Sentences with phrase «by descent of»

Moreover, overrepresentation of a popular sire's genome risks the widespread dissemination of monogenetic inherited disorders by inflating the allele frequency of recessive deleterious variants carried by the sire and increasing the probability of identity by descent of undesirable alleles in his descendants [18,20,21].

The Hobs» breeding readiness is signaled by the descent of the testicles into the scrotum.

Not exact matches

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For example, the largest IPO in US history, by Chinese retail portal Alibaba, was part of the company's cross-border strategy to reach the estimated 50 million people of Chinese descent living outside the country.

It didn't work, as Chinese equity markets continued their descent on Monday, fueling worry because it is unclear how much of the country's bull market was funded by individuals borrowing to buy stocks.

I said nothing of the sort, I only pointed out that census data was misused by Nazis for their own evil purposes, as it was misused by the American government (and possibly the Canadian government) for the purposes of interning their citizens of Japanese descent (which, to the credit of the US Census bureau, it has apologized for).

Except as described below, awards under the 2014 Plan generally are not transferable by the recipient other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution, and stock options and stock appreciation rights are generally exercisable, during the recipient's lifetime, only by the recipient.

Yet there have been reams of reports, replete with one red flag after another, detailing Cruz's violent descent, events that were mostly dismissed, downplayed or filed away by many of those in society entrusted with recognizing the potential danger that he posed to his family and to his community.

Obviously Trump speaks from the cuff, knows the Mid-West had been hurt by NAFTA, but less so of the manipulative practices of those who obviously use Mexico instrumentally, to support the descent of unsustainable models at home (this would apply to all of the Structural Surplus takers Michael notes).

The opposite is true: they are trying to keep it from falling or are at least trying to slow down its descent with every trick in the book (every intermittent phase of yuan strength since the beginning of the decline was triggered by intervention).

That comment angered Canadians of Arab and Muslim descent, and was widely viewed by analysts as marking a significant shift away from Canada's traditional role as an honest broker in the Middle East.

Probably because most Protestant sects were begun in northern Europe by Europeans of Nordic descent.

Inspired by the mystical visions of Adrienne von Speyr, Balthasar developed an extraordinarily vivid account of Christ's descent into hell.

Common descent (so - called macro-evolution) has been confirmed through DNA testing, even by the evangelical christian and former head of the human genome project Francis Collins.

He would have been justified to take the route of Stanhope from Charles Williams» Descent into Hell, who, when asked about the meaning of his play, would only answer by reading it.

Today the progression of ascendancy is the reverse, with Jews being the most successful by almost every index of success, and Catholics of European descent not far behind.

By Pitstick's reckoning, the Church teaches that Christ's descent was to «the limbo of the Fathers,» which is to say, to the patriarchs of the Old Testament, in order to liberate them.

With his usual care, Griffiths assesses the main claim about the orthodoxy of Balthasar's theology put forward by Alyssa Lyra Pitstick in Light in Darkness: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Catholic Doctrine of Christ's Descent into Hell (Eerdmans, 2007).

The current issue of the theological journal Pro Ecclesia features a helpful essay by Griffiths, a Duke professor and First Things contributor: «Is There a Doctrine of the Descent into Hell?»

From a pluralistic perspective, methods specifically designed to reveal the multiple processes behind the pattern are necessary, as they challenge attempts to explain all patterns by a single process (e.g. all evolution by a tree - like process of descent).

Frank might truly be a descent guy, and if so, won't last long before he gets poisoned by those who don't want to stop their free - reign of raping children with no repercussions.

The poll tax in federal elections had been banned by the Twenty - Fourth Amendment, Americans of African descent had been rapidly enfranchised, and, as the 1964 Democratic National Convention demonstrated, black America had begun to play a significant role in national politics.

The Dutch people are tolerant, he told me, and hence in Amsterdam, there are no ethnic or religious minorities, an achievement made possible by the fact that although a majority of residents are of Dutch descent, only around 25 percent call themselves Christian.

It claims descent from the Ethiopian eunuch converted by Philip in Acts 8, and dates formally to the preaching of Frumentius in the early fourth century and the acceptance of Christianity in A.D. 330.

Both, we are given to understand, are possessed by the Holy Spirit, and the chapter of The Descent of the Dove that deals with the Reformation is especially strong in its passionate sympathy both for Calvin and for St. Ignatius Loyola.

Mark says that she was «a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth,» that is, a person of Greek descent, born and living in what is now the Republic of Lebanon.

Neither a primordial God nor an original garden of innocence remains immune to this process of descent: here all things whatsoever are drawn into and transfigured by this cosmic or total process of metamorphosis.

by the Jordan River which makes a very crooked, rapid descent from Mount Hermon in the north to lose itself in the Dead Sea, 1,300 feet below sea level, east of the mountainous section where Jerusalem is situated.

Induction is here defined as a movement of ascent and descent, from particulars to a universal principle and back again, which is accomplished by means of a structured use of the imagination.

The point that I wish to emphasize is that what I have described as the inductive descent plays a much more important role in Whitehead's philosophy than the mere search for confirmation or falsification of some theory by the facts.

The movement of descent, from the universal principle down to concrete reality, is of special importance in avoiding the pitfall of speculative «inadequacy,» in which «failure to include some obvious elements of experience in the scope of the system is met by boldly denying the facts» (PR 6/9).

Both his parents were of Jewish descent, but by all accounts, were not orthodox (i.e. didn't keep kosher, etc) and I think this partially framed his thought processes.

5A reading of Bacon's New Organon reveals a more nuanced and less empiricist approach to induction than Whitehead (and other twentieth - century philosophers) usually give him credit, One text in particular refers to the ascent and descent characteristic of imaginative generalizations:»... from the new light of axioms, which have been educed from those particulars by a certain method and rule, shall in their turn point out the way again to new particulars, greater things shall be looked for.

The aim of the descent is primarily to establish a positive correspondence of the universal principle with the particulars covered by the principle, a correspondence which should nevertheless not be equated with the search for confirming instances.

The process of repeated ascent and descent is required in order to arrive at a truly organic conception of nature, in which the principle of universal connectedness is seen to arise from within each of the particular orders of experience, rather than be imposed from above by philosophical fiat.

The primary role of the inductive descent, «the renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation» (PR 5/7), is not to confirm, but rather to propel the process of speculative discovery forward to novel and unforeseen dimensions of experience.

One the one hand, paganism and mystical religions seek salvation in a vertical movement of integration with the absolute, either by an ascent into the One or by a descent into the soul, On the other hand, Judaism looks for salvation in the horizontal movement of history, in the advent of a new era.

In other words, the repeated descent from a principle to its exemplifications in experience, is not meant to be a method to determine if the acquisition of the universal principle by inductive means is valid.

Darwinian theory predicts that all genomes are related by descent, that we share common ancestors and so the genomes of all living things were derived from previous living things that were the common ancestors of current living things.

How can descent from simple life be contradicted by experiments of life from non-life?

as a «social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line; broadly: control by men of a disproportionately large share of power.»

As a result, God raised Him and reversed this downward spiral of humiliation by giving Jesus an upward descent into glory and honor (Php 2:9 - 11).

Then, too, it will presumably be possible to leave it an open question whether the history of human descent as known to us does or does not possess features which only after the Fall of the first man can be thought of to some extent as a predominance of his pre-human past and of his environment, over a sensitivity to the world around him no longer protected by the gift of integrity, and over his lack of adaptation to a particular milieu.

In The Descent into Hell (Lippincott, 1970) Altizer has attempted a systematic theological exploration of the radical and apocalyptic faith of Jesus and Paul, and has done so with the conviction that this has not yet been attempted by Christian theology and that a decisive key to this endeavor lies ready to hand in the world of Mahayana Buddhism.

No sooner had theology made a partial adjustment to the new theories of geology than it was confronted by a more serious threat concerning the very origin and descent of man.

The destruction of this city immediately precedes the final triumph of God (19:1 - 22:5), beginning with a thousand years» reign of Christ and his true followers (20:1 - 6), continuing with a brief rebellion by Satan (20:7 - 10), and concluding with the creation of a new heaven and earth and the descent of the new Jerusalem to be the bride of the Lamb.

«You are my Son» was addressed to the king of Israel, prototype of the Messiah.14 «My beloved on whom my favor rests» is the Servant of the Lord in the prophecy of Isaiah.15 There the Servant is equipped for his task by the gift of the Spirit, which is here symbolized by the open heavens and the descent of the dove.

These minions had landed and chose to remain Like the descent from the sky of some great aeroplane, With a master of systems who lovingly led, By the lure in his eye and the White of his Head.

Where a group of people, by virtue of belonging to a political, cultural, or ethnic unit, actual or fictitious, is barred from partial or full participation in worship or from carrying out honorary or other functions of a religious nature, there is differentiation according to descent.

Ancient cities, Weber notes, were socially structured by a separation between those who made a claim of descent from the founding clans (patricians) and those who could make no such claim (plebeians), a separation often spatially represented by the isolation of plebeians either at the foot of the sacred hill of the polis or in ghettos clustered at the walls.