Sentence examples for near relations from inspiring English sources

He went as far, in fact, as to liquidate several near relations.

In a few, like our near relations the bonobos, or distant ones like ringtailed lemurs, females are clearly the dominant sex.

Like its near relations, the more forgiving A-line and the shift, the sheath captured the popular imagination in the Camelot era, when Jacqueline Kennedy made it a keystone of her White House wardrobe.

It must have struck her that Blackwood might remember Nightingale had now outlived her ostensibly more robust sister, and she added a PS: "Yes, indeed, I do think how I have survived all my near relations – & more than that survived the two men, Sidney Herbert & Lord Stanley, who conducted the two Royal Commissions which have done all the good in the Army".

The aquatic ape theory suggests this is why humans are largely hairless and have a subcutaneous layer of fat for underwater insulation, and so are better adapted to swimming than near relations such as the great ape.

While Boeing and its commercial aerospace food chain retain the pole position in the nation's exports, Intel's extended relations incorporates Apple, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, IBM and Research in Motion in addition to near relations ASM Lithography, Applied Materials, Texas Instruments and Micron.

"The father of those children was a near relation of the Jeffersons," Parton wrote, "who need not be named".

But, in Lowry, one suspects, he also sensed an uncomfortably near relation, one who also struggled with an unfinishable novel, "October Ferry to Gabriola".

Only the post-breakup anthem "Best Thing I Never Had," a near relation to "Irreplaceable," finds her ceding a loss, and even then she obviously maintains the upper hand.

The Cop-out, a near relation to the Letdown, is essentially a failed Closer: it involves not following through on the promise of the premise — on the most recent season of the modern-day "Sherlock," for instance, the death and resurrection of Sherlock was left teasingly unexplained, or multiply explained, in a way that delighted the makers' ingenuity more than the viewers' desire for an end.

If the FRS knew Hartley as a friend, he would know him to be a mathematician with a special interest in statistics, an amateur violinist, and a vegetarian who saw animals as bearing a "near relation" to humans.