grandmothers in English

noun
1
the mother of one's father or mother.
Yes, women's liberation has given us choices that our grandmothers and even mothers could only dream of, but it has its downside too.

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1. The grandmothers will. "

2. And 150 grandmothers have been trained in Sierra Leone.

3. Messalina's grandmothers Claudia Marcella and Antonia Major were half sisters.

4. Once the domain of grandmothers, Canning is making a comeback

5. Grandmothers love to give their stuff to their grandchildren.

6. Half the cabinet went to see the grandmothers the next day.

7. 2 People may roll their eyes and talk about overprotective, interfering grandmothers.

8. The step-grandmothers could be said to resemble Crackbrained russias

9. So we came up with a great solution: train grandmothers.

10. One of my grandmothers was Orthodox Catholic, the other Adventist, and my parents were Baptist.

11. But they did, with a fervour that would have amazed the feminists of their grandmothers' generation.

12. Many times I have sat on my grandmothers' porch and watched the deer come out of the woods to graze on the sweet grass of the fields surrounding my grandmothers' house.

13. 10 This is modern Japan, a Gizmo Nation where even grandmothers make friends with their gadgets.

14. Grandmothers approached us, playful girls and young women with infants slung in cloths across their backs.

15. Almost Comically, she began to see if her grandmothers tea set was still all there

16. She was one of the founding members of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

17. This is modern Japan, a Gizmo Nation where even grandmothers make friends with their gadgets.

18. Or, dictating a genealogy, men would unexpectedly include the names of women - say, great-grandmothers of today's adults.

19. Local Balinese women cook the food on sawdust burners using secrets that only their grandmothers know.

20. Grandmothers teach younger women to grow, pick, spin, dye, and weave cotton into beautiful, multicolored patterns.

21. Forced to work long hours, they pack off to child - minders or nannies, grandmothers or - door neighbors.

22. Many grandmothers in parc de Monceau are impeccably groomed, elderly women of fashion who look absolutely smashing.

23. Time magazine, in summarising her cast of drowning boys, garrulous southern grandmothers and man-killer prophets, called them "God-intoxicated Hillbillies".

24. She was referred to as the Babushka Lady because she adorned a 'babushka' which is a head scarf worn by grandmothers.

25. The birth of another child seems, predictably, to be a situation in which grandmothers are called upon for assistance.

26. So I thought, how about training grandmothers in evidence-based talk therapy, which they can deliver on a bench?

27. Liz was right to vanish, as the boys were right to congregate at the Maid Marian and avoid their grandmothers.

28. 11 Diners are known for "comfort food ",(www.Sentencedict.com) This kind of food reminds people of the meals their mothers and grandmothers made.

29. They are women the age of grandmothers, gray-haired and with quavering voices, but whose remarks are full of vitriol.

30. Leaders: Teach the girls to draw close to their mothers and grandmothers and to the older women in the Relief Society.

31. Baccala` Recipes by our Italian Grandmas! The Best Baccala` Recipes prepared by our Italian grandmothers following old traditions passed on for many generations

32. Corsages for weddings have been a long tradition and are usually given to members of the wedding party, including mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and other notable female guests

33. Usually found in the wardrobes of northern European grandmothers, the Wrishofer has Cosseted the feet of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal and avant-garde rapper MIA in recent weeks

34. The group is open to all women in the above age range -- we are single and not single, mothers, grandmothers and non-of the-Aboves, working and retired, from all walks of life, and from Everett to Burien

35. Teachers stood for schools that run on renewable energy, women supported healthier agriculture, grandmothers demanded clean air for their grandchildren, unions want a green job transition, and city mayors want investments in energy-efficient buildings.

36. The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Spanish: Asociación Civil Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo) is an organization which has the aim of finding the "stolen" babies, whose mothers were killed during the Junta's dictatorship in 1977

37. The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Spanish: Asociación Civil Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo) is a human rights organization with the goal of finding the children stolen and illegally adopted during the Argentine dictatorship.The president is Estela Barnes de Carlotto.

38. Every season, we gather herbs, flowers, bramble rose, nuts, absinthe and various fruit ripened in the sun, which we process and preserve with joy, following the recipes handed down by our grandmothers and mothers, to propose them to our guests at breakfast.

39. Founder, Barefoot College: Under ITEC we do not take any women from India. But under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy today, under the National Solar Mission, we are actually right now in Tilonia in the Barefoot College training 40 grandmothers from Jharkhand.

40. These small compact women, who remind me of my own grandmothers years ago, are not, as one might expect, from Silhanoukville nor are they even Cambodian. I overhear them talking among themselves in Viet, in the heavy, flat southern accent that hangs well in the humid air. When I inquire about their “que” (home village), most gestured eastward to Chau Doc, a port town on the Cambodian border. They have left home and journeyed to a neighboring country for the small privilege of selling tidbits of food from their yoke-baskets. For a moment, I wonder unreasonably if Bao, my long-lost childhood friend might be among them—a reflex or, perhaps, an affliction of trauma. So, day after day, for weeks on end, I gravitate to beach to eat grilled squids and to hear their stories.