Concentrated in the chief is the common inheritance of the magical power of the community, and his authority is based solely on the possession and exercise of this supernatural power.
1327 1384), nephew of Robert the Bruce's companion Sir James Douglas, had returned to Scotland, from France, to claim his inheritance as chief of the name of Douglas.
Chief among these, uniparental inheritance largely limits exposure of mitochondrial genomes to sibling genomes differing only at newly mutated sites (Birky, 1995; DeLuca and O'Farrell, 2012; Sato and Sato, 2013).
After all, overpaid chief executives and investment bankers pay inheritance and income tax, so their wealth diminishes over time.
Some at the BBC, as usual, want the other Michael Jackson (ex-One and Two controller and C4 chief) to return and claim the inheritance they assumed would be his eight years ago.
In an interview with C-Span in March 2006, Mr. Romney said that upon the death of his father, George, the former chief executive of American Motors, he received an inheritance.
These chiefly rankings were derived from the Polynesians' concept of the inheritance of godliness and, as a result, the chief's possession of mana.
Peter Johnson, the charity's chief clinician, said cancer was not just a matter of genetic inheritance or chance.
Chief of these was the estate and her daughter Anna's inheritance, both of which might be threatened if she married him.
The Bournonville treasury of teaching and choreography gives the Danes a particular inheritance of vitality, charity, fun and innocence that are the chief source of their reputation.
