(n.) One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are proud of our freedom-fighting forefathers, and resistance is in our blood.
(2) "To be part of a family and tribe, to have open space, to have freedom to live in the traditional agricultural way that our forefathers lived in, to maintain our traditions and values, to be generous and offer good hospitality, to be patient, to help each other, to be human.
(3) We are facing a crisis in nursing not unlike that faced by our foremothers and forefathers: a shortage of nurses that promises to get worse before it gets better.
(4) Bruno Zanardi, a restorer and lecturer at the University of Urbino, central Italy , said he noticed significant changes in the chapel, which houses works by Giotto, one of the forefathers of Renaissance art, and his contemporaries Simone Martini and Pietro Lorenzetti.
(5) He felt he was fulfilling his destiny until one day last month when a letter from the Home Office arrived, informing him that he was no longer welcome in the land of his forefathers and that his application to remain in the UK indefinitely had been refused.
(6) So on Australia Day, we honour the ancestors who were custodians of this ancient continent; we pay tribute to our forefathers who enshrined freedom, fairness and unity in Australia’s constitution; and we reaffirm our commitment to make this country of ours a beacon of hope and optimism in an uncertain world,” Abbott said.
(7) "We're losing some of our forefathers' history by giving up something that really I don't think they intended for us to give away," church member Paul Dutton, who voted "no", told the station.
(8) Stormzy’s skill as an MC and strict adherence to grime first-principles (140bpm tracks, freestyles, performing over classic instrumentals from grime forefathers) means he attracts groups of clued-up teenagers who buzz off whatever off-the-cuff tracks he puts online next.
(9) Meanwhile, and a propos of nothing, a word on the The Last Taboo : Loaf around London or any major city in these metrosexual times and it won't be long before you see men doing things that would have outraged, or at least baffled, their forefathers.
(10) A successful hotelier in Townsville and Bowen, as well as Bowen mayor, Wills recounts how the police superintendent would seek men of "pluck and a quiet tongue" to help disperse the Aboriginal people who threatened and attacked settlers: "You may bet we weren't backward in doing what we were ordered to do and what our forefathers have done to keep possession of the soil that was laying to waste and no good being done with it, when… our own white people were crying out for room to stretch our legs on."
(11) They provided our hardwood beams and the timber for our traditional doors, whose design our forefathers brought from Yemen.
(12) The constitution founded by our forefathers is important enough that the will of a greater majority of our citizens would be required to bring a change,” the president, Jean-Luc Corelli, said.
(13) I completely tune out through an entire section on Giotto , the man described as the forefather of the Renaissance movement.
(14) "We are proud of our freedom-fighting forefathers and resistance is in our blood.
(15) Grid reference: 51.5080, -1.1109 Photograph: www.wildswimming.com River Waveney, Bungay, Suffolk The Waveney was the favourite river of Roger Deakin – forefather of the wild swimming movement.
(16) It also stresses areas of potential research, as our medical forefathers had imagination but lacked the technical capabilities which are now at our disposal.
(17) One of the reasons for the state, as our forefathers learned, is that we need it to manage the consequences.
(18) And let me pay tribute to the soldiers, yours and ours, who again fight side by side in the plains of Afghanistan and the streets of Iraq, just as their forefathers fought side by side in the sands of Tunisia, on the beaches of Normandy and then on the bridges over the Rhine.
(19) And the latest blow: the University Chicago’s Quarterly Review of Biology has released a report that calls into question one of the cornerstone beliefs of Paleo carnivores: that it was a switch to meat in the hominid diet, brought about by the advent of hunting equipment during the stone age, that led to the increased brain size that distinguishes humans from our heavier-browed forefathers.
(20) Our forefathers put these checks and balances in place when the information was kept in cardboard files, and data was therefore difficult to appropriate and misuse.
Offspring
Definition:
(n.sing. & pl.) That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock.
(n.sing. & pl.) The act of production; generation.
(n.sing. & pl.) Origin; lineage; family.
Example Sentences:
(1) No reversions to wild-type levels were observed in 555 heterozygous offspring of crosses between homozygous Campines and normals.
(2) In neither case has a significant elevation in inherited genetic effects or cancer been detected in the offspring of exposed individuals.
(3) For that reason we determine basal serum pepsinogen I (PG I) levels in 25 ulcerous patients and 75% of their offspring and to a control group matched by age and sex.
(4) The analgesic activity of morphine was assessed by the hot-plate technique in the offspring of female CFE rats that had received morphine twice daily on days 5 to 12 of pregnancy.
(5) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
(6) Neither light nor electron microscopy revealed significant morphologic alterations in the cochlear elements of the exposed offspring.
(7) The relationships of birth weight and maternal diabetes to the development of obesity were examined at 5-19 yr of age in the offspring of Pima Indian women.
(8) The data of first 1000 first-born, non-malformed, mature (greater than or equal to 2500 g) offspring of participants in the Hungarian "Optimal" Family Planning Programme were evaluated.
(9) Subcutaneous polymorphic sarcomas were induced in 8 out 27 offspring of syrian golden Hamsters after treatment of pregnant mother animals at day 15 of gestation with Adenovirus 12.
(10) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
(11) The residual values were positively correlated in parent-offspring pairs and among sibs, both those presumed to be living together and those presumed to be living apart.
(12) The five offspring are ancestors of all known carriers.
(13) We have studied the effect of ampicillin and cloxacillin treatment of mice in the final week of pregnancy on the development of the lymphatic system of their offsprings.
(14) It was caused at the frequency close to 100% in dysgenic offsprings reared above 25 degrees C, of which gonads were morphologically clearly different from those of usual GD sterility, whereas there was no indication of GD-3 sterility at temperatures below 24 degrees C. Temperature sensitive period of GD-3 sterility was estimated to the prepupal stage by shift-down experiment.
(15) The effects of repeated N2O exposures were investigated for offspring of mice exposed to air or N2O (5%, 15%, or 35%) for 4 hours per day on days 6 through 15 of pregnancy.
(16) Whether normal individuals with such a duplication carry increased risk of having offspring with an obesity syndrome is yet to be determined.
(17) Offspring of marmosets reached adult values of 14CO2 exhalation at 8 days postnatally when using [14CO2]-methacetin as substrate and at 30 days postnatally using [14C2H5]-phenacetin in the breath test.
(18) The sample consisted of 102 Japanese families, each including both parents and one of their offspring, and on average all subjects had relatively well-aligned permanent dentitions.
(19) At Day 56, serum IgM concentrations were significantly lower in the low zinc offspring.
(20) Such conditions may influence the personality of offspring of deaf-mute people.