Sentences with 'pedigree'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pedigree and other words derived from it.
• « Prior to the 1820s, a code of deference had underpinned the political order of the republic. Deference was the practice of showing respect for individuals who had distinguished themselves through military achievement, educational attainment, business success, or family pedigree. »
• « The presidents who followed Washington shared the first president's pedigree. With the exception of John Adams, who was from Massachusetts, all of the early presidents - Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe - were members of Virginia's aristocratic slave-owning elite. »
• « In the early 1820s, deference to pedigree began to wane in American society. A new kind of deference - to the will of the majority rather than to a ruling class - took hold. »