Sentence examples for remote relatives from inspiring English sources

The zeta-crystallin in the lenses of these relatively remote relatives represents the legacy of parallel evolutionary events, not recent common ancestry.

Dr. G. said that scorpions are remote relatives of spiders.

The target people were generated by a 3 (lineal relatives, collateral relatives, and remote relatives) × 2 (close/distant social interactions) design.

For example, many young children today are geographically separated from family members, and video chat in particular may allow them to develop and maintain relationships with remote relatives (Ballagas et al., 2009).

As she endured nine months of chemotherapy and radiation to tackle stage 3 Hodgkin's lymphoma, friends repeatedly informed McDowell of remote relatives who shared the disease… and had died from it.

Another way of limiting the rights of remote relatives for the benefit of the public treasury consists in increasing the rates of inheritance taxes in proportion to the remoteness of the relationship between the takers and the decedent.

Finding that remote relative is not conclusive, however.

Then we had a visit at home, some remote relative who was a bit older than me and mostly ignored me in favour of his Walkman.

Nicola the servant, whom Shaw obviously saw as a remote relative of an English butler, is turned by Michael Surabian into a cunning Eastern European peasant to fine comic effect.

When Daneman met members of the Fontes clan in Brazil, she understood how Latin family pride had made it unthinkable that a young dancer, Peggy Hookham, a remote relative, should adopt their name as a stage pseudonym.

Mr. Wang made the remarks after a Hong Kong television station broadcast an interview with Taiwan's vice president-elect, Annette Lu, in which she said Taiwan should be only a "remote relative and close neighbor" of China.