Sentence examples for paternal connections from inspiring English sources

Shīʿite law rejects the criterion of the agnatic tie and regards both maternal and paternal connections as equally strong grounds of inheritance.

It's difficult for me now to separate my warm feelings for Shimla as a tourist destination from my paternal connections to it.

Horace modestly made do with a home brew concocted from local Sabine vines; Eyres is a certified wine snob who, when paternal connections got him a job as an appraiser at Christie's, catalogued some bottles being auctioned at the behest of the needy Princess Margaret as "a medley of old bin-ends".

She has been living in the guise of a soldier, on a dual quest, or so it seems, for paternal connection and romantic revenge.

He told me he shared the paternal connection with me that I felt when we first met.

The presence of the C3* haplotype cluster in the Kazakh also supports the genealogical assertions that (for at least some Kazakh men) there is a direct paternal connection to Genghis Khan.

This mattered, for there was also a strong connection between paternal investment and a child's nutritional state.

The reliability of comparisons among herds increased using an animal model because more pedigree information was added, especially the connections due to maternal and paternal grandsires.

Her first name came from her paternal family's long-standing connection with the Falkland Islands.

Since the 1980s – this is pre-Ancestry.com days – I'd known this paternal side had an Ireland connection.

Previous studies have found an association between paternal age and both autism and schizophrenia, but this is the first time a connection with bipolar illness has been suggested.