Sentence examples for descent set from inspiring English sources

In June 2014, Mohamed Amimour, who is of French-Algerian descent, set out on a private family mission to rescue his son, crossing the Turkish border and travelling to the Syrian town of Minbej, near Aleppo.

Most recently, the artist, who is of Iraqi Jewish descent, set up a series of receiving stations and mail drops for sending packages of donated food and clothing to Baghdad.

In one column, Loucks insisted that, under apartheid, South Africa had been a "powerful nation with a thriving, diverse economy" but that after the white government lost power, "societal descent set in".

At most, some British Muslims were thought to be supporting such groups abroad and sometimes setting out to join them in jihad.In April 2003 two Britons of Pakistani descent set off explosive belts outside a beach-front bar in Tel Aviv, killing three Israelis.

Having rolled out of the start town of Sisteron, the parcours headed towards Gigors via some rolling terrain, and after a descent, set up for the first of three categorised climbs: the Côte de la Bréole, averaging around 5% for its 5.4 km length.

Vaguely based on fact, this likable Australian movie, directed by an actor of Aboriginal descent, is set in 1968 when boozy Irish musician Dave Lovelace Chris O'Dowddiscoversers four feisty black singers at an outback talent contest and decides to become their manager.

Mary Seacole, a Jamaican-born woman of Scottish and Creole descent who set up a "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War where she nursed the injured and dying, has kept her place as an object of study, but only after an outcry at the prospect of her removal.

With Zero-X locked in descent and set to impact Craigsville, Florida, Jeff sends out Scott and Brains in Thunderbird 1 and Virgil, Alan and Gordon in Thunderbird 2. Winched into Zero-X's undercarriage, Alan must risk being trapped on board the spacecraft as Brains advises him on re-routing the damaged escape circuit.

Mary Jane Seacole (23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881), née Grant, was a Jamaican-born woman of Scottish and Creole descent who set up a "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War, which she described as "a mess-table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers," and provided succour for wounded servicemen on the battlefield.

A third presumption: Africana philosophy should not be regarded as normatively prescriptive for philosophers identified as African or of African descent, as setting requirements for what their philosophizing must have been, or must be, about and to what ends because of their racial/ethnic identities.

"Between 09 30 52 and 09 30 55 you can see that the autopilot was manually changed from 38,000ft to 100ft and nine seconds later the aircraft started to descend, probably with the 'open descent' autopilot setting," Flightradar24 chief Fredrik Lindahl was quoted as saying by Reuters.