• Torbay have only one child waiting for adoption at present and a family has been allocated for the youngster.

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  • She stared back at him with the neutral innocence of a child waiting obediently for the start of a piano lesson.

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  • From where she stood, her elbows resting on the railing three floors above, he looked, despite his gray hair and beard, like a small child waiting for permission that he was almost certain would not be granted.

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  • These children are waiting to go home, waiting for what every child deserves -- a loving family.

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  • In September, we decided to stop waiting for Congress to fix No Child Left Behind and give states the flexibility they need to help our kids meet higher standards.

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  • In recent weeks, we decided to stop waiting for Congress to fix No Child Left Behind, and decided to give states the flexibility they need to help our children meet higher standards.

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  • Another penned a piece about waiting for the birth of her first child.

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  • Drew, an environmental engineering consultant, and Frances, who works for New York City's Office of Child Support Enforcement, completed a domestic adoption while waiting for a resolution in Kyrgyzstan.

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  • The first medical smell I encountered was one many years before I started training when as a young child I was cowering behind my Mum at the clinic waiting for my vaccinations.

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  • As Europe tries to figure out what to do with the European Financial Stabilization Facility, the market is growing increasingly tired of waiting for an answer, and like a petulant child, is stomping its feet.

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  • It seems almost frivolous to mention that at the same time many works of art that adorned the offices, boardrooms and waiting rooms of the companies--from Impressionist paintings to a child's watercolor--as well as the World Trade Towers themselves were obliterated.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The Moghadams initially planned to adopt a child in Ethiopia in 2010, but decided on Ghana after they saw the four siblings on the waiting list of an adoption agency.

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  • The judge explained that the last thing she wanted to do with this child was to keep her behind bars, which is where her 11-year-old sister had been waiting for three weeks.

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