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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.
These are the landing descent images that were taken by the OSIRIS camera.
It was a four-minute and 27-second descent.
He was my wingman on the descent.
Her parents are third-generation Ghanians of Lebanese descent.
And I switch the channel and I hear, "... Muslim terrorist ...," "... in the name of Islam ...," "... Middle-Eastern descent ...," "... jihad ...," "... we should bomb Mecca."
They'd all hiked up the normal trail on the back, which I was planning on using for my descent.
Am I of Irish descent?
I like to think of this great man when he's tired, he's stressed, he's anxious about the reception of his book "The Descent of Man."
In "The Descent of Man," he wrote, "In each great region of the world, the living mammals are closely related to the extinct species of the same region.
But when it does happen, and these changes get transmitted down through the generations, they become markers of descent.
Mitochondrial DNA, tracing a purely maternal line of descent.
The Y chromosome, the piece of DNA that makes men men, traces a purely paternal line of descent.
That was not a controlled descent.
Some can glide as flat as 60 feet forward for every foot of descent.
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here… ” Inscribed above the Gate of Hell, these ominous words warn dark tidings for Dante as he begins his descent into inferno.
I was going to need some assistance to get down the 5,000-foot descent of vertical loose terrain.
The descent alone to the canyon floor took a total of 10 hours and that was just day one of four riding.
But before the astronauts began their final descent, an emergency alarm lit up.
And this is called the descent of the larynx.
While the frequency of heterozygotes, individuals who have one normal copy of the gene and one mutated copy, is about one out of 27 people among Jews of Ashkenazi descent, like me, in most populations, only one in about 300 people carry the Tay-Sachs mutation.
The segment of the American Jewish population that had the highest frequency of Tay-Sachs carriers traced their descent to those European countries where the incidence of TB was highest.
Another thing that they do is what we call an energy descent plan, which is basically to develop a plan B for the town.
But a lot of times in Hollywood, when casting directors find out you're of Middle Eastern descent, they go, "Oh, you're Iranian.
The girl is Hispanic the mother is white the dad it probubly from mostly white descent and the little sister is "shirley templish."
The great descent described on the box is nothing compared to the descent into utter dispair that I took viewing this movie.
In this film, we're invited to observe the descent into a moral and emotional funk of someone who isn't likable to start with.
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