Sentence examples for whose ancestry is from inspiring English sources

An Octoroon is an adaptation with a twist of an obscure 19th-century melodrama about slavery; an octoroon is a person whose ancestry is one-eighth black.

CINCINNATI, Jan . 9- Kimo von Oelhoffen, whose ancestry is a blend of Hawaiian and German, can come across as a 300-pound exotic.

Sabah Jammal, an owner of Hookahnuts, at 7214 Fifth Avenue, whose ancestry is Lebanese, said: "The arts are a universal language.

Evelyn, whose ancestry is Irish and German, began to fret that our children would become the victims of anti-Arab bias.

His love of art has been inherited from his parents, father Philip, a Scots-born Irishman, and his mother Marvel, whose ancestry is Nigerian.

Mr. Kline, whose ancestry is Pennsylvania Dutch — "a very gentle form of Christianity" — said "Unsilent Night" carries "the whole accretion of a lifetime of befuddled spiritual pursuits".

In fact the furniture, Ms. Talbott points out, was as homogeneous as Bostonians themselves, whose ancestry was overwhelmingly British.

The art reflects the Papuan social order, which was based on families, especially those whose ancestry was identified with particular rivers and places.

Shunning the flamboyance of New York and Philadelphia, upper-caste Bostonians went for objects that were restrained and tasteful rather than adventurous; the handsome, beautifully finished pieces on view here seem as homogeneous as Bostonians themselves, whose ancestry was overwhelmingly British (Glueck).

Generally, anyone of ascertainable or strongly suspected black ancestry in any degree was for that purpose a "person of colour"; the pre-Civil War distinction favouring those whose ancestry was known to be mixed particularly the half-French "free persons of colour" in Louisiana was abandoned.

Although people whose roots are in the British Isles still easily form the largest single group in Ontario, at the beginning of the 21st century more than one-fifth of Ontario's inhabitants were so-called visible minorities people, other than aboriginal peoples, whose ancestry was not European.