Sentences with 'ancestral'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ancestral and other words derived from it.
• « Before the outbreak of the war, there was an uneasy truce in the Holy Roman Empire between the Catholic emperor, who had limited power outside his own ancestral lands (Habsburgs), and the numerous Protestant princes in their respective, mostly northern, territories. »
• « Austria, as the ancestral state of the Habsburgs, had always been the most powerful Germanic state within the Holy Roman Empire. »
• « They showed that most species remain stable throughout their existence, and that others emerge suddenly over geological time, but more quickly than Darwin assumed. These appear when a small segment of the ancestral population is isolated from the periphery of that ancestral line. »
• « The removal policy led some Indians to actively resist. In 1832, the Fox and Sauk, led by the Sauk chief Black Hawk (Makataimeshekiakiah), returned across the Mississippi River to reclaim their ancestral home in northern Illinois. »