Sentence examples for remote descendants from inspiring English sources

Let him drift away like those remote descendants of Richard III whose DNA was traced to Canada for identification purposes in Leicester.

When she returns to Earth after a thousand years, it is to defend "her children" – but this means her remote descendants, a scattered group of earlobeless people whom she calls the Duniyat, asserting her authorship of a lineage.

The right to rule by descent from 's first grant could not be supported by any historical record or any other evidence, and any contract that God and entered into would not be binding on remote descendants thousands of years later, even if a line of descent could be identified.

The chief characteristic of the Roman family was the patria potestas (paternal power in the form of absolute authority), which the elder father exercised over his children and over his more remote descendants in the male line, whatever their age might be, as well as over those who were brought into the family by adoption a common practice at Rome.

He recalled that EM Forster, in a 1909 short story The Machine Stops, "pictured our remote descendants as living in isolated cells, scarcely ever leaving them, but being able to establish instant TV contact with anyone, anywhere else on Earth". Are we there yet?

A deactivating node only deactivates children, not more remote descendants.

"I'm trying here, looking for a remote descendant.

As the remote descendant of an earl he belonged to a cadre that was theoretically able to hunt, shoot and employ servants but in practice could no longer afford to do so.

The Muslim kingdoms that succeeded it were defeated by a Turkic invader from Afghanistan, Babur, a remote descendant of Timur, who, after the battle of Panipat in 1526, founded the Mughal empire.

The date given to Daud, 130~, Corroborates his story to this extent, that the traveller may well have married that Sultan's grand-daughter in 1341, but he may be wrong in asserting that Daiid was grandson, being, perhaps, a remoter descendant, of the first converted king.

So it was reasonable to expect that the artists in "No Reservations: Native American History and Culture in Contemporary Art" would be descendants, no matter how remote, of American Indians, Eskimos or Aleuts.