Sentence examples for distant descendants from inspiring English sources

The policy of "No Return," she suggested, applied to distant descendants, too.

Macroeconomic models, the distant descendants of Phillips's machine, belong mostly in central banks.

Could they be distant descendants of the flock that once decorated Penn Station's exterior and flapped under its vaulted roof?

There is an alternative, though, for those who are concerned about their financial legacies to distant descendants.

They contain structures called mitochondria, distant descendants of bacteria that became symbiotic with the first eukaryotic cells.

The Plantagenets' family connections to the king are far more tenuous: Richard had no surviving children but five siblings, and now could have several million similarly distant descendants.

Italian bambini grow up on Mellin, the distant descendant of a Victorian producer of concentrated milk.

I desperately wanted to hear a fox's bark, distant descendant of Janacek's beloved vixen of his opera.

A distant descendant of Gladstone, she was born in 1931 in London to a family she describes as "not badly off but not wealthy, either".

But his spirit loomed large throughout an evening that included works by his pupils, as well as by a distant descendant and a curious contemporary.

The Solar Power Satellite concept is a distant descendant of Tesla's vision and would avoid the problem of energy dissipation by sending power via laser.