(n.) A grandson or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant.
(n.) A cousin.
(n.) The son of a brother or a sister, or of a brother-in-law or sister-in-law.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ibd for grandparent-grandchild pairs is least affected by recombination, followed by sibs, half-sib, uncle-nephew, and first-cousin pairs.
(2) Zhang Gaoping, 47, told state media that he and his nephew were subject to seven days of brutal interrogation before trial – sleep deprivation, starvation, cigarette burns.
(3) The striker, who is Agnew’s nephew, joined Boro for £11m from Blackburn Rovers in January but Karanka has since struggled to find room for him in his preferred 4-2-3-1 formation and Rhodes has started only four of a possible eight games, scoring one goal.
(4) The burned epidermis was removed and each burn wound was assigned to one of the following treatment groups: (1) air-exposed, (2) DuoDERM (hydrocolloid dressing; Squibb Co., New Jersey), (3) Opsite (polyurethane dressing; Smith & Nephew, New Jersey), or (4) experimental cream.
(5) Johnson’s family paid tribute to the “exceptional son, brother, grandson and nephew”.
(6) Wanda Mintz said her nephew tried to crawl away but could not move because of his wounds.
(7) In an article for the Guardian, the author Ahdaf Soueif, Laila's sister, described her nephew as a "central, charismatic figure" who "embodies some of the core aspects of the Egyptian revolution".
(8) Lorien Carter said her nephew had been “a beautiful young man”.
(9) After she died I was sent away to a school and six years on I received a letter – as you do – saying that a Mr John Jarndyce wanted me to be a companion to his niece and nephew.
(10) At the same time you get an email from your nephew's friend asking you to sponsor them for the marathon, also in aid of Crisis.
(11) Abraham’s uncle, who is already looking after three sets of orphaned relatives, said he would care for his nephew despite struggling to feed his enlarged family.
(12) Then, a couple of days later , an unknown man claiming to be her nephew popped up on national TV.
(13) Karimova blamed her latest problems firmly on her mother, who she claimed had promised to "destroy" her for trying (unsuccessfully) in October to prevent the arrest of Akbarali Abdullayev, Gulnara Karimova's cousin and Tatyana Karimova's nephew, who she suggested knew too much about the allegedly shady business affairs of his aunt.
(14) It was not immediately clear if Miyazawa - a nephew of late prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa and a cousin of foreign minister Fumio Kishida - would step down.
(15) Linyi City authorities have imprisoned his 33-year-old nephew Chen Kegui for defending himself against stick-wielding officials and security agents on the night of Chen's escape .
(16) The occurrence of breast cancer in two related males, an uncle and nephew is reported.
(17) Madison police chief says officer shooting of unarmed man has similarities to Ferguson Read more On Friday evening, Lorien Carter spoke to a crowd in front of the building in Madison, Wisconsin where her nephew, Anthony Terrell Robinson, was earlier shot and killed by a police officer, Matt Kenny.
(18) He was too short of breath to kick a football around with his nephew or walk anywhere with his friends.
(19) So instead, he set off for Europe in a group of six, with about $8,000 to pay for the journey of a brother, sister-in-law, nephew, cousin and friend, a trek that has lasted a month and a half already.
(20) The son of Malaysia's second prime minister, the nephew of its third, president of the dominant United Malays National Organisation (Umno), and a former defence minister, Najib was born to power and is accustomed to wielding it.
Nepotal
Definition:
(a.) Of or relating to a nephew.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite Trump’s enthusiasm for Kushner, he will have to navigate a US anti-nepotism law that states a public official “may not appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment … any individual who is a relative of the public official”.
(2) And the rest Also last week from the family: • Pakistan’s regional FA elections going ahead despite alleged malpractice, nepotism, death threats and phone tapping, with barred candidate Ali Haider Noor Niazi allegedly occupying FA offices with armed men to push through his nomination papers.
(3) The anti-nepotism law states that a public official “may not appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment” a relative to an agency or office that is run by the official.
(4) Most Scots are used to nepotism and skulduggery among entrenched – often Labour – officials.
(5) "Organised crime is by far mostly linked to construction, whether it is money laundering, nepotism or corruption," the mayor said.
(6) It says Trump flouted anti-nepotism law by appointing his daughter and her husband to White House jobs .
(7) If anyone mentions a way to challenge private-school dominance, nepotism or even the mild suggestion from Clegg that the best universities may discriminate in favour of state-school pupils, he is branded a communist!
(8) Back then, President Trump was accused of outright nepotism for seating his daughter next to one of the most influential politicians in the world at a panel debate on workforce development.
(9) They can be insufferably smug, much more so than the people who knew they had achieved advancement not on their own merit but because they were, as somebody's son or daughter, the beneficiaries of nepotism.
(10) 5 April Clegg attacks nepotism in the awarding of unpaid internships to the "sharp-elbowed and well-connected"; defends fact that he benefited from connections himself; promises to blunt own elbows.
(11) In retaliation, the Iraqi prime minister denounced his opponent's corruption and nepotism on a private Kurdish television station last June, pointing out that Barzani's son heads the autonomous region's security services while his nephew is prime minister.
(12) According to Meg Russell, deputy director of the constitution unit at UCL and a reader in British and comparative politics, the rigorous selection procedures of most constituency parties allow very little scope for nepotism or patronage.
(13) "It's a typical example of how nepotism, cronyism and corruption has taken over this place," Ahmeti, a former World Bank economist, said.
(14) Despite his lack of political experience, he played a key behind-the-scenes role in Trump’s presidential campaign, guiding personnel and strategy decisions, and will play the role of senior adviser to the president in the Trump White House, presuming he is not found to have breached federal anti-nepotism laws .
(15) It is nepotism, jobs for the boys if your face fits – and black ones usually don't.
(16) There is much to complain about: a poor education system that fails to equip them for the job market, the nepotism and cronyism that disqualifies them from many opportunities, an inability to marry because they cannot afford a house.
(17) Big bang ended the old nepotism, but introduced a form of financial despotism, when mega-banks – banks that in the end proved too be too big to fail – held the rest of society of ransom.
(18) It is concluded, that more frankness should be established about selection of the applicants in order to avoid rumours about nepotism and to advise students.
(19) His appointments, he once said, were "the greatest act of nepotism ever" - his uncle, Harold Macmillan, was then prime minister.
(20) Charlotte Siegerstetter, implementing manager, GIZ , Tlemcen, Algeria, @c_siegerstetter Acknowledge the problems: Corruption and nepotism have contributed to the failure of higher education in Africa.