Sentence examples for from ancestors from inspiring English sources

One popular myth is that cancer is caused by curses from ancestors and elders.

"Not only genes are inherited from ancestors, also environmental conditions and ecological constraints.

Diana's love of sailing may have been inherited from ancestors who sailed tea and silk clippers from China to Bristol.

Perhaps, but America seems also to have inherited from ancestors across the sea an abiding desire for luxury and display.

Desert floras and faunas initially evolved from ancestors in moister habitats, an evolution that occurred independently on each continent.

Using sage, cedar and tobacco as offerings, the chief asked for blessings from ancestors, whose spirits were brought to the lodge in the form of heated rocks.

But it's also traditional because in living together and learning ancient crafts, you necessarily draw on centuries of accumulated wisdom and borrow from ancestors' ingenuity and sagacity.

Some have agrarian backgrounds, and learned the practice from ancestors who used it to locate good sites for wells on their own or their neighbors' farms.

Although this is true of some, the majority of Chagossians are descended from ancestors who were held as slave labour on the islands in the late 18th century.

Four feet of water sat for weeks in their house, which was full of antiques and diaries from ancestors involved in the Underground Railroad.

He was a Sephardic Jew, as are most of Turkey's Jews, descended from ancestors who were expelled from Spain in the late 1400's.