Sentence examples for distant heritage from inspiring English sources

The recent outpouring of musical talent from Israel represents a different strain of Jewish jazz, one less concerned about connecting with a distant heritage.

It is difficult to imagine two people who were prouder of their distant heritage — which, should it not be perfectly clear, was Irish.

The fastidiousness of it is impressively ruthless: the living river has to stay dead, or exist only as an ever more distant "heritage".

Regardless of whether Warren is 1/32nd or 1/1024th Native American, she offers a compelling explanation for why her distant heritage is meaningful to her in her campaign video: Her father's family didn't approve of his relationship with her mother, due to the fact that her mother was part Cherokee, so they had to elope.

"I guess we have a sort of common, distant ideological heritage," Farron says reluctantly.

These included Amar'e Stoudemire, who has explored his distant Jewish heritage in recent years, telling Israeli newspaper Haaretz, in 2013, that he observes the High Holidays and regularly consults New York rabbis.

I do not believe in God, but the image of the Angel of the North moves me, as do the relics of our distant spiritual heritage strewn randomly around the British landscape: Stonehenge, the Cerne Abbas Giant, Ann Widdecombe, and the former archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.

"Dad, your vote made me feel like you've grown distant from our Jewish heritage and forgotten all the suffering our people went through when they were persecuted for just being who they were.

As a result of the new rules, a student who is white, with a distant ancestor of American Indian heritage -- someone who would likely have identified himself as white to a college just a few years ago -- would now have the option to claim both races, as well as to highlight relatives from other backgrounds on his family tree, as he saw fit.

The similarity of our genome to that of mice, and the closer similarity among all people, reflects our shared genetic heritage from common ancestors, some distant and some close to us.

This digital reconstruction will help to preserve part of the city's archaeological and cultural heritage, giving life to a distant past.