Ejemplos de uso de lineal
1. City technology colleges – and their lineal descendants, the city academies – are allowed to select 10% of their pupils.
2. They are defined as direct lineal descendants of indigenous peoples who lived on the islands before 18'3 and who exercised sovereignty then – an unintelligible provision because the queen monopolized sovereignty.
3. The federal government agreed, citing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of 1''0, which provides for the return of sacred items, human remains, and other things to lineal descendants and "culturally affiliated" Indian tribes.
4. For the groups chairman, Lord Harris of High Cross, choice on tobacco is a lineal descendant of the dogged persistence of economic liberals in a century–long struggle against often well–meaning collectivists in all parties.
5. In a commentary accompanying the Science paper, Christoph Adami at the Keck Graduate Institute of Life Sciences in Claremont, Calif. observes: that "it is now possible to reconstruct the ancestral genes of an existing species so that, as Darwin urged us to do, we can ‘look exclusively to its lineal ancestors‘ to understand a gene‘s evolution." Darwin had said that discovery of a biological structure that could not be explained by step–by–step evolution would "absolutely break down" his theory.