Sentence examples for forefathers to from inspiring English sources

"They emanate from the horn used by our forefathers to call meetings.

The men of Flight 93 were a "group of citizen soldiers who rose up, like their forefathers, to defy tyranny.

With the mercury unmoving, I spent the day mastering the art of fire by friction, using the bow and drill techniques of our forefathers to create a crackling fire.

"We have returned to the Mount, to the cradle of our nation's history, to the land of our forefathers, to the land of the Judges, and to the fortress of David's dynasty," Dayan said.

He won the support of John D. Rockefeller Jr., who later said the historical village "teaches of the patriotism, high purpose and unselfish devotion of our forefathers to the common good".

If, however, pupils do one day have to answer that exam question, they might well begin by observing that we were every bit as slow as our forefathers to recognise impending catastrophe.

Its name is Andrewsarchus mongoliensis, and somehow, the story goes, it was a forefather to what we now know as the whale.

Ibn Taymiyya is the intellectual forefather to many modern-day Islamic militants who use his anti-Mongol fatwas to justify violence against fellow Muslims, or even to declare them infidels.

Mafia Wars 2 has a much stronger focus on customization than its forefather, to boot: the game sports over 300 different types of weapons, armor and vehicles with which players can bring the pain to mob bosses and rivals.

For example, Clinton's father stands in relation father* of (i.e., forefather) to Chelsea because she falls under every hereditary concept that Clinton and his brother inherited from Clinton's father.

Forefather to 0.8% of the world's population, which works out to some 640 million human beings, give or take a few Ulan Batorians.