)
  • She did not know how to answer her mother's shrill, meaningless questions, put with the furious affectation of maternal concern; she could not pretend, when she kissed her mother, or submitted to her mother's kiss, that she was moved by anything more than an unpleasant sense of duty.†   (source)
  • Valentine speaks in a maternal voice.†   (source)
  • Mm 133 JACQUELINE: [watching ROBERTA and the others leaving] She already looks quite maternal.†   (source)
  • She was able maternally to bestow the gift of herself on this humble stranger, and remain untouched.†   (source)
  • maternal genes
  • She radiated a warm maternal affection for her niece.
    maternal = characteristic of a mother -- such as wanting to care for and help to develop
  • When she speaks, it is with the pitch of maternal determination.†   (source)
  • When my maternal great-grandparents arrived in Jamaica, they searched for a church home.†   (source)
  • In France, the percentage of children exposed to three or more maternal partners is 0.†   (source)
  • She only smiled her serene, maternal smile.†   (source)
  • None of his four maternal cousins was invited, and I never asked why.†   (source)
  • There was a maternal edge to her feelings for her younger brother.†   (source)
  • "I am unbothered by the maternal instinct," she purrs.†   (source)
  • Chewing a nail, Miss Boon gave David a decidedly maternal glance before turning to follow Cooper.†   (source)
  • She simply could not identify with my maternal instinct.†   (source)
  • Jocelyn was all cold maternal fury, her green eyes burning.†   (source)
  • Sri Lanka shows what it takes to reduce maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • She means to sound soft, maternal, but knows she sounds judgmental.†   (source)
  • I searched her face at our next visit and saw only that maternal classic: unconditional love.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't have thought the ice-cold Barbie would have a maternal side.†   (source)
  • "Here's a tip: Your protective maternal instinct sucks."†   (source)
  • An almost maternal love swept through me.†   (source)
  • We had come upon the clinic by accident and dropped in to inquire about maternal health in the area.†   (source)
  • Another impediment is that maternal health just doesn't have an international constituency.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, maternal health is persistently diminished as a "women's issue.†   (source)
  • Since 1935 it has managed to halve its maternal deaths every six to twelve years.†   (source)
  • Maternal morbidity (injuries in childbirth) occurs even more often than maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • But for decades, one American doctor has led the fight to call attention to maternal health.†   (source)
  • So lifetime risk of maternal death is one thousand times higher in a poor country than in the West.†   (source)
  • Maternal mortality is an injustice that is tolerated only because its victims are poor, rural women.†   (source)
  • "The technical solutions to reduce maternal mortality are not enough," Allan wrote in one essay.†   (source)
  • But maternal care is particularly neglected, never receiving adequate funding.†   (source)
  • The group's maternal mortality ratio was 872 per 100,000 live births.†   (source)
  • It truly seemed a miracle, and it showed what is possible if we make maternal health a priority.†   (source)
  • The most common measure is the maternal mortality ratio (MMR).†   (source)
  • In retrospect, advocates of maternal health made a few strategic errors.†   (source)
  • At a town meeting, ask a candidate about maternal health.†   (source)
  • With him she seemed at ease, quiet, almost maternal.†   (source)
  • It was to an apparently calm, maternal Mary that he proposed.†   (source)
  • I also left room for the possibility that they had adapted to this dynamic out of necessity, the quiet daughter eclipsed by the attention-diverting self-absorbed mother routine, that Madaline's narcissism was perhaps an act of kindness, of maternal protectiveness.†   (source)
  • Maraa Isabel decided to move across town with her aunt Gloria, who lived next door to Enrique's maternal grandmother.†   (source)
  • Because Polish law prohibited Jews from owning land, as had been the case for centuries for Jews in Europe, my maternal grandfather, Jacob Golner, leased his farmland from the Eastern Orthodox Church.†   (source)
  • Life would be much nicer if one could carry the smells and tastes of the maternal home wherever one pleased.†   (source)
  • It was as though Jupiter in all his descendant forms retreated into the maternal darkness to be superseded by a female immanence filled with ambiguity and with a face of many terrors.†   (source)
  • He learned, too, about the central importance of "maternal mortality"—how the deaths of mothers, common events in those squatter settlements, led to skeins of catastrophes in families, to hunger and prostitution, to disease and other deaths.†   (source)
  • Perhaps she'd registered the same sensation that Louise Zamperini had felt when Louie was missing, a maternal murmur that told her that her son was still alive.†   (source)
  • Do they not hear me hollering over the fence at my sons every day in the habitual, maternal accents of a native-born fishwife?†   (source)
  • If she was invited to a wedding in Kottayam, she would spend the whole time whispering to whoever she went with, "The bride's maternal grandfather was my father's carpenter.†   (source)
  • The man called Florentino was their maternal grandfather, so that the name had come down to the son of Transito Ariza after skipping over an entire generation of pontiffs.†   (source)
  • My maternal great-grandfather Mas Fred, as he was known, would plant a coconut tree at his home in Mount Horeb, a neighboring area, for each of his kids and grandkids when they were born.†   (source)
  • It was a patriarchal society, in which age was respected, even revered, especially when, as in my maternal grandfather's case, age meant a lifetime of hard work, of caring for his family, and of devotion to his faith.†   (source)
  • She came back and stood for just a moment inside the doorway, observing his wet face with that same mixture of sternness and maternal love.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, he had often taken care of America Vicuna, whose diaper smell awakened maternal instincts in him, but he was disturbed at the idea that she had disliked his odor: the smell of a dirty old man.†   (source)
  • I resembled my maternal relatives, but the nose wasn't quite bad enough to invite comparison to a puppet.†   (source)
  • For the same reason, I have decided in this book to identify Enrique's girlfriend by her first name and to withhold the maternal or paternal name, or both, of her relatives.†   (source)
  • This had no longer been true during the first eighty years of steam navigation, and then it became true again forever when the alligators ate the last butterfly and the maternal manatees were gone, the parrots, the monkeys, the villages were gone: everything was gone.†   (source)
  • His maternal grandmother, whom he adored and considered to be his biggest influence, decided not to attend.†   (source)
  • 'The capsules , pain , please, Annie, please, for God's sake please help me the pain is so bad , ' 'I know it is, but you must listen to me,' she said, looking at him with that stern yet maternal expression.†   (source)
  • Additional information comes from Enrique's maternal and paternal grandmothers, his sister Belky, his aunt Rosa Amalia, his uncle Carlos, and Lourdes's cousin Maraa Edelmira.†   (source)
  • It was a maternal look.†   (source)
  • Francois's only maternal aunt was not invited because she and my mother-in-law had fought over some land in Greece twenty years ago and were not on speaking terms.†   (source)
  • But the Times decided to identify Enrique and his mother, father, and two sisters by publishing only their first names and to withhold the maternal or paternal name, or both, of six relatives as well as some details of Enrique's employment.†   (source)
  • However, her maternal age had never seemed so apparent to him as it did that night, as much for the size of her waist and the slight shortness of breath when she walked as for the break in her voice when she read the list of prizewinners.†   (source)
  • These include Enrique's sister Belky; his aunts Mirian, Rosa Amalia, and Ana Lucaa; his uncle Carlos Orlando Turcios Ramos; his maternal grandmother, Águeda Amalia Valladares, and paternal grandmother, Maraa Marcos; his mother's cousin Maraa Edelmira Sanchez Mejaa; his father, Luis, and stepmother, Suyapa Álvarez; his girlfriend, Maraa Isabel, and her aunt Gloria; Enrique's cousins Tania Ninoska Turcios and Karla Roxana Turcios; as well as Enrique's friend and fellow drug user Jose…†   (source)
  • The days were easy for him as he sat at the rail, watching the motionless alligators sunning themselves on sandy banks, their mouths open to catch butterflies, watching the flocks of startled herons that rose without warning from the marshes, the manatees that nursed their young at large maternal teats and startled the passengers with their woman's cries.†   (source)
  • She felt for Aureliano in the darkness, put her hand on his stomach and kissed him on the neck with a maternal tenderness.†   (source)
  • Some historians believe that because Lincoln lost his mother at the age of nine, he was drawn to women with maternal, protective instincts.†   (source)
  • The ample-bottomed English girl bit into her cookie and fixed David with an expectant, maternal stare.†   (source)
  • Because what did it mean if the greatest love I'd ever felt in my nine lives, the first true sense of family, of maternal instinct, was for an alien life-form?†   (source)
  • Down either side of his thighs he felt the sweet gum's surface roots cradling him like the rough but maternal hands of a grandfather.†   (source)
  • The maternal side of Carla's family claimed some German roots, and for this reason she studied German in high school and for four years at Ole Miss.†   (source)
  • He was deeply touched by Jackie's maternal nature and the fact that she had insisted on remaining at the White House to be with her husband.†   (source)
  • But even for Ghosh, who was without doubt one of the strangest of God's creations, Matron felt a maternal affection.†   (source)
  • That true brothel, with that maternal proprietress, was the world of which Aureliano had dreamed during his prolonged captivity.†   (source)
  • "The bridge strengthened the village's maternal ties, and made the women feel a whole lot happier and less isolated.†   (source)
  • I am not maternal.†   (source)
  • Another study has shown that low maternal education is the single most powerful factor leading to criminality.†   (source)
  • Maternal grandmother claimed she came up in bride ship—but I've seen records; she was Peace Corps enrollee (involuntary), which means what you think: juvenile delinquency female type.†   (source)
  • His questions were soft and easy, quite conversational, as if he were truly interested in where her maternal grandparents once lived and what they did for a living.†   (source)
  • Her maternal instinct surprised Ursula.†   (source)
  • Raised left arm, let her see seam joining prosthetic to meat arm (I never mind calling it to a woman's attention; puts some off but arouses maternal in others—averages).†   (source)
  • She was not a maternal drudge, her mind pressed flat, her shoulders hunched under the burden of housework and care of others, brutalized by a bear of a man.†   (source)
  • Leah was maternal to her during her college years, when she chose American University, with a major in journalism.†   (source)
  • Once I had secured maternal permission, I went to work "inking" thunderbolts and anchors and panthers on forearms and shoulders and calves, much to the delight of the postpubescent set.†   (source)
  • "Jahan unfolded a piece of paper on which she'd written a petition, carefully worded in English, detailing the course of study in maternal health care she proposed to attend in Skardu.†   (source)
  • He had hired more mature women to negate any physical temptation, but, as a rule, they had been bossy, maternal, menopausal, and they had more doctors' appointments, as well as aches and pains to talk about and funerals to attend.†   (source)
  • --ASHA-ROSE MIGIRO, UN DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL, 2007 The first step to saving mothers' lives is to understand the reasons for maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • One of the prime conservative targets has been the UNFPA, which works to promote family planning, maternal health, and newborn survival.†   (source)
  • But maternal health wasn't on the political horizon, and the United States and most other countries contributed negligible sums to address it.†   (source)
  • Child mortality has plunged, longevity has increased, but childbirth remains almost as deadly as ever, with one maternal death every minute.†   (source)
  • Because progress on maternal health is possible, people have often assumed it is virtually guaranteed.†   (source)
  • By some measures, more than one quarter of all maternal deaths could be avoided if there were no unplanned and unwanted pregnancies.†   (source)
  • Indeed, women leaders haven't even been particularly attentive to issues like maternal mortality, girls' education, or sex trafficking.†   (source)
  • Those countries that have paid attention to the problem have made a real difference in maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • Conversely, Prudence may have died in part because a UNFPA maternal health program in Cameroon didn't have the resources to reach her hospital.†   (source)
  • Over the last half century, Sri Lanka has brought its maternal mortality ratio down from 550 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births to just 58.†   (source)
  • More recently, Greg has been training graduates in maternal health care and adding a medical component to his programs.†   (source)
  • They will be perplexed that we shrugged as a lack of investment in maternal health caused half a million women to perish in childbirth each year.†   (source)
  • In particular, advocates should be wary of repeating assertions that investing in maternal health is highly cost-effective.†   (source)
  • There's a strong correlation between countries where women are marginalized and countries with high maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • A campaign against malaria also reduced maternal deaths, since pregnant women are especially vulnerable to that disease.†   (source)
  • 6 billion project to eradicate obstetric fistula, while laying the groundwork for a major international assault on maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • It was difficult back then to envision the Council on Foreign Relations fretting about maternal mortality or female genital mutilation.†   (source)
  • Increasingly, Allan began approaching maternal death not just as a public health concern but also as a human rights issue.†   (source)
  • Maternal Mortality--One Woman a Minute Preparation for death is that most Reasonable and Seasonable thing, to which you must now apply yourself.†   (source)
  • In contrast, total international development assistance from all countries for maternal and neonatal health was a paltry $530 million in 2004.†   (source)
  • Then, in 2000, the UN formally adopted the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality by 75 percent by 2015.†   (source)
  • Norway and Britain are rare exceptions, having announced a major foreign aid program in 2007 to target maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • Poverty is obviously also a factor, but high rates of maternal mortality are not inevitable in poor countries.†   (source)
  • Allan was bowled over by what he saw in Nigeria, particularly by the need for family planning and for maternal care.†   (source)
  • Most of the time, such women don't get any surgical help to repair their fistulas, because maternal health and childbirth injuries are rarely a priority.†   (source)
  • WHO found that between 1990 and 2005, developed and middle-income countries reduced maternal mortality significantly, but Africa reduced it hardly at all.†   (source)
  • While we may ignore it, maternal health does involve sex and sexuality; it is bloody and messy; and I think many men (not all, of course) have a visceral antipathy for dealing with it.†   (source)
  • Another study suggested that it would cost an additional $9 billion a year to provide all effective interventions for maternal and newborn health to 95 percent of the world's population.†   (source)
  • A senior World Bank official told a maternal health conference in London in 2007, with typical enthusiasm: "Investing in better health for women and their children is just smart economics.†   (source)
  • The Zinder clinic, it turned out, was part of a pilot program in Niger arranged by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)* and AMDD to fight maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • Allan Rosenfield struggled to combine this public health perspective with practical medicine--and he became a social entrepreneur in the world of maternal health.†   (source)
  • The wood-paneled halls that have been used for discussions of MIRV warheads and NATO policy are now employed as well to host well-attended sessions on maternal mortality.†   (source)
  • For the 2009 fiscal year, President George W. Bush actually proposed an 18 percent cut in USAID spending for maternal and child care to just $370 million, or about $1.†   (source)
  • And an excellent civil registration system has recorded maternal deaths since 1900, so that Sri Lanka actually has data, in contrast to vague estimates in many other countries.†   (source)
  • Yet maternal health generally gets minimal attention because those who die or suffer injuries overwhelmingly start with three strikes against them: They are female, they are poor, and they are rural.†   (source)
  • The article led to a global advocacy movement on behalf of maternal health, and it coincided with Allan's appointment as dean of Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.†   (source)
  • Indeed, in the United States, maternal mortality remained very high throughout the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century, even as incomes rose and access to doctors increased.†   (source)
  • We saw its impact when we stopped by a clinic in Zinder, in eastern Niger, the country with the highest lifetime risk of maternal mortality in the world.†   (source)
  • "Maternal deaths in developing countries are often the ultimate tragic outcome of the cumulative denial of women's human rights," noted the journal Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology.†   (source)
  • She knew that Somaliland has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, though precise figures do not exist because no one keeps track of deaths.†   (source)
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