Sentence examples for which descent from inspiring English sources

A further issue of contention was the extent to which descent theory minimized the importance of marriage in the structuring of kinship.

Diseases of the cerebral cortex causing coma include poisoning by sedative drugs, lack of glucose or oxygen in the blood, brain hemorrhage, and certain rare infiltrative disorders in which descent through the levels of consciousness occurs over weeks or months.

Extended family, an expansion of the nuclear family (parents and dependent children), usually built around a unilineal descent group (i.e., a group in which descent through either the female or the male line is emphasized).

Following the traditions arising in Turkic and Mongolic tribes from which the Uzbeks and Kazakhs emerged, their society was a patrilineal tribal system in which descent groups formed around closely related men.

This suggests a hybrid approach, which uses a global search algorithm for the initial phase--during which descent curves are steep--and switches to a local search method once the descent curve has begun to flatten out.

Normally, the descent rate would define the point at which the descent must be started.

Even so, he is approaching that age at which the descent begins to beckon as the ascent once beckoned.

Looks-wise, that single month constituted my moment, a peak from which the descent was both swift and merciless.

He had been born in western Arabia to the Hashemite family, which claimed descent from the Prophet.

By the 8th century, Ulster was dominated by a dynasty called the Uí Néill (O'Neill), which claimed descent from a shadowy figure of the 5th century known as Niall of the Nine Hostages.

Members of the same tribe, which share descent from a common ancestor, mostly inhabit the same biome, occupy somewhat similar habitats, and have a similar conformation, behavioral repertoire, social organization, and mating system.