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maternal

Maternal is the adjective related to the noun 'mother'. Maternal inheritance is what you inherit from your mother.

maternal

characteristic of a mother warm maternal affection for her guest — Dorothy Sayers relating to or derived from one's mother maternal genes (= parental) relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent parental guidance related on the mother's side my maternal grandmother

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Maternal love is greater than anything else.
English is not my maternal language and I realize that I still have a lot to learn.
My mother's father is my maternal grandfather.
He said that English was his maternal language, but his accent was a dead giveaway.
This is his maternal grandfather.

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Of course, it may be just maternal vanity but I don't think Carol will find anyone nicer than Vin.
Henri, you look so maternal.
Sort of maternal white slaver.
Mysterious, maternal. lover and daughter in one. She huddles at your feet like a love-struck little tiger.
I don't believe in your aggressive, clinging, maternal love!
Well, you certainly liberate something in me and it's not maternal instincts, either!
I wouldn't care if your maternal grandfather turned out to be a Turk.
Now: he, the American is in love with Annamaria because of her shyness, because she's reserved, honest, clean, maternal.
But if she loses her chaste appearance, her maternal airs.
You are Mark's maternal grandmother, Mrs. Robbins?
I must have appealed to her maternal instincts.
Her wounded maternal heart now looks for solace in every young man who even slightly resembles her son.
God is so bountiful. The Virgin is so maternal. Christ is so merciful to us all.
They say the cult of the night, of the moon is a maternal cult. The cult of the sun, of daytime is a masculine myth, therefore paternal.
Dr. Jaquith says that tyranny is sometimes the expression of the maternal instinct.
I don't believe in your aggressive, sticky, maternal love!
Kind-heartedly, perceptive, selflessly, lovingly, maternal.
Must be the maternal instincts.
And he felt an overwhelming need for the warmth and comfort of the maternal bosom.
I knew there'd be no problem with the mother, thanks to the maternal instinct, but I wasn't so sure about Rama, the father.
We wouldn't want to see the same old Rome, easy-going, messy, maternal.
You're suffering from a maternal persecution complex.
You know, I need a really gentle one, maternal, who would dominate me without dominating me.
Second: the hearing tubes do not communicate with maternal alveolus.
In addition, I might add, you've aroused the maternal instinct in me.
What about that maternal instinct?
Aren't you afraid that you'll neglect your maternal duties?
Mysterious, maternal. lover and daughter in one.
To feel free of that maternal love. To cut forever that link of dark deviant sensuality.
The Virgin is so maternal.
I just wanted to stimulate your maternal instincts!
But I'm not the maternal type.
If a life without blemish, a life that followed your example entitles me to your esteem, if you still have maternal feelings in your heart, for as long as my guilt is unproven, don't forsake me at this terrible hour.
At that time, my maternal grandfather was an invalid.
My maternal grandmother died.

News and current affairs

But cultural questions must also be addressed, because gender discrimination is the most important cause of maternal mortality.
Maternal mortality is a sinister consequence of this complex situation.
Three of the eight MDGs - reductions in children's deaths, maternal deaths, and epidemic diseases - focus directly on health.
The SDGs will be modeled on the Millennium Development Goals, which were agreed in 2000 and focused on objectives like lowering maternal and infant mortality, eradicating poverty, and improving access to primary education.
Maternal mortality is falling, but not fast enough.
The MDG's also address the scourges of maternal death in childbirth, lack of access to safe drinking water, and killer diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS.
These countries' success has depended on sustained high-level political commitment to providing high-quality maternal and newborn care.
Its resources have helped to train new generations of doctors, nurses, and technicians, while dramatically improving the overall quality of maternal and child health.
Within 25 years, it will cause 10 million deaths a year worldwide -more than malaria, maternal deaths, childhood infections, and diarrhea combined.
The government has put together a global alliance to prevent maternal death in childbirth, investing in both safe delivery and survival of newborns.
Part of Bhutan's GNH revolves, of course, around meeting basic needs - improved health care, reduced maternal and child mortality, greater educational attainment, and better infrastructure, especially electricity, water, and sanitation.
Why aim to reduce poverty by half, maternal mortality by three-quarters, and under-five mortality by two-thirds?
Yet the fight against substandard drugs has never been taken as seriously as other global health crises such as malaria, HIV, or maternal and infant mortality.
First, we must encourage innovation by offering research grants to support small initiatives or large-scale projects (like campaigns to fight HIV, malaria, and maternal mortality).
While billions of dollars in aid have led to improvements in urban areas, where health facilities have been built and midwives trained, the overall maternal death figures have hardly changed.
The fight against maternal mortality in Afghanistan must become a global priority.
In Washington recently, the United Nations rolled out an action plan that should dramatically accelerate progress on maternal and child health, including HIV.
But it is doubtful that even well-intentioned policymakers have a good handle on, say, how to raise secondary-school completion rates sustainably or reduce maternal mortality.
On health goals, however, we are not even close. Maternal mortality is falling, but not fast enough.
Many programs, such as those in the Millennium Villages project, already show that a scaling up of primary health systems at the village level can play a decisive role in reducing child and maternal mortality.
For example, it would involve implementing the UN's 1,000-day project for maternal health and infant nutrition, aimed at ending the North's chronically high rate of infant malnutrition.
Her testimony helped persuade Congress to commit more development aid to maternal health.

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