Sentence examples for ancient pedigree from inspiring English sources

VEGETARIANISM is a simple idea — don't eat animals — with an ancient pedigree.

In the end, the ancient pedigree of our fears makes "Terrors and Wonders" oddly reassuring.

Beside the fact that it has such an ancient pedigree, the marathon has a special kind of purity.

Lady Caroline possessed at birth every gift the fairies could bestow, starting with fabulous wealth, dazzling beauty and an ancient pedigree.

The belief that homosexuality is a corruption found only in cultures other than one's own is a self-deception with an ancient pedigree.

Consider that cycads, which are coveted by plant collectors because of their beauty and ancient pedigree, have suffered a worldwide poaching crisis worse than that of rhinos, elephants, and other so-called charismatic megafauna.

For a time it even looked as if these challenges might bring about wholesale reform (such as that adopted in New Zealand in the 1970s) that would threaten rules with very ancient pedigrees.

All sorts of whole grains with ancient pedigrees are being embraced by restaurants and are more widely available in supermarkets.

More preferable, as archetypes go, is the goddess, with her ancient Grecian pedigree, her aloof demeanor suggesting self-possession and powers of divine intervention, her sensuous revelry in her own body.

This could happen if the AS mutation is much more ancient and additional pedigree paths exist or if an independent mutation event happened leading to the same phenotype.

Davis discusses abolition with his usual historical sweep, although slavery had an ancient pedigree, while antislavery had hardly any past.