Sentence examples for old inheritance from inspiring English sources

As he explains, while Montgomery did host the meeting that founded the Confederate States of America in February 1861, the "Cradle of the Confederacy" slogan isn't some grand old inheritance from the 19th century.

Precisely because Homer's Greek is an old inheritance — an amalgam of many styles and periods and dialects going back many centuries (no one ever spoke the Greek you read in Homer) — it has a distinctively archaic quality that, paradoxically, never gets in the way of speed.

What concerns us here is a corollary of this decline: Even as it has abandoned its old inheritance, Europe has lost its grip on geopolitical reality itself.

Houlihan is to be lauded for tangling with one of lyric poetry's most august traditions in the first instance; that she uncovers a new valence in an old inheritance is nothing short of miraculous.

While they don't tend to rub shoulders with their Channel island neighbours on Sark, they did take the trouble to get the island's 400-year-old inheritance laws changed for the benefit of their children.

In citing a gender imbalance in China as a reason for the need for a law against sex-selection abortions here, he left untouched why parents in any country might prefer to have a boy: centuries-old inheritance systems, proscribed roles for women that kept them in a home, and more modern job discrimination that made it impossible for a girl to have equal opportunities in life.

In the 90s Labour had only gradually abandoned its Old Labour inheritance, including nationalisation, marginal rates of taxation as high as 98%, higher levels of public spending and hostility to both the EU and nuclear weapons.

Even if every gene has been transferred at least once in its long history (a proposition I can easily accept), most of its existence will nonetheless consist of boring old vertical inheritance.

The affidavit offers an insight into potential conflicts over the 94-year-old's inheritance.

The three aunts have promised to use all of the money they might win with the complaint to investigate the murder of Chakalos and the death of Linda Carman, while donating the rest of the 23-year-old's inheritance to charity, according to Small.

The boy found himself without family or home, his only inheritance the old threadbare coat that the creditors left him.