Sentence examples for descent moved from inspiring English sources

Her parents, both nurses of Ghanaian descent moved to the city in the 1960s.

During the 1700s the Welsh and the French Huguenots were prominent among the immigrants, and a large number of people of Scotch-Irish and German descent moved from Pennsylvania into the Shenandoah Valley.

The defendants, who were mostly of German birth or descent, moved for a change of venue away from Landis's courtroom, alleging that Landis had stated on November 1, 1918 that "[i]f anybody has said anything about the Germans that is worse than I have said, I would like to hear it so I could use it myself".

The platform, which SpaceX calls "the autonomous spaceport drone ship", is the intended landing site for the rocket, which is as tall as a 14-story building and will begin its descent moving at nearly a mile a second.

Lives of Latinos in US beyond stereotypes Jump to media player An exhibition by photographers of Hispanic descent moves beyond outdated stereotypes to capture the everyday lives of Latinos in America.

Of Italian descent, Rastrelli moved to St . Petersburgin 1716 with his father, the sculptor Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli.

The daughter of a Welsh physician and a white Creole of Scottish descent, she moved to Britain in her late teens and enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

A Pennsylvania minister's son of Welsh descent, Thomas moved from musical theater into opera (including nearly a decade at the Met), then on to tours, recordings, radio and television before his retirement in 1950.

Sameer Reddy, an American journalist of Indian descent who moved to Mumbai six months ago to work on Indian Vogue, says luxury consumers in India "are ready to spend, but are also discerning". "People here are very fashion conscious, but they're not so familiar or influenced by the brands because it's not relevant," he says.

But over the last few decades, the Ironbound has become less industrial and more residential as immigrants, many of them of Portuguese descent, have moved into apartment houses and one- or two-family houses that have sold for as much as $350,000.

Horses of French descent also moved across the border from Canada to contribute to the herds.