dependant

With regard to dependants, 25 (37.9%) of the women and 18 (52.9%) of the men supported their parents, usually by sending money home.

Wages were high enough to support extensive families and maintain other dependants and the mines attracted ambitious, hardworking village men.

Others settled as dependants of these men, hoping one day to be able to establish their own homesteads.

In the hinterland, too, changing commercial opportunities offered wealth to those who were most successful in controlling the time and product of their dependants.

At this time, children undergo a series of rites oriented to transform them from infants into adults, from dependants into producers (pp. 41- 64).

The percentage of gainfully employed people, as well as those maintained by the state, had increased and the number of dependants had diminished.

When a nephew was a suitor as well as a dependant, he worked even more for his uncle.

We conclude that colchicine may be valuable in avoiding recurrences of corticoid dependant pericarditis in children.

As will be shown in the next section, the reported (employment) effects of caring for one dependant vary by whether the episode overlaps with another.

Indeed, carers typically have the duty not only not to harm their dependants themselves but to protect them from being harmed by others.

This emphasises the truism that caring for two dependants at the same time puts extra demands on the carer.

The drawing of a lover to oneself, just as drawing a dependant, and gaining his or her attachment, was fraught with potential antagonism.

It seems to be taken for granted that archaeology is intrinsically dependant upon the construction of identities.

Below the street level, residents or dependants' committees deal with many government duties.

Families with a large number of dependants, for example, would experience the greatest degree of hardship if their principal wage-earner joined the army.