Sentence examples for ancestor from inspiring English sources

Samples from mummies in a Hungarian crypt have revealed that multiple tuberculosis strains derived from a single Roman ancestor that circulated in 18th-century Europe, scientists said Tuesday.

"It carries a big responsibility, especially because the public is curious and it demands a lot: what does this 'new' Picasso have to offer?" The answer, he says, has nothing in common with his artistic ancestor apart from their shared name.

By building a family tree of the germ, the team dated the bacterial ancestor to the late Roman period.

If the imbalance does not result from primitive loyalty, on the Queen's part, to the wishes of her repulsive ancestor (since we must surely rule out her violent antipathy towards all appropriately qualified women of the last 63 years), it is not impossible, in the household that saw off Diana, to imagine ungovernable misogyny among her courtiers.

Many were shocked that it did not grant vacation time on Lunar New Year's Eve – an evening of ancestor worship and family reunion dinners, one of the most important nights of the traditional Chinese calendar.

Tom Stack, 54, of Delaware, has an ancestor who fought and died at Gettysburg.

Despite leading the Lib Dems to their strongest ever election result (or the best since the 1920s, if one counts their ancestor, the Liberal Party) in 2005, concerns that he was not up to the job too light-hearted and too beholden to alcohol led to his defenestration as leader in 2006.

The fact that government's workings could easily and unobtrusively be changed was accounted a virtue: Britain escaped the ancestor worship that fixed canons like America's imposed.

Not yet a precursor to a starship engine, perhaps, but maybe an ancestor of Dr McCoy's portable diagnosis machine.

He felt instantly comfortable with the Chinese, partly perhaps because of a blood tie through a distant ancestor, but mostly because of the welcome he received from Zhou Enlai, the Chinese prime minister, who had the gift of charm, rare in China at that time.

What they found was, if anything, even more shocking: gliding and flapping fauna appear to have no direct common ancestor.