Sentence examples for descent writing from inspiring English sources

And, unsurprisingly, he and the essayists of Urhobo descent writing in the exhibition catalog -- G. G. Darrah, Peter Ekeh and the artist Bruce Onobrakpeya among them -- approach their subject in part through autobiography.

Nabila Ramdani, a Frenchwoman of Algerian descent, wrote bluntly in The Guardian this week, that "French-Algerians Are Still Second-class Citizens".

In prize-winning novels like "Two Brothers" and "Ashes of the North," Mr. Hatoum, who is of Lebanese descent, wrote about the Arab immigrants who play a major role in Amazon trade and their relations with other ethnic and racial groups, from indigenous peoples to the descendants of Portuguese pioneers.

For obvious reasons, no one in Britain had much clout with Washington, so Asgill's mother, who was of French descent, wrote a melodramatic appeal to the French foreign minister, the Comte de Vergennes: "Surrounded as I am by objects of distress, distracted as I am by fear and grief, no words can express my feelings or paint the scene".Nonetheless, she had a go.

"It made me happy to see this over the top story done from so many angles, some I could totally understand because of my own confusing Asian American upbringing," Teigen, who is of Thai descent, wrote in the emotional post. .

"I cringe and hold my breath everytime they cross the white lines on the descents," writes Robert Hammond.

3.25pm: "I'm supportive of the comments that Paul Tterve has been making because it is apparent to even the most casual observer to cycling that Andy Schleck is not good at descents," writes Neil Mackie.

"I'm of mixed North/South Korean descent," she wrote of the authoritarian nation.

Guène, who is of Algerian descent and wrote the book while still in her teens, knows her material.

One of those, Carlos Yushimito, is a Peruvian of Japanese descent who writes mostly about Brazil and is working on a graduate degree at Brown University.

"Thinking over the dispositions and achievements of my contemporaries at school, at college, and in after life, [I] was surprised to find how frequently ability seemed to go by descent," Galton wrote, in the introduction to the 1869 volume "Hereditary Genius".