patrimony

How To Use patrimony In A Sentence

• This saurian symbol of Chinese emperors has been claimed, from the mid-1980s onward, as the common patrimony of all Chinese people.
• The English were looting the Spanish, transforming the cash gained by selling off their medieval patrimony, and the coal hewn from their provinces, into a truly extraordinary epoch in human culture.
• Now this artistic and scientific patrimony is constantly under threat of destruction.
• Several crumbling mansions also echo the misfortunes of wastrel sons who blew their patrimony on (as one local tells me), ‘fast women and slow horses’.
• The original impetus was that of return, and reversing the so - called loss of Arab land and patrimony, rather than a fulfillment of post-colonial self-determination via the statehood route; a complot designed after 1967 as a new Palestinian identity with at its core the notion of the armed struggle as a galvanizing force. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
• In the 1980s, the ‘family’ could no longer be held together and a division of its patrimony became inevitable.
• If there is a religious tradition that I regard as my patrimony, it is the Catholic tradition.
• Each was a long, highly literary, digressive, and polemical account of the failure of the colonists to make good their British patrimony.
• Thus, noble and even non-noble families incorporated great amounts of their patrimony into these entailed estates.
• Extra daughters were sent off to live in respectable refinement at convents, so that the family would not have to dower them as lavishly and divide the family patrimony.