Sentence examples for Although descended from inspiring English sources

Although descended from English farmers, he has played theparts of a Japanese, Italian, Frenchman, German, Hungarian, several Russians, and several Chinese.

Although descended from the dinosaurs, birds have evolved remarkable specializations for flight: a unique "one-way" breathing system, light yet strong hollow bones, a skeleton in which many bones are fused or lost, powerful flight muscles, and -- most importantly -- feathers.

Although descended from smaller ancestors, tyrannosaurids were almost always the largest predators in their respective ecosystems, putting them at the apex of the food chain.

Although he descended more than 30 stories, his leap came at a time of day when many residents were still at work or away for the holiday weekend.

She said in the 90-minute interview with Colombia's W Radio that no US investigator had been in touch with her, although reporters descended on her home a week after the incident when a taxi driver led them to it.

Although it descended from Vulgar Latin, Romanian was influenced by Slavic and Greek languages in the Middle Ages.

He had never met Mr. Walker, although Mr. Walker was descended from Fifeshire farmers and was in fact related by marriage.

Although a curtain descended on the flow of news from the Presidential compound at noon, all the evidence is that the President spent his afternoon in front of the Tube.

Seabiscuit was loved by Depression-era fans who saw in the knobby-kneed, undersize horse an athlete who overcame a lack of physical endowments (although he was descended from Man o' War) to break speed records nearly everywhere he raced.

In the course of transmission, grammatical structures change, just as do pronunciation and meanings, and in time the cumulative effect may be the transference of a language from one overall type to another, although it remains descended from the earlier language and therefore is just as much part of the same historical family.

Despite the interruption caused by the Mongol invasion of 1241, Transylvania (while remaining part of the Hungarian kingdom) evolved during the following centuries into a distinctive autonomous unit, with its special voivode (governor), its united, although heterogenous, leadership (descended from Szekler, Saxon, and Magyar colonists), and its own constitution.