Sentence examples for considerable inheritance from inspiring English sources

A spokesman for Boko Haram said that Manga had left his widow and five children a considerable inheritance.

When the British painter Lucian Freud died in 2011, at the age of 88, his heirs faced a considerable inheritance tax.

Having received a considerable inheritance from his father, the artist spent his youth leading a carefree life filled with the pursuit of pleasure.

Pethick-Lawrence spent nearly all his considerable inheritance paying suffragists' fines; and in 1912, after a demonstration in London, he served a few months in jail.

He was a brilliant student when he chose to excel, a prodigy; and, despite the family's relentless downward spiral — John Joyce wasted a considerable inheritance — he received a serious education at Jesuit schools.

In 2003, with a considerable inheritance from Mr. Kiamie, Miss Young was able to donate more than $10 million to the creation of the Dorothy Young Center for the Arts at Drew University in Madison, N.J.

There is now considerable knowledge concerning the inheritance of transplantation antigens, but, even so, tissue typing is not sufficiently advanced to give an accurate prediction of the outcome of a graft in an individual case, particularly when the donor and recipient are not related to one another.

George was already a wealthy man, owning lands in Trinidad and Tobago, but despite not directly improving the Pitfour estate he added considerable value to the inheritance passed to his illegitimate son.

In angiosperms, they usually exhibit uniparental (maternal) inheritance and considerable sequence and structural conservation (Birky, 1978).

Notwithstanding the statistical and algorithmic problems, the observed cases of gene transfer between phages do not amount to the erasure of the historic record: considerable signal of vertical inheritance can be still recovered by analysis of appropriately chosen molecular characters.

Although an autosomal-recessive model provided the best data fit in the two segregation analyses performed to date (Nicholson and Harland, 1995; Heimdal et al, 1997), patterns of affection in multiple-case families are compatible with autosomal-dominant, autosomal-recessive and X-linked modes of inheritance, suggesting considerable genetic heterogeneity.