Sentence examples for offspring as a from inspiring English sources

One might go further and regard our absorption in our own offspring as a flimsily disguised form of narcissism.

But a new study reports that some female meerkats will nurse the dominant female's offspring as a way of paying "rent," to remain in the community.

Males may be passing on versions of the gene that vary in strength to different offspring as a means of guaranteeing their legacy.

At Selfridges, buying manager Lynne Crook has noticed a definite trend towards parents' seeing children in an extension of their own style: They dress their offspring as a 'mini me', buying into the brands they love.

She considers Anna Gordon as an employee (a lawyer's secretary for forty-five yearshesupportedrted first parents, then her own family), as a sibling and daughter (the child of an Italian-Irish immigrant marriage that produced nine offspring), as a devoted Catholic, and, finally, as a physical being, deformed from youth by polio and in her later years impaired by alcoholism and dementia.

In the case of hESCs, such a procedure would involve the creation of human offspring as a means for testing cell potency, not an ethically viable procedure.

A number of studies have demonstrated a strong link between birth weight and breast cancer risk in offspring, as well as a strong association of maternal levels of insulin-like growth factor (IGF -1 and bIGF -1eight [ 3].

The study looked at 213 centenarians and 216 of their offspring, as well as a control group of 256 people in their 60's and 70's whose parents did not live to 100.

Mr. Modell said there were nine children in the next generation who could join the operation, counting his and his brother's offspring as well as a niece, "and they're chomping at the bit," he said.

Imposition of maternal folate deficiency in 'normal' inbred mouse strains, Swiss-Webster and ICR, resulted in growth retardation and reduced weight of offspring, as well as an increased rate of resorption (Heid et al., 1992; Burgoon et al., 2002).

According to the series, Borgia had numerous children by several mistresses; Pope Innocent VIII fathered a dozen offspring as well.