Descent in example sentence

In a short 2008 essay entitled “The Spirit of the Enlightenment,” the late French essayist of Bulgarian descent, Tzvetan Todorov, reminded us that “there would not have been a Europe without the Enlightenment and no Enlightenment without Europe.”

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His parents were of Russian descent.

At Camp Diva, my non-profit organization, we have these types of conversations all the time as a way to help girls of African descent prepare for their passage into womanhood.

And only about 17 percent are of European descent.

Take the conflict between Congolese of Rwandan descent and the so-called indigenous communities of the Kivus.

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