Sentence examples for based on descent as from inspiring English sources
Leaders were chosen according to rank, which was based on descent as well as personal achievement.
We don't define any form of discrimination based on descent as caste-based discrimination; there are certain characteristics that need to be attached with it.
In most of Africa those residential groups are based on descent groups known as clans and lineages, the latter being segments of the former.
As already indicated, Lévi-Strauss's theories placed him in opposition to anthropologists who saw kinship as based on descent rather than marriage.
Thinkers such as Friedrich Julius Stahl, a 19th-century lawyer, developed the idea that Germans are a people based on descent.
We did not include an independent criterion for dystocia based on descent of the fetal head and cases with a quick descent but a slow dilatation may have been classified as dystocia.
Thus, all Dorian states had the same three tribes, and there were four Ionian tribes (although Ionian states were less conservative than Dorian, and one finds among them a greater readiness to innovate; late 6th-century Athens, for example, switched from a four-tribe hereditary system of citizenship to a 10-tribe one based on simple residence as well as descent).
In these architectures an unsupervised learning algorithm, such as the k-means algorithm, decomposes the overall task and a supervised learning algorithm, such as one based on gradient descent, solves each subtask.
Clans and subclans are based on patrilineal descent, although maternal kin are important in many circumstances, such as in obtaining bridewealth for marriage.
They are next used as a starting guess for an iterative optimization procedure based on gradient descent where all parameters in the descriptors are allowed to vary.
