Sentence examples for a more distant relation from inspiring English sources

A cult is structured, with a division of sacred personnel (priests) who lead and perform the cultic ceremonies for the people, who are in a more distant relation with the deity.

The passage in the "Q/A" and "Capitula" versions has Gregory saying that those related within the second degree of kinship (including siblings, parents and their children, first cousins, and nephews/nieces and their aunts/uncles) are prohibited from marrying each other, but that church tradition sets no prohibition against marrying a more distant relation.

Three O26 isolates showed a more distant relation to STC29.

Like several of the other genome segments, Seg-4 of BTV-6 NET2008/05 also showed a slightly more distant relation with the BTV-6 field strains from South Africa (93.7 93.8/98% nt/aa identity), and the American BTV-6 (USA2006/01 - 90.1/97.2% nt/aa identity).

They had more marital problems and more distant relation with their spouse than the control subjects (P = 0.013).

Although protein blast did not reveal putative orthologues of dissimilatory nitrite reductases in A. nidulans it cannot be excluded that proteins with more distant relation function in the same way.

In most cases, the deviations showing significantly weak purifying selection (i.e., dN/dS closer to 1) more often occur in mammals of more distant relation to humans, supporting the logical conclusion that some disease classes are well conserved only in our closest animal relatives, but not necessarily in all mammals.

Around 200 MPs are thought to have put their wives, husbands, children or more distant relations on the parliamentary payroll.

It became the country her family fled from in 1939, before her more distant relations were killed in the camps.

In the standard Hollywood film a straight cut between two scenes suggests that the scenes are close in space or time, whereas other more visible forms of transition signal more distant relations.

The least time was devoted to the most familiar scents--those of the reference and its mother, followed by more distant relations such as aunts and grandmothers.