Sentence examples for old relation from inspiring English sources

I was lent it by a friend, and it belonged to an old relation, who was dying at the time, and really wanted to be there.

In 1921 the state severed its old relation with the Church of Scotland, leaving it the national church but not the established state church.

I don't mean, in the patronising sense, that they are shackled to each other by cuffs of postcoloniality, though clearly their sense of their countries cannot be separated from the old relation of satellite to centre.

But, human beings being what they are, a certain nostalgia for the old relation, the material of so much great comedy, will linger — the greatness of Bertie and Jeeves is exactly that the servile one condescends with such skill that the condescending one becomes servile.

Using the old relation between body mass and dose, the dose would have been (C) 149 and (D) 217 MBq, respectively.

Old relations - at the UN - Source: United Nations.

But Sacha, 44 years old and unmarried, is deeply devoted to this spirited older relation who has played the role of Mamika ("my little grandmother," translated from her native Hungarian) in two of his books and a photography exhibition currently under way in Paris.

I usually disapprove of music in restaurants but was charmed by the elegant -- and not intrusive -- playing on the guzheng (an older relation of the more familiar Japanese koto).

But he was loyal to his family, and he tried to show his brothers the respect that older relations deserve.

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With that holiday, the country's biggest, looming in February, young men are offering themselves on Taobao.com, China's eBay, as companions for women heading home and dreading being grilled by older relations about their love life and marriage prospects.