He subsumed relations of consanguinity (blood ties) to those of affinity (marriage): whereas British structural functionalists saw descent ties based on filial relations within the group—as paramount in kinship, the relations between groups had priority in Lévi-Strauss's structuralist analysis.
Nicholas noted that his mother, Ursula, is of German descent, which tied in with the German setting of "The Nutcracker".
According to the government statement, the first hints about the group came to light after Sept. 11 when a local source told the Internal Security Department about a Singaporean of Pakistani descent who had ties to Al Qaeda.
Mr. Merah, a Frenchman of Algerian descent who claimed ties to Al Qaeda but apparently acted alone, was struck in the head by a bullet in the final moments of a fierce firefight, said François Molins, the prosecutor who led the investigation into the killings.
Naveen Hostetter, an SPP supporter of Indian descent, wore a tie with black sheep on it, a reminder of an older, openly racist SPP campaign.
Lévi-Strauss stressed that the emphasis in structural analysis of kinship must be on human consciousness, not on objective ties of descent or consanguinity.
With the proportion of Canadians of British descent declining, Canada's ties to Britain, the monarchy, and the Commonwealth weakened, and large numbers of "new" Canadians, as they were called, became active in Canada's political, economic, and social life.
Michel Seymour's proposal of a "socio-cultural definition" adds a political dimension to the purely cultural one: a nation is a cultural group, possibly but not necessarily united by a common descent, endowed with civic ties (Seymour 2000).
I am of Armenian-Palestinian descent, and I have family ties to the Armenian Quarter in Jerusalem.
Tuition for the Sons of Homer FRIDAY -- The scholarship fund of The Hellenic Times, which provides college tuition to students of Greek descent will hold a black-tie fund-raiser at the New York Hilton.
That initiative was started by the royal house of Jordan, a dynasty that traces its descent to Muhammad yet enjoys close ties to the West.
