Sentence examples for a distant relation of from inspiring English sources

Curiously, Church was also a distant relation of Richard Church, who had been among Hooker's party.

While not a direct descendant, the gaokao is generally considered a distant relation of the keju.

A teenage boy who punched the Spanish Prime Minister is a distant relation of the leader.

Tagore, "if not exactly one of us, is, as an Aryan, a distant relation of all white folk".

Dr. Warner's wife of many decades, Katherine Anne Romney, (a distant relation of the recent presidential candidate) died in 2007.

"Whether the bishop likes it or not, Turkana Boy is a distant relation of his," Mr Leakey has insisted.

(The Danish director Lars von Trier is a distant relation on his father's side of the family).

Within the royal pack of Etonians, Oxbridge grads and families with bloodlines that can be traced back 500 years or so, Mr. Pelly's own pedigree (he is a distant relation to the Earl of Pembroke) may not be as lustrous.

But league cricket is a distant relation to the professional game.

Conceptually, "American Desert" is a distant relation to Kafka's "Metamorphosis," deriving its narrative premise from a radical -- impossible -- transformation.

The South African-born English cricketer Jonathan Trott says he is a distant relation to Harry and Albert Trott.