The notion of kin may be extended to those not related by blood or marriage with the tradition of naming godparents. |
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Technically, a family consists of all related kin and can include hundreds of people. |
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Bulgarians count as kin relatives by blood and marriage on both the male and female sides. |
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This circle can be very small, including just your kin and those you interact with on a daily basis. |
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The proposal to give tax exemption on the pension received by ex-servicemen and their kin is laudable. |
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A smaller unit is the lineage, a kin group of four or five generations descended from a male ancestor traced though the male line. |
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She had no next of kin and had lived in a residential home for the past 50 years. |
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Relationships, community, connectedness, kith and kin are one half of what makes life worth living. |
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It is a primate, close kin to the bushbabies of sub-Saharan Africa and the lemurs of Madagascar. |
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All the ethnic groups are organized in fairly large kin groups known as clans or lineages. |
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The separation of childbearing from domesticity leads to a need for extended families, which are primarily cognate kin groups. |
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A small number of reptiles, including green iguanas and common lizards, have been shown to exhibit kin recognition. |
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I humbly request your attention to this matter so that I can present you as his next of kin and beneficiary to his chattels. |
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On Friday police said they would not identify her until her next of kin had been informed. |
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With their voracious appetite for stored cereals and nuts, the red flour beetle and its kin cause millions of dollars of damage annually. |
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A non-relative who is chosen as a godparent is thereby included into the kin group. |
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Next of kin to the golden coreopsis, it behooves some of the bur-marigolds to redeem their clan's reputation for ugliness. |
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They say the government has no right to intervene, that her next of kin should make the decision. |
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The other issue would the one of whether, if someone has not opted out, their next of kin still had to be contacted before organs were taken. |
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It was a once in a lifetime opportunity to meet my next of kin over sausage rolls and cheesy Wotsits, so naturally Lisa couldn't refuse. |
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He said next of kin would be notified before the man's identity was released. |
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Visits have been restricted to next of kin to prevent the further spread of the highly contagious vomiting bug. |
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When the officer asked the woman's name he found it didn't match the next of kin for the deceased. |
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But comets are shaped and affected by the Sun and the solar wind, making them more like kin than aliens. |
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An ethnic group within the state then demands to be united with its kith and kin in a neighboring state. |
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The worst-hit were the mentally unsound women who were deserted by their kin and left on the roads to the mercy of anti-social elements. |
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Each side acquires wives for the other and redeems their spirits at death by providing their maternal kin with tusked boars and yams. |
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Elephants also carry the tusks and bones of their departed kin great distances and may even try to cover them with dirt or leaves. |
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Most of our rural-dwelling kin actually grow their own maize, cassava or millet that they have milled at village mills. |
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If you have no immediate next of kin available as a witness, the bequeathal is still legal. |
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Others are totemic, involving plants or animals that are symbolic of kin groups. |
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Based on their level of action in recent months, it seems only a matter of time before the kin are wearing title belts. |
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The fact that they were very mild-mannered, and not cannibalistic, favours the opinion that they were kin to the Seminoles of Florida. |
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Land rights pass patrilineally or matrilineally to surviving members of kin groups. |
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The most important kin grouping is the family, which is defined both matrilineally and patrilineally. |
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Family relations are traced back equally both matrilineally and patrilineally, and active kin groups often extend to the great-grandparents. |
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He also recognizes matrilineal kin groups, linear dominance rank orders, and behaves as if he recognizes his own unique place within them. |
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In some cultures a village consists of matrilineal kin and their dependents. |
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In terms of domestic organization and management, kin groups are matriarchal in nature. |
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Privately, kin groups are important, but politically and economically, they play a marginal role. |
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By model and practice, families nested children in webs of relationships, sanctified through kin or kin-like moralities. |
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He is a rugged individualist, who loves his kin but hates even more passionately. |
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The important kin groups are patrilineal and matrilineal lineages and clans, Clan members do not necessarily live on clan land. |
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Generally, land belongs jointly to the members of lineages or other kin groups. |
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Louisiana attracted Acadians who wanted to rejoin their kin and Acadian culture. |
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In rural areas, villages are often composed of kin groups that offer support during difficult times. |
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Whenever you've got ghettoes of kin groups, you are always going to have compounded emotional problems. |
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He has been spotted in the aerial battles and has caused a few of our kin to drop from the skies. |
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A new study of timber rattlesnakes in the eastern United States marks the first time kin recognition has been observed in snakes. |
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Inheritance is based partly on agnation, and agnatic kin are theoretically all potential heirs to each other's livestock and other wealth. |
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I can barely spend time with my extended kin without the having the urge to kick them up the backside. |
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This pleased Ritchie, who can don his kilt by claiming Scottish kin in the form of a grandfather who served in the Seaforth Highlanders. |
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Family and kin are the primary focus of an individual's loyalties and identity. |
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Traveling together with family, friends, and extended kin these mobile groups bond and build community life. |
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Extended family and kin are an important part of the social structure of the republic. |
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Most families are in practice extended, with elderly or other kin in the household and other relatives nearby. |
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A powerful deterrent to deviant behavior is that such behavior brings shame to one's family and kin and is considered sinful. |
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That is, men interact with their wives' kin as individuals rather than as representatives of their corporate Houses. |
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The family also teaches that kin are the appropriate source of friendly companionship. |
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Nuclear families are the main kin group, with relatives involved as kin in the extended family. |
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Marriage always takes place then between people who are already kin but only kin of a specified kind. |
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Friendship and other connections are very important, and many people who are referred to by kin terms are not genealogically related. |
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At every level of society a person looks to family and kin for both social identity and succor. |
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Relatives seek out prospective mates for their kin from desirable families. |
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This may allow non-breeding animals to pass along the genes they share with their kin by helping in the rearing of young. |
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Juvenile salmon clearly avoided kin when they shared shelters and preferred to associate with unrelated conspecifics. |
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Smaller herbivorous dinosaurs, however, may have fed to a greater extent than their larger kin on plants defended by qualitative toxins. |
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Precisely how fishes and other animals recognize kin is hotly debated in the scientific community. |
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While the NFL isn't exactly one big, happy family, it certainly does have its share of kin working on the sidelines and in the front offices. |
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The nuclear family, although forming the smallest kin unit, is always socially embedded in a wider kin unit. |
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It witters on unconvincingly that having next of kin makes the decision less sovereign to the individual involved. |
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They are people who probably have relatives on the Angolan side, and the Angolans also have some of their kith and kin on Zambian soil. |
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Those who have already settled here are followed by their kith and kin and acquaintances. |
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The most obvious African kin of Caribbean religions are the practices of the Yoruba and the Fon. |
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In addition to this relatives on my wife's side have brought some sweets, gifts, clothes, etc to send to their kith and kin in America. |
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About 70 families turned up for the event along with their kith and kin to exchange their greetings and their cherished memories. |
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They also become financially insecure especially with their dependence on their kith and kin after retirement. |
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Polygyny and polyandry are not allowed, and it is forbidden to marry close family and kin members. |
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A kin group usually includes cognates of all degrees and godparents. |
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Some of its family kin include buckwheat, rhubarb, sorrels, docks, bistorts, water peppers, devil's shoestring, silver lace vine, smartweed, and black bindweed. |
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While the structures of jural obligations may be associated with kin proximity, there is considerable ethnographic evidence that across many societies this is not the case. |
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Most households are not nuclear families, but contain other kin as well. |
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Though he is kin to God in nature, all his character is unlike God. |
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They are kin to dragons from when humans first settled on Pern. |
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The major portion of its budget is consumed by the salaries of its huge staff, with bureaucrats and politicians appointing their own kith and kin or other favourites. |
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In practice, this is the stance taken by most UK cancer registries, which do not require consent from next of kin before disclosing cancer diagnoses for genetic counselling. |
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Thus the repopulation of the Southwest by whites depended on kin support. |
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We go further when we revitalize the bonds of the social connection by making kin of strangers, by embracing diversity that enriches the mosaic of our national unity. |
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They cannot leave it to the initiative of the next of kin either to lodge a formal complaint or to take responsibility for the conduct of the investigative procedures. |
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It was brought to our knowledge that the forementioned client died in testate and nominated no next of kin to the title over the investments made with the bank. |
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Its message is not only protection of kin but self-protection. |
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Outstripping the ironieteken, the temherte slaq, and their kin by far is the most remarked and reviled irony mark to date. |
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Late Monday night the FBI released the identities of seven of the deceased whose next of kin had been notified. |
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In exchange, the community and government recognize the pair as next of kin and give them the tools they need to do their duty. |
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The heart demands effort, effort to recover those distraught, terrified, agonizing, serried bundles of kin who we imagine to actually await impatiently for rescue. |
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Nepotistic exchange is regulated by evolutionary mechanisms such as kin selection and sexual selection, while mercantile exchange is purely human. |
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In principle, one should not marry a blood relative, but in small communities marriages between kin more distantly related than first cousins are common. |
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Particularly in the countryside, the extended family is the primary social unit, as kin groups live together in relative isolation from other groups. |
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People worried about who would be notified as their next of kin in case of medical emergency are being urged to carry a new card to avoid confusion. |
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Applicants must be a Male and a Female, at least 18 years of age, and not nearer of kin than second cousins or cousins of half blood, and not having a husband or wife living. |
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In many social insects, kin selection has led to the evolution of sterile workers which are behaviorally or morphologically specialized for colony defense. |
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Dating back hundreds of years to the times when the Kazakhs were divided into three distinct hordes or large tribes, it has been important to know about your kin groups. |
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On the other hand, other modes of alliance also remained important, and relationships between patrilineal kin could be antagonistic as well as friendly. |
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As a measure of motivation, kith and kin present tiny piggy banks to them. |
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This happens routinely after marriage, and women from decimated kin groups are taken as wives in this polygamous society, without brideprice having to be paid. |
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The women danced to declare their fluency of expression and the knowledge it implied, and they did so unencumbered by the kin group duties that attended such displays. |
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Programs were under-funded and culturally restrictive, with policies favouring the nuclear family model against the cultural preference for extended kin groups. |
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Therefore, kin recognition should be studied with explicit references to the ecological context within which the recognition behavior is expressed. |
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The mortal remains of the Prince and his next of kin and fellow exiles were then disentombed and returned to their homeland to be reburied in worthy graves. |
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The man whose kin group has disintegrated, probably as a consequence of tribal fighting, is able to take on a new social identity, with new kinsmen and women. |
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Bascom is distant kin, and getting to hear him speak on this disc, introducing the tunes as he recorded them for the Library of Congress in the late 1940s, is spine-chilling. |
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Importantly, whatever their origin or when they flourished, they established their claim to lordship through their links to extended kin ties. |
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The potential for inheritance by even distant kin meant that, in Early Irish law, those kin all had some sort of right in the land. |
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Now he and colleagues have extracted DNA from elephant birds and found that they are the kiwi's closest kin. |
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Its nearest living relative is the sunbittern of the New World tropics, although it appears closer kin to extinct New Zealand birds. |
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The head of a kin group was entitled to extra property since he was liable for debts a kinsman could not pay. |
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However, there was apparently pressure for a woman with land to marry a relative to keep the land within the kin group. |
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Historically, the Irish nation was made up of kin groups or clans, and the Irish also had their own religion, law code and style of dress. |
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The family relied on the patronage of their kin and hosted visits from numerous family members. |
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He then retires to a hermitage to live the remainder of his life in penitence, with eight of his kin joining him, including Sir Bors. |
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Animal social behaviours, such as altruism, now yielded to genocentric theories such as kin selection and reciprocal altruism. |
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Most Machiguenga lack personal names. Members of the same tribe are individuated using kin terminology. |
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Gaelic society was traditionally made up of kin groups known as clans, each with its own territory and headed by a male chieftain. |
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Like Link, she also wondered if he was kin to the Boston psalmodist, William Billings. |
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This helps explain the growing penchant for fish sauce and shrimp paste and for tempeh as a more flavorful kin of tofu. |
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Village exogamy was preferred but residence was ambilocal so neither the household nor the village formed any kind of definable kin group. |
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Impact of drugs on family life and kin networks in the innercity African-American single parent household. |
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Wilson's 2012 book The Social Conquest of Earth as misunderstanding Hamilton's theory of kin selection. |
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Kurradj is both song language for 'blood' and also the term for blood used in the Bininj Kunwok affinal kin respect register kun-debuy. |
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Chemoreception and kin discrimination by neonate smooth snakes, Coronella austriaca. |
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For the first time, researchers have found nests of a social insect with helpers that are neither close kin nor slaves. |
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The Zimbabwean government and its supporters attest that it was Western policies to avenge the expulsion of their kin that sabotaged the economy. |
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As a result, the lover has no legal control over the children, who may be taken away from him by the kin of the pater when they choose. |
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The debtor then turned and face the house with their next of kin gathered behind them. |
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Contrarily, this did not happen for chin and choose, which are kin and kieze. |
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This kin recognition is by olfactory cues from urine, feces and glandular secretions. |
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The civil partnership corrects an injustice and gives next of kin financial rights. |
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Such sensations, however, were too near a kin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies. |
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The boundaries of incarcerable behavior were wider, though, for people far from kin and community, even if these people were not violent. |
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As mentioned above, the actions of a member could require other kin to pay a fine. |
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Several of his family and next of kin had feudal holdings in Laanemaa and Hiiumaa, legally in Magnus' possession. |
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Color evolution among grackles and their kin is not about males showing off their fine feathers. |
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The drug may indeed still be without much substance in constituting the sort of person who is dividually emplaced within kin networks. |
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In the early modern era they would take the clan name as their surname, turning the clan into a massive, if often fictive, kin group. |
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It appears, as is well known in later times, that noble kin groups had their own patron saints, and their own churches or abbeys. |
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It is the Congress that started the practice of dynasticism that has seen the children and other kin of party veterans being granted tickets to fight elections. |
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It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers. |
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Importantly, whatever their origin or whenever they flourished, these dynasties established their claim to lordship through their links to extended kin ties. |
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Such cooperation within species may have evolved through the process of kin selection, which is where one organism acts to help raise a relative's offspring. |
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There is relatively strong evidence for a customary requirement for kin members to support and help each other, in everyday life as much as in legal disputes. |
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He may also be kin to another Brythonic poet, Cian Gwenith Gwawd. |
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Common features of these codes include an emphasis on the payment of compensation for a crime to the victim or the victim's kin rather than on punishment by the ruler. |
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The legal tract, the Leges inter Brettos et Scottos, set out a system of compensation for injury and death based on ranks and the solidarity of kin groups. |
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Why, he kin sing eny song and do ent cut-up antik eny of 'em kin. |
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There are influences from across the Arabian Sea, as with sambuusas, triangles of dough sealed around cumin-laced ground beef or chicken, distant kin to Indian samosas. |
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In addition, adopted children could receive a portion of kin land, though status as an inheritor, and the inheritance amount had to be explicitly stipulated. |
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Most important, however, physiology in bushtits may also explain the formation of multibird nests, as explained above, entirely independent from the formation of kin groups. |
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He's gonna be, but why ainchu up whur you kin see good, dear? |
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When mixed with other individuals, cloned calves from the same donor form subgroups, indicating that kin discrimination occurs and may be a basis of grouping behaviour. |
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In course it air ter yer credit ye kin be ez good ez ter keep yer hands off'n the critter when he air so aboosive to yer face an' so slandersome ter yer back. |
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The Illinois Conference licensed Geier, who worked among Germans from Russia who were very similar to their kin in the United States and in Canada. |
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Not storge, that binds parent and child and draws kin together. |
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Certain rights of use of land by the owner's kin seem to have existed. |
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It was common for children to be fostered, either in other households or in monasteries, perhaps as a means of extending the circle of protection beyond the kin group. |
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Kin and Gin gained international fame for their beaming smiles, enormous vitality and shared longevity. |
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They were both dressed so that it was easy to mark them down as gypsy kin, their faded but bright clothes easy to spot amongst the normal gray drab of the peasants. |
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He became known after he posted videos spouting his views on You Tube under the name Spinosaurus Kin. |
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