Yet some were immune; the change spared them and their children.

First one parent then two beg the principal to spare their children from a full nine months of Old Miss Smith.

We wanted to spare our children fear and nightmares.

They may be happy to spare their children the trauma of dodge ball.

Mrs. Mukambaraga paid them 10,000 francs, and the men spared her children.

To spare her children further anguish, she sent them to the Soviet Union in the spring of 1935.

The two agreed not to build a court behind their home in Las Vegas, to spare their children.

For that matter, why had it spared my brothers, my sister, and their children?

The age of criminal responsibility was lowered to 12 in order to reinforce pressure on adults to cooperate with interrogators and spare their children.

Despite his mother's efforts to spare her children from illness, the small Januarius contracted cholera.