Sentence examples for distant descent from inspiring English sources

Selassie claimed distant descent through his father.

It stands isolated among chestnut and cherry trees, reached via a long, wriggling track; below are meadows, falling to a farm or two, and a further distant descent along the yawning valley.

So people of distant German descent, for instance, in the ex-communist countries of the east, can readily win citizenship in the old fatherland.

Wilamowitz-Möllendorff himself came from an aristocratic family of distant Polish descent and was also a graduate of Schulpforta (1867).

Some historians contend that Cardozo a Sephardic Jew believed to be of distant Portuguese descent —should also be counted as the first Hispanic Justice.

Some attention has been given to Justice Benjamin Cardozo – a Sephardic Jew believed to be of distant Portuguese descent – as the first Hispanic on the court when appointed in 1932, but his roots were uncertain, the term "Hispanic" was not in use as an ethnic identifier at the time, and the Portuguese are generally excluded from its meaning.

Mars' mother emigrated to Hawaii from the Philippines as a child, and was of Filipino descent, with distant Spanish ancestry.

Because of the higher mutation rate in the AT-rich motif markers, some misevaluation might occur because of homoplasy (i.e. alleles identical in terms of state but not by descent) for distant individuals [ 35].

Another was Francis Cardozo, a freeborn black man of Jewish descent (and a distant relative of the Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo), who during Reconstruction served as secretary of state and treasurer of South Carolina.

If there are several major evolutionary transitions (e.g., from a pre-DNA to a DNA-based genetic system, etc)., there may be no reason to expect ANY character to be identical by descent with a sufficiently distant ancestral character.

He finished a distant 14th, having difficulty on the technical descents on the course, and slipped to fourth overall.