Sentence examples for modern descent from inspiring English sources

These puzzling and mysterious poems both attract and repel the reader with the powerful and awe-inspiring vision they present of a modern descent into hell.

One of Bozell's ten children, Leo, has become a poster child for the GOP's modern descent into madness, running multiple fringe groups including the Media Research Center and the Parent Television Council, which polices the rampant filth in our Super Bowl halftime shows.

Crucially Malaysian-born Sebastian, who is of Sri Lankan Tamil, English, and Portuguese descent, represents modern multi-ethnic Australia.

That is to say, there is an unbroken chain of ancestry and descent linking modern organisms with earlier species that lived long ago.

Most modern Sri Lankan Tamils claim descent from residents of Jaffna Kingdom, a former kingdom in the north of the island and Vannimai chieftaincies from the east.

The ancient association of Mercury with Wednesday is still visible in the names of Wednesday in various modern languages of Latin descent, e.g. mercredi in French, miércoles in Spanish, or miercuri in Romanian.

More recently, it has been shown that several pre-domestic Iberian maternal lineages survive in modern horses of Iberian descent [10], [11], thus documenting a genetic contribution of Iberian wild stock to local domestic horses.

Scanning the genome for regions of extreme FST between dogs and wolves and reduced heterozygosity in dogs, consistent with selective sweeps, has identified genetic variants that were likely selected during the descent of modern dogs.

This dataset from Myanmar is of great historic interest, because SEA is a key region of human population history with a first entry of anatomically modern humans of African descent about 60,000 years ago [ 10, 11], who continued their way through the coastal route to Island SEA and Australia [ 8].

The modern breed's precise line of descent is unclear, but numerous outside influences have been recorded throughout the history of Finland.

Home prices in Las Vegas are down by 60 percent from 2006 in one of the steepest descents in modern times.