Sentence examples for ancient parent from inspiring English sources

Approximately 2.5 km east of the refinery, the topography changes (due to Lake Bonneville, an ancient parent inland sea), whereas at 2.5 km west of the refinery the land use transitions from mixed suburban and agricultural use to solely agricultural use.

Carers UK, a charity, calculates that the number of pensioners who are themselves carers (of either partners or their own ancient parents) is rising fast.

Prince Charles said: "He shoved off, probably because he knew his ancient parents were coming".

We're sure if we installed something like this for our ancient, weathered parents, they'd never know they were talking on the Internets.

Since ancient Sumeria, parents have been convincing babies to injest mashed-up, semi-pre-digested food stuffs by pretending their spoon is an airplane making its way into a hangar.

Perhaps she never really wanted to marry, only to escape the wearying cycle of Bishop's binge drinking, and to please "the Ancients," her parents.

The story is brutally comic in parts, and never more so than at the moment when it is revealed that — despite the fact that Gregor has been living more or less as an indentured servant to pay off his parents' ancient debts — the family has plenty of money; not enough to allow them to stop working altogether, but a proper little nest egg.

It's many years since I last read them, but I'd say the Foundation books were probably the first proper, grown-up science fiction I read as a teenager, picking up my parents' ancient paperbacks and seeing my horizons widen, instantly, as I fell into the world of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the mutant Mule, and my favourite character: Arkady Darell, stowaway and teenage hero.

For the ancient world, one human parent was necessary to assure that a person was genuinely human, and from the beginning the human mother of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, has been the one to provide this assurance.

By comparing the recorded Indo-European languages, especially the most ancient ones, much of the parent language from which they are descended can be reconstructed.

Our observation that this deletion is derived and polymorphic in modern humans offers further evidence that NANOGP8's origin must be relatively recent because a more ancient deletion in the NANOG parent allele should have become fixed or lost.