He traces his descent back to an old norman family.
At 9:50 the plane began a smooth descent through the cloud-smudged sky to Shanghai.
“This is the kind of freedom we long for in Iran, ” sighed Ali Akbar, an Australian tourist of Iranian descent.
Our ambassador, David Hermelin, an irrepressible man of Norwegian-Jewish descent, tried to do his part by serving kosher hot dogs to both Barak and Arafat.
Then, in the last book of the Republic, Book X, there is, once again, a descent to the underworld, to the world of Hades.
By the end of the year, he expects to have patients walking in the lab, and then they can try more challenging activities such as stair climbing and descent.
An originator of a line of descent;a precursor.
This gradual descent continued through 2008, the last year for which data are available.
The preconditioned fastest descent means in inversion achieves simultaneous in - versions of overlying-bed velocity and refractor depth.
Its citizens of African descent provided a special contribution in making New Orleans the birthplace of jazz.
It was built originally because vehicles could not cope with the 27% gradient so it was suggested that switchbacks of hair pin bends were built thereby making the ascent or descent more manageable.
The descent simulation ends.
So they were Greek speaking, maybe people of Greek descent.
Cause: Some part of the code is descending two levels per method call without dispatching appropriately on the second descent.
Some passengers said the policy was discriminatory as it only affects people flying on one route, from Honolulu to Pago Pago, with most passengers being of Samoan descent.
Until recently it had been a monopoly of the ladinos (people of European or mixed ancestry), even though some 40% of Guatemala's population of 13m is of Mayan descent.
The flying-saucer shape also ACTS as a parachute, affording greater control during descent.
A pattern of evolution that results in linear descent with no branching or splitting of the population.
Mr Obama’s trip to Europe was not unconnected with his own quest for re-election next year, if only by stirring the ancestral sensibilities of Americans of Irish and Polish descent.
(of societies) being ruled by or having descent traced through the male line.
Or is it that we wish so intensely for life to go on, that we create a theogony [origin and descent of the gods] in the first place?
Here there is a gradual descent to the sea.
The pipe, which can be dropped from 40, 000 feet and tracked for 200 miles, makes a whoosh on its descent, reminding me of the sound of those old pneumatic tubes in department stores.
In Hawaii, more than a third of the residents are of Japanese descent, a third are Caucasians, about 15 percent are of Polynesian background, and the others are mainly of Filipino, Korean, and Chinese descent.
Relating to, based on, or tracing ancestral descent through the paternal line.
For by the ascent of Luith shall the mourner go up with weeping: for in the descent of Oronaim the enemies have heard a howling of destruction.
Aliyah literally means “ascent”, while leaving Israel is yeridah, “descent”.
Not direct in descent;collateral.
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