Sentence examples for by parentage from inspiring English sources

Alcântara — Italian by birth, Brazilian by parentage and a Spanish citizen by choice — switched clubs to gain playing experience.

By birthright, Higuaín could have chosen to play for France; by parentage and upbringing, he is Argentine.

Identity: if my child already has a mixed identity by parentage or having lived overseas, which part do I encourage?

Theodor Paues at the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise expects one-third of Swedes to be immigrants within a few years, at least by parentage.

By parentage Julie may be half English (and Ludivine Sagnier speaks the language well enough), but at least at first she is pointedly Sarah's opposite and perhaps the embodiment of certain English prejudices about the rude, undisciplined French -- just as Sarah herself may personify certain clichés about the English.

From a linguistically fundamentalist point of view, it's defined by parentage and bloodlines, though adoption creates a new contingency which obviates the genetic connection.

From the days of the Jacobins to today's Fifth Republic, lawmakers have differed strenuously as to whether nationality should be determined by birth, parentage, length of residency or assimilation.

Frank, whose last name is not Selby but Cartwright, grows up to be an actor, and finds himself on the edge of middle age haunted less by his parentage than by the memory of his first girlfriend, whose mental illness initially manifested itself in the midst of their teenage romance.

Of all the allegations of bribery lodged in recent years against foreign businesses in China — the U.S. probe of casino boss Sheldon Adelson, the Chinese detention of executives at GlaxoSmithKline — the latest is likely to produce dyspepsia in corporate suites in Beijing and Shanghai, where bright, fresh-faced hires are sometimes known less by their credentials than by their parentage.

Here, using blood samples from an additional 311 and 214 individuals collected on Española Island in 2003 and 2007, respectively, we describe the outcome of the breeding program by determining parentage of the repatriated animals and by searching for genetic signatures of in situ reproduction.

Another minor luxury is his two areca palms -- which are cared for all winter by Plant Parentage in Southampton.