Sentence examples for inheritance from inspiring English sources

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inheritance

noun

The passing of title to an estate upon death.

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"Snowden doesn't fully understand that accepting asylum in Russia is about the same as agreeing to receive an inheritance from a lawyer in Nigeria by email," Feigin tweeted Thursday.

Such regular payments would also not attract inheritance tax.

The Tories enjoyed a 5.5% swing among over-65s, whom they have shamelessly cultivated with promises to slash inheritance tax and shield pensioners from austerity.

In one episode from the show's later years, viewers learned that La Cuatro is expecting an inheritance from an uncle in Africa, which is eventually delivered by an "African" character sporting a cheetah-print cloth and disheveled hair held together by a large bone.

The brother of a British man murdered in the French Alps with his family has revealed the pair fought over a £1m inheritance before his death, but insisted he played no part in the killings.

For blood pressure it seems obvious that inheritance within groups is irrelevant to divergence between them; for IQ there is a curious readiness to accept that such differences are due to genes.

Brown tried to nail Cameron on inheritance tax cuts, Cameron tried to nail Brown on how he hitched the whole country to the fortunes of the financial sector; both undeniable.

Brown attacked the Tory plans to cut inheritance tax for millionaires – which Cameron acknowledged was a weak point ("It's not a priority").

Yes, the queen has displayed dignity and upheld certain moral values, but the one who succeeds her because of biological inheritance may be very different.

Equally important, when Tony Blair began to worry about the Labour supporters not turning out, he began to renounce the Thatcher inheritance.

But the squeezing off the curriculum of our "democratic inheritance" is possibly the greater of the two evils.

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