How To Use Surrogate In A Sentence

Some Balts hoped that, if and when they joined the EU, it would be a surrogate for a formal military alliance.
Surrogates have no idea what they were surrogated for ... McCain's Brother Says McCain Would Chase Bin Laden Across Borders -- Echoing Obama's Position
A county court is held by a county judge elected for four years, who is also _surrogate_, called in other states, _judge of probate_. The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.
These measures are also recommended in BT Yevamot 65b, where the rabbis point out that a precedent for the practice of divorcing an infertile wife after ten years may be drawn from Genesis 16: 3, since it was only after ten years of living in the land of Canaan that Sarai accepted her infertility and surrogated her servant to bear a child on her behalf. Infertile Wife in Rabbinic Judaism.
She used a surrogate after suffering preeclampsia with her previous pregnancies. The Sun

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Finally, nostalgic for his happy Chicago childhood, he turned his drama department into a surrogate family with himself as benevolently beaming paterfamilias.
A rare sea eagle chick which was rescued from a nest after its father was poisoned has been successfully fostered in the wild by surrogate parents in the first case of its kind in Scotland.
In contrast, HPLC determination of hydroxyproline content, as a surrogate marker for collagen protein levels, demonstrated no significant differences between the bleomycin groups - in agreement with the Ashcroft scores. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
And I didn't want Lucas worming his way into our lives and becoming a surrogate father.
When Rob Venditti was still in the process of writing the comic book script that would become "The Surrogates", he and his wife daydreamed one night about who might star in a hypothetic film adaptation. Rob Venditti On Bruce Willis, ‘The Surrogates,’ And Your First Look At The ‘Flesh And Bone’ Prequel
You need to do the surrogate stuff that they do with condors, for example.
He also expressed concern over the growing trend of surrogated advertisements. The Hindu - Front Page
Martin had become Howard Cosell's surrogate son.
According to The Times, the cubs are being hand-reared by surrogate parents after their tiger parents, Bianca and Paul, rejected them. Abandoned White Tiger Cubs (PHOTOS)
So, unless the viewing in the Michaud pissoir was of an engorged and distended “Scottie” — which it plainly was not — then Papa was offering Fitzgerald a surrogate form of consolation. Hemingway's Libidinous Feast
a surrogate mother is artificially inseminated with the father's semen and carries the fetus to term
Doug is struggling to cope with the death of his daughter eight years before, and begins to try to turn Mallory into his surrogate daughter. TWILIGHT SAGA WEEKEND NEWS WRAP-UP FOR DECEMBER 5TH & 6TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
Thanks Texas Rangers! thats how Hillary's surrogates do their maths! infact you have given them another formular! just wait for few days and they will start saying "IF YOU COUNT THE WAY I COUNT ALL CANADIANS AND ILLEGALS HAVE VOTED FOR ME" No hard feelings Hillary you gave it all what you had and comparing other women at your age I salute you for your energy!. Obama, campaign both say he's not ready to declare victory
She could feel it pulling her down, slowing her down, aching her already sore body or surrogate of one. A TIME OF WAR
A surrogate mother in Phoenix, Arizona has given birth to quintuplets by caesarean section.
Anna would serve as a surrogate and carry the Calverts' fertilized egg.
I'm not saying that Bill and Hill or their surrogates are actively "agitating" in this direction (so Clinton folks, don't get your undies in a bunch); but there seems to be a growing statistical basis for the winking suggestion (should anyone wish to make it) that Obama is "little more" than Jesse Jackson on steroids. Rasmussen: Obama Ahead By 14 In Racially-Polarized Mississippi Primary
For some people, reading travel books is a surrogate for actual travel.
He went to a fertility clinic and hired a surrogate to have his baby.
While the calm held, the Eniel ran quiet as a dream: her captain hated needless bellowing, calling it the poor pilot's surrogate for leadership, and merely gestured to the afterguard when the time came to tack for shore. Excerpt: The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert Redick
The principal surrogate format is microform (film and fiche) and there are currently over 21,000 records in the database. November 2007
Care-taking roles are referred to as custodial or surrogate parenting in the literature.
Opposition parties say laws are needed urgently to deal with the issue of surrogate parenting after an Irish gay couple parented triplets through a surrogate mother in California.
A copy of the Eweson federal estate tax return on file with the Manhattan Surrogate's Office in New York City, where the estate is being probated, put the gross estate at $142 million with total estate and gift taxes due at $55 million. Can IRS Be Forced To Check Out Informant's Tip?
We therefore tracked plant growth using leaf height as a surrogate for aboveground dry weight biomass.
A surrogate is a remotely controlled android, that's the personification of vanity, and acts as both a reflection of the user's ego and aspirations. Getting Graphic: "The Surrogates" by Robert Vendetti & Brett Weldele
Roberto's undoing is his resemblance to her father - she latches on to him as a surrogate who she can "punish" - and I suspect that this goes deeper than his physical appearance. DVD Times
Rather than lose all information on that patient, someone else (a family member or health professional) may be asked to act as a proxy or surrogate.
The figures, in this way, served as surrogates of the body, enabling the idea of the body to transgress social norms without consequence.
Case in point are the activities of several local public health units in moving to monitor the blood sugar levels - as surrogated for by the Hemoglobin A1C levels-of citizens without their consent. Archive 2008-07-01
Direct payment for surrogacy in this country remains illegal but surrogates can charge up to £10,000 in expenses.
And another thing - again, suggested by the term 'Gauleiter', that role of 'community leadership' seems very close to the outrageously-named community representatives that proliferate in Northern Ireland - often surrogates for paramilitary groups. Never Trust a Hippy
Explorers became the conventional heroes of colonial Australia, surrogates for the warriors Australia did not have.
Surely, inflation will continue in this future, and a surrogate is an infinitely more complex piece of technology than is, say, an iPod, iPhone, or the best available laptop. A new day, a new digest, a new blog title.
This proportion is only an imperfect surrogate of the presence of mutations giving rise to resistance to antiretrovirals.
For her such red-letter days were surrogates for the moments she would never see. Times, Sunday Times
Absolutely, and measuring the hips actually measures the gluteal muscles in a way, so it might be a surrogate measure of muscularity.
His most famous experiment showed that baby rhesus monkeys, raised alone or with same-age peers, preferred a foodless but fuzzy terrycloth surrogate “mother” over a wire-mesh version that freely dispensed meals. The Science of Success
The invitation to become members of a surrogate family not based on blood ties yet expressive of the inter-personal values of sibling kinship.
Before enrollment in the study, each patient or the patient's designated healthcare surrogate provided written informed consent.
Bright-light therapy is used as a surrogate for sunshine.
Surrogates for the human, the objects are haunted by the vitality of a former presence.
The cat acted as a surrogate mum to the chicks.
Because she had no children of her own, her friend's son became a kind of surrogate child to her.
The conventional surrogate constraint method, which can improve the efficiency of branch-and-bound or cutting plane algorithms, can not guarantee to find the optimal solution of the primal problem.
In representing American economic interests in the absence of a tangible American presence, Fort Union was a surrogate for federal authority.
It's kind of fun to see Hill and Bill having to claw their way to the finish line, while trying to bully all her adversarie such as Obama (her own fellow surrogate's and of course the boyPresident himself billyboy). Harold Ickes Confirms That Wright Is Key Topic In Discussions With Super-Delegates
While the body of the poem often stands in for the body of the poet, acting as a surrogate for the experience of such a biography, the body of the text in this case has gone missing, leaving behind only the exuviae of the work itself — the set of afterthoughts found in annotations and digressions, allegedly presented after the fact by experts, who have prepared this text for scholastic discussion. Quick Review 05 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
In a sketch, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank focuses on a top McCain confidant, Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief who is now one of the Republican’s most visible surrogates. The Early Word: Seeking the Hispanic Vote - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
The indicators used are often extremely remote surrogates for true risk, and multiple deprivation is rarely treated as interactive rather than additive.
He is not acting as a surrogate of the court in determining whether there has been unlawful conduct.
Even though they might have chosen to act as surrogates, the motives of these women would have been commercial, and the whole enterprise seemed to trivialize and vulgarize childbirth.
Waldby says it costs the western couples around $15,000 or $20,000 for an Indian surrogate, whereas they would pay around $100,000 for a surrogate from the US. VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Outsourcing Baby Making
Family centered strategies also encourage surrogate parents to become active in their grandchild's education.
People tend to project disgust properties onto groups of people in their own society who come to figure as surrogates for people's anxieties about their own animality.
In 1973 Wilmut made his first big scientific breakthrough, by freezing a calf embryo, defrosting it and successfully reimplanting it in a surrogate mother.
Rep. Mark Miloscia, D-Federal Way, introduced a slew of unsuccessful amendments, arguing that the underlying bill doesn't do enough to protect the rights of surrogate mothers and doesn't assign adequate value to the work of what he termed "vulnerable women. The Seattle Times
But first lets get an update on our baby twins who were carried by a surrogate.
The 'happy family' pictures could challenge the claims depicting her as the disaffectionate surrogate and rattle reports that she never even visited the children. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Ursula took her job as surrogate parent seriously, as she took everything seriously. THE SAVAGE GIRL
Regulatory agencies use in vitro and surrogate clinical simulation studies that mimic use conditions to assess the efficacy of topical antiseptics.
In addition, a modified version of the portfolio traveled to sixteen venues between 1935 and 1937, with the photographs serving as surrogates for the objects themselves.
Outcome surrogates must be carefully validated to avoid misleading results.
This is especially important now that so many people are under the spell of all manner of religious and surrogate dogmas ranging from Blavatsky's theosophy to Hubbard's scientology.
Are you just some populist slave, some kind of overweening and colicky infant in search of surrogate mamas and papas, role models, and the like? Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0
Using a combination of classified ads and informal networks, they interviewed surrogate candidates over a period spanning several years.
Dave - In re the diplospeak practice of non-accusation accusation - Try viewing the video again, but in place of Samantha Power picture Condi Rice with the exact same text, inflection and expression, in the role of a Bush surrogate. Female Obama Adviser: Hillary's Rhetoric Is "Insulting" To Women
Ursula took her job as surrogate parent seriously, as she took everything seriously. THE SAVAGE GIRL
While being treated in the incubator, the babies were comforted by a surrogate mother - a cuddly toy dog called Lassie.
There are a lot of ethical and legal aspects surrounding the issue of surrogate motherhood and paid surrogacy is banned in some European countries.
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The 1884 slugfest also serves as a reminder that a single ill-advised sentence from a warm-up speaker or a campaign surrogate can easily explode into a full-scale flap when time and partisan tempers are short.
Is the oculus, open to the sky, letting light pour in, a surrogate sun? Times, Sunday Times
To flesh out further this last rather willfully provocative statement, we must return to the reaction elicited by the proletariat's principal surrogates in Saint Symphorien - the two foreground lictors.
Yet by refusing to cede her role as a Hillary surrogate, and tirelessly fanning the fames of party disunity, she helped keep media attention on the myth that there were legions of disaffected Hillary voters whose allegiance was available for harvest by any candidate in a pantsuit. Ten Chumps Who Helped Elect Barack Obama
Other iterative heuristic rules that have been commonly used include the prioritization of sites by the rarity of the surrogates present in them.
These days many claim to remove contaminants like lead and chloroform, which is a surrogate for pesticides and other harmful organic compounds. News Channel 9: Local News
From time to time, this book will use the word “surrogate” in quotes, because the term implies that the woman who carries the baby is not its mother. OUR BODIES, OURSELVES
Senator Clinton had to send out a surrogate to speak on behalf of this plan, and all she could find was, get this, a lobbyist for Shell Oil, to explain how this was going to be good for consumers.
I don't have...' She checked herself, the image of her real mother had crowded out her surrogate parents. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Because she had no children of her own, her friend's son became a kind of surrogate child to her.
We learn who the killer (s) is right off the bat -- a teenage boy with no regard for the homeless man he beat to death while "joyriding" his wealthy dad's surrogate. Archive 2010-06-01
Using outcome surrogates can decrease both study duration and sample size.
I begged one of my non-Mango colleagues to take my place as a surrogate Mango researcher; I even offered to let him keep the multi-channel pipet at his bench. Colonel Candid with the Dagger in the Conference Room
I liked the way the real people lived in pajamas and/or sweats, since they spent most of their time lying on couches driving their surrogates. Surrogates » DVDs Worth Watching
Frank Keating, the former governor of Oklahoma and a McCain surrogate went on television this week and played the race card, saying Obama should own up to the fact that he was once a "guy of the street" who used cocaine. 2008 Election
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick 'upsize' to a bigger house ahead of surrogate twins birth WN.com - Business News
Her eggs could be fertilized with her partner's sperm, and the surrogate could become pregnant through IVF.
He used the Internet as a surrogate for contact with real people.
A written informed consent was obtained from patients' surrogates after describing the nature and the purpose of the study.
Like language, these photographs are surrogates for reality, full of meaning but incomplete in and of themselves.
Of all the US surrogate candidates and vice-presidential hopefuls, none can touch his ability to charm voters.
He appeared in Green Bay, smelling so abominably of singed hair and scorched skin that he entered the local Presteign shop (jewels, perfumes, cosmetics, ionics & surrogates) to buy a deodorant. The Stars My Destination
This documentation which we may request from an importer is based on a test group of 100 children of a specific age group having tested surrogate lighters (not with fuel) with specific designed ignition mechanisms – at least 85% of this test group of children must not be able to cause ignition of the surrogate lighters. Holy Flaming Tractors, Batman, Redux…. « Mudpuddle
He's a stark contrast to the new men in Penelope's life: though Herb fancies himself a man's man, his total admiration of Harold results is his becoming a sycophantic lackey who takes on the role of surrogate wife.
She then kind of backtracked on her initial contract with the Morenos, where she was going to be paid $15,000 to be a surrogate and carry one baby for them. CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2005
We should tell the government she is not a surrogate, but girlfriend of the father.
In essence, internal relations previously based on hierarchies and bureaucratic authority are being gradually transformed into actual or surrogate market transactions.
Unlike traditional encryption methods where the encrypted data or "ciphertext" is stored in databases and applications throughout the enterprise, tokenization substitutes a token-or surrogate value-in place of the original data. Help Net Security - News
William was acting as a surrogate father for his brother's son.
The Year 2000, was a story about how a group of scientists were trying to help save an endangered species of bovine called the gaur by using modern-day cattle as surrogates for clones. BrianKaneOnline
She has agreed to act as a surrogate mother for her sister.
In the state of New York the judge of this court is called _surrogate_, and the court is called _surrogate's court_. The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.
Instead they had to encounter the art by becoming surrogate members of other communities, or sing madrigals or play viols or the virginals at home.
What's more, the clean-cut, well-spoken, 40-year-old LeMieux could serve as an effective surrogate for Crist on the campaign trail. Senator LeMieux
These rods can serve as surrogates for doorposts (‘lechis,’ or vertical posts) that would render the continuous utility poles a symbolic wall or border.
In contrast to true surrogates, estimator surrogates have true surrogates as their intended objects of representation.
Before I assisted her in scramming to a place of relative safety, she passed on some information that pertains to the whole Surrogate 13 mess. Kahen no Ame
While the calm held, the Eniel ran quiet as a dream: her captain hated needless bellowing, calling it the poor pilot's surrogate for leadership, and merely gestured to the afterguard when the time came to tack for shore. Excerpt: The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert Redick
His wife Jane is an efficient superwoman who doubles as his helpmate and surrogate social worker.
She could feel it pulling her down, slowing her down, aching her already sore body or surrogate of one. A TIME OF WAR
Within the bill are sections that make it illegal to sell your sperm or eggs or to receive remuneration for acting as a surrogate mother.
After they found out about the famous seller, Ms. Komiss says they watched the 2008 movie "Baby Mama," starring Ms. Fey as a busi nesswoman who hires a surrogate mother played by fellow "Saturday Night Live" alum Amy Poehler. Tina Fey Falls Flat as Speculator
From "Roger Dodger" to "The Squid and the Whale" to "Adventureland," the actor has been a go-to for a long line of writer/directors who see in his curly-haired gawkiness and anxiety-ridden demeanor an apt surrogate for their younger selves. Jesse Eisenberg On ‘The Social Network,’ Imagination And Playing Real People » MTV Movies Blog
I knew there were plenty of rumours that they weren't Jacko's, but hadn't realised anyone had the finger ointed at them as potential surrogate fathers. All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
That is the gravamen of the school as surrogate parent, and for the provision of black men in the classrooms to teach black male students how to behave "like men" and to instruct black girls how to behave like "proud black women. Michael Meyers: Schooling Blacks in Segregationist Thinking
Whereas estimator surrogates, they argue, are subject to empirical justification, true surrogates are still dependent on convention.
They are generally reserved only for extreme situations such as that of twins born to a surrogate mother twelve weeks premature and a woman with a malformed uterus.
In a brief opinion, a Surrogate Judge in New York recognized a Canadian same-sex marriage for probate purposes, declaring the surviving partner the "surviving spouse and sole distributee" and thus not requiring process to other members of the decedent's family. Progressive Bloggers
There should be a cooling off period between a woman agreeing to be a surrogate and becoming pregnant to ensure she has time to reconsider.
Other efforts are needed to increase the hatchability of eggs under natural conditions (under guinea hens or surrogate mothers), and to identify the best lighting regimes (both sexual maturity and rate of lay are influenced by changes in daylength). 5 Chicken
She looked straight at Becky, ‘Suppose I act as a surrogate for you?’
It's experts who can inspect, audit, and review, acting as surrogates for the importing party.
As an individual incident, it was pretty trivial - but if Democratic surrogates can't help but say nice things about McCain amidst their attacks, the forcefulness of those attacks is going to be muted. Unconventional Thoughts on the Democratic Primary - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com
There are portraits of individuals and of groups, but some of Ms. Lenz's most interesting pictures, all untitled, are of surrogate human beings: a doll in one, a mannequin in another, a tilting bas-relief portrait medallion in a third, and also a delightful narrow-waisted paper doll suspended for some unknown purpose in a store window. The Sky-Highs and Lows of City Scenes
They saw themselves not as independent thinkers but as helpmates and surrogates to absent husbands and fathers.
The road, both a participant in and a generator of vistas, becomes a surrogate for the human presence.
After Greer's surrogate is destroyed and he gets his first taste of real life in years, he realizes just how detached people are from the world around them, most notably his wife. Getting Graphic: "The Surrogates" by Robert Vendetti & Brett Weldele
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I don't have...' She checked herself, the image of her real mother had crowded out her surrogate parents. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
In lab experiments, SPAMS was tested against four types of materials terrorists might use - spores of a non-pathogenic strain of Bacillus anthracis (anthrax); diethyl phthalate (a nerve agent surrogate), natural cobalt powder (a surrogate for Cobalt 60 and other radioactive metals) and RDX (a high explosive). SPAMS - a Universal Detection System for Threats
Arguably, this white identity politics helped swing the 2000 and 2004 elections, serving as the powerful counterpunch to urban white liberals, and the McCain-Palin campaign relied on it almost to the point of absurdity (as when a McCain surrogate dismissed Northern Virginia as somehow not part of “the real Virginia”) as a bulwark against the threatening multiculturalism of Barack Obama. The End of White America?
Thanks to a term limit and possible misconduct, the plum Bronx Surrogate's job is soon coming up for grabs, our dear Bob Kappstatter Surrogate Lee Holzman is due to step down when his 12-year-term expires Dec. 31, 2012. NY Daily News
A Web-based interface was developed and is being used for data entry of surrogate records from multiple locations.
Perhaps out of disappointment, Twain frequently undertook outings with young schoolgirls whom he called his "angelfish" — "surrogate granddaughters," as Mr. Shelden calls them. A Mississippian Flood
The boys 'sole caretaker is Elaine, who also acts as their surrogate mother. REVIEW: Gunpowder by Joe Hill
Less then one in 1,000 are adopted to be surrogated. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Here's the description: FBI agents (BRUCE WILLIS and RADHA MITCHELL) investigate the mysterious murder of a college student linked to the man who helped create a high-tech surrogate phenomenon that allows people to purchase unflawed robotic versions of themselves - fit, good looking remotely controlled machines that ultimately assume their life roles - enabling people to experience life vicariously from the comfort and safety of their own homes. September 2009
She said she starts every day by reading an inspirational text message from her surrogate dad, "Mr. Charlie," her AAU coach in high school. LJWorld.com stories: News
The infertile couple located a surrogate through an agency.
Johnny seemed to be eating up this story and believing every word that came from their surrogate mother's mouth.
In an ordinary presidential election, the winner enjoys the right to call the shots on policy as the political surrogate for the electoral majority.
The DC were also exposed to keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), which was used as a surrogate marker to show an immune response. Newswise: Latest News
He wields enormous influence and has appointed himself as surrogate spokesman for the Democratic opposition.
Except for the brazenness and scope of the Pentagon spin program, I wasn't shocked by the recent New York Times report exposing how the Pentagon junketed and coached the retired military brass into being "message-force multipliers" and "surrogates" for Donald Rumsfeld's lethal propaganda. Jeff Cohen: Military Propaganda Pushed Me Off TV
When the formatters were serializing an object graph, they'd search in their "surrogate chain" to see if any surrogate was present to deal with each type in the graph; if this was the case, then it would use the surrogate to serialize / deserialize the objects instead of the object itself. Site Home
Although she touts her work as a McCain surrogate during his presidential run, she was sidelined by his advisors after repeated gaffes that presaged ones she has made in this campaign. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: April 7, 2010
Is the oculus, open to the sky, letting light pour in, a surrogate sun? Times, Sunday Times
He used the Internet as a surrogate for contact with real people.
This finding suggests that day-to-day changes in SO 2 in Europe may be a surrogate for daily changes in some other, unmeasured factor.
And versatile David between them, catalyst of it all, intermediary and perhaps even — in some deeper, darker, dodgier way — surrogate. Kings
Any evidence on health benefits is limited to improvements in surrogate measures and risk factors or to “soft” outcomes like quality of life. Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Is Weight-Loss Advice Unethical?
Techniques that entail the dissociation of husband and wife, by the intrusion of a person other than the couple – donation of a sperm or ovum, surrogate uterus – are gravely immoral. Christa Dias, Mother, Fired From Catholic Schools For Use Of Artificial Insemination
Thomas Jefferson had one of his henchmen—excuse me, surrogates—accuse John Adams, in a series of newspaper essays, of being a "hideous hermaphroditical character," a "strange compound of ignorance and ferocity, of deceit and weakness," a "repulsive pedant. How Honest Is 'Honest Abe'?
For this demonstration, Boeing, under Army direction, used a Boeing AH-6 helicopter as a surrogate for Sky Warrior, the Extended Range/Multi-Purpose UAS that is not yet available.
Obama obviously knows it too ... he said yesterday, he believe Hillary would be a great surrogate for him and when asked about Bill he said he said he was sure he would not want to 'upstage' his wife at the unity rally on Friday. Election Central Morning Roundup
Hard endpoints, such as hospitalizations and deaths, not surrogate endpoints, such as the frequently used proxy to assess the FDA's safety record (numbers of drugs recalled), should be the endpoints in the analysis. Are Big Pharma and the PDUFA to Blame for Healthcare Mess?
The administration, its surrogates and supporters have latched on to something called insourcing, which I used to call foreign direct investment, but they seem to see that as a counterpoint to the export of cheap -- of American jobs to cheap overseas labor markets. CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2004
That situation could have been a nightmare, but his mum views us both as surrogate daughters and is very easy to get along with.
The immense surrogate slave power released by the steam engine ushered in the Industrial Revolution.
At this stage, the personality serves as a surrogate to the authentic existence provided by and through contemplation of the Soul.
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For some people, reading travel books is a surrogate for actual travel.
Like language, these photographs are surrogates for reality, full of meaning but incomplete in and of themselves.
If a surrogate's baby is born with serious birth defects, the parent may eventually obtain custody.
The use of personal anecdotes about a few hundred students and a secretary as surrogates for the world economy disappointed.
Reminds me of the "b-sharps" episode of the simpsons, when marge makes a surrogate homer, but the tape speeds up, the head falls off, and the latex glove hand flies over and grabs bart by the face. My weekend with a cardboard version of my boyfriend Boing Boing
And who are the cheerful white-clad staff, calling us by our first names and acquiescing to our every whim, if not surrogate parents?
estimator" surrogates (say, a set of butterfly species) for "true" surrogates (say, the use of species as the basis for assessing complementarity of places). Biodiversity
Media markets where candidates appear are now routinely "bracketed" by opposition surrogates: one the day before his arrival and another after he leaves. Unleashing The Campaign Attack Dogs
In fact, given the way her surrogate is hijacked, one of them spends significant time in the film being literally controlled by men. Surrogates » DVDs Worth Watching
Fiction is a poor surrogate for real experience.
No believer in the arts he surrogated, the shaman warmed to his own beliefs. The Magic May Return
The audience's surrogate -- in order words, the hero with stupidly romantic ideas about how life should be and little sense of self-preservation -- is the euphoniously named Jacob Jankowski, played by the woefully untalented Robert Pattinson. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Water for Elephants
In many ways, blogging had become a way of leading a kind of surrogate social life with like-minded people.
Complete is a surrogate superlative, the latest tactic, a piece of discursive dexterity in the sometimes tedious Messi or Ronaldo debate -- presented like it was some kind of incontestable fact. SI.com
All she dreams of is that the surrogate gets pregnant so she can return to India and pick up a healthy baby for the long trip home.
Some reports called Lorca Cohen a surrogate, but Wainwright's website announcement referred to "proud parents Lorca Cohen, Rufus Wainwright and Deputy Dad Jorn Weisbrodt". The Guardian World News
Because she had no children of her own, her friend's son became a kind of surrogate child to her.
After the regent comes the theologian, whom it has long been usual to select from the Society of Jesus; then come the datary, the canonist, the corrector, the sealer (sigillatore), and some copyists, besides a secretary, a surrogate (sostituto), and an archivist. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
In some situations, if a surrogate wants to take the money and keep the baby, there is very little that the intended parents can do about it.
Discuss the patient's need to make advance directives and to identify surrogates for medical and legal decision-making.
Because she had no children of her own, her friend's son became a kind of surrogate child to her.
Teachers, many of whom are young and idealistic and keen to be palsy-walsy with children and play the role of surrogate parent, are paradoxically often the most stalwart champions of the catastrophically counter-productive dogmas regarding classroom arrangement and necessarily knowledge-free lessons in the UK's schools. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Firstly, both are surrogate measures of the average concentration of plasma glucose that is responsible for the microvascular and arterial damage that manifests itself in later years.
In surrogacy, one woman (the surrogate or host mother) carries a child for another as the result of an agreement (before conception) that the child should be handed over after birth.
This modeling has robust power to predict survival; hence the use of multiple spirometric values is a strong surrogate for long-term outcomes. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Her husband, Peter, has decided that he'd like to have a baby, and the family's first choice for a surrogate is none other than Cannie's flamboyant kid sister. Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner: Book summary
The shadowlike spirits abound and mysterious folk suggest deeper threads of foul play, although David has less of an active role in the matters than he does simply act as an audience surrogate. Vampyr (1932)
The sequence-structure distance can be interpreted as a surrogate for the difference in energies between an ancestral and a descendant protein.
Not quite useful as measurements of scale, they could be understood to serve as surrogates for her own presence in the cinema of daily life.
For delegates and other surrogates who may get questions from the media, the campaign passes out two-sided laminated cards.
In contrast, in the local strategy, some biodiversity surrogates may not achieve their target.
Approval was based on a pivotal phase II prospective, open-label pharmacokinetic (PK) and safety study using maximum clot firmness (MCF) as a surrogate endpoint for hemostatic efficacy. BioSpace.com Featured News and Stories
She said she starts every day by reading an inspirational text message from her surrogate dad, "Mr. Charlie," her AAU coach in high school. LJWorld.com stories: News

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