Sentence examples for is a scion of from inspiring English sources

Mr Herzog is a scion of Israeli Labour aristocracy: his father was the country's sixth president.

Yet he is a scion of the PRI's most retrograde regional political machine.

Mr. Bemba, 45, is a scion of a prominent Congolese family with a large business empire.

Eyres himself, he informs us, is a scion of "the Catholic aristocracy" [see footnote].

Her husband is a scion of a prominent family, with holdings worth billions of dollars.

So does Alex's ability, even at his wildest, to pull rank and announce that he is a scion of a trustee, and an important lawyer to boot.

Pablo Antonio Cuadra Cardenal's name reflected that he was a scion of the aristocracy of Granada, Nicaragua.

Rabbi Teitz was a scion of a line of rabbis stretching back centuries.

Astor was a scion of a multi-millionaire Anglo-American family.

Dean Bainbridge was a scion of one of America's most distinguished and historic families.

(His adoptive father was a scion of the Keith-Albee vaudeville-theatre chain).