Sentences with phrase «living kin»

They were Harry's next living kin, so they became responsible.
Meanwhile, dead embryos didn't move at all, indicating some intentionality at work in their living kin.
The team also compared Ötzi's DNA with that of 1300 Europeans, 125 North Africans and 20 people from the Arab peninsula to establish that his closest living kin are found on Sardinia and Corsica.
Some of these arthropods (whose closest living kin include insects, spiders, and crabs) were fierce hunters that grew to the size of an adult human, whereas some — such as those without claws or tail spines — likely filtered the water for prey or scavenged the sea floor for food.
When I look up at them there is a small commotion in my bones, as the ashes of dead stars that house my marrow rise up like metal filings toward the magnet of their living kin.

Not exact matches

«Well, I live in this house, they're Christians, white and black, who aren't really kin to me, but as Christians sort of are...»
When her husband dies young, Ruth chooses not to return to her family but to accompany her widowed mother - in - law, Naomi, back to Bethlehem where Naomi's kin live.
Attorney Rogers calls that argument «farfetched»: «American common law and statutes that protect the sanctity of the dead and the sensibilities of the living apply with equal force, irrespective of the religion of the deceased or of the next of kin
This is what we do funerals for — not only to dispose of our dead, but to bear witness to their lives and times among us, to affirm the difference their living and dying makes among kin and community, and to provide a vehicle for the healthy expression of grief and faith, hope and wonder.
Actually it's almost guaranteed that at first — when he's left behind his known language of communication, his reputation, his kin network, his knowledge of a place and how to survive in it — life will be worse.
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Remember, it's not about spending money on luxurious venues or arranging fancy catering; the real beauty in using family websites is in keeping people connected, sharing burdens, and moving through life with the support of you kin.
Forming a conduit between the child and her biological kin can also serve the child well as she does her life's work of gathering her pieces and building her identity.
My civil commitment pact would allow people to nominate any «significant other» in their life as next of kin and beneficiary.
They complained that the activities of the nomads threaten their lives and livelihood, since the herders kill, maim and rape their kith and kin, as well as destroy their farms.
The 98 % reelect rate is for House races, the high figure being due to gerrymandering and the tendency of people to live in clusters of politically likeminded kin.
A newly discovered species of arrow worm that lived over half a billion years ago had about twice as many head spines as its modern kin.
The antiquity of these creatures suggests two evolutionary scenarios, the scientists say: Either eurypterids diversified quickly during the early stages of the Ordovician period (which began about 485 million years ago), or their lineage, including yet - to - be-discovered ancestors and kin, evolved more slowly and originated even further back in time during the Cambrian period — possibly during the Cambrian explosion, a period of evolutionary diversification sometimes called «life's big bang,» which began about 542 million years ago.
A cooperative living structure was more likely to be favoured when both parental genes were shared by siblings, a trait known as «kin selection.»
African elephants that have lived through the trauma of a cull — or selected killing of their kin — may look normal enough to the casual observer, but socially they are a mess.
«This means the ancestors of spiders and their kin lived side by side with the ancestors of crustaceans in the Lower Cambrian.»
Moreover, Arminius and his kin were not pure «Aryan,» if that term means a person whose ancestors lived solely in what is now Germany or Scandinavia.
They have lower average cortisol levels, weigh more, and grow more steadily than those living with stepparents or single parents with no support from kin.
At the meeting of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association in Poland last year, Paul Mathews and Rebecca Sear of the London School of Economics reported that women in the UK are more likely to start a family if they have strong kin ties, particularly if the relatives live within 80 kilometres and are in regular contact.
This led me to work on a diversity of topics, from life - history theory and optimal resource allocation to the evolution of mate choice and mating systems, population genetics and phylogeography, habitat and niche modeling, and the evolution of dispersal, kin structures and social systems.
These findings highlight the potential long - term negative consequences of acute social disruption in cognitively advanced species that live in close - knit kin - based societies, and alter our perspective on the health and functioning of populations that have been subjected to anthropogenic disturbance.
(The geneticist J.B.S. Haldane, who explored early concepts of kin selection in the 1930s, is sometimes alleged to have joked that, as a human being, he would lay down his life for two brothers or eight cousins.)
So I asked them why they were telling me this, and the one officer replied that Craig had no known family members still living and that his only will and testament stated that I was his next of kin.
At 16, its citizens partake in an initiation ritual, the Choosing Ceremony, in which, like Harry Potter and his wizardly kin, they choose their group for life.
With three months to go before his enlistment period ends and he returns to civilian life, Montgomery is redeployed to the casualty notification team under the formidable command of Captain Tony Stone, played by Woody Harrelson: they will be a two - man outfit whose job is to show up in uniform at the houses of next of kin and inform them that their sons and husbands and wives and daughters have been killed on active service.
With the intent to recount their life together, Marjorie's «Prime» relies on the information from her and her kin to develop a more complex understanding of his history.
As they travel the countryside following mysterious lights that are drawn to and guide Saoirse, they also find singing fairies, who tell of the power of Saoirse's song to revive their kin, and an old storyteller living in an underground cave.
Having its original aspect ratio preserved puts Parent above many of its live action kin from Disney's catalogue and the satisfying look places it near the top of the class.
Or, as my kith and kin tease me, «You went to Harvard and here you are peddling bunot for a living
This is especially true when it comes to dealing with tragic events that don't involve any political argument, but the lives of real men, women, and children, whose parents, siblings and kin have been brutally murdered.
To assess the involvement of families in the lives of college students, her dissertation triangulates three sets of data: in - depth interviews with Black undergraduate men and women, their mothers who act as links to other kin, and college personnel, who are on the «front line» interacting with families, in a wide - range of on - campus offices to obtain an institutional perspective on the ways such offices either bridge the gap or separate families, students, and the university.
Fiction can make history seem more alive and thus more kin to life as we know it.
She is the embodiment of her ancestors, her kin, her faith, the cities and towns where she has lived, her time, fat sweeping time like one of those gigantic cakes which master chefs of the little towns of Mitteleuropa bake for popular festivities on squares, and then she takes it and she swallows it and hoards it, walls herself in, and all of that now rots and decomposes inside her.
One might expect the enhanced hardware capabilities to take a toll on the battery life of the device, but the Kindle Voyage still seems as reliable as its kin in terms of battery.
If the author wants to provide for his kin after is death, he can take up a life insurance policy like any other working stiff.
But in the meantime, the people in that place, they live in constant and overwhelming danger, but they have a job, they have families, they form relationships, they have a sense of clan and kin.
Stripped of kin, clan, country, and even his identity for having failed the most important woman in his life and her infant son, Angusel begins the arduous task of rebuilding his life and reclaiming his honor.
I visit the first puppy the day before she dies and it was a very sad moment for my life as I treated this pets as my own blood and kin.
Then they grow into adults, and can still be cute, but such a pet's newfound independence and growing aloofness may feel bittersweet to its human kin, begging the question: How might a kitten lover keep young cats in their lives — without ever worrying about them growing up?
While it is generally accepted that no living breed of dog can be traced back to its wild form, and that what is known about dogs of any sort prior to a century or two ago is so little, these dogs are believed to have migrated into Europe from Asia Minor, moving westward and leaving kin in all the prominent mountain valleys of Europe.
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Instead, each new «life» takes the form of the previous hero or heroine's next of kin.
Perhaps she is writing her own history, but she also seems interested in new ways of organizing art and life, and in this she shares something with others in her generation who have conjured family and kin in radical ways.
In the two videos on view in this exhibition, Dana Levy contrasts dead specimens with intruding live animals: released into a space designed to contain them, butterflies flutter amid their flattened cousins and doves perch by packaged kin.
A number of others pointed out that there was no reason to set a different privacy standard for deceased individuals than we had for living individuals and that it has been standard practice to release the information of deceased individuals with a valid consent of the executor, next of kin, or specific court order.
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