Examples of using Were orphans in English and their translations into Russian
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We were orphans.
You see, the victims of these slayings were orphans, vagrants.
Both were orphans.
Before the onset of AIDS, about 2 per cent of all children in developing countries were orphans.
The sisters were orphans, bounced around foster homes for years.
In Peru, for instance, 50 per cent of the 850 persons in one returnee community were children, and 70 of them were orphans.
Some 12 per cent of the total were orphans, mostly as a result of AIDS.
They were orphans because the warlord across the border didn't like their tribe.
In the Plan of Action it was reported that 5.4 per cent of children were orphans and 7.4 per cent lived without a biological parent.
Some were orphans, while others came from large families or single parent homes.
According to KHANA' s report, thirty thousand children were orphans and this number will reach 97,300 in 2006.
Both were orphans in need of affection, and they found that they could give it to each other.
Thousands of children were still searching for their parents, others were living as street children in the main towns,and over 250,000 were orphans.
Some of the children were orphans and lived with relatives and had not attended school.
A representative of the Shor people told the Working Group of her work in a boarding school where many children were orphans and from poverty-stricken backgrounds.
Trevor, these were orphans standing right in front of you, some of them the same age as TJ and Finn.
In 2001, 24,400 children were sent to centres for the temporary confinement of juvenile delinquents(compared with 30,000 in 2000 and 54,800 in 1999); of these, 2,300 were orphans.
Some of the children were orphans or separated from their parents and many had been victims or witnesses of brutal acts of violence.
And to it confirmation, that in the form of several tens sheep and to steam of horses it distributed the prize won then to poor people though and his brother Mokotay,too the athlete, were orphans.
Among the guests there were orphans, children left without parental care, children from low-income and large families as well as talented children.
Of these, 16% were aged between 8 and 14, 84% were older than 14, almost 40%(679)were female and 5% were orphans and children left without parental care.
We dedicate this retablo to the Captive Lord because our daughters, Olga and Elena,forgave us after they had found the adoption certificates which we had been keeping hidden because none of the girls had known they were orphans.
The representative of Lesotho said that many children in his country were orphans as a result of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, suffered from malnourishment and lived in poverty.
To help children who were orphans or who had to look after their families on account of HIV/AIDS, the Government was covering the costs of their schooling, paying them a monthly allowance and distributing food rations to them.
Of the 4,000 children over five who were beneficiaries, 12 per cent were orphans and 88 per cent were street or vulnerable children 49 per cent girls and 51 per cent boys.
Recently, an affiliate of the French organization l'Arche de Zoé, which had been working under the name"Children Rescue",had attempted to smuggle more than 100 children from Darfur through Chad to Western countries on the pretext that they were orphans and should be adopted.
Studies had been undertaken of the phenomenon of street children; some of them were orphans and unaccompanied minors, while others were sent out by their parents to beg.
CRC was concerned that one third of the children were orphans, and at reports regarding the abandonment of children by parents for economic reasons and the placement of many children in institutions, which was being resorted to in preference to developing alternative care measures.
Analysis showed that 5,701(51 per cent) of the children in shelter had been living in single-parent families,2,239(20 per cent) were orphans or children lacking parental care, and 282(2.5 per cent)were in guardianship.
It was widely believed by contemporaries that all of these children were orphans, but it is now known that most had living parents, some of whom had no idea of the fate of their children after they were left in care homes, and some led to believe that their children had been adopted somewhere in Britain.