Sentence examples for descent in a from inspiring English sources

This requires a 1,300m climb plus a 900m descent in a single day.

"It shows people of African descent in a good light," said Mr. Kissi, whose family hails from Ghana.

Upon pouring, the Guinness bubbles along the edges of the pub glasses would descend normally while their descent in a straight glass was more abbreviated.

He could yet be joined in the time trial by Thomas, who crashed on the final descent in a medal-winning position in the road race but still finished as the best-placed British rider in 11th.

In the 1930's, editors signed up William Beebe for the report of his descent in a bathysphere to the seafloor, and Auguste Piccard for the account of his balloon ascent into the stratosphere.

More recently, he apologised for using racial slurs after he repeatedly used the word "slope" (a derogatory term used to describe people of Asian descent) in a Burmese special.

Looking good for podium places, Nibali and Henao crashed horribly on the final descent in an accident Majka needed all his supreme bike-handling skills to avoid.

As a Jewish feminist, it took me a while to adjust to these inroads into matrilineal descent in an otherwise patriarchal religion.

Both were outsiders: Mary Anne, a sailor's daughter thrown among political aristocrats; and Benjamin, a novel-writing dandy in a huntin' and shootin' party, and of Jewish descent in an anti-Semitic society.

The Boeing rolled right and initiated a descent in an attempt to avoid a collision.

When was the last time you saw a hero of Middle Eastern descent in an American film or TV show?