adoption panel

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social welfare (in Britain) a committee appointed by an adoption agency, such as a local authority, to make recommendations concerning the suitability of prospective adoption cases

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Last summer, Louisiana also banned non-legal adoption, with offenders facing a penalty of $5,000 and up to five years in prison.
Judge: Rehoming Kids Is Trafficking|Tina Traster|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The children found a new family after a home study was done and the adoption was completed in court.
Judge: Rehoming Kids Is Trafficking|Tina Traster|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In one painting, framed as a split-panel comic between the two, Ramone simply asks Vicious, “Did you kill her?”
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They are for corporations like Hobby Lobby, and vast hospital networks, and, yes, adoption agencies.
Do LGBTs Owe Christians an Olive Branch? Try The Other Way Around|Jay Michaelson|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST

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A Quorum For Change: The Fight For Global LGBT Equality|Justin Jones|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I would not trust their removal to any other hand, and so, the panel comes out without a shake.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Isabel had a glimpse of a delicate high-bred face set like a panel in a parted curtain.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
These, then, appear to be the cogent reasons for the adoption of the medium rise in the modelling by Stradivari.
Antonio Stradivari|Horace William Petherick
By the adoption of scientific principles Hope-Jones has multiplied the efficiency of Swell boxes tenfold.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
Many organs now constructed have their tonal effects more than doubled through adoption of this principle.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller

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