Sentence examples for local relative from inspiring English sources

Immigrants come to Lagos with the thinnest margin of support, dependent on a local relative or contact whose assistance usually lasts less than twenty-four hours.

The baths built by the Turks still function morning and afternoon, but the bouzouki, a local relative of the lute, is giving way to the electric guitar.

In a few cases, argon ages older than that of Earth which violate local relative age patterns have even been determined for the mineral biotite.

Her nearest local relative, perhaps, is Richard Ford in his Bascombe novels, with that funny, dark, vituperative voice that serves equally well for tragic and comic moments.

We first investigate the local relative error between the original and reconstructed data.

More than 95% of the local relative errors of Um were below 20%.

Today, Jon Corzine's nearest local relatives live around the prairie village of Assumption, 15 miles east of Taylorville.

Four bodies, apparently of men with no local relatives, lay on the ground, three vultures feasting on one of them.

While the federal system favors those with college degrees, Manitoba takes the semi-skilled, like truck drivers, and focuses on people with local relatives in the hopes that they will stay.

The trend could link back to the practice of foreign real estate investors naming local relatives as home owners to avoid paying certain taxes.

I come from a big Italian family and every Sunday growing up, all the local relatives would go to my grandparents' house for dinner.