Sentence examples for kinsman from inspiring English sources

But elsewhere, following his kinsman Matthew Arnold, he defends timeless standards of "goodness, beauty, wisdom and knowledge", which he takes to be "everywhere and in all kinds of society broadly the same".Finally Huxley identifies himself as a "life-worshipper", though this is too Nietzschean a label for what amounts to a rather tepid Epicureanism.

For two decades the southern rebels' leader was a Dinka, John Garang, a kinsman of the bishop.

Major-General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, a kinsman and one-time ally of the president, and Sadiq al-Ahmar, who heads the Hashid tribal confederation, the most powerful in the country and the one to which the president belongs, have both gone over the rebels.

For their part, opposition leaders in the ethnically mixed Rift Valley, where much of the violence occurred, recruited thousands of armed men from the Kalenjin group to kill and clear out Kikuyus, who had overwhelmingly backed their ethnic kinsman, Mr Kibaki, in the election.The 500-page report has some revealing and controversial details.

Ali Mohsen Ahmar, a kinsman and general who was a long-time ally of Mr Saleh, abandoned the president after more than 50 protesters were shot in a single day in March.

But the strife will worsen if he stays on.The security forces are splintering after a dozen of their leaders, including the country's most senior commander after Mr Saleh, Major-General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, a kinsman and long-time ally of the president, came out in support of the opposition and promised that they would protect the protesters.In this section Next on the list?

A kinsman of Sir Francis Drake, Hawkins began his career as a merchant in the African trade and soon became the first English slave trader.

Caesarius succeeded his kinsman Aeonius as archbishop of Arles, the see of which Pope Symmachus made primatial for Gaul and Spain.

She recognized his claims to the chieftainship, thus throwing over a kinsman, Brian O'Neill.

Too young at age 13 to rule the kingdom, he was assisted by his kinsman Raymond III, count of Tripoli, who acted as his regent until 1176.

He killed his kinsman and godfather, Sir William (c. 1300 53), the knight of Liddesdale, in Ettrick Forest (1353) and acquired part of Liddesdale.