Sentence examples for make a descendent from inspiring English sources

Networking with genocide prevention organizations and medical facilities, Kira helps in providing potential solutions for suffering populations and hopes to one day make a "descendent system available to international aid agencies and to the public in general".

For just as "lb" came from libra, so the word "pound" is descended from pondo, making the # a descendent of the Roman term libra pondo in both name and appearance.

Second, he is an "Indian Tamil"—a descendent of Indian labourers brought to work in British tea plantations.

There, the conductor (who tweeted that he likes "the apollonic approach of musicmaking") made a symphony titled the "Apocalyptic" seem like a colorful sound-painting, like a descendent of Beethoven's "Pastoral" symphony — until all hell breaks loose, as it does at the end of the first movement in the composer's rarely heard original version, which is the one performed there.

Hannah is a descendent of Joan Didion's alienated, terminally detached women, who have difficulty making a coherent narrative of their lives, and she is a relative, too, of Graham Greene's quiet but not so innocent Americans and V.S. Naipaul's Western war tourists, who somehow imagine they are exempt from the chaos and violence they witness in their wanderings abroad.

I've never met anyone with the last name who isn't a descendent of my great-grandparents.

Vashti Bunyan Nowadays she is idolised by the new folk scene but, during the mid-Sixties, Bunyan, a descendent of the Pilgrim's Progress author John, tried to make it as a pop star.

A third case filed by someone claiming to be a descendent of Kurmangazy has yet to reach the courts.

A descendent of Henry Hudson, Wiliam Penn and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The bridegroom is a descendent of John Alden and Priscilla Mullens.

There was a family history of poetry, with his mother being a descendent of Dryden.