Sentence examples for nearest relations from inspiring English sources

Our nearest relations among the primates, particularly chimps, have a "supra threshold": they love sweets and will practically die to get them — and this, the theory goes, is one of the things that make them forage over extremely large territories, outside the forest.

His first order was the execution of over 80 of his nearest relations to secure his place as emperor.

Swaminarayan restricted widows "to live always under the control of male members of their family and prohibited them from receiving instruction in any science from any man excepting their nearest relations".

In October 1928, after the death of the Tsar's mother, the Dowager Empress Marie, the 12 nearest relations of the Tsar met at Marie's funeral and signed a declaration that denounced Anderson as an impostor.

The nearest relation of the two Phedina martins is the banded martin, Riparia cincta, which appears not to be closely related to the other members of its current genus and resembles Brazza's martin in its nesting habits and calls.

Interestingly the nearest relation to Stygiocaris in both our mitochondrial and nuclear data is the subterranean genus Typhlatya, whose centre of diversity is the Caribbean/North Atlantic/Mediterranean [40].

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".

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.