Sentence examples for descent left from inspiring English sources

We had one long, lovely descent left, but we lingered on the hillside.

MR. FARKAS'S parents, Jews of Hungarian descent, left Transylvania for South America in 1939 amid the growing Nazi threat.

With the rise of the Nazi Party, Hevesy, who was of Jewish descent, left Germany for Copenhagen in 1934.

From 1980 to 2000, half the residents of Italian descent left, and the number now is just under 60,000.

Last year, a group of six young men of Bangladeshi descent left the city to fight with Isis, flying to Turkey before crossing the border.

Her father, Bill Moore, who was of mostly white descent, left when she was a baby, and she was sometimes mocked and called iyeska — half-breed — as a child.

Structured as a set of linked short stories, "Ancestor Stones" begins when Abie, a young woman of African descent, leaves England and travels to Sierra Leone to assume control of her grandfather's coffee plantation.

However, when the solidus assemblage in equilibrium with the liquid line of descent leaves the solvus, this univariant reaction degenerates to a minimum valley in the liquidus surface (schematically when the line becomes dashed in Fig. 8c), as in feldspars close to the albite-K-feldspar binary (see Figure 10.28 in Philpotts and Ague, 2009).

"The designation of a cabinet of ministers that does not include any women or persons of African descent leaves more than half the population excluded from the highest government offices," IACHR said in a press statement.

A series of stunning descents left them winning by the yawning margin of nearly a second.

The house did not become the designated home of New York's mayors in time for Cadwallader D. Colden, of Scottish descent, who left office in 1821, about 120 years too early to live there.