• Later mythologizers would try to legitimize the family's regal pretensions by claiming descent from the Banquo of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" which was nonsense, as Mr. Massie explains: The name "Stewart, " as it was rendered before Mary Stuart adopted the French spelling, indicated the family's original status, as stewards of the royal revenues.

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  • These days, the founding family has a status akin to legend in Japan.

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  • John and Adam have the same income and family status.

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  • It was also found that trained women enjoyed a higher status in the family.

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  • Snobs on its face would seem to be a facile story about a striving, dopey girl who marries for status in a somewhat backwards British society where status of the family tree kind still matters a great deal.

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  • Significantly, however, the study found that the link between the behaviors and the lower risk of obesity held even after they controlled for a family's economic status and other factors, which suggests that the behaviors are beneficial regardless of a family's circumstances.

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  • Moreover, the commonly-held idea that once a family reaches a certain financial status (read: the rich), worry over things like retirement, health care and discretionary spending disappears is fast losing ground.

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  • In the program, the ancestral home is central to the Crawley family's lives and status their residence, social life and business rolled into one.

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  • Despite having a Democratic-controlled Congress at the time, the White House was unable to win passage in 2010 for the DREAM Act, which would have granted legal status to young people brought to the country illegally by their family.

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  • The Chen family are an example to many other primary care physicians who are dissatisfied with the status quo.

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  • By email, the American graphic designers chose an anonymous Indian egg donor from profiles provided by the clinic that included the women's education levels and current family status.

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  • Being comfortable in a successful lifestyle, it is confusing to pair the criminal actions of a person to the characteristics of a successful career, family and social status.

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  • If he sees a family simply pocketing dividends and maintaining the company's status quo, Mr. Marcus says he steers clear.

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  • Procreation and socialisation of children within the family provide the sole justification for the institution's unique status in society.

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  • Dr. JEFF ROUSE (Psychiatrist): The key things that are important for recovery from trauma are a lot of the psychosocial things, like good family support, continuity of socioeconomic status, your job, you know, all those other things in life that we have that sort of buffet us.

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  • Al Omran highlights the special status that Princess Ameerah has as a member of the royal family, something that allows her to make statements that many other women in her country cannot.

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  • For instance, the federal Fair Housing Act prohibits housing discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, family status or pregnancy, and handicap.

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  • Second, the most important characteristic separating these constituencies, and their divergent views, is their family status.

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  • It seems like Zuckerberg is increasingly using Facebook to reveal personal information about himself from his off-the-market relationship status to photos of his dog to providing a list of his family members.

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  • Mr. Chen is a Singapore permanent resident, a legal status that confers certain advantages denied to other foreigners, such as the ability to buy single-family homes and receive higher priority in school admissions.

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  • Kathleen McKenna, a partner in the labor practice at the law firm Proskauer Rose, says that both federal and local statutes forbid interviewers from asking about marital or family status, or about medical conditions.

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  • The court heard that the tribal assembly made the ruling to rape her in order punish the victim's family, after allegations that her brother had been involved with a woman from a higher-status tribe.

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  • With no legally recognized status, people were forced to watch helplessly as the care of a partner was turned over to family members and city agencies who did not or could not recognize their bond.

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  • Immigrants in detention include lawful permanent residents with deep family and community ties, undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States for decades as part of mixed status families, survivors of torture, asylum seekers, pregnant women, military veterans, and the infirm.

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  • Across the room, a striking Lorenzo Lotto portrait shows a middle-class family proudly displaying an Anatolian carpet, an expensive status symbol.

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  • Critics of race-based admissions question whether educational institutions would serve the goals of affirmative action better by relying exclusively on non-race based criteria, such as socioeconomic status and family educational history.

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  • This is not a return to the full public-company status the Red Devils enjoyed between 1991 and 2005, when the club was taken private by the Glazer family of Florida, which also owns the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, an American-football team.

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