Sentence examples for were inheriting from inspiring English sources

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were inheriting

verb

To take possession of as a right (especially in Biblical translations).

  • Your descendants will inherit the earth.

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The argument for repealing the estate tax carefully avoided the fact that it would be an enormous boon for people who were inheriting many millions of dollars.

But it might never have happened had they realised the size of the financial mess they were inheriting when they assumed control of the club in 2010.

And that judgment was that no matter what we did, given the depths of the crisis that we were inheriting, that it was going to be a long, hard slog for a while, and there was greater political advantage in standing in opposition, so that the President and the Democrats in Congress would have to take sole authorship of recovery efforts, than to pitch in and help solve the problem.

When U.S. investors George Gillett George Gillett and Thomas O. Hicks Thomas O. Hicks took over England's Liverpool soccer team last year, they knew they were inheriting a squad with some of the game's most gifted players in the home town of the Beatles and a brand name nearly as world-famous as that of Manchester United.

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His verbal skills were inherited from neither parent.

Mr. Steets said the plant's problems were inherited.

I like things that look as though they were inherited.

In other words, they were inherited from a common ancestor.

Of these widows, 56.3% were inherited.

All mutations were inherited from her father.

These variants were inherited from the parents.

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