But Ms. Taubira, France's first nonwhite presidential candidate, is giving some voters of African and Arab descent a new sense of connection with this year's campaign.
She said she is "of Italian descent" with a sense of humor that "comes with an edge, but I am certainly not a racist".
A long-term result of James Cook's voyage of 1768 71, a significant number of New Zealanders are of British descent, whom a sense of Britishness has contributed to their identity.
The struggle became, in every sense, a descent into barbarism.
In light of Sly's later descent into himself, the sense of warmth and community — the way each member ("Lazy Larry" on fuzzbox bass, "Ready Freddie" on snaking guitar) gets a turn in the spotlight — is strangely poignant.
Given that anaerobic forms of mitochondria are widespread throughout the eukaryotic world, we see eukaryotes in anaerobic habitats as evidence for evolution in the Darwinian sense of descent with modification, with the traits that support survival in anaerobic environments having been conserved from earlier phases of Earth's history.
Homology, in the sense of descent with modification from a common ancestor, has long served as the touchstone for comparative molecular biology (Margoliash, 1969; Zuckerkandl and Pauling, 1965a, b), and continues to provide the biological context for comparison of genome sequences and other genome-scale data (Koonin, 2005).
In that long descent, Tyson acted out his sense of worthlessness.
We don't have a class system in Canada, certainly not the same as you Brits, but now I sound 'posh-Canadian', if that makes any sense?" Of Irish descent, Ryan loves British culture and humour.
But knowing where you come from isn't as simple as it sounds, especially for Faith, a British citizen of Jamaican descent whose search for a sense of belonging drives the plot of Andrea Levy's moving new novel.
