In people of African descent, the skin may be light brown, and in those of Asian or Northern European descent, the skin is usually white.
Tom stopped in the marble elevator bank and watched for the descent of the other elevators.
They are part of a group of seven figures, known to have been created in Paris, that comprise The Descent from the Cross.
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It was also a miserable day for Friday's stage winner Ludovic Turpin, who has a suspected broken right hip after crashing on the descent of the infamous Col du Mollard.
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She did not exactly predict the descent of the Euro, the financial crisis in Cyprus or the meltdown in most European sovereign securities or the need to bailout the banks of Italy, Spain and France.
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Lady Gaga performed in Times Square on Saturday night and she was the mayor's special guest, helping him push the Waterford crystal button at 11:59 p.m. that signals the descent of the New Year's Eve ball.
The initial descent down the Leap of Faith creates an illusion of falling down a building.
Many books have been written chronicling the events of the deep descent of the stock market in the fall of 2008, and many more may be written.
Disagreeing with his group's decision to retreat upstairs -- only DiFrancesco survived, and only then after running down from the 91st floor and getting out right before the South Tower fell -- Clark returned to Stairwell A. Shoulder to shoulder with Praimnath, the pair began the dangerous descent down the wet stairway.
My vehicle paired the capability of hill descent with the comforts of a power lift gate.
But eventually, when the passenger oxygen masks dropped as the plane steepened its descent, the news had to be announced.
The heat from the friction of its descent into the denser air can ignite the dust and debris in a display of astronomical fireworks.
It seems to be catching on with the many Starbucks customers who have complained over the years about the company's descent into the obesity business.
Meaning that by the time NASA gets word that the rover has started its descent, the result of that landing will already have happened.
This area marked stiff resistance ahead of the stock's long descent toward the single-digit range, and could now provide a springboard of support for an extended rally.
It's - there's, you know, a lot of the conservative voters of Hispanic descent mastered the English language for the most part and so they're reaching them in English language venues.
Along with Casar, Efimkin and Mikel Astarloza, he had made a decisive break on the final climb, up the Col d'Agnes, then held off the peloton on a long descent to the finish line and fighting it out for the stage win.
It's worth noting that the depths of Woods's descent during the second half of 2011 coincided with a major hiccup in the average's four-year rise.
The family is of Middle Eastern descent and the mother wears a headscarf, but they say they are U.S. citizens and have lived in New Jersey all of their lives.
Investigators will try to figure out why the plane made such a steep descent into the home and whether the weather conditions -- light rain and low clouds -- played any role, he said.
Colombia, in common with many Latin American nations, evolved as a highly segregated society, split between the traditionally rich families of Spanish descent and the vast majority of poor Colombians, many of whom are of mixed race.
The Kirgiz ethnic minority in China, concentrated in the Xinjiang region in the west, pride themselves on their descent from the hero Manas, whose life and progeny are celebrated in one of the best-known elements of their oral tradition: the Manas epic.
The Bernie Madoff scandal is making its slow descent into the background.
Later mythologizers would try to legitimize the family's regal pretensions by claiming descent from the Banquo of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" which was nonsense, as Mr. Massie explains: The name "Stewart, " as it was rendered before Mary Stuart adopted the French spelling, indicated the family's original status, as stewards of the royal revenues.
By design, the descent and landing of the one-ton mobile robot laboratory, scheduled to occur at approximately 1:31 a.m.
His maternal grandmother was Ruth Khumalo, and as her name would inextricably connect her to the roots of her tribe, her life would mirror its descent into the madness of postwar South Africa.
In 1840 people who advocated the immediate abolition of slavery and full equal rights for Americans of African descent were the lunatic fringe.
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We heard from Carla Hill, a two-time breast cancer survivor, who is now a spokeswoman and advocate for early detection, awareness, and researching the impact of breast cancer on young women, especially those of African descent in the Caribbean.
Like all dystopias, the power of this play is that it shows how mundane and casual a descent into the abyss might look, and with what familiar bureaucratic language.
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