Sentence examples for growing inheritance from inspiring English sources

Information on US$ billionaires was extracted from the Forbes list (www.Forbes.com, 2008 list), including wealth, origin of wealth (self-made, inherited, and growing inheritance) residence and citizenship, and number of children (listed for 910 of 1046; 866 with at least one child; 71 female, 795 male).

The source and current status of wealth (inherited only vs self-made and growing inheritance) did not influence sex ratios of children fathered by billionaires (inherited only (60% sons) vs self-made (61% sons) and growing inheritance (65% sons) Fig. 3).

However, among the women who were themselves billionaires, those that were self-made (52% sons) or were growing their inheritance (39% sons) had significantly fewer sons than those that inherited their wealth (56% sons, χ2 = 4.32, DF = 1, P = 0.04, Fig 3).

We therefore reasoned that those billionaires who were either self-made or were growing their inheritance were high achieving ('high work drive'), whereas those that had inherited their wealth were not as high achieving in employment ('low work drive').

The study of inheritance systems combines attention to the growing knowledge about inheritance mechanisms and processes in nature with reflection about the nature and dynamics of the evolutionary process.

This increase appears to be driven mainly by an increase in the wealth-to-income ratio but also partly by a growing weight of inheritance as a wealth acquisition channel11.

Farm inheritance is patrilineal, but daughters are expected to grow where they're planted as helpmates, a role Marquart rejected.

The biggest factors in wealth retention and growing wealth inequality, are inheritance and unearned income and the whole point of tax havens is to maintain this.

Although by midlife, second-generation Irish people enjoyed social circumstances at parity with the rest of the cohort, an inheritance of growing up in adversity as a result of parental migration and settlement experiences has continued to influence downstream health outcomes.

In this way, there is a growing danger that the genetic inheritance of mankind will be taken from the community as a whole and made into a profitable commodity for the few.

The issue of maintenance has gained increased importance with the recent growing interest in 'transgenerational epigenetic inheritance': that is, phenotypes that are initiated by environmental changes, or transient disruption of activities linked to epigenetic regulation, that persist for multiple generations after the normal environment or activity is restored.