Sentence examples for descent around from inspiring English sources

POPULATION Much of the 57,600 population is of Inuit descent; around 12% have Danish ancestry.

From that starting point its purview gradually expanded to include all of Latin America and then, more ambitiously still, artists of Hispanic descent around the world.

It builds and builds and then, having achieved maximum intensity and complexity, begins its final descent around the 15-minute mark.

In the final moments of its descent, around noon on Friday (BST), Rosetta will train its cameras on 67P and take its last image around 15 metres from the surface, before (hopefully) softly touching down and switching off its transmitter.

A difficult descent around a huge butte opens onto a valley of sun-toasted vineyards through which we ride at a leisurely pace for miles, bunches of chardonnay grapes ripening just beneath our grasp.

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The correct drill if there is a decompression - due, for example, to a window popping out or a broken cargo door - is to order the use of oxygen and command a steep descent to around 10,000 feet, at which altitude people can survive without oxygen (although the aircraft interior would, by then, be very cold).

Mahisen, a student of Egyptian descent, walked around Milan as part of a "social experiment" conducted by Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

The same might be said about _______ of the partners Jones invites on his backcountry adventures, because for the past few years, he has committed ________ to summits and descents around the world that are groundbreaking in size, scope and degree of vertical exposure.

Finally the 'autobus' got together 5km from the top, about 20 or 25 of us, and by the bottom of the descent there were around 60 of us, so that was it sorted.

Following the traditions arising in Turkic and Mongolic tribes from which the Uzbeks and Kazakhs emerged, their society was a patrilineal tribal system in which descent groups formed around closely related men.