ancestral home. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
They are now fighting to return to what they call their ancestral land. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
His earlier studies led him to formulate what he called the ancestral law. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement]] Reference
A slower legacy for Bruce Lee in Chinese ancestral town. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
The arc of Earth's limb appeared — immediately recognizable, as if coded in ancestral memory. From Wordnik.com. [A Space in Time] Reference
The wide phylogenetic distribution suggests that signaling most likely evolved in ancestral eukaryotes. From Wordnik.com. [A Tetrahymena Puzzle] Reference
(Amblyoponinae), that is, the ancestral or basal condition for the clade. From Wordnik.com. [Myrmecos Blog] Reference
The genealogists that the paper spoke with called the ancestral claim unlikely. From Wordnik.com. [McCain’s Overseas Press Coverage - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Abd al-Aziz Ibn al-Saud managed to capture their so-called ancestral capital, Riyadh on the 15th January 1902. From Wordnik.com. [karmalised] Reference
Interest is surging in so-called ancestral skills, in which people learn about making and using Stone Age technology. From Wordnik.com. [East Bay Express] Reference
Blowhard also referred to some kind of ancestral black market heritage. From Wordnik.com. [Over-worked or Over-taxed?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Accordingly measures must be taken to strictly adjust production to this kind of ancestral use. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Carlsen: Report Calls for End to Drug War, Obama Moves Toward Reform] Reference
If I put kiwi fruit in my skyr, is there some kind of ancestral retribution that will fall upon my head?. From Wordnik.com. [Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway] Reference
Freya, in exchange for the moving tale which brings them closer together, gives Jim some kind of ancestral sword. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Medieval Movies: Outlander] Reference
Stem cells are the body's "ancestral" cells that turn into its distinct cells and tissues. From Wordnik.com. Reference
This is what I actually earned, and I don't call my ancestral property as my own, "said Prakash. From Wordnik.com. [Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com] Reference
"ancestral" as regarded the present earl, and that even the original title of his predecessors had passed away from it. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Light and Shadow] Reference
They have an ancestral folk memory of the McGovern debacle. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: Campaign Will Be A Colossal Brawl] Reference
His ancestral home in Kumamoto is grand by Japanese standards. From Wordnik.com. [A Telegenic Samurai] Reference
And you want good ancestral records going back hundreds of years. From Wordnik.com. [The Gene Rush] Reference
Most peasants quit their ancestral homes out of economic necessity. From Wordnik.com. [Nightmare Cities] Reference
They didn't want to abandon their agricultural livelihood and ancestral lands. From Wordnik.com. [Apocalypse Then] Reference
Two years later, Congress began moving some 10,000 Navajos off their ancestral lands. From Wordnik.com. [Range Wars] Reference
His pottery, known as Satsuma ware, carries the name of his abductor's ancestral county. From Wordnik.com. [The Ties That Bind] Reference
We sped off in a five-car convoy to Kaddafi's residence in Sirte, his ancestral homeland. From Wordnik.com. [Too Soon to Swoon] Reference
At the very least, "Turandot" is restoring some long-lost opulence to their ancestral home. From Wordnik.com. [Forbidden Arias] Reference
Because the Constitution of 1988 assured indigenous peoples claims to their ancestral lands. From Wordnik.com. [Not As Green As They Seem] Reference
He railed against the greed of Wall Street when Wall Street has been the ancestral home of his party. From Wordnik.com. [This Is Important] Reference
Lippo is now preparing to build an entire town in China's Fujian province, the Riadys 'ancestral home. From Wordnik.com. [On The Trail Of A 'China Connection'] Reference
It had canine teeth comparable to ancestral apes ', for instance, and an unmistakably chimpanzeelike skull. From Wordnik.com. [Out Of Africa, A Missing Link] Reference
He's also visited ancestral homes in Mount Vernon and manses in England where the British Washingtons lived. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Would Be King] Reference
Imagining an ancestral claim to the faith, a birthright denied, makes the struggle seem even more worthwhile. From Wordnik.com. [Hoping To Get Religion] Reference
Immediately, my ancestral thrift hit me: throwing away perfectly good pillows was a silly, wasteful thing to do. From Wordnik.com. [The Bitter End] Reference
She spoke to NEWSWEEK's Vibhuti Patel in her SoHo loft about her transformative journey into ancestral territory. From Wordnik.com. [Reliving Her Past] Reference
Burgundy -- the ancestral home of Chardonnay, the world's most popular white grape -- is dotted with tiny vineyards. From Wordnik.com. [Uncorked - White Burgundy] Reference
But among the Kalenjin, who claim ancestral, precolonial rights to the area, resentment against the Kikuyu runs deep. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Valley of Death] Reference
To win back ancestral land, the Western Shoshone of Nevada went before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
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