(1) The Kurds need to support their brethren,” Ali Haidar, the Syrian national reconciliation minister, told the Iraqi-Kurdish news site Rudaw.
(2) Though Koum is only in his late 30s and Acton in his early 40s, the men are older than many of their Silicon Valley brethren: Zuckerberg is only 29.
(3) Ten out of 10 for me, by the way, although I am a member of the Beardy Brethren so you could argue I have an unfair advantage.
(4) The following resolutions were adopted:– "That we, a monster meeting of the Orangemen of Newtownards and of the surrounding districts, recognise, with gratitude, the exertions of our brethren in time past, and declare our unalterable determination to stand or fall by the principles of our Order in defence of Her Majesty the Queen and of the British Constitution.
(5) Over the years, the same has not been said of some of his autocratic brethren.
(6) The PLO welcomed any help with reconstruction in Gaza, but called on "all Arab brethren to … use their leverage to ensure an end to the division and the policy of creating a separatist entity in the Gaza Strip, as [this] principally serves the Israeli agenda."
(7) Chibok is a small and conservative Christian enclave in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria where many parents are involved in translating the Bible into local languages and belong to the Nigerian branch of the Elgin, Illinois-based Church of the Brethren.
(8) Good news from you, our brethren,” he reads from a script, sitting flanked by the group’s black flag on one side and an AK47 on the other.
(9) We quarrel about just about everything and we’re never as organised as our Scandinavian brethren.
(10) Even on the Democratic side, the committed brethren of Obamadale insist that just because she came here first doesn’t mean Clinton has won over a new liberal base.
(11) Instead, they hurl themselves to the other side of the spectrum, becoming just as fanatically obsessed with the promotion of democracy, fighting their former extremist brethren – or selling their latest book.
(12) Sue Ellen has used a huge divorce settlement from JR to go into (unnamed) party politics, disappointing all of us who nursed a secret hope that she would fulfil her destiny by joining the Quivering Brethren .
(13) If any of them are also vigilante members of the terrifying Polish-Wahhabist Alliance (see above) conquering our British cities and, you’d think, slaying their brethren, you can’t really blame them; that is what it takes to put food on the table during George Osborne’s “economic recovery”.
(14) On 1 January 1993, the people of what became the Czech Republic were divorced from their brethren in Slovakia (to Havel's real distress, though there was nothing more he could have done to stop the secession).
(15) Last weekend Shekau issued an audio message calling on supporters not to be “overwhelmed by people like Donald Trump and the global coalition fighting our brethren in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and everywhere”.
(16) In absence of a decent team, nothing seems to unite Americans and draw their attention to the sport like perceived injustice against our 'brave Americans brethren.'
(17) Well-meaning Igbo leaders are calling on their brethren to "return home", referring to the attacks as "systematic ethnic cleansing".
(18) It was accompanied by an alarming call, as seen by Turkey’s leadership, by the PKK for Turkey’s Kurds to take up arms to help their Syrian brethren.
(19) We’ve learned from Scripture – as well as acts of courage from brave men like Gandhi, Dr. King and my dear departed friend Cesar Chavez – that every individual has a moral obligation to our brethren in struggle.
(20) The social and cultural origins of the Hutterian Brethren, the most inbred population in North America, are described along with the characteristics that make the group useful for genetic studies.
Kinship
Definition:
(n.) Family relationship.
Example Sentences:
(1) As an extension to the variety of existing techniques using polymorphic DNA markers, the Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) technique may be used in molecular ecology to determine taxonomic identity, assess kinship relationships, analyse mixed genome samples, and create specific probes.
(2) This paper presents a FORTRAN IV subroutine to calculate inbreeding and kinship coefficients from pedigree information in a diploid population without self-fertilization.
(3) The gender-specific kinship relationship of patients and their care providers has not generally been investigated in studies of caregiver burden and well-being.
(4) The findings suggest a genetic kinship among the Ayrshire, Brown Swiss, and Jersey, on the one hand, and between the Holstein and Guernsey, on the other.
(5) This component of a more comprehensive study of Houdini focuses on the unusual reification of his family romance fantasies, their endurance well beyond the usual boundaries in time, their kinship with mythological themes, and their infusion with the ambivalence that is often addressed toward the true parents.
(6) The experience of Berkeley House, a psychiatric halfway house, is related as an example of a program that has achieved successful community tenure for its patients through the creation of an extended psychosocial kinship system.
(7) Seen in this context, structural features of caring that are celebrated as strengths (its base in kinship relations where carers are unpaid, for example), can be experienced as problematic by those involved in caring.
(8) Of them each of thirty-eight groups had an adult female "nurse" monkey, who had no kinship with any of the 4 weanlings.
(9) Among female first cousins, however, patrilateral pairs have the highest degree of kinship and cross cousins the lowest in respect to X-linked genes.
(10) Demographic factors related to higher kinship levels include young age at marriage, large sibship size for both husband and wife, husband being a farmer, and marriages occurring in the marriage season (November or December).
(11) Surface EMG has been used to determine the average muscle fiber conduction velocity (MFCV) and power spectra of the m. biceps of 10 patients and 15 asymptomatic offspring of a large kinship with familial hypokalemic periodic paralysis (HOPP).
(12) Population-genetic surveys show that for the relatives of patients with type I diabetes mellitus (the 1st degree of kinship) a risk of developing the same type of diabetes is 2-5%.
(13) Although Burt's kinship correlations are higher than the average of other studies, his results are generally consistent with other data.
(14) Numerous authors have studied human cemetery remains with an eye toward identifying different socially stratified ethnic or kinship groups within the same population.
(15) A founder effect, or genetic drift, accounts for the familial aggregations of autosomal recessive and dominant conditions, some diseases of multifactorial determination, and other inherited conditions in Canadian kinships descending from this ancestral group.
(16) Cultural analyst Sherry Turkle warns we’re rapidly approaching a point where: “We may actually prefer the kinship of machines to relationships with real people and animals.” Certainly we have long had a fascination with these half-women, from The Bionic Woman in the 1970s to Her in 2013 , where Joaquin Phoenix fell in love with his computer’s operating system.
(17) Kinship placements have a good track record, and with appropriate support and occasionally legal intervention, must not be overlooked."
(18) The clinicogenealogical method using a genetico-mathematic analysis was employed to examine 50 probands with sluggish hypochondriac schizophrenia (126 relatives of the first degree kinship).
(19) Both arguments draw on subject matter in psychoanalysis, physics, evolutionary biology, common-sense psychology, history, and medicine to arrive at a fundamental caveat for all of the sciences: Even when the thematic kinship (or so-called "meaning connection") between events is indeed of very high degree, this fact itself does not license the inference of a causal linkage between these events.
(20) Despite the similar emphasis on manpower and kinship criteria as the basis for the admission of immigrants, differences between Canada and the United States exist with respect to the importance of immigration for the respective economies, the organization of immigration, the formal regulations, and the size and composition of migrant streams.