The word "scion" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a descendant or heir, for example: "The scion of a wealthy family, he was fated to a life of luxury."
'The response that we want them to read with care is nigh, for we shall write it, God willing, in a language which they understand.' Another possible perpetrator was Osama bin Laden, the exiled scion of an enormously wealthy Saudi merchant family.
Now he's Tory leader in the Lords the scion of the great Cecil political dynasty is in his element, while Ancram, trained as an advocate, likes the cut and thrust of electoral politics.
They worried that Mr Martinelli was stealthily trying to keep his hands on the levers of power, especially after his wife was chosen as Mr Arias's running-mate.Mr Varela, the scion of a rum dynasty, also campaigned on a pledge to clean up politics.
Sanjay Gandhi, a thuggish scion of the ruling dynasty, organised vasectomy camps near Delhi one doctor boasted he could perform 40 sterilisations an hour.In the 1990s, though, economic liberalisers evoked the experiences of East Asia and the demographic dividend it benefited from when previously high fertility rates began to decline.
Rahul Gandhi is the 43-year-old scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that has dominated the ruling Congress party for most of a century.
Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat, and a scion of a powerful banking family, who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the war by issuing them with Swedish papers, placing them under Swedish protection, and intervening at deportation and execution sites.
A new exhibition at the Hungarian National Museum in downtown Budapest traces his life, from his childhood as a scion of the powerful and wealthy Wallenberg banking family to his disappearance.
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Some analysts believe that, as the scion of an illustrious political family, Mr Abe lacks the guile and force required to face down the traditionalist LDP, which, in the words of one of its parliamentary members, "doesn't understand the first arrow [monetary easing], loves the second [government spending] and hates the third [reform]."To be fair, Mr Abe has been bold in some areas.
It is enlivened by feuds and fallouts, with characters ranging from the reclusive Mr Choo to her "sadist" mother, her ex-husband (Matthew Mellon, scion of a banking family), her accountant, trust manager, private-equity partners and a fair few more.
Now Ko Wen-je (pictured), an eminent surgeon who is without political experience and is running as an independent, is polling higher than Sean Lien, a scion of one of the KMT's richest political families.The KMT chose Mr Lien as its candidate through a ballot of its members in the capital.
