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Sentence Examples Feminists now challenge patriarchy by tracing their descent through the female rather than the male line. After Pearl Harbor, the vitriol against people of Japanese descent is represented in propaganda posters urging national unity through xenophobia. The latter parodically re-enacts Christ's incarnation and descent to earth. Indeed, common place of origin is often connected with genos, one's origins by common descent and parentage. Shocking though it is to hear of locals spitting into the gutter, the descent into howling barbarism is being quite successfully checked. This occurs when you try to add power while in a near-vertical descent from a hover. One Thai made the dangerous descent down into the flooded beach village and returned with rice and other nourishment for frightened tourists. Certain textual lines of descent are clear, between Homer, Apuleius, and Shakespeare, for example. Even the bust radio and lost radar bleeps sinking in the fluid can't pull it from its descent into something wetter than electronics. The descent down into the gully seemed like the hard section was in the beginning with some scrambling down boulders. This is the story of a young Scot of Pakistani descent and a young white woman of Irish descent. Huygens' ground track marches inexorably to the east, though the descent is now getting much steeper. He's squatting on his haunches, scooting along and slowing his descent by holding to the plants. Also known as the Meithei, the Manipuri are of Mongolian descent and speak a language called Meithei. This machine lived up to expectation with great climb and descent rates coupled with a low fuel burn. In 909 a leader claiming descent from Isma il proclaims himself the Mahdi and creates a state in North Africa. On their descent they were hit by a huge avalanche of massive rocks of snow. Austere and absorbing, Escape is a convincing descent into a maelstrom of anguish and, ultimately, deadly despair. His career began a downhill descent by showing up late for work, and when he did show, he arrived with a bad attitude. Tiny vivid goldcrests flurried about thistles, the cool descended, and I took the direct descent to the valley floor. Show More Sentences Its members claim descent from ancient Cossack families that inhabited regions associated with the Don, Kuban, and Terek Rivers. While it's going to be gravel time soon, also note that while the descent is asphalted, it is very technical and rather narrow. Cornishmen and Cornishwomen and members of their family by birth, marriage or descent are eligible for membership. Kenji slowly tore his gaze away from them as he began his descent from his impressive leap, only to meet a body corkscrewing through the air. Spins can be recognized by high descent and roll rates, and a flight path that is straight down. I have no means of telling how many polyglots of Chinese descent existed over time. Likewise, greed, a giving in to fleshly temptation, is a descent from human to animal. The broad story of Capote's ascent to literary greatness and descent into decades of writer's block in that time is well known. It took two days and a night, and involved the ascent of two mountains and an evening descent upon a rotten glacier. The cumulative effect of these descent scenes is to establish Spenser as the poet of initiations. The descent into the Etruscan tombs must have let him feel he was commingling with his father, father and son consubstantial. The course is ten miles long with a five mile climb to the summit and a very fast descent over scree and rocks. Intemperance in food will cause the rapid descent into degredation of one who has previously lived decently. These are the opposing explanations of natural or evolutionary descent and intelligent design. Goldberg's descent into pathetic lack of humanity has been a pitiful thing to watch. While Cuban exile leaders pine for a return to their ancestral home, many people of African descent in Cuba say they will never let that happen. But as they claim Arab descent and an Arab cultural identity, they make a convenient local ally for the Arabists. In this case, the best plan is to have a very shallow approach and a slow descent rate. Primacy is given to male lineal descendants in the male line of descent and women come very low in the order of heirs. The word once meant very literally the voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior. Show More Sentences At the top of this descent stood a single soldier encouraging the line to move ahead more quickly. All titles were heritable and followed the male line of descent almost exclusively. Contained in the impasse over the formation of a new government are the seeds of a descent into communal conflict and civil war. Neighbours commiserated her descent and her miserable sentence, but she saw it otherwise. For example, when a helicopter comes down the whole descent and eventual crash is depicted in intricate detail. Behind the scenes, of course, Elvis's descent was intensifying at rapid speed, helped along by a dependence on uppers, downers and painkillers. The entry, descent and landing system will utilise key technologies involving airbags and possibly retrorockets. Thinking of Plato as semi-divine, alien to us, is not so startling in a world in which great families claimed descent from the gods. We continued our descent to land as I called the tower and reported a failed engine. Many others throughout the kingdom assert patrilineal descent from eponymous ancestors from ancient Arab tribes. Some of the people follow matrilineal descent rules, while others follow patrilineal rules. They lead the caravan through the pass, towards the steep descent that marked its exit. They think of these groups as patrilineal descent groups, although they are in fact quite flexible in membership criteria. Because women marry into a patrilineal descent system, the children belong to the father. The images represent the spirits of people of African descent who died in the Middle Passage or later in the Americas. Outside the immediate family, the lineage and the clan are the most common descent groups. Railing the final descent at high speed I'm amped up and take the crowd's advice and drive the Surly right into the reservoir for a cool down. The play is a horror story, charting a young man's descent into madness in a rural Irish town. But Henry was anxious to promote his Lancastrian descent as this formed the basis to his royal claim. The condition arises when the paired frontalis muscles lose tone in response to gravity and downward descent of the brow ensues. Show More Sentences We therefore bring to mind Pentecost, the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles, as a highly significant event. At 34,000 feet, it levels off smoothly before diving down to 24,000 feet, with a maximum descent angle of about 30 degrees. Supplemental oxygen or pressurized portable hyperbaric chambers should be used if descent is delayed. To anyone who is of Ossetic descent or would like to learn more about Ossetians or Ossetic culture, please join my newly created group. Her descent partly explains her son's baronial aspirations and his love of his personal heraldry. He is of Kosovar descent but was born in Belgium and came through the Anderlecht academy before leaving for England. What follows is their descent into a world where ice cream vans are heisted and best friends shoot each other with airguns. The Bill does not deal with the descent of real property, and the heir-at-law will continue for the present to exist in our system of law. The descent profile provides the important link between measurements made by instruments on the Huygens probe and the Cassini orbiter. Alan began raising the animal, and it was soon safely back on the surface, seemingly none the worse for its rapid descent of the hole. Taking a stout walking stick to help particularly with the descent is advised. The history of the Virginia colonies is set against a backdrop of the descent into open conflict with Spain. Its refinement however, and the shifting play of the opaque and transparent, suggests descent from the traditional Japanese house. To avoid descent into a clash of civilizations, the media must re-engage the world. Descend back to the bottom of the stony path and head right, along the depression and start the descent to a large basin. This sudden descent into darkness would be followed by cursing from the vicinity of the open carrels where readers had lost track of time. Godfrey and his relatives were very proud of their close descent from the last male heir of the old Carolingian dynasty. And above everything, a vivid blue sky, framed with stark clouds, and a lazy line of planes on the long descent over the city into Heathrow. Hill descent control uses all manner of electronic wizardry to cope with slippery conditions. The economic impact of the energy crisis has been to aggravate a descent into recession. Show More Sentences At the end of another descent and hairpin bend there was a hidden waterfall that came right up to the side of the road. The story arc follows the descent of a rich Iranian tourist to a post-apocalyptic America coming out of a nuclear winter. Although the pilot decided to slow the rate of descent and airspeed of the plane, there was no noticeable reduction in the level of vibration. An airplane in a spin does not gain airspeed and its rate of descent is relatively slow. This alleged descent from Togarmah seems to belong to the later period, when the Khazars adopted Judaism. He was born near Buenos Aires, the son of poor American parents of English descent who had moved to the Argentine to farm. During the emergency descent the captain, flight engineer, and the attendant regained consciousness and an emergency landing was made. Suddenly, just ahead, it plunged down into the most vertiginous descent I'd ever seen, not counting the Drop Zone at the local amusement park. With the new laws it has became very difficult to trace the descent of many of the Vedda people. For all of our much vaunted independence, scratch an American of Anglo descent and you'll find a bit of a Briton. I am led to conclude that many towns existed on the south-western shore of Britain, previous to the descent of Julius Caesar. Then Jasper led the way to the lip of the descent and we peered down a steep tumble of huge rocks that plunged into bottomless shadow. Jackson and three companions plan to climb K2 without bottled oxygen, but it is the descent that is most tricky. His policies in the borderlands were essentially conservative, although his Welsh birth and descent were an advantage in his dealings with Wales. So I see the perversion of punctuation as part of our long, slow descent into ungrammaticalness. It turned out the pilot had vertigo during the descent and thought he was straight and level while he was sliding back into a trail position. It commits the artist to a descent into time, into the processes of mutation, decay and dissolution. Rather, the aircraft dropped it as a normal bomb, then the bombardier guided its steep descent by radio remote control. There are also some 13,000 persons of Asian descent in South Africa who speak Afrikaans as their native language. By interspersing glides, murres in the model were able to regulate their mean descent speed without altering muscle contraction speed or load. Show More Sentences The Soyuz capsule successfully undocked from the International Space Station at 4.31 am Moscow time, and started the descent process. At this time I hadn't worked out the reason for my uncontrolled descent and was rather confused. I'm not sure how you force a cabin-class twin to that descent rate, at least with the wings still attached. Partly Spanish by ancestry, he claimed descent on his father's side from the Scottish monarchy. Finally, with a lurch, the shuttle disengaged from the station and began its wild descent to the planet below. They then turned back but halted their descent and bivouacked at about 7,000 meters after Kuribara became weak, it said. My IP would be hand flying the descent from altitude without benefit of trim. The story of their descent is reminiscent of tales of trench warfare from the Great War. A traverse then leads to a ledge from which a short narrow descent may be rigged to the streamway below. When he was still in his 20s, a steady descent into corpulence, shiftlessness and defensive irony began. Far off to one side of the great cliff, we were arranging the short rappels back to the ground via the standard East Ledges descent route. The advowson therefore can be discounted as a guide to the descent of the manor or part manor. In fact, it appears to us that a number of longstanding economic shibboleths are about to be blown apart if the dollar's descent continues. With descent in the rankings comes the withdrawal of privileges, such as the exemptions for the majors. That makes for a good workout, but you lose the relaxation time that you get from just tucking down a gentle descent on a snowy ski trail. The descent starts gently, meets a civilising stone wall and then plummets in slithery fashion past shake holes to a back road. The pilot initiated an emergency descent after a warning horn sounded when the plane reached its cruising height of 32,000 ft. Another descent path is reached on the left which bends down to the old road. Craig published several more papers on the logarithmic curve, the curve of quickest descent and quadrature of figures. The most moving moment, and one that I had not anticipated, happened during my descent to the sepulcher holding the body of St. James. Show More Sentences But on the descent it's beauteous, because you can slide down it like a skier. His successors grew rich by taxing the passing trade, and claiming descent from the moon, filled their palace with furniture of beaten silver. Geometry optimization was performed by the use of steepest descent and conjugate gradient algorithms. Both types of devices allow the caver to control their descent by applying friction to the rope that is threaded through them. Although they traced descent patrilineally, they had matrilocal settlement patterns and alliances were formalized through the exchange of women. Kinship and descent may have been organized around matrilineal clans, a common pattern in Micronesia. After this act of matricide, James' descent into evil feels almost Shakespearean. As we begin our descent I am able to catch a glimpse of a magnificent peak penetrating the cloud bank near Portland. In the book of Revelation, the martyrs are vindicated by the descent of the holy city, a new Jerusalem, coming down from heaven to earth. Every year Thais of Chinese descent celebrate the traditional lunar New Year in grand style and this year was no exception. It is a small effort worth making if we want to avoid a descent into widespread anarchy, terrorism, pandemics of global disease, and other avoidable calamities. Nor are most Australians of Irish descent antagonistic to Britain. This descent was marked by the gift of tongues, and St. Peter is recorded in Acts as seeing in this the new dispensation that had been prophesied by Joel. Until 1978 the Church of latter-day saints would not ordain men of African descent into the priesthood. To say that we should merely accept it as inevitable, as part of the march of history, as an inescapable part of the zeitgeist, is to accept descent into degradation. The more I think about this, and as I write it, it rather does seem less a quirky singularity, and more of an onrushing descent into a foggy loopiness. Police suspect the remains belong to a man of European or Armenian descent in his 40s or 50s, with salt-and-pepper hair. Take along some mint because the fast descent down the mountain might disturb even city folk, especially when the driver pulls out to overtake other cars on the narrow road. Leonie was of German descent while her husband Hendrik was an Afrikaner. We use a Markovian approach to calculate the probabilities of identity by descent iteratively from one generation to the next, assuming an infinite allele model. Show More Sentences The feisty airline is the brainchild of entrepreneur Tony Fernandes, a Malaysian of Indian descent who also is a British citizen. A checkered band of blue and silver is placed across the center of the shield and this is taken from the Arms of Stewart to denote descent from that family. However, in films of murres underwater, relative upstroke speed and thrust appear to be greater during vertical descent against high buoyancy than during horizontal swimming. The patrilineal descent principle is important, and the lineage is very often localized within a geographic neighborhood in which it constitutes a majority. This is a very pleasant descent down a tributary valley with the distinctive spur known as the Tongue prominent on the opposite side of the stream. In fact, I'm hoping that his inevitable descent from the pop stratosphere will help him abandon multiplatinum dreams and focus on his growth as an artist. The tribal segmentary system thus fosters an ethic of egalitarianism with its expression found in the members of the corporate patrilineal descent groups. The places of ascent or descent are reached by means of stairways. One by one they turned their sidelights on and kept their descent going. The trail down to the foot of the falls was all but vertical, a white-knuckle descent by means of chains and old drill bits hammered into the rock. The real problem is not Scotland's descent into third-rate football nationhood, but the fact that so many young folk won't play any sport, no matter what choices we give them. On board were two men of African descent who had stowed away on the ship. The basic auafangai practice consisted of attaching specific animal or plant names and designs to particular patrilineal descent groups, whether lineages, clans or moieties. As the plane makes the descent to El Paso, Berry Oakley squints down at the brown, hilly town. Despite eight inches of ground clearance and a nifty descent control that lets you safely crawl down hills, the X3-like the X5-is not really meant for off-roading. He also examines how attempts to insist on patrilineal descent for Fijian voting rights exclude many people who lead Fijian lives through maternal ties. This descent and all of its trials serve as metaphors for the brutal task of breaking the chains of guilt, fear, and doubt. His sadness over her descent into shooting up after managing to stay clean for a period is palpable. In other words, here's a mother who commits every possible transgression in her descent into depravity. A CBS movie revisits Enron, with all its chicanery, flimflam, excess, hanky-panky, and its descent into the dark, if darkly comic, side of capitalism. Show More Sentences The descent is worse, in parts a sheer drop on a thin track almost hidden by heather with treacherous rocks and holes ready to trip up even the most nimble feet. The Fatimid caliphs belonged to the Shia tradition, which claimed descent from the fourth Caliph, Ali, and his wife Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet. Then we plunged into thick forest for the final descent to the village. Fifteen years on, and many, if not most, of the negative trends previously seen as evidence of our civilization's descent into barbarism are in reverse. However, there are thousands of people of mixed descent both within the native populations as well as immigrant populations, who identify themselves as Kamilaroi. About 10,000 Ugandans of Sudanese descent are classified as Nubians. A native of Trinidad and of Indo-Caribbean descent has agreed to drop her reverse discrimination suit against the university, and to give up any claim to a teaching job there. A descent through your rotor wash creates swirling vortices that spoil lift, so the more power you add, the worse it gets, and the faster you fall. The bird rises almost perpendicularly in the air with fluttering wingbeats before turning rapidly and making a slow spiral descent with wings and tail outspread. Both men are of Iranian descent and have their own Farsi interpreter. On the contrary, the best-known stockbreeder of the eighteenth century made a point of obscuring the descent of his prized bulls, rams, boars, and stallions. Many Americans of Bulgarian descent are re-discovering their ethnic roots. Thus begins their humorous descent into a bumbling life of crime. Only the Picts, possibly, diverged from the European pattern of male descent with their apparently matrilinear succession to the kingship, though this is much debated. As happens with Dante's pilgrim, the protagonist of a descent narrative traditionally responds to aporia by imploding, by driving downward and into the self. His years in the morgue parallel a descent into the shamanic underworld. With no food or water, and the dangers of hypothermia and dehydration sliding into inevitability, the men continue their treacherous descent through white-out conditions. An NYPD official says an AP reporter called to ask where people of Chechen descent might congregate in New York City. The tanks were used to fuel the descent and ascent stage rocket engines of the lunar module that landed astronauts on the moon and returned them to orbit. In her update of Olympia, entitled Tribeca, an older, clothed woman and a naked young man of Asian descent sit in a loft space furnished with modern appointments. Show More Sentences California has the largest population of people of Danish descent in the United States. To cap the feat, their leader made a breath-catching descent by what mountain men call a rappel, riding down a rope almost 400 feet. Then he had to concentrate his efforts on a smooth descent through the swirling gusts of the brickfielder. See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors. Control the glide descent angle through small amounts of elevator pitch movements. The gripings are always severe, and a sort of painful descent of the bowels accompanies every evacuation. Towards the end of the century Prime Ministers of Scottish descent included William Gladstone, and the Earl of Rosebery. The Angles were part of the grouping of the Ingvaeones, claiming descent from the legendary ancestor and fertility god Yngvi. In particular, we prove that the fibrant objects are those satisfying descent with respect to all hypercovers. Centwine was succeeded by another supposed distant relative, Caedwalla, who claimed descent from Ceawlin. Many Norwegians and persons of Norwegian descent joined the Allied forces as well as the Free Norwegian Forces. Edward's claim on the French throne was based on his descent from King Philip IV of France, through his mother Isabella. They claimed descent from Charlemagne and had designs on the French throne. York was Henry's cousin through his descent from Edward III sons Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, and Edmund, Duke of York. Lancastrian cognatic descent from John of Gaunt and Blanche's daughter Phillipa continued in the royal houses of Spain and Portugal. The next day, York produced detailed genealogies to support his claim based on his descent from Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence. The craft will dock together to enable the crew to transfer to the ferry vehicles for descent to the surface at a selected site. Darwin's work established evolutionary descent with modification as the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature. More recently, evidence for common descent has come from the study of biochemical similarities between organisms. English emigrant and ethnic descent communities are found primarily in the Western World, and in some places, settled in significant numbers. Show More Sentences Female descent studies show evidence of Norse descent in areas closest to Scandinavia, such as the Shetland and Orkney islands. However, as Romans reckoned descent through the male line, any children she had belonged to her husband's family. In this manner, all BTW's can trace a direct line of descent all the way back to Gardner. The inhabitants of the Channel Islands were mainly of Norman descent until modern time. The family claimed descent from Hereward's daughter by his second wife, Alftruda. Claiming direct descent from the old Axumite royal house, the Solomonic ruled the region well into modern history. The problem was solved by emphasising Henry's descent in a direct male line, whereas March's descent was through his grandmother. She leaves, and the doctor and gentlewoman marvel at her descent into madness. His father, also named John Donne, was of Welsh descent and a warden of the Ironmongers Company in the City of London. Rules for acquiring British citizenship by descent depend on when the person was born. By some accounts, the first European child born in North America had Irish descent on both sides. However, dark hair in people of Irish descent is common, although darker skin complexions appear less frequently. People of Irish descent also feature strongly in Latin America, especially in Argentina and important minorities in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Unlike traditional Western societies of the time, many Caribbean pirate crews of European descent operated as limited democracies. Interestingly, unlike the vanilla SGD algorithm, the stochastic normalized gradient descent algorithm provably requires a minimal minibatch size. It began largely as a Welsh Mormon settlement and lays claim to having more people of Welsh descent per capita than anywhere outside Wales. The birth of their son, later James V, brought the House of Stewart into the line of descent of the House of Tudor, and the English throne. Africa Programme focuses on working against descent based slavery in Mauritania and Niger, as well as forced child begging in Senegal. The latter group would have included individuals who were British citizens by descent or by birth in a British colony. Additionally, Greek and French Americans numbered 65,000 each, with those of Hungarian descent estimated at 60,000 people. Show More Sentences On both runways, a continuous descent approach is used to minimise the environmental effects of incoming aircraft, particularly at night. Hughes's father, William, a joiner, was of Irish descent and had enlisted with the Lancashire Fusiliers and fought at Ypres. The groove of direct hereditary descent in the land of his birth, which he never in thought, and hardly in body, moved out of. Birdwatchers would enjoy a host of sparrows, a herd of swans, a descent of woodpeckers, a herd of wrens, and mutation of thrushes. Among the genealogies contained in the Rawlinson B 502 manuscript, dating from around 1130, is the supposed descent of Malcolm II of Scotland. He also had a powerful claim to the Scottish throne through his descent from Donald III on his father's side and David I on his mother's side. By expressing the myths of having common descent and common destiny, people's sense of belonging to a nation is enhanced. Scottish Canadians are people of Scottish descent or heritage living in Canada. Ancestral right means descent in the male line from an ancestor who lawfully bore arms. His father, Alfredo, is a Scot of Italian descent from Tuscany, while his mother, Linda, is of Scottish descent. However, the need for proved descent from a common ancestor related to the chiefly house is too restrictive. Americans of Scottish descent have made enduring contributions to our Nation with their hard work, faith, and values. His sons would in turn found dynasties of their own which would loom large in Welsh history, each claiming descent from Rhodri. The House of Aberffraw was displaced in 942 by Hywel Dda, a King of Deheubarth from a junior line of descent from Rhodri Mawr. Offa's ancestry is given in the Anglian collection, a set of genealogies that include lines of descent for four Mercian kings. The only way they'd agree would be where they went back genealogically in a family tree that represents the descent of the manuscripts. Several emirates led by people of Yemeni descent were established in North Africa and Andalusia. By claiming descent from a solid Yemenite tribe, the Rasulids brought Yemen to a vital sense of unity in an otherwise chaotic regional milieu. Henry was of Welsh descent and after leaving France with an army of 2000, landed at Milford Haven on 7 August. During the 19th century, French nationalists gave a privileged significance to their descent from the Gauls. Show More Sentences It was a source of pride to be able to trace the descent of one's leaders from a mythological hero or a god. The descent took place in two MIR submersibles and was led by Soviet and Russian polar explorer Artur Chilingarov. He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite, but particularizes his descent from Benjamin. Such parallels at least hint at the common descent of all animals from a marine ancestor. Today, with the exception of Nigeria, the largest population of people of African descent is in Brazil. Fortunately, technology is in place to slow your descent before you become pavement-pizza. In Cherokee society, persons of African descent were barred from holding office even if they were also racially and culturally Cherokee. To keep the enemy's forces separated, a simultaneous descent was made in three different places. The extraction of mtDNA from a second specimen was reported in 2000, and showed no sign of modern human descent from Neanderthals. In 1935, an Australian of part Indigenous descent left his home on a reserve to visit a nearby hotel where he was ejected for being Aboriginal. The process is similar to the process of evolution, where the process of descent with modification leads to the formation of a phylogenetic tree. Phylogeny as applied to historical linguistics involves the evolutionary descent of languages. By the tenth and twelfth centuries, respectively, Saxony and Bavaria had adopted descent myths, although they may have existed much earlier. It is estimated that there are 1 million to 2 million or more Brazilians of French descent today. In Asia, a proportion of people with mixed French and Vietnamese descent can be found in Vietnam. A small proportion of people with mixed French and Khmer descent can be found in Cambodia. Today, there are sizable communities of Icelandic descent in both the United States and Canada. In the eighth through 11th centuries, the muwallad clan of the Banu Qasi claimed descent from the Visigothic Count Cassius. The Germanic law codes are designed for a clearly stratified society fixated on castes determined by descent or kinship. It has been suggested that the Funnelbeaker culture was the origin of the gene allowing adults of Northern European descent to digest lactose. Show More Sentences A descent group is a social group whose members talk about common ancestry. A unilineal society is one in which the descent of an individual is reckoned either from the mother's or the father's line of descent. With matrilineal descent individuals belong to their mother's descent group. Some societies reckon descent patrilineally for some purposes, and matrilineally for others. A lineage is a unilineal descent group that can demonstrate their common descent from a known apical ancestor. Whether matrilineal or patrilineal descent is considered most significant differs from culture to culture. A clan is generally a descent group claiming common descent from an apical ancestor. A phratry is a descent group composed of two or more clans each of whose apical ancestors are descended from a further common ancestor. If a society is divided into exactly two descent groups, each is called a moiety, after the French word for half. In contrast, descent groups usually do form clear boundaries and provide an easy way to create cooperative groups of various sizes. There was a pause in the conflict on Frederick's fourth descent into Italy, but it resumed soon after his departure. Of the various collateral patrilines, the senior in order of descent from the founding ancestor, the line of eldest sons, was the most noble. The ruling Li family of the Tang dynasty actually claimed descent from the ancient Laozi. This led to a fashion in Cordoba for claiming pure Arab ancestry as opposed to descent from freed slaves. On 15 March they started the descent of the falls, which took five months and cost numerous lives. In 1560 another Spanish conquistador, Lope de Aguirre, may have made the second descent of the Amazon. People of Italian descent predominate in the south, as well in many areas in the west. His father held an important position at court and was connected by remote illegitimate descent with the Portuguese monarchy. The Spanish conquest also brought the migration of people of African descent to the many regions of the Viceroyalty. He embarked 30,000 men and 80 field guns on 3,000 rivercraft for his amphibious descent on IJzendijke. Show More Sentences Howard Hughes, famed investor, pilot, film director, and philanthropist, was also of Huguenot descent and descendant from Rev. The descent is patrilineal, and all the status is derived from the father's side. Through cultural preservation some residents of Indian descent continue to maintain traditions from their ancestral homelands. The Lunda's western expansion also saw claims of descent by the Yaka and the Pende. Americans of European descent live throughout Michigan and most of Metro Detroit. As of 2007 about 300,000 people in Southeastern Michigan trace their descent from the Middle East. All three dynasties claimed their descent from Narakasura, an immigrant from Aryavarta. However, in all cases the course of descent specified in the patent must be known in common law. Many clans of the Li family trace their descent to Laozi, including the emperors of the Tang dynasty. To the north of the Edge is a sharp descent into the head of Little Dale, part of the Newlands catchment. Beyond Slight Side is a rough upland with many craggy tops and a number of tarns, before the southward descent finally ends in Lower Eskdale. We arose at five the next morning and were given a very good and generous breakfast before we started our descent of the mountain. Hannibal knew enough about the Alps to know in particular that the descent was steeper than the ascent into the Alps. After the two days of rest, Hannibal ordered the descent from the Alps to begin. Escapes among Caucasian prisoners were almost impossible because of the difficulty of men of Caucasian descent hiding in Asiatic societies. Loose, scrabbly descent into wash. Enter wash. Loose, scrabbly climb out of wash. The SNCD is a novel combination of the semismooth Newton and coordinate descent algorithms. I don't really feel much like watching my descent into slutdom captured on tape after I've carried Lys back into her room. Guzman's pride in his genealogical descent from a whorish grandmother highlights his concept of a male world maintained by women's sexual labor. The model defines families of African descent from an Afrocentric intergenerational perspective. Find more words! 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