The phrase "direct lineage" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a direct or unbroken line of descent from ancestors. Example: The royal family's direct lineage can be traced back to the 9th century.
Direct lineage reprogramming of post-mitotic callosal neurons into corticofugal neurons in vivo.
And please don't quibble about whether you have any direct lineage to the architects of racism.
"These classes provide a cultural connection, regardless of direct lineage," he said.
Vandeweghe, 16, whose direct lineage includes a Knicks forward, a Miss America and a two-sport Olympian, lost in straight sets to No. 2-ranked Jelena Jankovic.
The professors at the old university were, with few exceptions, white, male, trained through direct lineage, and self-selected for an interest in the Western canon.
The august summer dance festival opens its 69th season with two companies with a direct lineage to the traditional American moderns.
It influenced a number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century magical and mystical Christian orders, some of which claimed to have a direct lineage with the Rosicrucians.
There's a direct lineage through Taxi Driver and Raging Bull to Stallone's Rocky (and his almost-forgotten street fable Paradise Alley) and on through The Karate Kid.
In this compelling, contentious work, Marcus discerns a direct lineage from the dada cabaret in Zurich in 1916 to the Sex Pistols.
So here everything is plentiful that in the United States is rare: indigenous ruins, ancient languages, signs of direct lineage.
Baghdadi, however, had a unique way to distinguish himself from the other aspiring leaders inside Bucca and outside on Iraq's savage streets: a pedigree that allowed him to claim direct lineage to the Prophet Muhammad.
