How To Use Parentage In A Sentence

  • He recalls that, in the painful heat of the moment, he was ‘the first to miscall the parentage’ of the future Scotland manager.
  • The methodology is applicable to the investigation of parentage for all progeny developed from parental mating without subsequent generations of inbreeding.
  • Well his background, his parentage and his ancestry was Jewish.
  • The novel starts when a child of unknown parentage is left at the house of the local priest.
  • The explanation lies in their mixed parentage. Times, Sunday Times
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  • But whatever the parentage, this new decentralized way admits to no national origin nor exclusive use by anyone.
  • An action for declarator of parentage, non-parentage, legitimacy, legitimation or illegitimacy may be brought in the Court of Session or the Sheriff Court.
  • Now, every bloody tale from a slasher series such as Halloween to the video nasties of the 1970s can trace some element of their parentage back to Psycho.
  • Glaucophane and riebeckite are found in low-grade schists of basic igneous parentage; crocidolite occurs in medium-grade metamorphosed ironstones.
  • The nineteen-year-old in question is precociously hirsute on account of his Mediterranean parentage.
  • But big decisions like this always have a myriad of motivations behind them and multiple parentage.
  • For example, when an offspring and parent share rare alleles, confidence in parentage is higher than when sharing common alleles.
  • What make this automatic 50% of surnames excision particularly galling is that for almost all of us, the only parentage we can claim with certainty is maternal. Great Scots
  • With over a million people of mixed parentage, a diverse Britain is fast becoming the norm. The Sun
  • Baidu is often described in the press as China's "home-grown" internet portal and search service, as though its native parentage somehow explains the company's reported pliancy in acquiescing to government censorship demands. Peter Scheer: More Power to Google in China: Why Does US-Backed Baidu.com Get a Pass?
  • Calves were born between late February and mid May in each calving year and were identified for parentage at birth.
  • I may have questioned his parentage. Times, Sunday Times
  • Howsoever, quod iterum maneo, I would advise thee thus much, be she fair or foul, to choose a wife out of a good kindred, parentage, well brought up, in an honest place. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • She's a Londoner of mixed parentage .
  • Growing up spoiled in a life of luxury just down river from the Taj Mahal, at fifteen the news of Pran's true parentage is revealed to his father and he is tossed out into the streeta pariah and an outcast. The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru: Questions
  • The grotesque comedy of the couvade, which proved a tragedy so often for the poor mother compelled by the custom to rise in her weakness and even neglect her new-born baby, in order to do double work and to tempt the appetite of her lord after his make-believe pangs of childbirth, was one sign that primitive consciousness found the new knowledge of double parentage very exciting. The Family and it's Members
  • He slammed his fist down on the snooze button and brought into question its parentage.
  • The game I'll play later tonight owes its parentage to a program written in 1958.
  • Nearly 200,000 men of Irish parentage fought there, and when the war ended, some headed for the old country, conspicuous in their felt hats and square-toed shoes.
  • Most often, children of dual racial parentage are identified with whichever race their physical features most reflect.
  • The matter was rested for the remainder of the show, barring several interspersed comments on the alleged dubiety of his parentage.
  • He sent for all the boys of noblest parentage out of all their tribes, and placed them in the great city of Osca, where he appointed masters to instruct them in the Grecian and The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
  • Georg Cantor was born in Russia of Danish - Jewish parentage.
  • What took me a long time actually to remember is that bronchial adenomas share the same parentage with oat-cell carcinomas.
  • Born in the United States of Barbadian parentage, she must somehow bridge the gap between two identities that are often in conflict.
  • So much of it so far has been about the pet store and buying purebreds, and that desire to have a “clean” dog, both in history and parentage, is part of the problem. Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs Book 14 » Manga Worth Reading
  • Apparently, the media knew Aaron had secretly given his servant a child to care for, but they mistook the boy's parentage.
  • It should mean an end to questions about his parentage. Times, Sunday Times
  • Having already been burned on the Rove-is-indicted and the Iranian Jewish-star stories last month, I am certainly willing to read and discuss alternate points of view on this story, ratchet up my healthy skepticism, and I am more than happy to do it in a civil discourse as opposed to some of the more energetic methods at other blogs and sites wherein the writer's parentage is called into question and accusations of indecent conduct with certain barnyard creatures are levelled. June 2006
  • He begins a marathon of jokes and cynicism about the identity of Hero's parentage.
  • Or would they adopt the Nazi model and look at parentage to establish how English someone's heritage was?
  • They are chiefly of Jewish parentage.
  • There are some Moroccans, Algerians, Canadians, Germans, Americans and children with Indonesian and French parentage.
  • Indeed, common place of origin is often connected with genos, one's origins by common descent and parentage.
  • But biological parents aren't always preferable to adoptive ones, and biological parentage does not convey an absolute ownership that cancels all the rights of children.
  • That's not to mention clauses whose parentage and application is a matter of legal dispute. Times, Sunday Times
  • In contrast, we quantified the activity of PDC in root tissues from a much larger number of tolerant and intolerant rice lines with a shared parentage.
  • Thou art called a Jew; not so much in parentage as profession. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • Because of their boisterous natures and their genteel parentage these rascals are destined to wind up having many exciting adventures together!
  • To simulate a situation in which neither parent is known, the assignment of parentage was divided into two parts.
  • Simply by being alive, by being brought up in south London and having mixed parentage, he was an original.
  • Like so many adoptive children he is caught up in a compulsive search to discover the truth about his real parentage.
  • This study provides empirical support for the use of likelihood analysis to infer parentage of progeny with multiple compatible parent pairs.
  • You derive your respectable parentage, if I am not greatly mistaken, from a land which has afforded much pleasure, as well as profit, to those who have traded to it successfully, — I mean that part of the terra incognita which is called the province of Utopia. The Monastery
  • A High Court judge yesterday reserved judgment in the first stage of the legal action to help people conceived by donor insemination to discover more about their parentage.
  • Indeed, common place of origin is often connected with genos, one's origins by common descent and parentage.
  • Very nearly the first hundred pages are devoted to her parentage, schooling, courtship and marriage.
  • One clue to the possible identity of the Magdalen in Gnostic eyes is to be found in her parentage.
  • I have Welsh parentage, Welsh ancestry, was taught the Welsh language at school, and indeed I have lived in Wales.
  • Understand then (Noble Ladies) that neere to Sicily, there is a small Island, commonly called Liparis, wherein (not long since) lived a yong Damosell, named Constance, born of very sufficient parentage in the same Island. The Decameron
  • A court wrangle over the legal parentage of the children will now be heard in the New Year in a unique case which is likely to raise a host of highly-complex moral and human questions.
  • Unlike Achilles, who enjoyed divine maternity, Odysseus is solely of human parentage.
  • Though their parentage is uncertain, most stories hold that the Muses were the daughters of Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, and Zeus. Goddess Inspiration Oracle: the Muses | the blog of author, illustrator and designer Kris Waldherr
  • Growing up spoiled in a life of luxury just down river from the Taj Mahal, at fifteen the news of Pran's true parentage is revealed to his father and he is tossed out into the street - a pariah and an outcast. The Impressionist: Summary and book reviews of The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru.
  • Questioning his parentage vocally I went after him, crawled on my belly under the futon, and strained my arm out to retrieve the little plastic bag.
  • One of the bonus side effects of toxic parentage is a lack of childhood memories, so paper images also function as tangible proof of an events you can't recall. Scan your life
  • He is of mixed parentage: half Dutch, half English.
  • Its remote parentage would fully account for its being designated "scholion eusebiou," all the same. The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established
  • In chambers today in Los Angeles, the judge presiding over this case decided that he, in fact, has jurisdiction over what he calls parentage issues. CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2006
  • In a smaller community, the members of a subculture - all four of them - would be known by name, background and parentage.
  • So much of it so far has been about the pet store and buying purebreds, and that desire to have a ‘clean’ dog, both in history and parentage, is part of the problem. Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs Book 14 » Manga Worth Reading
  • The novel starts when a child of unknown parentage is left at the house of the local priest.
  • We certainly have the modern technology, and it is very simple these days - through buccal smears, tissue samples, and, of course, blood - to be extremely certain of parentage.
  • She knew no parents; those in the Service never learned their parentage.
  • He was born in France in 1670 of unknown parentage .
  • I have Welsh parentage, Welsh ancestry, was taught the Welsh language at school, and indeed I have lived in Wales.
  • That's not to mention clauses whose parentage and application is a matter of legal dispute. Times, Sunday Times
  • She was conceived in Jamaica, and may have been of mixed racial parentage. The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History
  • She is of mixed Australian and Japanese parentage.
  • Weisz, a London native of Hungarian and Austrian parentage, previously appeared in such films as The Mummy, Enemy at the Gates and Runaway Jury.
  • Review by Simon Caulkin As a genre, the business documentary has a respectable literary parentage.
  • I think she wants to console me for my belowstairs parentage. Times, Sunday Times
  • I think she wants to console me for my belowstairs parentage. Times, Sunday Times
  • Born of Russian parentage, Robin never new his father and it was a standing joke that he would probably bump into him when one of the many Soviet dance troupes visited Wimbledon Theatre.
  • Chiluba's parentage and educational background are both in dispute.
  • But we cannot afford to withdraw a million male adults who have passed a strictish health test from the work of parentage for several years unless we intend to breed our next generation from parents with short sight, varicose veins, rotten teeth, and deranged internal organs. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index
  • It was hard to comprehend that they discovered my true parentage before I did. Times, Sunday Times
  • Origin tales: Thoegeny calls Cheiron the offspring of Phillyra; the Gigantomachia and Pherekydes elaborate that Kronos took on the form of a horse to mate with her; Pindar n Pythian 4 later uses this parentage, and implies his Cheiron is married to Charilko -- who is attested in art, shown as entirely human, and with human offspring. The Origins of Centaurs
  • When he shows reservations in embarking on an affair with her, she points out to him that as an illegitimate son, his parentage is uncertain, to which Spurio agrees. Final drafting stuff:
  • Review by Simon Caulkin As a genre, the business documentary has a respectable literary parentage.
  • “The river-nymphs, as daughters of Oceanus, and thus of immortal parentage, are bound to possess organs of more than mortal keenness; but, as you say, the song was not so bad — erudite, as well as prettily conceived — and, saving for a certain rustical simplicity and monosyllabic baldness, smacks rather of the forests of Castaly than those of Torridge.” Westward Ho!
  • He claimed the Kiwis mocked his English parentage and lack of enthusiasm for rugby; they thought he was a self-absorbed sulker.
  • By the spring of 1924, all grafts on mockernut had died except the Barnes, the Gobble and the Long Beach, and each of these is thought to have mockernut parentage. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924
  • In a pointed dissent, Justice Eugene Nardelli took a "dimmer" view of Lillian S. 's behavior, saying that she played "fast and loose" with her youngest son's health by concealing his true parentage from health care providers and creating "potentially life-threatening gaps" in his medical history. Law.com - Newswire
  • The definition of the term mulatto, as understood in this state, seems to be vague, signifying generally a person of mixed white or European and Negro parentage, in whatever proportions the blood of the two races may be mingled in the individual. The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays
  • The idea that people of mixed racial parentage and their descendants may have special needs is increasingly gaining ground.
  • Genetic parentage analyses provide a powerful approach to answering a variety of questions about parasitic birds.
  • But whatever the parentage, this new decentralized way admits to no national origin nor exclusive use by anyone.
  • While Oedipus loses his ability to name his parents due to his incest and parricide, Augustus loses his power to recognize parricide and incest because he has been denied the freedom to know his parentage.
  • My dog, Holly, was a gentle, gregarious, well - behaved seven - year - old of mixed parentage.
  • That's not to mention clauses whose parentage and application is a matter of legal dispute. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sweden's 200 or so breeders are experimenting widely, and charge more—up to 1,500 kronor $225—for a rabbit with prizewinning parentage. Rabbit, Run Is an Exhortation Oft Heard in England Now
  • Each of the 85 varieties profiled is given its own page, illustration and description of its parentage.
  • A company with French parentage runs the service.
  • He was born of Anglo-American parentage.
  • We focus on parentage because it is the primary focus of published literature and it is the easiest level of ancestry to understand.
  • In contrast, we quantified the activity of PDC in root tissues from a much larger number of tolerant and intolerant rice lines with a shared parentage.
  • Nothing is known about her parentage and background.
  • Gwyneth, with a mother who had loved her and with a proper parentage, but endowed with the temperament of an asp. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • Slim, of a lower middle-class urban parentage, was a product of the University Officer Training Corps system, which taught basic military skills to the better-educated with a view to a Territorial commission.
  • Microsatellites are used for parentage testing in all equine genetic laboratories around the world.
  • She is of mixed Australian and Japanese parentage.
  • The flowers that had received oak pollen did not show any oak parentage later in their progeny, and it was observed in other experiments in other years that almost any cupuliferous pollen would start cells of the chinquapin ovary into division and into the development of fertile nuts, but without inclusion of the pollen cell in Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916.
  • When he shows reservations in embarking on an affair with her, she points out to him that as an illegitimate son, his parentage is uncertain, to which Spurio agrees. Final drafting stuff:
  • So, however corrupt the parentage of the recall, it offers Californians a golden opportunity to send a historic message: that it's time to reorder our policy priorities and get back to serving the people.
  • He was born in France in 1670 of unknown parentage .

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