"descent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Among the Zuwaya history was not a specialized occupation; the relations were for the most part those of patrilineal descent.
- The Reform movement rejected that stricture in 1983, when their rabbis voted to recognize patrilineal descent.
- Correspondingly, in societies like China with patrilineal descent, marriage to a father's brother's daughter would fail at alliance building.
- However, at least some Conservative and pluralistic rabbis individually support patrilineal descent.
- The Volynsky boyar family also claims patrilineal descent from Bobrok.
- Orthodoxy thus rejects patrilineal descent as a means of establishing Jewish national identity.
- Brahmins classify themselves on the basis of their patrilineal descent from a notable ancestor.
- As with other Hindu communities, they are also classified based on their gotra, or patrilineal descent.
- Although they practice a patrilineal descent, the women in the household still have the spiritual power as practiced by the Onarigami.
- Conservatism thus rejects patrilineal descent, which is accepted by the Reform movement.
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