• Nielsen has taken the art of deadpan into uncharted territory, marrying a polite, paternal manner to a state of acute mental shutdown.

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  • This mattered, for there was also a strong connection between paternal investment and a child's nutritional state.

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  • The institution of private property, meanwhile, made paternal certainty a vital concern, and monogamy, particularly for women, was strictly enforced.

    NEWYORKER: The Sanctuary

  • Rising numbers of women in work may also have eroded a paternal sense of responsibility.

    ECONOMIST: The worst government agency around is finally scrapped

  • Braugher plays Captain Marcus Chaplin, a paternal yet decisive leader of the USS Colorado, the most powerful nuclear submarine ever built.

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  • Named for his paternal grandfather, a renowned physician and philanthropist, he went to Andover and then Yale, where he excelled in math and science.

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  • She said she prefers dating married men because they tend to be more paternal and offer a steadier source of income than single men.

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  • Singaporeans are used to their government taking a paternal interest in what they do and think, and to its perennial campaigns telling them how to behave.

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  • When he was about 11 years old, his paternal grandfather, a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, shared memories from his service in the Pacific.

    WSJ: For Wounded Vet, Love Pierces the Fog of War

  • George Rathman is the Bill Gates of biotechnology...if Bill Gates would look and act a bit more paternal.

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  • With the father gone, Vasquez said, the older brother assumed a kind of paternal role, at least where the girls in the family were concerned.

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  • He sees Personal Capital providing a transparent, high-quality, mass-customized service for these investors and moving past the paternal, craftsman-like approach of a full-service brokerage or the assembly-line mentality of mutual funds.

    FORBES: Personal Capital Is More Than Mint For Rich People

  • His paternal grandparents, reportedly angry about a custody case involving the small boy, took him and disappeared from Indiana.

    CNN: Missing boy found after 19 years

  • She remembers his suffering from persistent indigestion ever since Arda, her mother, who is also his paternal aunt, brought him from a nomadic hamlet during his early teens as her charge in order to facilitate his receiving proper schooling in Mogadiscio.

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  • Firmly planted in New York City, Gale, 57, had real estate roots going back to his paternal grandfather, Daniel, who became a broker in 1922 (the Daniel Gale Agency is now part of Sotheby's).

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Firmly planted in New York City, Gale, 57, had real estate roots going back to his paternal grandfather, Daniel, who became a broker in 1922 (the Daniel Gale Agency is now part of Sotheby's (nyse: BID - news - people )).

    FORBES: Scratch Builders

  • He was partly Burmese, partly Irish and partly French: his paternal grandparents came from Bourg-Lastic, a town in central France.

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  • But those around them sense a bond that verges on the paternal.

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  • In the movie's quirkiest detour he spends most of the evening cruising in a patrol car with two unexpectedly paternal, party-hearty cops (Rogen and Bill Hader).

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  • Khan's paternal grandfather, Khan Faizullah Khan, was a contractor, and the British used him to build roads and the cantonment areas in the district of Dera Ismail Khan and in present-day Waziristan.

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  • The child's paternal grandfather, Robert Green, had been on a quest to find the bodies of Shenae and his mother, Joyce Green, who also died that night.

    CNN: 'I knew it was over with'

  • Harvard-educated Anand, soon to turn 56, represents the third generation of the Mahindra clan to run the family enterprise that his paternal grandfather and great-uncle founded in 1945 as a steel trader and then an assembler of Willys Jeeps.

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  • Mr. Lane began living off and on with his paternal grandparents in Chardon several years ago, said Carl Henderson, a former Chardon police officer and Geauga County Sheriff, who lived near the family.

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  • Historian Bernard Wishy has noted that as paternal rule in the New England household faded in reality, it flourished a good while longer in story and myth.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Minders of Make-Believe'

  • The second thing the team did was to introduce a genetic mutation into the genome of the young egg that allowed for the production of a growth factor, a kind of protein, that can only come from the paternal genome but is vital for normal embryonic development.

    ECONOMIST: A ��virgin birth�� in mice

  • She quit the paternal United Party in 1959, frustrated that it was so wobbly against apartheid, to join a Progressive Party of 12 members that was wiped out in an election two years later.

    ECONOMIST: Helen Suzman | The

  • The reason for this was that the polyandrous females suffered a far lower rate of spontaneous abortion, which occurs when genetic incompatibility between the maternal and paternal genomes results in an immunological conflict between mother and embryo.

    ECONOMIST: Polyandry

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