How To Use Descendants In A Sentence

It is an Extended Family Tree - showing all the collateral branches of a family, i.e. all the descendants.
The ‘hammer’ and ‘anvil’ bones of the mammalian ear are descendants of these nubbins.
Often the founders or their descendants, they tend to take a longer-term view than purely financial investors and are more concerned with issues such as reputation. Times, Sunday Times
Often the founders or their descendants, they tend to take a longer-term view than purely financial investors and are more concerned with issues such as reputation. Times, Sunday Times
Sclavonic blood, or from the descendants of Rurik's companions, differ little in regularity of feature and expression of countenance from the handsomest races of Europe. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia

Shiites of this branch believed that the Prophet Muhammad's successors or vicars were his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, and the eleven lineal descendants of Ali and the Prophet's daughter, Fatima.
Besides the majority Sinhala Buddhists, the nation also includes Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamils of recent Indian origin, Muslims, and Burghers, descendants of intermarriages between Sri Lankans and Europeans.
A Native American people formerly inhabiting north-central Missouri, with present-day descendants living with the Oto in north-central Oklahoma.
Fugitive slaves from the West Indies or Guyana, or their descendants, were called Maroons.
The Romance languages are the modern descendants of Latin, the language of the Roman Empire.
Yet evolution predicts not just successions of forms, but also genetic lineages from ancestors to descendants.
Jacob's dying blessing focusses on the distant future, when the descendants of these twelve will occupy the promised land.
Some of the fossils are proving pivotal in testing the hypothesis that birds are the living descendants of dinosaurs.
A clade is a group, consisting of a single organism and all of its descendants. A Disclaimer for Behe?
Other descendants of the marine invertebrates have also left the water.
Owned by descendants of the original lessees who took up the station - sight unseen - in 1877, the famous black soil downs carry more than 60,000 cattle.
Since independence the term indigenous, widely used in an affirmative action campaign, has applied almost exclusively to blacks and left out whites and other minorities born in the southern African nation - some the descendants of several generations of settlers. ANC Daily News Briefing
The people of Namoris were, supposedly, descendants of the Lunarians, immortal beings, the subjects of the moon goddess Celhyst, banished to the Earth and subjected to mortality for some misdeed against their queen.
He made a covenant with Abraham to be God to him and to his descendants after him.
Land is divided among the descendants after the death of the owner.
Sierra LeoneEnglish (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%) Languages
A clade is an ancestor species and all of its descendants A Disclaimer for Behe?
The Slavic verb пить/пити is related to Latin bibere and its descendants (French boire, Italian bere) and more obviously to Greek ποτο. Apple juice
It was a scorching day and there was a light south-west wind when the select group, including two direct descendants of the islanders, disembarked on the rocks at Clashymore natural harbour.
Those deeply entrenched in parishes are seeking to upgrade their abilities by attending workshops and colloquia on chant and its stylistic descendants. How to Hire a Parish Musician
By the end of the Eocene, modern orders and families replaced the archaic fauna of mostly extinct groups with no living descendants.
The most wonderful thing is that some direct descendants of the original crew of the Mystery came to meet us. Times, Sunday Times
They come from southern Asia, and are the descendants of birds that were released or escaped from captivity. Times, Sunday Times
If a species interbreeds with other species, the crossbreeds are their descendants. Demons Don't Dream
Lights, noises, and singing at night, clearly discerned from the castle, caused much terror to Lady Edgeworth, though her descendants affirm that they were fairies of the same genus as those who beset Sir John Falstaff at Hearne's oak, and intended to frighten her into leaving the place. A Book of Golden Deeds
But it is unseemly to see such a Grand Potentate in such a state of decay: the son of Bajazet Ilderim insolvent; the descendants of the Prophet bullied by Calmucs and English and whipper-snapper Frenchmen; the Fountain of Magnificence done up, and obliged to coin pewter! Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
In the seaside suburb of St Kilda, you'll find fantastic patisseries still owned by descendants of the original Jewish families who settled there.
Birds - the feathered descendants of the dinosaurs - fascinate her.
It did not forbid the disinherison of direct descendants, inasmuch as it did not legislate against a contingency which no Roman lawgiver of that era could have contemplated. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society
Nearly everyone would like something to pass on to his descendants, yet there is no inheritable property accumulation in our Social Security system.
The micromere determinant Pmar1 activates the PMC-GRN and transmits endomesoderm-inducing signals to macromere descendants. PLoS Biology: New Articles
Our proud ancestors repelled the invaders, but their contemptible descendants are sided with the invaders.
In reality both of these men are victims of ethnocide and forced assimilation and both to date are pawns of the Caucasian power structure which has always violated the human rights of Afro-Descendants.
Their wanderings ceased when they reached the beautiful mountain home where their descendants live today.
The Shona are the direct descendants of the great Munhumutapa Empire that stretched from Namibia to Mozambique at its peak. Zealotry or Zeal, when will we see a New Zimbabwe?
Spreading through the plantation system, Protestant Christianity was adopted and adapted by African-American slaves and freedmen and most of their descendants.
Further contact with his descendants yielded daybooks from about 1881, when he started up business as an independent craftsman.
Their descendants were distinguished by various praenomina and cognomina [285], but rejected by common consent the praenomen of (193) Lucius, when, of the two races who bore it, one individual had been convicted of robbery, and another of murder. De vita Caesarum
Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants.
It was a scorching day and there was a light south-west wind when the select group, including two direct descendants of the islanders, disembarked on the rocks at Clashymore natural harbour.
The ancestors watch over their descendants, punishing or rewarding them for their behavior.
I asked them if they supposed a nation of people ever existed, who, with a free vote in every man's hand, would elect that a single family and its descendants should reign over it forever, whether gifted or boobies, to the exclusion of all other families -- including the voter's; and would also elect that a certain hundred families should be raised to dizzy summits of rank, and clothed on with offensive transmissible glories and privileges to the exclusion of the rest of the nation's families -- _including his own_. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3.
In the invading metaphase , the hyphae of the pathogen can invade the cortical area of cells of susceptible varieties, but only can invade the outer cortex cells of resistant descendants.
It was indeed very fitting that the President of the USA should have two direct descendants from that diabolical slave trade on hands for his African visit.
All domestic asses, or donkeys, are descendants of wild asses from Africa and Asia.
We, descendants of human suffering, are living in a fine mansion at the edge of a precipice.
Some of his figures, especially the grotesquely curvaceous fat ladies, are descendants of the 18th-century caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson.
The "mislaid" rationale presumes the existence of a living owner, or the vigilance of the depositor's descendants; only occasionally can it be helpful for older artifacts, such as those in Idaho, as the likelihood of the original depositor's return diminishes with each passing year. The Slow Death of Treasure Trove
They were the direct descendants of the Dutch settlers.
In formal structure, Mortal Thoughts blends two rich but infrequently employed musical traditions: the chamber operas of Benjamin Britten and his musical descendants (characterized by the use of small orchestral forces) and the experimental, edgy opera monodramas of composers like Schoenberg, (Erwartung, Die glückliche Hand) and Poulenc (La voix humaine). Rodney Punt: The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth: A Chamber Opera of Horrors at Fais Do-Do
_Africaine_, reformed, refined, beautified in her descendants, transformed into the creole negress, commenced to exert a fascination irresistible, capable of winning anything (_capable de tout obtenir_). Two Years in the French West Indies
Fijian, or Fijician, results, by a slight change of letters, from the word Phoenician; and there can be no doubt that the Fijians are descendants of those Phoenicians who, according to The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859
But the new thing unfolded is that the covenant is to continue in force graciously also for his descendants "for generations" -- literally "for their generations" -- as a berith ` olam. Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
I think i’ve got this now: basal anapsid reptiles (which presumably gave rise to synapsid and sauropsid lineages) died out leaving no descendants. turtles, full diapsid reptiles closely allied to crocodiles, secondarily developed a seemingly (but not osteogenically identical) anapsid skull structure subsequently. Report on the 2005 Creation Mega Conference, Part Four - The Panda's Thumb
Their descendants have been left in a quandary.
The coastal areas were occupied by the descendants of Greek colonists.
Solomon Linda's descendants are still waiting for rewards and recognition for his talents.
Their descendants, the hunter-gatherer Jomon people, had long been the inhabitants of the islands when a large-scale immigration from Northeast Asia began around 400 BC.
The others are French Canadian descendants of immigrants from Saintonge, such as the genealogist Jacques Saintonge. Champlain's Dream
The Slavic verb пить/пити is related to Latin bibere and its descendants (French boire, Italian bere) and more obviously to Greek ποτο. Apple juice
If we don't make a profit on it, then one of our descendants will. Times, Sunday Times
Its descendants then spread throughout the continent and acquired a schistosome that became S. mansoni as we know it today.
Ethnic groups: 20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians Sierra Leone
After Adam had sinned, and brought death upon himself and his descendants, God gave the promise that a man born of woman should conquer the power of Satan and Sin.
Again, those two remarkable black spots on the remiges of each wing of the stock-dove, which are so characteristic of the species, would not, one should think, be totally lost by its being reclaimed, but would often break out among its descendants. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
Being part of that community is knowing what a "ceilidh" is, knowing not only the history of Ireland but of our own people in this country, most of them descendants of starving millions who fled to this country to avoid death from hunger. LJWorld.com stories: News
I have been successful in tracing the Cooper family line back to the 1780s, but so far cannot find any of Mark Cooper's direct descendants.
Maybe the descendants of whoever was buried here wanted to reinter the remains in a churchyard or family gravesite and figured the park service wouldn't let them," Anna suggested. Hunting Season
We eat it with breadsticks, descendants of the biscotto, the twice-baked everlasting ship's biscuits that kept a trading empire alive.
However, gifts received from blood relations lineal a ascendants and lineal descendants. and those received on certain occasions like marriage etc. would continue to be totally exempt.
The most wonderful thing is that some direct descendants of the original crew of the Mystery came to meet us. Times, Sunday Times
Since his descendants were in hiding, tracing a line of authority became problematical.
The latter had a knack for persuading descendants of Chinese nobles to part with their inherited treasures, including rare paintings and porcelains with imperial provenances.
That, though the occupations named are entirely normal to all well-ordered states, descendants of persons in those occupations tend to become "subnormal" -- so runs the cant of it -- something handicapped by that haphazard bullet of a lifetime since, fired to advance the glorious cause of -- foreign commerce, or the like. Copper Streak Trail
Those Puritan forefathers generate their fair share of criticism from we their modern-day descendants.
In order to encourage social acceptance of such unions, Anglos claimed that elite Mexican women were the racially pure descendants of the Spanish conquistadores.
As far as I can see, many Black wimmin, the descendants of these violated and disrespected slave wimmin are writhing in the grip of some serious erotophobia (scared of tha nasty). 1TBM
The direct descendants of the apprentice societies were the young men's associations that grew up during the early 1800s. American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
Your article made it to a Woodson descendants list on the Internet of which I am a recipient.
My ancestors were priests, but none of the present generation descendants are priests.
b. - by consecuence 85 % are not and a huge porcentage are "autochthonous" and the others are a mix of indigenous and spanish descendants. so even if hollywood represent Mexicans like domestic servants, gardeners and delinquents is very important precise what part of this "society" belongs to. Page 2
Still, despite all uncertainties, it is suggestive that one ancestress apparently dwelled in an early center of agriculture and that her descendants seem to have arrived in the various regions of Europe pari passu with neolithic farming. Britain
Around 50 descendants of King Euichin, a brother of the last king Sunjong, declared Princess Lee Hae-Won the new "Empress" of the monarchy in what they called a crowning ceremony. A Throne Fit For a Quasi Queen
Similarly, lungs were a selective advantage to fish living in stagnant waters, enabling them to breathe air, long before the descendants of these fish walked on land; in modern teleost fishes the lung has lost its function as a breathing organ, and has been transformed into a hydrostatic organ, the swim bladder. A Mystery for the Ages
Those villagers who have made the hajj to Mecca, or even descendants of those who have made the journey, are highly respected.
Descendants and current members of this multi-ethnic working class continue to experience discrimination.
Pit involves the discovery we're descended from apemen genetically altered by another civilisation on the verge of destruction so that we, the apemen's descendants, carry parts of their gene-code within us. Tube Bits For 05/08/2009
Will our descendants live most of their lives in a virtual reality?
GN is not a remnant, rather an antipode of Ptolemaic astrology, an independent multifaceted system, nor digestible by Ptolemaic descendants even under most favorable conditions today.
It bears the coat of the Vyells (gules, a fesse raguly argent) with no less than twenty-four quarterings: for an Odo of the name had fought on the winning side at Hastings, and his descendants, settling in the West, had held estates there and been people of importance ever since. Lady Good-for-Nothing
There are many puritans in Lower Potawatomi Valley, who are possibly descendants of those who long ago opposed ceremonial worship and the prelacy of the Church of England.
If after long and gradual changes in the structure of the co-descendants from any parent stock, evidence (either from monstrosities or from a graduated series) could be still detected of the function, which certain parts or organs played in the parent stock, these parts or organs might be strictly determined by their former function with the term "metamorphosed" appended. The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844
All of the modern vernaculars spoken in Northern India today are direct descendants of Sanskrit and Prakrit.
The lineal descendants of a farmer have the first right to purchase a farm.
Then there's the question of who would be responsible for paying up - the U.S. government, corporations, or individual descendants of slaveholders.
She has, of course, in the maritime provinces the descendants of one of the finest races of seamen the world has ever known; and I saw last fall in the race between the two famous schooners "Blue Nose" and "Haligonian" that their traditions have not been lost. Naval Defence
Phormium tenax and its descendants have upright, spear-like straps (height 2-2.5m, spread 1.2m). Times, Sunday Times
Argentina also had a policy of encouraging settlers and descendants of Welsh emigrants to Patagonia continue to keep alive Welsh culture there to this day.
... "unwittingly reignites an ancient war between Angelologists, a group who studies angels, and a race of monster-like descendants of angels and humans called the Nephilim"; she then teams up with an angelologist "in a search for ancient artifacts that are the only things that can stop the Nephilim. ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs
Meanwhile the owners or their descendants champ impatiently to recover and lovingly restore what is left of the family heritage.
I think i’ve got this now: basal anapsid reptiles (which presumably gave rise to synapsid and sauropsid lineages) died out leaving no descendants. turtles, full diapsid reptiles closely allied to crocodiles, secondarily developed a seemingly (but not osteogenically identical) anapsid skull structure subsequently. Report on the 2005 Creation Mega Conference, Part Four - The Panda's Thumb
Spaniards were referred to as Peninsulars, while their South-American-born descendants were called criollos (Creoles).
It follows other recently released tragicomedies such as "50/50," about a young man (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) struggling with dating and a spinal tumor, and "The Descendants." which focuses on a father (George Clooney) who discovers he's been cuckolded while his wife lays in a vegetative state. Academy Awards
Are they variants of old genes that played quite different roles in the ancestors, and that have been co-opted and modified to play entirely new roles in the descendants?
A visit to the parlor from the Marmion Plantation in Virginia located in the Met's Gallery 720, however, might provide a bit of encouraging perspective; some of the descendants of the slaves who likely tended the parlor's guests may have been lured into subprime mortgages while their White counterparts were given better deals, but you'd have to be dottier than a guy who wants to arrest judges not to realize that we are all better off than we were during the "good old days" for which certain social luddites yearn. Tanya M. Acker: Ditch the Xanax: Why the Metropolitan Museum Is a Better Cure for American Grumpiness
Our descendants will gasp in horror at our disregard. Times, Sunday Times
Ashmans Park, Suff., which was independent of the Naunton property, and of certain heir-looms, the sole remains of the great estates of the "Nauntons of Letheringham," which continue in the possession of the descendants of that family. Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Both the mysticetes and odontocetes are thought to be descendants of the archaeocetes.
As she grew into maidenhood her father was troubled because she remained unwedded: all his hopes for descendants were in this girl, his only child.
It has been proposed that Japanese and Korean are descendants of a common language.
Six hundred years to the day since he was executed for high treason, descendants of Archbishop Richard Scrope arrived from across the globe for a service at the city's cathedral to commemorate his life.
Their descendants were distinguished by various praenomina and cognomina [285], but rejected by common consent the praenomen of (193) Lucius, when, of the two races who bore it, one individual had been convicted of robbery, and another of murder. De vita Caesarum
Later, descendants of these selfsame clerics would carry their precious cargo to European monasteries where the Italian, the German and the Frenchman waited to be enlightened.
Although those great animals have gone, they followed the same rules of instinct and habit as did their descendants.
It provides buoyancy and this, for the bulk of the descendants of these air-breathing pioneers, became a more important faculty.
An interesting distinction, however, was made early on for one racial category, if only in Virginia: Native Americans and their genealogically inclined descendants. Shaking the Family Tree
The Unruochings and the Widonians also acquired the duchies and marquisates of Friuli and Spoleto respectively, while the counts or marquises of Tuscany were descendants of a Boniface who lived in the 820s.
There are seven supposed to be so. 1st, the Gachupinos, or Spaniards born in Europe; 2nd, the Creoles, that is, whites of European family born in America; 3rd, the Mestizos; 4th, the Mulattoes, descendants of whites and negroes, of whom there are few; Life in Mexico
Even so, I choose to spend my food money so that my long-term health, and that of my descendants, is not compromised. Making Links
One clarification – the Truscott quoted in your excerpt is actually one of the few members of the club who is PRO-Hemings descendants. The Jefferson ''Family'' Feud at cvillenews.com
The lineal descendants of a farmer have the first right to purchase a farm.
Consequently, I deduced that the descendants of Eze Chima were refugees fleeing from the Oba of Benin and his slave raiders.
The first member of their family to settle in South Africa in 1679 was a gunsmith and many of his descendants have been involved in the gun trade.
The soloists played on natural horns, instruments that have no valves and are not as powerful as their modern descendants.
It was in the heart of what was now considered Spanish Harlem and served the bilingual descendants of New York's Spanish speaking immigrants.
He died before he could realize his aim of conquering the Chinese Empire to the South, but his descendants made inroads on China's spheres of influence, conquering Korea in 1637.
Their descendants took the name of Charteris, as connecting themselves with their maternal ancestors, the ancient proprietors of the property, though the name of Thomas de Longueville was equally honoured amongst them; and the large two handed sword with which he mowed the ranks of war was, and is still, preserved among the family muniments. The Fair Maid of Perth
For example, carnivorous mammals' descendants that now shun meat include bamboo-eating pandas and termite-slurping aardwolves.
The arms of Duncan Campbell, as preserved in the hands of his descendants, are identical in their quarterings with the Marquis of Breadalbane, as follows: Quarterly, first and fourth, gyronny of eight or. and sa. for Campbell; second or. a fesse chequey ar. and az. for Stewart; third, ar. a lymphad, her sails and oars in action, all sa. for Lorne. Virginia and Virginians
Shaft sinkers and developers were the direct descendants of the contractor who in early days on the goldfields had developed, stoped or trammed* for a fixed price per unit of work done. Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 13
‘The name ‘Caesar’ is a cognomen, a nickname given to one member of a Roman clan and borne by his descendants as a kind of surname.
Languages: English (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%) Sierra Leone
She is one of the proud descendants of a galaxy of disciples who emulated the 'mudra' or signature of Sadguru Thiyagaraja Swamigal. The Hindu - Front Page
The language of the Weddas is regarded as a base descendant of the most complete and first known form of Aryan speech, the Sanskrit; and the Weddas are set down as descendants of the Sanskritic Aryans, who conquered India. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880
Then perhaps a hundred thousand people can change the trend, if they and their descendants labor for five hundred years.
Meanwhile the owners or their descendants champ impatiently to recover and lovingly restore what is left of the family heritage.
Many terrible things have taken place during the course of European history of which none of today's descendants can be proud.
If they did, it would mark them as descendants of a common ancestor.
Yet no one can deny that God foreknew what end man was to have before he created him, and consequently foreknew because he so ordained by his decree… God not only foresaw the fall of the first man, and in him the ruin of his descendants, but also meted it out in accordance with his own decision. Why I am not a Calvinist « Anglican Samizdat
The house is still in one piece and the descendants of the Jalmry family live here.
Some of these people had married members of South Australia's small but significant Afghan community, descendants of the cameleers who had ‘opened up’ the northern trade routes.
His descendants included Helen, who pretended she was bewitched.
People also expect the deceased to maintain interest in their descendants, as ancestral spirits.
Consider the ripple effect of this for these young people, their descendants, or the alumni of these schools up to the present. Christianity Today
The proud descendants of Pizarro marched with heads high, as in the times when their ancestors founded the city of kings; their traditional scorn rested alike on the Indians whom they had conquered, and the mestizoes, born of their relations with the natives of the New World. The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
Hugo's descendants took offence at what they considered to be the exploitation and vulgarisation of his work.
If we can safely deliver ourselves and our descendants from certain dread diseases, we should probably do so.
As evolutionary theory became more widely accepted, natural scientists speculated that the cells of complex organisms might be the descendants of unicellular ancestors, retaining considerable autonomy.
Therefore, we should strengthen farmland protection system design, land of ecological, social, and the value to the descendants and so on to make evaluation and accounting.
Their descendants still survive in the form of crocodiles and alligators. Times, Sunday Times
It now seems likely that the first two of these groups are paraphyletic; that is, they contain some but not all descendants of a common ancestor.
Today, the descendants of these pioneer stripers are the indicator species for the health of San Francisco Bay.
There is evidence that the descendants of Native Americans in prehistoric times used beads as adornment in jewelry as well as a way to trade.
However, in such a way of reproduction, gemmation of descendants causes involution of parental tissues as before.
Therefore, we declare in the name of our population, in the name of our children and of our descendants, that we are considering any treaty which gives us up to a foreign power as a treaty null and void, and we will eternally revindicate the right of disposing of ourselves and of remaining French. Fighting France
The name of Sir Hardress Waller was to receive several mentions as he and his descendants had influence in the area for 300 years.
Reptiles are cold blooded scaly creatures like snakes, lizards, crocodiles and turtles, who are all descendants of the primitive reptile.
Eskimo and Aleut have enough similarities to justify the theory that they are descendants of a single ancestor language.
Most tribes are patrilineal, meaning that children are considered the father's descendants and men are viewed as the owners of all of the property. African Family Structures
The bioreactor has progressed immeasurably, as the early, noncomputerized models have evolved into smart descendants. GEN News Highlights
The Creoles, the black people of the Caribbean region, are the descendants of colonial-era slaves, Jamaican merchants, and West Indian laborers.
He and a few friends had founded a so-called Merovingian Party, which advocated, by means of posters and pamphlets, the return of Chilperic’s descendants to the throne. The Sion Revelation
Cat registries could, however, stop you from showing the descendants of those longhairs and from using such cats legitimately in your breeding program.
She assembled an impressive array of photographs and memorabilia from the former residents and their descendants.
To put it another way, ancestors of stick insects that did not resemble sticks did not leave descendants.
Horizontal lines represent crosses, thick horizontal lines are consanguineous crosses, and vertical lines represent descendants from such matings.
Their descendants, too, have hidden and sometimes even destroyed potentially scandalous objects.
Sixth century monks in leather coracles knew this, so too did Vikings of the 9th and 10th centuries and Gaeilc-speaking descendants in galleys and birlinns.
Minokawa T, Amemiya S (1999) Timing of the potential of micromere-descendants in echinoid embryos to induce endoderm differentiation of mesomere-descendants. PLoS Biology: New Articles
They were the direct descendants of the Dutch settlers.
An assumption such as that would be wholly limiting and likely erroneous in light of the varied and fluid lives proto-Ruvu speakers and their descendants have lived since their initial settlement in the region, as well as the more obvious point that speakers of a language do not have an essential biogenetic link to prior speakers of a language. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
One of the descendants is an investment counselor and another a Ph.D. Mrs. [Megan] Smolenyak Smolenyak described them as “poster children” for immigrant America, with Irish, Jewish, Italian and Scandinavian surnames. Start Spreading the News
But to imagine that such a thing enters the heads of a great and growing majority of immigrants and their descendants is a ludicrous misconception, and a dangerous one to boot. Could Someone Please Explain This To Me ?
Englishmen and Americans raised on the classics sympathized with those they took to be descendants of Pericles. The Disloyal Opposition
I am what your descendants will call a psionic computer. Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel
The scale of service demanded by Alfred and his descendants was unprecedented, the garrisons of the burghs alone represented a standing army of almost 30,000 without the fyrd.
Linguistic evidence that these diverse communities intermingled to some extent with these PNECB descendants is found in their modern language descendants 'lexis. 10 Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
That is, all Cyanobacteria and algal chloroplasts are, together, all of the descendants of some unique common ancestral cyanobacterium.
Often the founders or their descendants, they tend to take a longer-term view than purely financial investors and are more concerned with issues such as reputation. Times, Sunday Times
They are descendants of the original English and Scottish settlers.
Both the mysticetes and odontocetes are thought to be descendants of the archaeocetes.
Even if they are tonked, the fixture will gladden hearts in a few towns in Patagonia, where descendants of Welsh settlers still speak Welsh and hold eisteddfods.
The latter had a knack for persuading descendants of Chinese nobles to part with their inherited treasures, including rare paintings and porcelains with imperial provenances.
Dylan's bedroom soliloquies and I-just-bit-a-lemon frowns look like the usual diaristic fumblings of self-navigation that have snowballed lately into a culture of confessional YouTube clips -- canonical descendants of the LonelyGirl15 character who, if she appeared back in the '80s, might just have written bad poetry and shelved it in her closet. Jeremy Axelrod: "quarterlife": Gen-Y Bloggers Shake The Cradle
Sierra Leone20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians Ethnic groups
They disappeared along with the dinosaurs when that period ended, leaving no modern descendants.
The Ndebele are the descendants of the great Zulu peoples in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Zealotry or Zeal, when will we see a New Zimbabwe?
Hence the existing members of the Society of Friends are a race who probably contained in the first instance an unduly large proportion of colour-blind men, and from whose descendants many of those who were not born colour blind have year by year been drafted away. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
The term Creole originally denoted descendants of the French and Spanish settlers in Louisiana as well as slaves born in the New World. Fresno Famous - Discover local life
Then perhaps a hundred thousand people can change the trend, if they and their descendants labor for five hundred years.
The individuals of an existing species, say dogs, can never acquire the peculiar features of another species; nor can their descendants, if we except hybrids, ever become animals in which the characteristics of the dog tribe are irrecognisable. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
The creators of that music were descendants of slaves like Joe “King” Oliver, Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton, and Louis Armstrong, and men who had been the half-naked children of the old, dark, fat Sicilians of Little Palermo. A Renegade History of the United States
Even if their great-grandfathers could still find such unowned pieces of property, it is clear that they have failed to leave ‘enough and as good’ for their descendants.
Museum interns have researched the families, and docents show us photographs of descendants.
Genesis 17 expressly stipulates that all descendants of Abraham - that is, all who follow the ordinances of the God of Israel - are to be circumcised; rather, that the males are to be circumcised.

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