Among many of the old families only blood relations are expected to eat and drink together on this holy day.
I have no other blood relations in Europe and know nothing of some distant cousins who live in Australia.
My parents were blood relations—cousins in the second degree—my mother, whose maiden name was Minor, having descended from a collateral branch of my father's family.
Some, with blood relations in the States, refused point blank to take up arms.
The priests also instruct the boys on their duty to their blood relations, and teach them the secrets of the tribe.
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Cicero defined "pietas" as the virtue which admonishes us to do our duty to our country or our parents or other blood relations.
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Under both systems, the property of an intestate person went to the deceaseds blood relations only: in the first place, to his descendants; failing them, to his ascendants and collaterals.
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Oedipus, for example, consists of the overrating of blood relations and the underrating of blood relations, the autochthonous origin of humans and the denial of their autochthonous origin.
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While he owed his stepmother respect, because of her parental position, he was not herbloodrelation.
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That is a considerable right to give to a person who is not abloodrelation, and we thought that it went too far.
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The phrase "bloodrelation" was felt to be inadequate.
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The amendment seeks to ensure that the benefit does not go only to thebloodrelation.
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She is seldom abloodrelationof her husband.
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I can envisage circumstances in which abloodrelationof the former tenant had resided with him in the house at the same time as his natural wife had.
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Anyone under 18 who is planning to marry may also apply to the authority to find out whether their intended spouse is likely to be abloodrelation.
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In their belief system,bloodrelationcontinues up to three generation.
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Perhaps because of her closebloodrelationwith her husband, she never bore any children.
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Accompanying her is her solebloodrelationher elder brother.
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Thangarasu too finds it not a good idea to marry someone inbloodrelation.
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A duty can arise through contract, a voluntary undertaking, abloodrelationwith whom one lives, and occasionally through one's official position.
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