Sentence examples for lineal descent from inspiring English sources
There's Condoleezza Rice, even if she cannot claim lineal descent from Kenyan goat-herders.
Blood quantum, and sometimes lineal descent, was a handy way of solving that problem.
So is an organic, discursive pattern of lineal descent, with artists taking cues from their immediate forebears but also rummaging through the past, rejecting and rediscovering and always extending the thread of tradition.
When Welsh naturalist and author Thomas Pennant came up here in 1779 the resident Lloyd claimed lineal descent from "the lords who had dwelt secure among those mountains since at least the year 1100".
The Digambara monastic community also experienced a revival of its ideals in the early 20th century with the ascendence of the great monk Acharya Shantisagar, from whom virtually all the 120 or so contemporary Digambara monks claim lineal descent.
In 1916, during World War I, Sharīf Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, who claimed lineal descent from the Prophet Muhammad, revolted against Turkish rule, destroyed the railroad, and proclaimed himself the king of Hejaz.
The DR differed from the DAR in insisting upon lineal rather than collateral descent from patriot forebears and upon strong state as opposed to national authority in the organization.
"Don't you really know, Durbeyfield," he goes on, "that you are the lineal representative of the ancient and knightly family of the d'Urbervilles, who derive their descent from Sir Pagan d'Urberville, that renowned knight who came from Normandy with William the Conqueror?" Don't fall for it, Jack!
Founded by the last lineal descendant of Kamehameha I, devoted to the maintenance of schools for children of at least partly Hawaiian descent, its wealth totals more than $6 billion.
Suppose that, when a cell (or its lineal descendants) has experienced exactly r − 1 changes, the probability of occurrence of the rth change, in that line of descent, is p r per unit time.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is one of her lineal descendants.
