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In June, when the rice is sown, he sings for farmers in their fields, as he says his forebears have done "for a thousand generations" .

Even the bravest of your forebears kept his Kingsguard close about him in times of peril.

Now Chinese collectors are beginning to acquire them as homage to the sophistication and commercial acumen of their forebears.

As I backed out of the river water, I wondered what my forebears would have though if they had had to put up with so many silly laws.

But this washwoman, small and thin as she was, possessed a strength that came from generations of peasant forebears.

It is a "spring" festival, and it is an occasion for the whole family to leave the home and to sweep the graves of their forebears.

Another awkward area for him is Kenya, the land of his own forebears.

So professional footballers seem to recreate the intense emotions in some fans that tribal warfare aroused in their forebears.

As Parliamentarians, you share with your forebears a fundamental role in the laws and decisions of your own age.

If your forebears coherently discussed the Middle East situation at 7 a. m. , you're likely to feel sharp before the sun comes up, too.

All the rigid rule of his forebears, all the domination of an unjust social order, grip him.

Our forebears must have done the right thing to have handed us the legacy of life.

Tver was chosen because it is the land of Mr Putin's forebears, but similar "voluntary" demonstrations have been staged all over Russia.

Electronic calendar users ( "normal people, " my husband calls them) can be dismissive of their paper forebears.

The Roman Republic was the intelligent beneficiary of monetary accidents which befell so many of its forebears.

Acanthostega took pride of place as the missing link between terrestrial vertebrates and their aquatic forebears .

They have proved no better defenders of the public interest than their forebears during the great crash of 1929.

Or was this her sense of starting from nothing, with no female forebears?

This is hardly surprising because most of them do not maintain or have access to, genealogical records beyond their immediate forebears.

Their forebears were small-time professionals, provincial lawyers, factors or land agents, a surgeon, a chaplain, even an archbishop.

But a Signoria stirs ancient instincts, and many modern Italians see Mr. Berlusconi much as their forebears saw absolute lordships.

For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.

Our forebears did the heavy lifting to put our economy on top of the world.

Some wonder whether Nicky and his son Jonathan have the same drive and acumen as their swashbuckling forebears.

He was born in the Russian empire to a noble family, with admiral s and princes among his forebears.

When, eventually, they retire will be on pensions far lower in real terms than those of their immediate forebears.

We have become extremely acquisitive in a way our forebears never were.

There, I would explain why the dinosaurs disappeared and how mankind evolved from our primitive forebears. She seemed rapt.

For millennia the Illuminati and their forebears have adversely impacted every aspect of life on Earth.

Phillips wanted to create an inviting space to celebrate living artists and their aesthetic forebears.

When, eventually, they retire it will be on pensions far lower in real terms than those of their immediate forebears.

Americans born in the 1880s, as the country's industrial revolution gathered pace, were both richer and shorter than their forebears.

Our hunter-gatherer forebears were tall, lean long-distance runners who subsisted on plants and protein.

Armenians say the mass extermination of their forebears was genocide.

The new generation of wives and daughters may perhaps improve upon their male forebears.

This reflects the wider public mood: we don't have our forebears' patience for politics.

With the advent of farming, our forebears had to develop tools.

It aims to glorify and to instil Pride in their ancestors and to exhort the future generations to emulate their illustrious forebears.

they sweep the graveyard , offer sacrifices , and burn spirit money to pay respects to their forebears.

As Mr Shomali recalls, his forebears literally provided images of Ruth and Boaz for Western pilgrims.

But these companies are very different creatures from their forebears.

Most politicians, instinctively and oedipally, judge themselves against their illustrious forebears in this way.

The Boskops coexisted with our Homo sapiens forebears.

John F. Kennedy's forebears migrated to America from Ireland.

Isolated for five centuries by the 9, 000-foot peaks of the Needle Range, they are nearly identical to their Spanish forebears.

In fact, today's top 1% are asked to shoulder a far lighter tax burden than their wealthy forebears.

Many of us conform to the outdated customs laid down by our forebears.

One reason for optimism is that, on early signs, this offensive is more serious than its forebears in Swat and elsewhere (see article).

So long as men remember the wrongs done to their forebears, no peace will ever last.

When our forebears still lived in caves, the senses were essential survival tools.

Their forebears came mainly from Britain, but also from Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, former Yugoslavia and other nations.

Not only are Americans living longer, they are also working for more years than their forebears and they are retiring later.

So how long have ago did our forebears start barbecuing?

And if we get our land back I want to rebuild my forebears' house.

Inheriting the glorious tradition of our revolutionary forebears

The barbaric qualities of our forebears still genetically effected our society at this time;

The new gangs appear to lack the ideological conviction of their forebears;