Sentence examples for parentage on from inspiring English sources

If "Codex" can trace its parentage on one side to self-referential writers like Laurence Sterne or Borges, on the other side it's descended from the computer game Tomb Raider and its movie versions, the Lara Croft series.

Harwood has chopped out the awkward coincidences, notably those surrounding Oliver's parentage, on the assumption that such melodramatic dovetailings would offend the taste of modern viewers.

Courts have conferred legal parentage on parents with no biological connection to a child who have demonstrated intent to parent and/or functioned as a parent.

The first, Livre A, is for purebred animals with documented Poitou parentage on both sides of their pedigree.

His most controversial measure, however, was a law of 451 BC limiting Athenian citizenship to those of Athenian parentage on both sides.

Just before his death, the Athenians allowed a change in the citizenship law of 451 BC that made his half-Athenian son with Aspasia, Pericles the Younger, a citizen and legitimate heir, a decision all the more striking in considering that Pericles himself had proposed the law confining citizenship to those of Athenian parentage on both sides.

In an effort to explain the masochism of their media identities, they swap confession and scraps of autobiography, dwell in detail on the public scrutiny of their parentage, Houellebecq on the infamous betrayals of the mother who abandoned him to the temptations of the 60s, Lévy on the implications of being the son of a plutocrat industrialist (his old man was a self-made timber millionaire).

A partially cross-classified mating design was implemented to reduce rates of inbreeding and capitalize on the ability of the GS procedure to assign parentage based on genotypes.

Directed by Fatih Akin, a German of Turkish parentage, "Head On" is the first German film since 1986 to win the first prize.

A1 An Effort to Make Amends Princeton's graduating class made an honorary member of Bruce M. Wright, 83, a man of racially mixed parentage admitted on scholarship in 1936 but turned away from the campus because of his color.

It portrays a writer of African-American and Puerto Rican parentage reflecting on a late-night subway meeting with a white woman trying to gather several children and a large suitcase.