Sentence examples for relation was a from inspiring English sources

Delia Bacon (no relation) was a 19th-century Baconian who called Shakespeare a "stupid, illiterate, third-rate play actor".

(Roaring Dan Seavey, a distant relation, was a crack shot and infamous pirate on the Great Lakes, celebrated for luring his victims aground by rearranging the channel markers).

Zhang Ran (no relation) was a winning Du, an expressive actress with a sweet if smallish voice (at least in comparison to Zhang Jun's robust one).

A schoolfriend's relation was a naval officer, so at the outbreak of war, they chose the navy and Behnisch enrolled as a submariner, rising late in the war to the rank of commander – an extraordinary responsibility for a man just into his 20s.

Again: entity was a first, relation was a second, and representation was a third.

So, it must have seemed obvious to his readers that he intended to claim that the uncertainty relation was a fundamental principle, forced upon us as an empirical law of nature, rather than a result derived from the formalism of the theory.

Instead, he insisted that the proper word was "relation": "Relation is a mathematical notion which means one-to-one correspondence".

Alas, poor Maggy, whose only relation is a distant, rich grandfather, is spoiled, deceitful, and destructive.

How she manages to create this relation is a fascinating question.

Recall that the following-from relation is a causal relation.

The resulting defeasible consequence relation is a preferential relation.