Sentence examples for foreign ancestries from inspiring English sources

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Both were born in 1953, the youngest in families of boys; both had strong-willed mothers, who had married husbands with foreign ancestries of whom their families disapproved.

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Peranakan, in Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia, a native-born person of mixed local and foreign ancestry.

Other athletes with foreign ancestry have done the same thing, sparing themselves the grueling process of qualifying for the Olympics in the United States.

Immigrants with ties to South Korea, too, cling to their nationality, in part because of lingering resentment of Japan's brutal 1910-1945 colonial rule of Korea, and because of continuing discrimination against people of foreign ancestry.

Further, Duncan and Trejo's (2007) study of Mexican-Americans suggests that the more successfully-assimilated native born may be less likely to report a foreign ancestry.

Moreover, on December 10, just three days after Pearl Harbor, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reported that almost all the persons of foreign ancestry that the FBI had identified as possible threats to the national security had already been taken into custody.

For many poor white people in the South who either don't have or don't claim foreign ancestry, it's pretty much the only history they have, and they're holding on like GI Joe with the Kung-Fu Grip.

Foreign ancestry (students identifying themselves as being of any ancestry other than Australian/New Zealand) was more common among medical students than among allied health or nursing students.

Although the origin of Sumerians has yet to be clarified [ 5], the two main scenarios, autochthonous vs foreign ancestry, may have produced different genetic outcomes with Marsh Arabs being genetically closer to Middle Eastern groups or other populations, for instance those of the Indian sub-continent.

Instead, press reports focused on Bratza's partly-foreign ancestry.

He began his bid a year before Barack Obama began his, and although their politics and characters, their stories and styles, could otherwise hardly be less alike, Sarkozy, too, defined himself as a transformational leader: a child of half-foreign ancestry, whose very candidacy was an affirmation of the Republic's ideals.

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