Sentences with phrase «relatives by blood»

Any other relatives by blood, marriage, or adoption who relied on the financial assistance of the deceased employee.

Not exact matches

There were no sons for my parents to rely on in their old age, to provide for their retirement, and then to care for them; that was the message I heard directly and indirectly from family and the extended «aunties» and «uncles» who were not blood relatives but connected by ethnic heritage, culture, and language.

It seems the most likely scenario is that he married his sister or less likely his niece.The reasoning is that Adam and Eve lived alot longer and continued to have sons and daughters GEN5: 4 aCTS 17:26 Paul tells us that the God who made the world hath made of one blood all nations of man to dwell on all the face of the earth.Cain did nt marry to another tribe or nation as every man and women was a relative and of the same bloodline of Adam and Eve.The importance of this is that sin entered through one man Adam and is past through the bloodline so redemption is only possible through the same bloodline.So for the formula to work the human genome had to stay the same no other tribes or nations just the descendents of Adam and Eve.It also solves another riddle in that satan at various times prior to the flood and after the flood tried to contaminate the bloodline by his angels having sexual relations with the women this created a type of alien in essence and would have not been able to have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus as it wasnt fully human.This is where the giants came from and why God wanted to destroy them as they had the potential to destroy the human race as they couldnt be redeemed by the blood of Jesus.Interesting?

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

If my grandparents had been beaten or lynched for the colour of their skin, if my parents had suffered under oppressive segregation, if I had a friend or relative who had been shot down in cold blood by a police department because that is just way more likely if you're Black in America, I'd have been angry, too.

Again, this is tempered by the relative «newness» of cord blood banking and transplants, but for now the statistics just don't exist for patients receiving their own cord blood to prove that it's better, safer or at all effective.

(in medieval physiology) one of the four elemental fluids of the body, blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile, regarded as determining, by their relative proportions, a person's physical and mental constitution.

If there was one disadvantage to using Ashkenazim in genetic studies, it was that their blood relatives were harder to come by than in other groups.

The blood test, developed by Klaus Gerwert and his team at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, works by measuring the relative amounts of a pathological and a healthy form of amyloid - β in the blood.

She notes that in Africa, the longstanding Western legend of an «African unicorn» was explained in the early 20th century by British researchers, who found and described the flesh - and - blood okapi, a giraffe relative that looks like a mix between that animal and a zebra and a horse.

This situation is confounded by the relative scarcity of blood - or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-- based biomarkers that can increase our understanding of disease pathology, and might also serve as effective differential diagnostic or prognostic tools.

The relative risk of pre-eclampsia (a condition in pregnancy characterised by high blood pressure) in women with chronic hypertension was on average nearly eight times higher than pre-eclampsia in non-hypertensive women.

We have begun to investigate the properties of mitochondria in ME / CFS further by examining how well they function in white blood cells, relative to healthy individuals.

As Paul Richards of the FDA wrote in an email, «Cellular therapies that are minimally manipulated, intended for homologous use only, not combined with another article (with some exceptions) and are intended for autologous use or use by a first - or second - degree blood relative are examples of the type of HCT / Ps that are regulated under section 361.»

We demonstrated that this device could reduce the KLRG1 - positive CD8 cell count in aged mouse blood by a factor of 7.3 relative to the total CD8 cell compartment, reaching a level typically seen only in very young animals.

One of the body's adaptations to aerobic exercise is actually size REDUCTION of certain muscle fibers, which makes them proportionately more efficient (by increasing relative blood flow, among other things).

As mentioned in the previous installment, this is indeed a method by which the body can improve the relative efficiency of these muscle fibers, as a decrease in overall area with an increase in the capillary network means proportionately more blood flow to each muscle fiber.

I assume that they were measuring the relative percentages of saturated / monounsaturated / polyunsaturated fats in the blood sample on a % by weight basis.

«In the end, all comes down to a contest between T'Challa and Killmonger that can only be read one way,» writes Christopher Lebron in a well - argued piece in Boston Review, «in a world marked by racism, a man of African nobility must fight his own blood relative whose goal is the global liberation of blacks.»

Producer J.J. Abrams did himself and us no favors by calling his new movie «10 Cloverfield Lane» and dropping coy hints that it's a «blood relative» to the 2008 «Cloverfield.»

10 CLOVERFIELD LANE Director: Dan Trachtenberg Starring: John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr., Douglas M. Griffin 10 Cloverfield Lane is considered by the studio to be the «blood relative» sequel of the smash 2008 film Cloverfield.

By the time Selim, himself, lay dying of cancer in his tent, only eight years into his reign, he had claimed the lives of all his nephews, sixty - two blood relatives, and seven Grand Viziers.

Buyers can accept from a relative, which includes a spouse, child, or anyone else related by blood, marriage, adoption, or legal guardianship.

A person who has lived with you for the entire year as a member of your household can meet the definition of a qualifying relative even if he or she is not actually related to you by blood or marriage.

This disorder, which is the result of a relative or absolute insulin deficiency or of peripheral cell insensitivity to insulin, is characterized by high blood glucose concentrations such that the renal threshold is exceeded.

Please support our attempts to help your breed by sending us blood samples from all dogs with PRA and their immediate relatives.

Type 2 Diabetes mellitus Type 2, sometimes called «'' adult - onset diabetes» or «non-insulin-dependent diabetes», is characterized by high blood sugar due to the body being resistant to insulin and a relative lack of insulin.

(2) Repudiation and termination of the familial relationship between an adopted child and his or her actual blood relatives (relatives by consanguinity) shall be governed by the law designated in the first sentence of the preceding paragraph.

«Member of a judge's family residing in the judge's household» means any relative of a judge by blood or marriage, or a person treated by a judge as a member of the judge's family, who resides in the judge's household.

A «member of the judge's family» means any relative of a judge by blood, adoption, or marriage, or any person treated by a judge as a member of the judge's family.

They also recommended that the regulation allow access to protected health information by blood - related relatives prior to the end of the two - year period and provide them with the authority to extend the proposed two - year period of protection if they see fit.

That amount could let you get by without pawning off valuables, selling your blood or leaning on the generosity of a friend or relative.

First, although it was possible to characterize the relative proportion of mononuclear white blood cell types in the blood samples provided using the techniques developed by Accomando et al. (2014) and Houseman et al. (2012) to characterize cell type variation, and we found that protective parenting was associated with the relative proportion of monocytes in the mononuclear white blood cell sample, that proportion was not associated with youth reports of their health in young adulthood.

A relative in this context is defined as a grandparent, brother, sister, uncle or aunt (whether full blood or half blood or by marriage or civil partnership) or step - parent.

(2) The supervisor may not be a relative of the supervisee by blood or marriage, may not be involved in a dual relationship which obliges the supervisor to the supervisee and may not engage in treatment of the supervisee.

It means a relative, who is a step parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle or sibling (whether full or half blood or by marriage or civil partnership).

The term «melancholia» is derived from the Greek words melas, meaning black, and chole, meaning bile, and is a vestige of the ancient belief that a person's health and temperament are determined by the relative proportions of the four cardinal humors, or body fluids, which are blood, phlegm, choler (yellow bile), and melancholy (black bile).

Originally the idea of an «in - law suite» was to give loving accommodation in the family home to a close blood relative (such as an elderly parent) or somebody related by marriage or adoption to the principal occupant owners of the dwelling.

Conventional 97 is a Fannie Mae - backed product which allows for a 3 percent downpayment, ultra-low mortgage insurance rates, and a 100 % gift from blood or by - marriage relatives.