Sentence examples for grandfather test from inspiring English sources

In one Vietnam cluster, not only did a young man, his teenage sister and 80-year-old grandfather test positive for A(H5N1) avian flu, but two nurses tending them developed severe pneumonia, and one tested positive.

In the six years since Kim Jong Un assumed power, at the age of twenty-seven, hashas tested eighty-four moreiles — more than double the number that his father and grandfather tested.

The good news is that Kim Jung-un did not use the birthday celebration for Kim Il-sung, founder of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and his grandfather, to test fire a missile as some had expected.

While the DNA testing showed that Lawrence is not Spencer's grandfather, a second test suggested that another Lacks man might be, something family gossip had hinted at for years.

KENNETH SIMON Philadelphia, Dec. 19, 2012 To the Editor: As a 79-year-old African-American born in North Carolina who grew up in Texas, I remember that time when, as Adolph L. Reed Jr. writes, "white Southern Democrats once used cynical manipulations — poll taxes, grandfather clauses, literacy tests — to get around the 15th Amendment".

The result was decades of new voting laws across the South requiring literacy tests, "grandfather" clauses that prohibited anyone from voting if their grandfather hadn't, and other "colorblind" policies whose main purpose was actually to keep people of one color from participating in our democracy.

This intensity was inherited from his grandfather, the famed daredevil test pilot Jimmy Collins, whose autobiography was made into the Hollywood film Test Pilot starring Clark Gable in 1938.

North Carolina's brand-new poll tax, literacy test and grandfather clause – the forebears of today's voter ID law, voter purge and felon clause – ensured the defeat of the last black congressman.

By the 1890s, however, efforts by several states to enact such measures as poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses in addition to widespread threats and violence had completely reversed these trends.

Thus, the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was applied minimally except in some cases of racial discrimination, such as the invalidation of literacy tests and grandfather clauses for voting.

In June, Yahoo News reported that Miller's great-grandfather flunked his naturalization test in 1932.