(a.) That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance.
(a.) A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge.
Example Sentences:
(1) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
(2) Michele Hanson 'The heat finally broke – I realised something had to change …' Stuart Heritage (right) with his brother in 2003.
(3) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(4) While circulating the quarries is illegal – you risk a fine of up to €60 – neither the IGC nor the police seem to mind the veteran cataphiles who possess a good knowledge of the underground space, and who respect their heritage.
(5) These are some of the finest Neolithic monuments in the world, and in 1999 they were given World Heritage status by Unesco, an act that led directly to the discovery of the Ness of Brodgar.
(6) The emails appear to show Heritage Oil’s attempt to use a tax loophole to avoid a huge capital gains tax bill.
(7) The National Heritage Memorial Fund found a further £10m and the National Galleries of Scotland £4.6m, with £2m from the Monument Trust and £1m from the Art Fund, while members of the public and private donors gave another £7.4m.
(8) Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Art Fund and countless donations from individuals and groups, this wonderful picture – a masterpiece by any standards – will be enjoyed, free of charge, in the National Portrait Gallery for many generations to come."
(9) Unesco will give its verdict on the proposal when the world heritage committee meets in June this year.
(10) I think it’s a wonderful heritage,” Evans said.
(11) His recent play was about a young man exploring his eastern European Jewish heritage – "narcissism dressed up as history" is how Eisenberg dismisses this personal interest of his – and he has specialised in playing nervy, nerdy characters.
(12) Three thousand cheers for Will Self ( Has English Heritage ruined Stonehenge?
(13) George Clooney has strolled into one of the most bitter and longest-running controversies in the heritage world, saying it would be "very nice" if the British Museum sent the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece.
(14) Fifty-three years on, he has a broad Yorkshire accent but still speaks fluent Urdu: a boon in a constituency containing places such as Bradford, where 20% of the population are of Pakistani heritage.
(15) One is a large multicultural school with a high proportion of British Pakistani-heritage pupils.
(16) We are emailing you both because we urgently need to re-domicile HGOL [Heritage Oil] to Mauritius primarily due to the double tax agreement between Uganda and Mauritius,” wrote the employee.
(17) We Britons are famously obsessive about our heritage.
(18) The major statistically significant intragroup differences in pain intensity and response are related to differences in generation, degree of heritage consistency, and locus-of-control style.
(19) In recent weeks, prominent conservative groups including the Heritage Foundation announced their opposition.
(20) The director general of the UN’s cultural agency called for an immediate end to hostilities in the Unesco world heritage site and for the protection of cultural heritage from direct targeting.
Relic
Definition:
(n.) That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion; a remnant.
(n.) The body from which the soul has departed; a corpse; especially, the body, or some part of the body, of a deceased saint or martyr; -- usually in the plural when referring to the whole body.
(n.) Hence, a memorial; anything preserved in remembrance; as, relics of youthful days or friendships.
Example Sentences:
(1) But a big part of the High Line's success is its planting and landscaping, which is intelligent, imaginative and well considered, in the way it converts industrial relics into a place of urban pleasure.
(2) David, the RSA manager, said the emergence of a communist relic as a 21st century security threat was a bizarre blast from the past.
(3) Governor Nikki Haley signed legislation on Thursday that would require the flag to be removed from government grounds within 24 hours and placed in the Confederate relic room and military museum.
(4) Important evidences were obtained for elucidating that the RNA transcript from the Bacillus subtilis (BSU) trrnD operon is a relic of an early peptide-synthesizing ribozyme.
(5) Edge of the Cedars state park Ruins of an Anasazi pueblo Cedars state park, Utah Photograph: Alamy Utah has a long, colourful history of human habitation, as evidenced by ruins, petroglyphs and relics left behind by the Ancestral Puebloan, Hopi, Ute and Navajo people.
(6) Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, socialist national secretary, dismissed it as a collection of "old relics" from the right of Sarkozy's ruling UMP party.
(7) And now, in a damp-smelling dressing room at Berlin's Admiralspalast, with its flaking plaster and a carpet that looks like a relic from the communist East, he reveals German is next on his list.
(8) Today, it stands as one of the few relics of a Hiroshima that not many of its 1.2 million residents are now old enough to remember.
(9) The young Kaminski went further by finding a political home in a nauseating relic of a party rooted in pre-war nationalist politics, in which he was then active for some years.
(10) The majority of AluI-relic DNA clones contained barley simple sequence satellite DNA and other families of repetitive DNA.
(11) He is seen by many, particularly those outside of Italy, as the only viable option to lead the country among a host of politicians who are either too rightwing, too anti-establishment or, on the left, relics of the past.
(12) It describes an expedition into an apparently poisoned region known as Area X, in which relic human structures have been not just reclaimed but wilfully redesigned by a mutated nature.
(13) As a teacher of entrepreneurial journalism at the City University of New York, I see openings for my students to compete with the dying relics by starting highly targeted, ruthlessly relevant new news businesses at incredibly low cost and low risk.
(14) The Alabama county argues that Section 5 is an unconstitutional infringement on "state sovereignty", and a relic from the bygone days of poll taxes and literacy tests.
(15) Relics of these repeats are seen in the positioning of sequence matches between transfer and ribosomal RNAs.
(16) As a ghostly relic from the building that was needlessly bulldozed to make way for the 1970s library, itself now to be swept away, it is a pointed reminder that one day, given Birmingham council's lust for demolition, this building's turn will also come.
(17) We’ll have a few relics left but, ecologically speaking, the great apes will be gone.” Grauer’s gorilla: world's largest great ape being wiped out by war Read more The eastern gorilla, or Gorilla beringei , is composed of two subspecies – mountain gorillas and Grauer’s gorilla – found in pockets of rainforest in Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
(18) And, of course, there is the Ulster Museum , which houses a diverse collection of art and artefacts, including many relics from prehistoric Ireland.
(19) "This rights a wrong which was a relic of that age."
(20) Cameron ended the day at a rally in Leeds by taunting Labour after it had tried to portray him as an unreliable relic of the 1980s by dressing him up as Gene Hunt perched on his red Audi Quattro.