5 sentences with 'inheritance'
Example sentences and phrases with the word inheritance and other words derived from it.
• « From then on, the royal and noble lines of England and France became intertwined, and as marriage between nobles and royalty often took place through the Franco-English lines, the inheritance of lands and titles in both countries was often a point of contention. »
• « The bourgeois were increasingly proud of their identity as "self-made" men, men whose financial success was based on intelligence, education and competence rather than on noble privilege and inheritance. »
• « Each generation, sharing the planet's land and inheritance, has a duty as the custodian of future generations to avoid irreversible and irreparable damage to life on Earth and to human freedom and dignity. »
• « But smells also influence the psyche, beyond whether they are recognised by the brain or not. The part of the brain that identifies them is an inheritance from primitive mammals and plays an important role in our body chemistry: it regulates or influences the endocrine system, the caloric level, sex, repulsion, arousal, stress, etc. »
• « In his 1829 treatise, The Rights of Man to Property, Skidmore called for the abolition of inheritance and the redistribution of property. »