Sentence examples for junior branch from inspiring English sources

From 1161 these were divided between the senior branch of Berg and the junior branch of Altena (later Mark), which acquired the countship of Cleves in 1368.

At first the Tirol was held by a junior branch, but it was united with the main Austrian possessions in 1665.

Along with the future president FW de Klerk, he was inducted into the junior branch of the Broederbond, an Afrikaner secret society that dominated apartheid-era politics.

But that result could inflame the Tory right, which resents the influence of the junior branch of the coalition, and fears that AV would make it impossible for their party to govern alone again.

A period of warfare between the two branches of the family followed, during which the junior branch initially triumphed but was quickly forced to acknowledge the suzerainty of first the Pallavas and then the senior branch.

(It should be noted, however, that William II's cousin, William Frederick, of the junior branch of Orange-Nassau, continued to govern Friesland as well as Groningen, which also elected him stadtholder).

The land of Connaught was thereafter controlled by two junior branches of the de Burghs, who ultimately became the Clanricarde and Mayo Burkes.

Adding to the political confusion in Kyōto was the practice of alternating the throne between the senior and junior branches of the imperial family, which had been feuding over the question of succession for years.

Under its state-wide system that makes junior colleges branches of the state university, California enrolled in community colleges nearly half of all its college students.

Junior's has branches in Brooklyn and Grand Central Station.

The most senior line of descent was typically passed from firstborn son to firstborn son; branches off this main line were founded by junior sons, and these branches in turn produced further branches.