Sentence examples for older relations from inspiring English sources

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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.

The wedding juggernaut is rolling, and quite unstoppable, when the camera, throwing a glance over the guests, happens upon Tej Puri (Rajat Kapoor) — one of the older relations — offering a flower to a young girl.

Interestingly, it's the play's youngest character, the newly bereaved Rose (Tuppence Middleton), who seems most directly headed to the grave even as her older relations make their increasingly creaky way around Cherry Truluck's cunning set — a space that comes to seem by play's end like a portal of despair.

Similarly in a study in rural China, Hu et al. [ 21] revealed that among 31 participants (aged 15 and older), sharing cigarettes with peers (and older relations) contributed to individuals starting to smoke.

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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).

The traditional, sometimes centuries old, relations between states and indigenous peoples are now changing and being rediscussed.

It was natural then to say that old relations and complexity of interests could absorb many mistakes.

I argue that dynamics of social, economic, and political mobility have characterized forest communities for many generations, drawing on centuries-old relations of social fission and fusion, competition and cooperation.

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