Each of our forebears had their own compelling reasons to make their dangerous journey to America.
The absurdist quality in Mr Alys's pedestrian performances owes something to the artist's Belgian surrealist forebears.
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It bears little resemblance to its forebears or their common ancestor, the undersized-yet-chunky netbook.
After all, those physicists' forebears were equally convinced about Newton's theory until it proved wrong.
Our relationships with our forebears are ones that should survive until the end of their natural lives.
NPS.gov to find a nearby park and discover the land passed down to us by our forebears.
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And, as with the duo's forebears, there's a ferocious lyrical undertow to Kings of Convenience's gentle songs.
To put it simply: Older generations of Americans are not passing along the Christian faith as effectively as their forebears.
She could look to any number of female forebears who had built temples, raised fleets, waged military campaigns.
Her mother, while pretending to laugh at such superstitions, was, Emmeline knew, no different from her peasant forebears.
Their forebears were small-time professionals, provincial lawyers, factors or land agents, a surgeon, a chaplain, even an archbishop.
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Like their commercial forebears, home spas can range from themodest to the extravagant.
Now Chinese collectors are beginning to acquire them as homage to the sophistication and commercial acumen of their forebears.
They even invoked the ghosts of their Victorian forebears to justify their actions.
After being raised believing his forebears were all upstanding citizens, the Oakland, Calif.
The centennial also gave all Asians a chance to recall their forebears who struggled for justice, independence, democracy and development.
Statistically speaking, today's athletes are unlikely to be any more naturally gifted than their forebears, but records continue to fall.
Middle-class blacks whose forebears fled the South in mid-century are now leaving Northern cities like New York and heading for Dixie.
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Unlike their forebears, these new incubators are investment vehicles with deep pockets.
What, then, remains of East Asia's longstanding commitment to multilateral trade negotiations, embodied in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and its forebears?
After all, our forebears could never imagine how good our world is, so they could never imagine how much better it might be.
Yet, the distinction between what is temporal and what is meaningful is something our less information-rich forebears may actually have been better at making.
But generally our forebears were more optimistic than we are today.
There is always a measure of newness to events that allows otherwise intelligent people to repeat the mistakes of their forebears without looking completely ridiculous.
"Of course, nobody wants a compressor station next door, " said Deborah Lain, who raises grass-fed cattle on a hilltop farm built by her forebears in 1785.
And that is palpable for him: He and his cousin, Aron Yagoda, share the same factory office their forebears did and sit at their respective grandfathers' desks.
Evolutionary psychologists are not as imperialist in their ambitions as their sociobiologist forebears of the nineteen-seventies, but they tend to be no less hubristic in their claims.
The two other main groups are the 300, 000 or so Chinese (a tenth of them students) and the 225, 000 Brazilians (ethnic Japanese whose forebears emigrated to Brazil).
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The apology will carry much broader symbolic meaning for a people whose forebears occupied Australia for tens of thousands of years before the British claimed it in 1788.
The director sets a heart-pounding pace, pausing only for such interludes as Snow White's encounter with seven dwarfs who could not be more distant from their Disney forebears.
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