How To Use Inherited In A Sentence

  • Alcohol abuse can be inherited but researchers had found few genes directly linked to it. The Sun
  • In addition to receiving the best education that the South could offer blacks at that time, Ella inherited a powerful sense of service that made her civil rights efforts extraordinarily unselfish and untiring.
  • The scientists cannot say if the "hominin" was male or female, but adopted the name tag "X-woman" because the discovery was based on maternally inherited DNA. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • Hart's good - bad man was always an outsider, always one of the disinherited.
  • We are entering a new era of genetic medicine in which it is becoming possible to profile all people for their inherited risk of disease. Times, Sunday Times
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  • She is surrounded by the native wild ageratum, Conoclinium coelestinum inherited with the property and planted with bronze carex self sown seedlings. First Frost Of Fall « Fairegarden
  • Six months later their two sons inherited their parents' fortune as sole beneficiaries.
  • Current thinking is that some patients have inherited a predisposition to develop thyrotoxic periodic paralysis under the right set of circumstances. NYT > Home Page
  • Epidermolysis bullosa is a group of rare, inherited bullous disorders characterized by blister formation in the epidermal layer secondary to mechanical trauma.
  • My mother has inherited the photographs of her oldest friend who died aged 93 without any blood kin. Times, Sunday Times
  • He inherited an uneasy alliance of liberals and social democrats and he knew that, intellectually, the former had to prevail. Times, Sunday Times
  • When her father died in 1874, Hannah inherited two million pounds in cash, Mentmore and its priceless collection of art and furniture. Rothschild, Hannah de, Countess of Rosebery.
  • About to be disinherited from the family fortune, Stephen returns to home after a long estrangement and it happens to be the night his father is shot to death. The Inheritance by Simon Tolkien: Book summary
  • But the type of deafness I have inherited is associated at first with excessive along with diminished hearing, hypo - and hyperacusis combined. Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 3
  • African youth are caught between challenging authoritarian regimes they inherited and relying on the patronage networks within the national structure and its local interstices.
  • If we ignore such factors as selection, panmixia, correlation, and the effects of use and disuse during lifetime, and still regard the case of the domestic duck as a valid proof of the inheritance of the effects of use and disuse, we must also accept it as an equally valid proof that the effects of use and disuse are _not_ inherited. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin
  • Seagoing exhibition - descended from two generations of seamen, Leonard Shiel has inherited a great love of 'seagoing'. Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • HAE is a genetic disorder affecting approximately 6,000 to 10,000 Americans and is caused by a deficiency of C1-INH, which is inherited in an autosomal dominant manner. Undefined
  • Scorpene inherited the twin problems of extreme multiple personality.
  • Against this, however, stood the successful isolation of the political resistance organizations and the overwhelmingly closed nature of the different social milieux inherited from the Weimar period.
  • In the past land was communal property that could not be sold or inherited.
  • Medieval Britain inherited around 10,000 miles of Roman road, combined with an extensive network of trackways following less clearly defined routes.
  • Revenue are going after people in a blunderbuss approach without making allowances for the fact that some people have inherited this problem.
  • His father had inherited the Acton family baronetcy and his mother was the heiress of a German nobleman, the Duke of Dalberg.
  • There were figs, walnuts, mulberries, apples, pears, damsons, gooseberries, elderberries, raspberries - and chickens, which we had inherited from the previous owners.
  • All crimes great and small could be traced to postcapitalist avarice, egoism, sloth, parasitism, drunkenness, religious prejudices or inherited depravity. Gorky Park
  • Although the mechanisms which permit modification of behavior are inherited, learned behavior does not emerge from, and is not an extension of, the unlearned behavior of the individual.
  • For example, a family history of multiple relatives with Down syndrome suggests an inherited translocation, not sporadic non-disjunction.
  • But now we know that meaningless isochrons can be ‘inherited’ from pre-existing rocks.
  • First, much adaptation appeared to be non-genetic and regulated by the environment, not by the inherited genotype.
  • It also raises the prospect of more extensive prenatal screening for inherited disease, which is currently offered only to high-risk couples because of the danger of miscarriage. Times, Sunday Times
  • It has been demonstrated that a blood protein deficiency is the cause of this inherited illness. Hives, urticaria, angiodema, allergic reactions
  • His group systematically unravelled many disease mechanisms in different forms of myasthenia gravis, including rare inherited forms. Times, Sunday Times
  • Inherited oil-bearing fluid inclusions identified in those samples are hosted in a well-cemented and partially recrystallized, rounded pebble of sandstone.
  • An inherited factor is established but there are other contributory causes. The Dictionary of Modern Herbalism
  • Too bad his son inherited his mother's virtues of pettiness and badger-like meanness.
  • Much of this waste was caused because we inherited a government that didn't keep track of spending. The Sun
  • Human as it sounds, loss aversion appears to be a trait we've inherited genetically because it is found in other primates, such as capuchin monkeys. Archive 2008-04-01
  • My grandfather always had a farm, or finca , very near Madrid and my mother then inherited it, and we have been going there since we were very little. Agatha Ruiz de la Prada Practices Staying in Bed
  • It means the twins inherited a different combination of genes from their parents. The Sun
  • We all have aspects that we don't much like: either inherited from the previous owner, or mistakes that we have made ourselves.
  • The remaining third of cases are linked to lifestyle choices or defective inherited genes, the study concludes. Times, Sunday Times
  • A clear example of a mutation altering development is the inherited genetic defect, sickle cell anaemia.
  • It was 25 years before these groups were shown to be inherited as Mendelian characters by means of three allelomorphic genes A, B and O and were, in fact, entities of one blood group system.
  • Deoxyribonuclease, or recombinant human deoxyribonuclease 1 (rhDNase or DNase), is an experimental drug used to treat cystic fibrosis, an inherited lung disease.
  • Sickle cell anemia is an inherited blood disease that can cause bouts of pain, damage to vital organs and, sometimes, death in childhood.
  • That which is patrimonial is that which is inherited from the ancestral past.
  • But he also inherited a love of mechanics. Times, Sunday Times
  • The productivity performance he has inherited is particularly feeble. Times, Sunday Times
  • So a Creature object will contain the species field in addition to the name and description fields inherited from the Thing class.
  • They can also be an inherited condition. The Sun
  • Familial adenomatous polyposis is inherited by transmission of a mutation of the APC gene on chromosome 5.
  • We have an innate nature, because we have inherited genes from our most successful ancestors.
  • The inherited interior – also previously an office – was not particularly grand, but any standout details were to be retained (such as marble mosaic floor tiles in the entrance area, a number of marble-inlaid fireplaces and highly detailed ceiling cornicing). Manchester Square Interior by SHH
  • The productivity performance he has inherited is particularly feeble. Times, Sunday Times
  • In some cases there is an inherited predisposition to produce specific antibodies, but often there is a more general sensitivity. The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide
  • It includes detailed descriptions of common genetic anomalies and inherited diseases, and of diagnostic procedures. The Developing Child (7th edn.)
  • They suspected that the explanation may lie partly in a phenomenon called "imprinting" - differing activity of genes due to chemical modifications depending on whether they are inherited from the mother or the father. New Scientist - Online News
  • Wherefore -- Greek, "For which cause," namely, because thou hast inherited, didst once possess, and I trust ( "am persuaded") still dost possess, such unfeigned faith [Alford]. stir up -- literally, "rekindle," "revive the spark of"; the opposite of Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • I know I shall not be able to describe this trait, yet when I look up into her eyes -- eyes, remember, which are mere fictions of my imagination -- when I look into her face, when I see her move so statelily into my presence, I recognize there that portion of her which she has inherited from the Aphrodite of other days; and this I know is beauty. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
  • Inherited patterns of ageing begin to show in our thirties and fine lines and wrinkles may start to appear.
  • Mulla Sadra inherited a variety of theories ranging from Platonic recollection (anamnesis) and division to Peripatetic syllogistics, definitions and axiomatic science. Mulla Sadra
  • AN inherited dislike of bitter food may make some people eat too much salt. The Sun
  • Pieta lifted her brows slightly as he spoke, for fearful though she was, she knew not her true heritage and had never been told from where she inherited her exotic looks.
  • In the Lebanon, his bodyguard-driven, old Mercedes had bullet holes down one side inherited from a previous owner (the prime minister).
  • Under the English common law of feme covert – which was also the law in Massachusetts – married women had no right to own property, and the personal property a married daughter inherited from her father immediately became the legal possession of her husband, who could exert full powers of ownership over it. History of American Women
  • This stepped up basis greatly reduced taxes on the sale of inherited property. Christianity Today
  • The productivity performance he has inherited is particularly feeble. Times, Sunday Times
  • Family GuyFamily Guy inherited the dysfunctional family mantle - or perhaps mantlepiece, since it's still all suburban - and pushed the boundaries further than The Simpsons has in a long time, frequently offending at least eight separate special interest groups in one 23 minute show. The Flintstones celebrate 50 year anniversary with a Google doodle
  • We can illustrate this with a country with a trade account that is in balance but an external debt inherited from the past (prior trade deficits, war reparations, etc.).
  • Multiple sets of sound correspondences can be used to distinguish loans from inherited words.
  • Our son even inherited Thomas' outgrown clothes.
  • Early results appear to show staggering progress on inherited conditions such as liver disease and muscular dystrophy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The trust of the disinherited was further shattered and disowned by the disingenuous attitude of the state.
  • Unfortunately, the early nineteen-eighties were not perhaps the best years for small, traditional, inherited merchant banks. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
  • More serious dry skin conditions, such as the inherited group of disorders called ichthyosis, can sometimes be disfiguring and may cause psychological distress to people living with them.
  • The evolution of inherited forms of behavior is as plausible as the evolution of any function of the organism when the environment can be regarded as reasonably stable.
  • My father inherited from his father and from his father. The Sun
  • From her he had inherited his mysticism and his occult powers.
  • He inherited a big fortune from his.
  • That is another debatable point seeing he inherited the players most pivotal to Champions League success. The Sun
  • In the inherited and still influential constructions of Africa, the continent designates difference and alterity.
  • It will mean an immediate end to all inherited privilege and a drastic reduction in income inequality.
  • She inherited her father 's love of art and eye for detail. Times, Sunday Times
  • Oh, Adele left me - as I always half expected she would - after Rochester disinherited me.
  • Wolfgang Wagner, who disinherited his brother's children and his own son to leave Bayreuth in the hands of two rival daughters, Eva and Katharina, was the last grandchild to be dandled on Cosima's meddlesome knee. Keeper Of the Shrine
  • The cultured, slightly hooked nose she had inherited from her mother should have looked sharp on a thin face like hers, but to me it had always held an air of regality.
  • The owner of one stall enthused about the rich tradition of cheesemaking he'd inherited, along with his flock of sheep, to a crocodile of rapt schoolchildren.
  • Researchers report for the first time that genetic variants in mitochondria -- energy-producing structures harboring DNA that are inherited only from the mother -- are directly linked to metabolic markers for type 2 diabetes. August 10th, 2007
  • The rhetoric inherited from the Victorian world insists that prostitutes were penniless waifs of the street, servant girls who were seduced and abandoned, or the coarse streetwalkers hardened by city life.
  • A quick Latin lesson: flocci is derived from floccus, literally a tuft of wool and the source of English words like flocculate, but figuratively in Latin something trivial; pili is likewise the plural of pilus, a hair, which we have inherited in words like depilatory, but which in Latin could meant a whit, jot, trifle or generally something insignificant; nihili is from nihil, nothing, as in words like nihilism and annihilate; nauci just means worthless. source The Floccinaucinihilipilificators
  • English inherited film from its Germanic roots, but borrowed the word cinema from French. The English Is Coming!
  • RLS is essentially a stepchild of other neurologic disorders such as Parkinsonism and anxiety, conditions to which it is unrelated but whose pharmacologic treatments it has inherited.
  • Like most of Latin America, Chile inherited an inquisitorial legal system from Spain.
  • His indignant parents promptly disinherited him, and Joly went to work as a secretary to put him through medical school.
  • He inherited a strong work ethic from his father, Bob, a publican in Coatbridge, and from the coaches who moulded his early years in football.
  • We will enter into the question of inherited characteristics at a future time.
  • I would guess that there actually is float in the present setup, however, because I'd bet that the payment contracts for e-merchandise have inherited payment terms boilerplated from contracts written for physical merchandise. Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it
  • He cast himself as an urban philosopher whose overarching theory, which he called Gothic Futurism, posited that graffiti writers were trying to liberate the mystical power of letters from the strictures of modern alphabetical standardization and had inherited this mission from medieval monks. NYT > Home Page
  • Inherited genes may lead to certain physiological effects, which could account for personality traits common among entrepreneurs, such as extroversion and openness to new experiences, Shane says. Entrepreneur.com: Latest Articles
  • A clear example of a mutation altering development is the inherited genetic defect, sickle cell anaemia.
  • Many benefit from consultation with a specialist in cardiomyopathy and may be referred to other specialists in metabolism, genetics, and or neurology, if an inherited or systemic disorder related to cardiomyopathy is suspected. Cardiomyopathy
  • Sadly, she inherited none of her father's musical talent .
  • When punter Josh Bidwell went down in pregame warm-ups with a hip injury, place kicker Graham Gano inherited the punting duties - something he had done in college at Florida State. Graham Gano shows some rust as emergency punter
  • He inherited his barony at the age of 19 and was an ardent exclusionist, voting Lord Stafford guilty in 1680.
  • His professional interests include movement and inherited neurological disorders, with special interest in experimental therapeutics, neuropharmacology, public policy, and clinical trials.
  • Inherited verbal or other social responses are fragmentary and trivial.
  • She has inherited his long eyelashes and her mother's slender fingers. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unfortunately, the early nineteen-eighties were not perhaps the best years for small, traditional, inherited merchant banks. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
  • Inasmuch as the disinherison or omission by parents of their children has generally no good reason, those children who complain that they have been wrongfully disinherited or passed over have been allowed to bring an action impeaching the will as unduteous, under the pretext that the testator was of unsound mind at the time of its execution. The Institutes of Justinian
  • At all times, then, the sacrificial worship of Israel existed, and had great importance attached to it, but in the earlier period it rested upon custom, inherited from the fathers, in the post-exilian on the law of Jehovah, given through Moses. Prolegomena
  • The one advantage he did possess was inherited wealth, which he pledged to spend for the benefit of others.
  • Abortion may be due to pathological changes in the ovum, the uterus, or its adnexa one or both -- to the physical or nervous condition of the woman, to diseases either inherited or acquired (syphilis, tuberculosis, rheumatism); to any infectious, contagious, or inflammatory disease; to shock, injury, or accident. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • Sometimes the cardiomyopathy is inherited (passed down through families because of a genetic difference). Cardiomyopathy
  • More than most well-educated, middle-class talents of his generation, he footled his life away as a forlorn, frustrated flaneur, squandering several inherited fortunes to achieve renown only under a false name playing an elaborate practical joke.
  • So Labour inherited that situation, but we asked what would happen in a case of someone who has offended against a victim, but who has been rightly punished by society.
  • But the racially excluded, the economically disinherited, and the psychologically wounded certainly do.
  • And must the disinherited knight, whose blood has been warmed in the company of the tender and beautiful Rebecca, sit down contented for life by the side of such a frigid piece of propriety as that icy, faultless, prim, niminy-piminy Rowena?
  • She inherited a fortune from her grandmother.
  • It grew from the traditional commercial letter of credit, and inherited the characteristics of the letter of credit, independence principle and strict compliance standard and so on.
  • And he blamed the Conservatives for what he characterized as frittering away the $12-billion surplus they inherited from Martin's administration in 2006. Top Stories - Google News
  • At 25 he inherited a fortune and become a multimillionaire.
  • Although a landed gentleman and a locally venerated "pir," or Sufi saint (an inherited mantle), Fahim is a totally secular, moderate, pragmatic social democrat as well as a mystic poet. Pakistan’s New Prime Minister?
  • He has inherited his mother's patience.
  • In a Parliament of May 18, 1584, such declinature of royal jurisdiction was, by "The Black Acts," made treason: Episcopacy was established; the heirs of Gowrie were disinherited; Angus, Mar, and other rebels were forfeited. A Short History of Scotland
  • Would you quit your job if you inherited lots of money?
  • 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.
  • Was this due to the financial situation inherited from the administration before them?
  • This disorder is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait.
  • This new study builds on that work by identifying or confirming a raft of genes we inherited from our prehistoric relations. Times, Sunday Times
  • After the murder of his father Karzai inherited the title khan ( "head") of the 500,000-strong Popolzai — the Pashtoon clan of Ahmad Shah Durrani, the Persian army commander who conquered the southern Afghan city of Kandahar and in 1747 became the first king of Afghanistan. The Lawless Frontier
  • A quick Latin lesson: flocci is derived from floccus, literally a tuft of wool and the source of English words like flocculate, but figuratively in Latin something trivial; pili is likewise the plural of pilus, a hair, which we have inherited in words like depilatory, but which in Latin could meant a whit, jot, trifle or generally something insignificant; nihili is from nihil, nothing, as in words like nihilism and annihilate; nauci just means worthless. source The Floccinaucinihilipilificators
  • Cemetery managers, like parishes, have inherited an unenviable legacy from past generations.
  • All or a portion of the cash you inherited can pass to your daughters without being treated as a gift as long as you sign a disclaimer.
  • Consequently, linked blocks of genes are inherited intact in the form of whole chromosomes from fathers, while loci on chromosomes from mothers assort randomly.
  • Genetic counseling. Cystinosis is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner.
  • Two hours ago the last piece of furniture left the condo, the sleeper sofa I inherited with the place, an orange relic of the former owners.
  • In 1917, the Bolsheviks inherited a health situation from imperial Russia that was appalling.
  • In other cases, such as some inherited neurological disorders, an extreme hereditarian explanation is correct.
  • Bone marrow and stem cell transplants help treat certain cancers, such as leukemia and lymphoma, and some noncancerous conditions, such as aplastic anemia and some inherited immune disorders.
  • -- It is a quick saying with the Spaniards, Artes inter haeredes non dividi. {25b} Yet these have inherited their fathers 'lying, and they brag of it. Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
  • Land is typically bought, sold, and inherited without official documentation (no government has ever carried out a cadastral survey).
  • We use a non-standard signalling on most of our trackage, except for parts that we inherited from another operator.
  • English-speakers then absorbed the French word for the game, employing English variations of the French plural eschecs, including chesses and chestes and chesse, before settling on chess, which carries the vestigial -s ending inherited from the French. The English Is Coming!
  • The inheritance of apospory has been investigated in a considerable number of plant species and, remarkably, is always inherited as a monogenic dominant trait.
  • Liz looked at her beautiful child and wished that Beth had inherited the fairness of her complexion and the straightness of her hair from George.
  • It cannot be denied that our "think so's," "feel so's," impressions, prejudices and inherited or preconceived ideas may seem as infallible to us as any so-called axiomatic or intuitive truths. To Infidelity and Back
  • However, scientists feel that a set of predisposing genes inherited from one's parents is likely to be required.
  • As for his ever having been disinherited, that is a newspaper story, pure and simple. The Four Pools Mystery
  • Alex hadn't inherited her mother's daintiness.
  • The desire to reach higher leaves led to longer necks, and later on, the giraffes ' offspring inherited that physical trait.
  • The term creationism had previously referred to the creation of traducianism, where souls were said to have been inherited from one's parents. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • It includes detailed descriptions of common genetic anomalies and inherited diseases, and of diagnostic procedures. The Developing Child (7th edn.)
  • She said that African customary law of inheritance traditionally followed the rule of primogeniture - or oldest ancestor - where the oldest male relative inherited the estate.
  • On his father's death in 1869 he inherited the baronetcy and the proprietorship of the Athenaeum and Notes and Queries.
  • According to the scandalmongers, the then Prince of Wales had inherited these emeralds from Alexandra for the purpose of passing them down to his future wife, the next queen of England.
  • American universities inherited a choral tradition from England where, centuries ago, student choruses gathered to sing songs with different vocal parts known as glees. Yale Glee Club Hits a High Note
  • She has inherited her mother's stubborn streak.
  • As layered rebuses of meaning with an exceptional iconographic density, they visually manipulated inherited codes of social value, adroitly invoking both positive and negative contemporary references.
  • A parishioner of mine has a son who suffers with Choroideremia, a rare inherited disorder that causes progressive loss of vision due to degeneration of the choroid and retina. Archive 2009-09-01
  • They have a grownup son, Joe Oliver Maltman, who has evidently inherited his dad's breezy, sarky, unreflective sense of humour, and whose still-unmarried condition concerns the parents not one whit. Another Year ? review
  • He also inherited a lot from his godfather two years ago but wasted it. The Sun
  • All of our cultural heritage which is useful should be inherited, but in a critical way.
  • When my grandmother died, I inherited a complete set of Dresden china.
  • The Church, however, has been unable to eradicate the blend of sacred and profane, spiritual and sensuous, life within death, which the East Slavs had inherited from their pagan ancestors.
  • People with inherited illnesses will also benefit. The Sun
  • At independence in 1980, Zimbabwe inherited a situation where a small minority of whites owned most of the country's best farmland.
  • Michael inherited the collection from his late father and the Penny Postcards as they were then called are completely catalogued.
  • In 1640, he inherited an army made up of mercenaries who lacked loyalty in the best of times.
  • That's a problem the government inherited. Times, Sunday Times
  • My three siblings and I inherited 800 undivided acres from our parents.
  • Not only a want of philanthropic feeling in their betters, but an inherited contempt for all small industry and retail dealing, has helped to hide them away from us: an _inherited_ contempt, because it is in fact a survival from an older social system, when the citizen did not need the work of the artisan and small retailer, but supplied all his own wants within the circle of his household, i.e. his own family and slaves, and produced on his farm the material of his food and clothing. Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero
  • New Yorker Mathias Gold, 50, in Israel Horovitz's My Old Lady, has inherited some French books and an apartment in Paris from his rich but unloving father, Max.
  • The mess they inherited looked beyond quick repair. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hopefully by now you will be aware of my colleague Travis - gadzooks, he is Timothy Claypole, and he seems to have inherited some of his magical powers. Archive 2005-10-01
  • The chateau was inherited by Marigny from his father in 1754 and in the same year its seigneurie was elevated into a marquisate, giving Marigny the title by which he is generally known.
  • The slaves, who were liberated by a generous master, immediately entered into the middle class of libertines or freedmen; but they could never be enfranchised from the duties of obedience and gratitude; whatever were the fruits of their industry, their patron and his family inherited the third part; or even the whole of their fortune, if they died without children and without a testament. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • I had inherited a lot of old electronic gear and bits and pieces from my father, who was into radio ham / electronic projects.
  • What is inherited is not the sickness but sickliness: the lack of strength to resist the danger of infections, etc., the broken resistance; morally speaking, resignation and meekness in face of the enemy.
  • Few governments have inherited such a miserable economic situation, but that is not the core of the problem. Times, Sunday Times
  • From Shachtman he inherited his signature theories of democratic Marxism and bureaucratic collectivism, as well as his socialist outrage at the communist perversion of socialism.
  • Everything other problem or mistake he made he seemed to have "inherited" I sure hope when a Republican takes the White house in 2012 that he doesn't use this wienie excuse for every mistake he might make. ran DeMint: Senate could've voted on TSA chief 'months ago'
  • Thus, from the Assyrian researches as well as from other sources, it has come to be acknowledged by the most eminent scholars at the leading seats of Christian learning that the accounts of creation with which for nearly two thousand years all scientific discoveries have had to be "reconciled" -- the accounts which blocked the way of Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and Laplace -- were simply transcribed or evolved from a mass of myths and legends largely derived by the Hebrews from their ancient relations with Chaldea, rewrought in a monotheistic sense, imperfectly welded together, and then thrown into poetic forms in the sacred books which we have inherited. A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
  • That's a problem the government inherited. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her pale complexion and striking eyes, inherited from her beloved Scottish father, have made Kathaleeya McIntosh one of Thailand's most beautiful and bankable stars.
  • Two inherited disorders affecting pyrimidine biosynthesis are the result of deficiencies in the bifunctional enzyme catalyzing the last two steps of UMP synthesis, orotate phosphoribosyl transferase and OMP decarboxylase.
  • In addition, those who have an inherited predisposition to cancer may be more susceptible to environmental carcinogens such as radiation.
  • It is clear that the traits William has inherited from his mother are also reinforced from a legacy on his father's side too.
  • The mess they inherited looked beyond quick repair. Times, Sunday Times
  • How information about the fundamental niche can be inherited, when it is rarely realized, is not understood.
  • We inherited a sofa and a couple of armchairs, as well as a fridge from friends who'd moved out.
  • For his part, my husband inherited a good portion of his furnishings from the home of his late mother (who he lived with and cared for up to the day of her passing). Miss Melanie's House
  • The choice fell on Lord Gorell, the son of an eminent judge who had inherited his title from his elder brother.
  • Kaylin happily inherited these, having been taught to knit by the ballerina, and she turned out an endless supply of garter-stitched scarves. Places You Haunt
  • A hot-tempered celebrity who had dated Zetrakis and was fired from his show some years ago, Joey has inherited a million-dollar Klimt from him. Dead Ex by Harley Jane Kozak: Book summary
  • Superior to his two partners in social rank and inherited connections, he lacked their ability to organize support and their total dedication to the pursuit of power.
  • In accommodating the redoubtable spine of the side Strachan inherited, only Aliadiere of the summer striking signings was deployed from the start.
  • Frank declines to say whether he inherited anything, squirming with embarrassment when the issue is raised. Times, Sunday Times
  • His successor was his younger brother's younger son, Albert I, a man who, though lacking, of course, his uncle's greater experience, seemed to have inherited some of his intellectual qualities. The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers
  • An inherited and unwieldy system that provides more than enough for the few and not enough for the many? Times, Sunday Times

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