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This word is of Latin descent.
Tom is of a noble descent.
We're going to begin the descent for Honolulu.
We are beginning our descent.
I met them during my descent from the peak.
A German bodybuilder of Turkish descent broke into the German presidential plane and partied in his underpants for four hours.
Once at the summit enjoy the vista, then on the descent reap the benefits of your hard work.
The descent is dangerous.
A baby was flung out of its mother's arms when a plane hit severe turbulence while commencing its descent prior to landing.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to begin our descent.
The descent to hell is easy.
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She sounds like someone who meticulously recorded her descent into despair.
He's of Hungarian descent.
With the adoption, my child will acquire noble descent.
What can you expect of one of his low descent?
And, I might add that I expect precisely the same from persons of high descent.
She doesn't intend that he shall marry into a family of such low descent.
Ladies and gentlemen, we begin our descent to Fhloston.
It has been testified that the Tremayne automobile fell a total distance of 150ft hitting and bouncing off rocks in its descent.
The Martians had calculated their descent with amazing perfection.
The moment is propitious for our descent.
They're people of British descent who've come to offer their services.
Rate of descent, what was it?
Rate of descent, still 3,500 feet per minute.
I guess he's going to play it safe with a long, slow descent.
Squad, prepare for descent.
The throne's yours by descent and possession but if this had been a freer time, if people could elect I'd have swept the country.
And I will omit the story of my descent to my present squalid condition.
Prepare for the descent!
Seven to 10 degrees angle of descent, motors full on when he hit the hill.
Go ahead, have a drink! It will brace you for the descent.
I think I should begin my descent before I become the source of a legend about an abdominal snowman.
She must be of English descent. from the Trafalgar Nelson.
I guess he's gonna play it safe with a long, slow descent.
We're beginning the descent to the nerve center.
Washington reports Garland Humphrey Lynch is fond of movies, nightclubs, fishing, amusement parks and he frequently establishes liaisons with women of Oriental descent.
You stick too much to logic, descent, distance, weight.
Mr. Miller, it has been testified that the Tremayne automobile fell a total distance of 150 feet, hitting and bouncing off rocks in its descent.
But that I'll give my voice on Richard's side. to bar my master's heirs in true descent - God knows I will not do it. to the death.
They developed a technique for descent into the unconscious mind, part light-induced, part drug.
Reduce descent velocity.
At our present rate of descent, we have less than 20 minutes before we enter planet atmosphere.
And what is a descent there?
They gave us the velocity of the meteorites and the angle of descent to the point of entry.
The ecstasy of it marked our descent into a nonhuman abyss.
What a fitting punishment for our descent into a world where touch was bliss.
They've turned and started a slow descent.
Request continued slow descent.' 'Roger, Global Two.
News and current affairs
The case of Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent, appears to be another of these errors.
The result was increased US spending and the descent of measured household savings into negative territory.
A military elite favors step-by-step reform, but wants to protect its position and is determined to avoid a descent into chaos.
Naipaul is, after all, an author of Indian descent who grew up in Trinidad.
When Malaysia's prime minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamed, recently announced that he intended to resign, Malaysians of Chinese descent joined Mahathir's Malay party loyalists in demanding that he reconsider.
The main protagonist's step-by-step descent into the drug underworld unfolds with such subtlety that each individual decision he makes along the way seems almost reasonable.
It is with the French of Algerian descent, not to mention Algeria itself, that reconciliation seems most difficult to achieve.
Racist stereotyping harms the prospects of many non-whites, especially those of African descent.
Every society, under certain conditions, is vulnerable to a descent into barbarism.
There seem to be two common characteristics of the descent into barbarism.
The descent into barbarism generally occurs in the midst of economic crisis or when localized violence has already flared.
Once we recognize how vulnerable all of the world is to this kind of descent into violence, the importance of international law and international institutions such as the United Nations become all the more obvious.
The effect however, has not been a domino-like democratization; instead we are threatened with a domino effect of descent into chaos.
This underscores the descent of all life from a single common ancestor.
This time, the descent has been far milder.
NEW YORK - Earlier this month, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, a 24-year-old US citizen of Middle Eastern descent, opened fire at two military sites in Chattanooga, Tennessee, killing five.
On its descent from the roof of the world, the Jinsha River, tributary of the mighty Yangtze, cascades through this ten-mile gorge on its way to Shanghai and the East China Sea.
Or did the coup prevent a total takeover of power by the Muslim Brotherhood, and thus avert Egypt's economic collapse and chaotic descent into religious dictatorship?
Two years ago, my country's government attempted to strip me of my nationality, and it is now trying to do the same to thousands of other Dominicans of Haitian descent.
Only Dominicans of Haitian descent are being singled out.
The crudeness of the government's campaign would almost be comical if it was not condemning so many Dominicans of Haitian descent to the uncertainty of statelessness.
Worse still, the government is considering a constitutional amendment that would permanently strip nationality rights from thousands of Dominican of Haitian descent.
For 30 years, I have worked to secure equal human and civil rights for Dominicans of Haitian descent.
Perhaps the campaign against Dominicans of Haitian descent will stop when the Dominican judiciary acknowledges that the retroactive denial of citizenship violates fundamental human rights law.
The war in Chechnya may contribute to the moral corruption of Russia as a whole, to its frightening descent into a culture of violence.
All of the major European teams, including Germany's, depend on players of foreign descent.
As Hannah Arendt pointed out six decades ago, the rise of anti-Semitism fueled Europe's descent into totalitarianism.
During 1998, Brazil's economy began a tragic, predictable descent into recession.