Sentence examples for kin ties from inspiring English sources

Kin ties were reckoned bilaterally, through both the mother and the father, and were widely extended to distant relatives.

He characterized kin ties as bonds of "diffuse, enduring solidarity"—a phrase that carried faint echoes of Fortes's axiom of amity.

Such extension permitted people to invoke kin ties and the customs of hospitality that rested upon them in order to move from one group to another if circumstances warranted.

American anthropologist Kath Weston's informants' "coming out" stories revealed that they conceptualized biological kinship as temporary and uncertain because biological kin had been known to disrupt or sever kin ties upon learning of a relative's homosexuality.

The first European explorers in the southern Mississippi Valley in the early 16th century found the Mississippian culture still flourishing as warring alliances of towns, each ruled through a theocratic system based on kin ties.

Figure 7 Nature of kin ties.

The close family ties make an individual sensitive to the suffering of their kin and compels them to help.

Family ties are sacrosanct and, even in the midst of a bitter family feud, kin will ultimately always look out for kin.

Jon Stewart, host of "The Daily Show," reflected on the kin-like bonds of New Yorkers and Bostonians, and other spokespersons for the victims spontaneously turned to the language of family ties to rally support for the victims.

The boats were manned by brothers, uncles, cousins, and more distant kin, their blood ties a bond against the petty thieves and extortionists of the waterfront.

And ties of kin, clan or dialect ensure a high level of trust.