Sentence examples for descent even if from inspiring English sources

If they happen to pull someone over who looks like they are of Latin descent, even if they are a U.S. citizen, that is the first question that is going to be asked.

Useful going uphill, they saved our knees on the descent, even if we did resemble a small army of Pinocchios.

The authors' choice to keep using the phrase 'tree of life' when referring to the pattern of common descent even if it is more of a web, because this would somehow annoy creationists, is in my opinion not a good idea.

What if I, a nerd of Puerto Rican descent (even though I know absolutely nothing about Puerto Rico—I know more about the cultures of World of Warcraft than I do anything about Puerto Rico), wanted to play George Washington in a community theater production of "George Washington Does Some Stuff"?

Compiling music lists is a descent into chaos, even if it is a beautiful chaos, a maze of distractions and tangents.

Very few people of African descent had German citizenship, even if they were born in Germany, but this became irreversible when they were given passports that designated them as "stateless negroes".

The results from the investigation of the serial algorithm show an interesting outcome: increasing the number of islands gives increased descent speed per generation, even if the number of islands is very large.

I do appreciate the idea of descent into the earth, though, even if a mall awaits us there.

The right to rule by descent from 's first grant could not be supported by any historical record or any other evidence, and any contract that God and entered into would not be binding on remote descendants thousands of years later, even if a line of descent could be identified.

When the state recognizes and protects this right of women and Americans of African descent, they are no longer oppressed, even if the culture disadvantages them.

Implicit in Lord of the Flies is the understanding that even if the children's descent into savagery is inevitable, it is not admirable.