Sentence examples for Nearest kin from inspiring English sources
Alcidae (order Charadriiformes), and the nearest kin to the extinct great auk.
In this regard, he's a younger sibling to Hopkins, Hardy and Yeats — the three poets who, in time and landscape and temperament, seem his nearest kin.
Khadra belongs in the ranks of those writers -- J. M. Coetzee, for example -- who make violence into art, but it's the great Senegalese filmmaker and novelist Ousmane Sembene who is his nearest kin.
Many remember it as having once been one of the most brutal and corrupt institutions in the post-Civil War South, the nearest kin to slavery that could legally exist.
7 1 He had such regard for his reputation, moreover, that even as a youth he admonished his procurators to do nothing high-handed and often refused sundry legacies that were left him, returning them to the nearest kin of the deceased.
It's a little like the Chinese policy that requires the nearest kin to pay for the bullet used to kill a condemned prisoner.
This basic autobiography is imparted with a fresh stylistic firmness, a bluntness not possible when his near kin were alive, and a note of grievance not struck before: why did nobody protect him from the brutal bullying by stronger children to which he was subjected as a delicate child?
While there is large variation in how statistical procedures and inferences are organized, they all agree on the use of modern measure-theoretic probability theory (Kolmogorov ), or a near kin, as the means to express hypotheses and relate them to data.
Many young boys of color have been raised by grandmothers, nanas, mothers, tías, aunties, near kin, and other mothers who ardently and rigorously advocate for their well-being.
Why do we feel as if these other creatures are not our near kin?" At times, rather depressingly, "The Echo Maker" suggests that people remain eternally uncoupled from one another and the environment.
No one knows just where they belong in the ever-expanding catalogue of human kin and near-kin, nor is there yet a workable hypothesis about their diminutive size.
