The phrase "a lost relation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a family member or friend with whom one has lost contact or connection.
Example: "After years of searching, I finally found a lost relation who had moved to another country."
Alternatives: "a distant relative" or "an estranged family member".
Through the intercession of spirit guide Mr Splitfoot, they contact (for a fee) the lost relations of the home's other residents; it's never fully clear even to themselves whether they're natural scammers with a knack for cold reading, or devilish truthtellers with a direct line to the other side.
When Latium was lost, relations between Etruria and its Campanian possessions were broken with disastrous effect.
"We have shown in Georgia and in Russia that the churches have not lost relations," he said.
Among its members are hundreds of women, many of whom have lost relations in atrocities committed by the security forces and who vow never to marry until Aceh is "free".Student activists, who started the campaign for a referendum on independence, are becoming more organised and travelling abroad to promote the idea.
Almost all medievals accept the intuitively plausible view that things can acquire (and lose) relations without undergoing any real (as opposed to merely Cambridge) change.
But the statement by Attorney General Robert A. Butterworth, Mr. Gore's state campaign chairman, may have less to do with votes than with cutting Democrats' losses in what they concede has been a losing public relations war.
Evidence was lost in relation to a report in 2003 that a victim had been raped on four occasions.
A comparison between the data banks of allele frequencies of the collections established using the different methodologies demonstrates that when there is a loss of alleles - as in CC corex and CC Mstrat - there doesn't appear to be a specific pattern for the type of allele that is lost in relation to their frequencies.
The court also yesterday dismissed the Times' appeal against Tugendhat's finding that the Reynolds privilege had been lost in relation to continuing online publication, which has implications for newspapers with large online archives.
Indonesian critic Zuber Usman, meanwhile, discusses the theme of love lost in relation to religion, writing that the loss of his Javanese lover led Amir closer to God.
