McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997.

Making progress is a great test of political maturity.

C.K. Williams' poetry of youth and age

Willingness to take responsibility is a sign of maturity.

In 1873, Tesla returned to his birthtown, Smiljan.

It was in Strasbourg that German was first used for the liturgy.

Another, different kind of poem of youth and age.

Female Greenland sharks only reach sexual maturity by the age of 150.

The trend toward early puberty is not as pronounced with boys

These leaders came of age and began their careers during the era of decolonization.

For some analysts, it is good, because it reveals a nation s political maturity.

The Chancellor's aides try to justify Schröder's rhetoric as an expression of the country's political maturity.

From 1892 to 1895 he was tutored for the university entrance exam, which he passed in 1895.

Studies Secondary studies at the Collège St. Michel, Fribourg, emphasis on humanities (1938 1946).

Newts and salamanders, unlike frogs and toads, keep their tails as adults.

The ease of change from Peronist rule to the center left Alianza signals Argentina's democratic maturity.

There is a paradox at the heart of this process the electoral victories by the left are a clear sign of democratic maturity.

Many of the stars in the cluster are just now reaching adulthood, having been born roughly 125 million years ago.

The females mature at 9 10 years of age, and males at 7 8 years.

African American and Hispanic girls tend to reach puberty earlier than their white counterparts, research shows.

Nout Wellink of the Dutch Central Bank has explicitly said that more disclosure would one day be needed as the ECB reaches maturity.

I spend a lot of time reassuring parents usually, this does not signal a rapid progression into full puberty, said Kaplowitz.

Recommendations for drug or hormone therapy are based on the child's age, rate of development, growth rate and emotional maturity.

In this country, African American and Hispanic girls tend to reach puberty earlier than their white counterparts.

EDINBURGH People with higher intelligence test scores in childhood and early adulthood tend to live longer.

It is a testimony of the responsibility and maturity of the German people that this miscellaneous alliance of the disaffected only attracted 12 of the vote.

Our decision more than a decade ago to surrender Ukraine s status as a nuclear nation is the clearest sign of our good neighborly intentions and political maturity.

Starting in the 1960s, evidence suggested that new neurons might be added beyond this early period and even in adulthood.

The German law s most controversial feature is a prohibition on prenatal genetic testing for diseases that will manifest themselves only in adulthood.

But for diplomats and historians, understanding the concept of ripeness is central to their jobs it refers to how ready a negotiation or conflict is to be resolved.

However, Judge Lawrence Moniz said he did not find that her age or level of maturity or even her mental illness have any significant impact on her actions.

There is debate about what constitutes the actual onset of puberty, but it is considered precocious when breast enlargement is accompanied by a growth spurt before age 8.

Living in a certain social set, and having a desire, such as generally develops with maturity, for some kind of mental activity, he was obliged to hold views, just as he was obliged to have a hat.

The couple had three children, two of whom survived to maturity Walther, born in 1888, and daughter Gertrude, born in 1889.

To be sure, many of Iran s ruling elites came of age politically during the anti imperialist and anti colonialist agitations of the 1960 s and 1970 s, and still cling to that worldview.

The ability to distinguish individual features from the mass, to reach nuanced judgments, and to control initial impulses of rage and revenge are hallmarks of maturity in societies and people alike.

For historical reasons, Europe benefits from a political maturity that has allowed it to avoid Bush s Manichean worldview, which has merely reinforced, rather than undermined, the enemy s fanaticism.

The immature malaria parasite takes 26 days to develop fully at 68 degrees F, but only 13 days at 77 degrees F. The Anopheles mosquitoes that spread malaria live only several weeks, so warmer temperatures enable more parasites to mature in time for the mosquitoes to transfer the infection.

In five other cases, scientists found women in developed countries maturing earlier, in two of them at smaller size (in the other three cases, size was not measured).

Similarly, China s miserly initial offer of 100,000 in aid following the recent typhoon in the Philippines demonstrates how far the country is from being a mature member of the international community.

One sceptic is Karolinska Institute endocrinologist Claude Marcus, whose work includes assessing the biological maturity of people to see if they went through puberty earlier or later than usual.

He says that the issue is complex, because we are asking them to have a clear policy on what is appropriate or not to disclose, publish or divulge, at an age at which maturity is not conducive to this.

We need to be careful about how we identify the true onset of puberty, said Dr. Lawrence Silverman, a pediatric endocrinologist at Goryeb Children's Hospital in Morristown, New Jersey.

If my family, though, had been the kind of people to believe in therapy, they probably would have diagnosed me as something like gender dysmorphic and put me on hormones to stave off puberty.

The high court of the Indian state of Karnataka has recently ruled in a child marriage case that the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006 (PCMA) has overriding effect over the provisions of the Muslim Personal Law, where the marriage of a girl child is allowed once she attains puberty.