I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a foster parent (= someone who has other people's children living with them )
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Teresa was removed from her mother's care and placed with foster parents.
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attitude
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This has tended to foster a very negative attitude towards this form of provision and the staff who work in such units.
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To foster desirable attitudes and change behaviour. 8. to allow experts into the classroom. 9.
child
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The children were taken to foster homes where they will be kept until a determination can be made about their future.
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Under the 1958 Children Act, local authorities have a duty to ensure the well-being of children who are fostered privately.
development
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They fostered the development of a new, urban, cultural tradition.
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Some inherent dilemmas in boss-subordinate relationships can undermine their capacity to foster development .
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What can be said is that the Basic Law has not hindered but has indeed fostered the development of political practice.
government
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In the first instance the government was aiming to foster a private sector in small and medium-sized enterprises.
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In our view, he was the only one who could possibly bring about municipal government reform and foster economic growth.
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The heads of government also promised to foster equality for women, and universal access to education.
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This is an example of government efforts to foster new initiatives by creating an agency outside of direct central political control.
growth
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To foster growth such resources must be developed, but this, however, necessitates increased investment.
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They liked books and ideas, and they liked to talk about them in ways that fostered growth rather than established dominance.
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The follow-through not only helps children meet their responsibility, it also fosters the growth of good work habits and autonomy.
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In our view, he was the only one who could possibly bring about municipal government reform and foster economic growth .
illusion
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Political warfare fosters the illusion of an active system full of excitement and competition.
relationship
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And, as we have already seen, it is the Bible's function to feed and foster such a relationship .
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In all this, music has a significant role to play in enabling and fostering closer relationships between the denominations.
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Achievement provides most of the stroking and fosters the relationship .
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Our aim should be to foster more equal relationships with disabled people.
spirit
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Directors also strive to foster a cooperative spirit and friendly attitude among employees and a compassionate demeanor toward the families.
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A J Lubin does suggest that his experiences in the Borinage fostered a revolutionary spirit in him.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fostering a teenager is obviously different from fostering a small child.
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During my mother's long illness I was fostered by a middle-aged couple on the other side of town.
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Recent studies show that advertising usually fosters competition and therefore lower prices.
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The Hammonds fostered a little Romanian boy for a few months.
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The workshops can foster better communication between husbands and wives.
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These classroom activities are intended to foster children's language skills.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Guideline 7: Show your affection and foster your child's love and respect.
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In 1954 Britain had fostered the Baghdad Pact to create a band of friendly pro-Western states against the Soviet threat.
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Might which controls and appropriates solely for self fosters an appetite for even more power.
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Planning policies of concentration have fostered this, sometimes to facilitate the provision of amenities and services to housing.
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Reiteration of a decade-old deception could not fail to foster an enhanced sense of futility.
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Social networks, for example, might be fostered for those at risk of becoming isolated.
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The care programme approach was seen to foster dependency in two ways, on the part of clients and on the part of staff.
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The sequential maturation of the intellectual and social aspects fosters a sense of assurance in the child and acceptance by others.
II. adjective
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brother
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The two play New York subway cops who also are foster brothers .
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She knew her foster brother was unreliable.
care
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There, Rita says, she will take parenting classes to get her son back from foster care .
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As infants in foster care , both girls had suffered physically and emotionally.
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And why identify residential and foster care alone as areas to be staffed entirely by females?
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As it turned out, John and his sister had been through some twenty-three moves in foster care .
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Young people in children's homes or foster care are deprived of books and the opportunity to share books with adults.
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Her children were placed in foster care and she had no place to go.
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They never put us in foster care .
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Once they are enmeshed in the often-chaotic foster care system it is extraordinarily difficult to get out of it.
child
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Other foster children with happy memories did the same, though distance and new relationships combined to make contact sporadic.
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As a result, the report said, one in 10 foster children remains in the system for more than seven years.
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You depict rare occurrences - like Westerners paying for foster children to visit their affluent country - as a major problem.
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These foster children are not available for adoption.
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It was alleged that one of their foster children had recently been threatened with a knife.
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Nationally, a disproportionate 48 percent of all foster children are minorities.
daughter
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Down through the garden came servants and foster daughters carrying the cases of engagement presents and the engagement jewels.
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Roland then removed the spell from himself and the good foster daughter .
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It was Amina, one of the Sheikha's foster daughters .
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April: The good foster daughter .
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The second foster daughter soon followed, coming in with a bound.
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The Plot A long time ago, a witch had an evil and ugly daughter and a good and beautiful foster daughter.
family
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Children under 13 years in Flanders tend to be placed with foster families rather than in residential care.
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They will be cared for by a foster family while a court in Missouri decides where they should make their permanent home.
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The children, many of them orphans, were to have spent Christmas with 60 foster families in Wigan and Leeds.
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During the next few months, Gilly starts to become very fond of her new foster family .
father
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The hand, of course, belonged to her great-uncle and foster father .
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His foster father , who is his uncle, stated that Jimmy may have some learning disabilities.
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Foster father reports that Jimmy is worried about his uncle, foster father, dying.
home
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This is, as already indicated, a foster home where practicable.
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It relies on foster homes to provide rescued pets a supportive place to recover until good owners can be found.
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She was told one of her daughters was receiving tuition in her foster home .
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Meanwhile, it apparently was consistent with their policy for the girls to languish in a foster home .
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Carlie had to go to the foster home because she couldn't get along with her stepfather.
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The next day they came back and removed him to a temporary foster home .
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All the parents were told that their children were in very nice foster homes , with very nice families.
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When John left this last facility, Social Services offered to place him in a therapeutic foster home .
parent
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On 13 December 1991 emergency protection orders were made and the children were placed with foster parents .
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Apparently I was not the only prospective foster parent who was treated by society staff like a pariah.
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On that occasion, they returned to Berkeley with a coachload of other would-be foster parents empty-handed.
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Another revelation: enthusiastic volunteers were not necessarily best-suited to be foster parents , either by temperament or circumstances.
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There is also the proximity of the proposed foster parents and her own siblings.
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The eight-month-old baby is recovering with Middlesbrough foster parents following the operation to remove water from the brain.
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The local authority obtained an emergency protection order and placed the girl with foster parents .
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He thought that preferable to the child's being in an institution or with foster parents .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Half a million American children are in foster care at any given time.
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He ran away after his foster -mother accused him of stealing.
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It is sometimes difficult to find suitable foster -parents for a lively ten-year-old.
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She added to her regular income by taking in foster -children.
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She finally adopted her foster -child, six-year old Shania.
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Steve went to live in a series of foster homes.
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two New York subway cops who are also foster brothers
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a result, the report said, one in 10 foster children remains in the system for more than seven years.
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Hospital documents had begun showing recommendations that Jackie be placed in foster care as early as 1973.
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Nationally, a disproportionate 48 percent of all foster children are minorities.
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Other foster children with happy memories did the same, though distance and new relationships combined to make contact sporadic.
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The local authority obtained an emergency protection order and placed the girl with foster parents.
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The magistrates chairman told foster parents had given him a chance - it was now up to him to take it.
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There was greater contentment there than within the average hostel or foster home and most certainly a greater sense of personal fulfilment.
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These foster children are not available for adoption.