Sentence examples for largely descended from inspiring English sources

The islanders are largely descended from British settlers and speak English.

The Left party, largely descended from the Communist Party of East Germany, is too radical.

The impoverished population, largely descended from African slaves, lacks basic services.

Bahia's population is largely descended from slaves from Mozambique, Angola and West Africa brought to work on sugar plantations.

"The modern population of the English is largely descended from the economic upper classes of the Middle Ages," he concluded.

Faced with the prospect of having to give climate change deniers the same airtime as the 97 per cent scientific consensus the BBC has largely descended into silence on the issue.

The Left, a party that largely descends from former East German communists, goes further, channelling well-honed anti-American and Russophile instincts and seeing the Ukraine crisis as a natural Russian response to NATO's expansionism.

For the purpose of this paper, we define primary areas of horse domestication as regions where local domestic populations largely descend from local wild stock, be it through their initial recruitment to found domestic populations ("independent" domestication), their extensive introgression into local domestic populations, or both.

Accordingly, the fossil record for wild horses at that time is extremely scarce [6], [7], suggesting that European domestic horses largely descend from stock that was imported from elsewhere in a process known as demic diffusion [8] (colonisation of an area through population movement [9]).

DNA testing has shown that Kiger Mustangs are descended largely from Spanish horses brought to North America in the 17th century, a bloodline thought to have largely disappeared from mustang herds before the Kiger horses were found.

The Jewish population of Turkey, estimated between eighteen thousand and twenty thousand, is descended largely from refugees of the Spanish Expulsion.