Sentence examples for descent of his from inspiring English sources

When Mr. Barsalona established his own company, he told Bob Spitz, the author of "The Making of Superstars," a book about the rock business: "I started off with the acts nobody wanted, like Freddy Cannon, who at the time was on the descent of his career, and I put Little Anthony and the Imperials back together.

Robinson died from a heart attack, aged 53, shortly after the book's first publication, having told Kahn about the descent of his elder son, Jackie Jr, into crime and heroin addiction, while the story of the 50-year-old Campanella, the catcher of the 1955 World Series champions who was left paralysed from the shoulders down after a car accident, is worth the price alone.

His family is Jewish, of Polish descent on his father's side.

Like Iginla, Okposo is of Nigerian descent, on his father's side.

Like Arp, Burle Marx was of German descent on his father's side and French on his mother's side.

On the descent, four of his teammates died, and Mr. Krakauer blamed himself, in part.

The first great first ascent, of the Matterhorn, in 1865, by an Englishman named Edward Whymper, led to the death, on the descent, of four of his companions.

Reading Ed Stafford's account of his descent of the Amazon River I was simultaneously intrigued and repulsed by his description of days spent wading through flooded forest, agonizing twelve hour marches where he made perhaps five or six miles progress.

Excitement has long been Boyle's hallmark, going back to his first collection, "Descent of Man" (1979) and his debut novel, "Water Music" (1982).

His belief in an innate, heritable moral sense, explored in his Descent of Man (1871), though less central to his explanatory program, was equally definite.

On the descent, one member of his party slipped and pulled down three more all four fell to their deaths.