His most celebrated contributions remain Waterland, a murky tangle of familial rivalry, local history, eels and beer, and Last Orders, written soon after his father died of cancer, aged 70, and Swift's elegy for a generation "who never got the breaks but lived with a surprising amount of humour and stoicism".
It's as if Lowery himself were expressing his own sense of wonder, his own mixed emotions, his own feeling of being in the presence of grand forces—historical and intimate, familial and local, venal and noble that he's still reckoning with.
It's as if Lowery himself were expressing his own sense of wonder, his own mixed emotions, his own feeling of being in the presence of grand forces — historical and intimate, familial and local, venal and noble — that he's still reckoning with.
Although Nigerian women may wield influence and political power, particularly at the familial and local level, this has not always been reflected at the federal level: in the early 21st century, women made up about 5 percent of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
The fact that the correlations were negative indicated that familial and local community influences making twins similar and contributing to greater education helped to control BMI, and the increasing strength of the correlations with level of education indicated that this was true to a greater degree when level of education was high than when it was low.
Under conditions of food scarcity, it may make sense to delay menarche until sufficient energy resources are available to support reproduction [4], [5], [6], while familial or local social stressors appear to accelerate menarche when social conditions are unstable and future survival is uncertain [7], [8], [9], [10].
This occurs as individuals elect to engage in various activities with others in order to pursue their leisure, familial, ethnic, local environments, or wider political interests" [ 7], p. 654.
In the meantime, the research team communicated the specific findings to the local familial cancer clinic.
To enter it is not so much a trip back in time as a gateway to what league could be: local, distinctive, familial.
As he conducted a tour in advance of the event, Mr. Lockwood's narrative was familial and steeped in local history -- he is an 11th-generation Weston resident with a deep regard for the area's Colonial past.
