Sentence examples for lost ancestors from inspiring English sources

We tend to see the continent as a mythic place of romantic dreams -- of exotic adventures, lost ancestors and awesome creatures.

The moment puts him in atavistic touch with his own ghosts, his lost ancestors, though it is a knowledge that he is unable to make use of until the end of the play.

"The attacks highlight the unbearable heaviness of being Armenian in Turkey," says Khatchig Mouradian an Armenian activist and academic who lost ancestors in the killings.Academic opinion worldwide tilts towards the view that these constituted genocide.

John Apthorpe, from Iron Mountain, says: "The archive is not only a valuable source of information for historians, it gives the general public, here and overseas, the chance to get closer to their lost ancestors.

Village festivals were held and people started to search for their lost ancestors' graves.

These repeated comparisons are as ignorant of history as they are offensive to those of us who lost ancestors in the Holocaust.

Tear up the wallchart documenting "humanity's long lost ancestor".

Corn, or maize (Zea mays), was domesticated 10,000 to 8,000 years ago either from teosinte (a perennial Zea that exists today) or from a lost ancestor that existed in the highlands of what is now central Mexico.

It's one thing to learn the name of a long lost ancestor, but it's quite another to hear them speak.

It is also generally accepted on the basis of paleographic and codicological evidence that O and Q are both descended at one or two removes from a lost ancestor known as ωII, and that ωII in turn is twice removed from a lost fourth- or fifth-century ancestor known as Ω [2], [30].

His cladistic reconstruction of the doxographical tradition is clearly related to the famous so-called 'Lachmannian' stemma of a group of manuscripts, from later copies to the lost common ancestor, or archetype, the text of which (as scholars believed at the time) may be reconstructed in a virtually mechanical way.