Sentence examples for distinguished relative from inspiring English sources

But I guess it's not the kind of thing you tell an eight-year-old when he asks about his distinguished relative.

About this verse, the Italian commentator Sforno writes: It is not proper for you to show extreme concern and pain for the death of a relative, when a more honorable and distinguished relative still remains, in whom there is hope for ultimate good.

When 2 mM nickel-supplemented media was used, only the OmpC-TMT strain showed a distinguished relative growth over the control strain (47.9%).

Because the parietal bone is fused into a single bilaterally symmetric element, right and left sides of the bone were distinguished relative to the midline.

Common polymorphisms and rare variants are distinguished relative to the reference genome.

For example, the folks who organize our annual Duck Pond Day are pretty famous around here; we have some distant but distinguished relatives of the early settlers; a man who made a documentary film about tent caterpillars; a high school football star; even a New York Times columnist.

The Klausners would walk from their basement apartment, on Amos Street, in Kerem Avraham, to see their more distinguished relatives in the neighborhood of Talpiot, and, Oz said, "it was in the same spirit that shtetl Jews would take the train to Warsaw to see the five-story buildings".

Conrad of Abenberg came from the family of the Counts of Abenberg-Frensdorf, and had many distinguished relatives in Germany.

Roosevelt, whose branch of the family had always voted Democratic, hesitated only long enough to make sure his distinguished Republican Party relative would not speak against him.

Newton therefore held that physics required the conception of absolute space, a distinguished frame of reference relative to which bodies could be said to be truly moving or truly at rest.

One of my relatives, a distinguished federal official, recently sent a letter of complaint to the T.S.A. about her experience submitting to a body search at Washington's Reagan airport after the scanner reflected the shadow of the ostomy bag she wears on her abdomen.