(1) From there a steep descent north took us to the edge of another plantation where a well-used footpath dropped down through the trees to a broad track.

(2) A sudden descent by a Roumanian army into Transylvania on August 30th was hailed as the harbinger of further successes.

(3) His mother was of Huguenot descent ; his father died six months after his birth.

(4) I knew I could get the better of him on the descent even though I fell a number of times.

(5) These entries suggest that people of African origins or descent , although very much a minority, were not unusual in sixteenth-century London.

(6) Anyone driving north on the N2 this week should keep their eyes peeled just before the steep descent to the old bridge.

(7) The settlers were of Cornish descent

(8) The ancient empire's slow descent into barbarism

(9) The result has been an unintended descent into confusion.

(10) The descent was not steep at all and I could go down there as well as anyone.

(11) But even they can't entirely salvage the mixture from a gradual descent into mediocrity.

(12) From the steep descent he turned aside into the deer path by which he had come, and when he reached the beach he paused and turned, raising his eyes up the length of the waterfall to where he thought the rock and the pool might be.

(13) A steep, badly eroded descent

(14) The plane had gone into a steep descent

(15) Umbilical hernias occur more often in premature infants and those of African American descent .

(16) The absence of any semblance of discipline is to blame for this descent into moral turpitude.

(17) He said the incident could have been quite serious, as the night turned cold and heavy rain began to fall during the descent .

(18) How can the working class, faced with this crisis, defend its social and democratic rights and prevent a descent into war and barbarism?

(19) The civil status of slaves in Tennessee, as well as in other states in which slavery existed, was such as to disable them from inheriting or transmitting property by descent .

(20) Many others throughout the kingdom assert patrilineal descent from eponymous ancestors from ancient Arab tribes.