Certain parents

Usage examples of adoptive.

And the metaphorical style of the Hebrews might ascribe to a saint and martyr the adoptive title of Son of God.

John of Brienne, I cannot discover the name or exploits of his pupil Baldwin, who had attained the age of military service, and who succeeded to the imperial dignity on the decease of his adoptive father.

As things turned out, he was always known as Metellus Scipio, a neat compromise to both blood and adoptive family.

National Conference of the Adoptive Families of America at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton.

I soaked it up like a sponge, listening eagerly to the advice of adoptive parents, their grown children, clinical psychologists, advocates, social workers, and adoption resource professionals.

It always happened like this when he received a missive from his adoptive father, Henry Cordele.

The plain was populated with skiapods, who practiced blowing into their brand-new fistulas, while Porcelli cursed every time they missed the target, and thank God he confined himself to cursing Christ, and for those heretics taking the name in vain of one who was only an adoptive son was not a sin.

Near them squatted Master Anakin, brooding and withdrawn, along with Master Luke, certainly no stranger to death, having lost both his natural and adoptive parents, as well as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda, two of his Jedi mentors.

Aldora rode to her adoptive brother, Sami Hwahlis, who was herd-master-of-the-day, and explained her promise to the hungry thought-source.

If the INS should receive a packet dated before the adoptive father died, a signed and dated application for permanent residence, and if there was an addendum to his will giving, say, me guardianship, then I would be her legal guardian until she became a legal resident, yes?

Most adoptions weren't terribly tricky from a legal standpoint, and Beaman had probably handled it personally at the request of the adoptive parents.

Since this is all about adoptions and babies, we can pose as an an adoptive couple.

I was to take that portrait to the Priest, and pale as he might seem, he would show himself to his adoptive father less destroyed than he was.

Note that Joe seems to be developing the same hard, stubborn personality as that of the adoptive father he is defying.

Batula replied, 'for I have been with you since that happy day when the man who then was Caliph, your sainted adoptive father al-Malik, made me your lance-bearer.