Instead, they were answerable to a complex of hereditary or franchise jurisdictions in the hands of the feudal nobility. |
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The people were governed by hereditary princes called Sao-Phas who ruled in as many as forty different principalities. |
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Genetic testing is now available to detect polyposis as well as hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer syndrome. |
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Since then, numerous cases of hereditary polyneuropathy associated with amyloidosis have been reported from several countries. |
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It is not so easy to differentiate those nonhereditary traits and talents within human nature from hereditary ones. |
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This subset of patients was randomly chosen to include similar proportions of hereditary and nonhereditary disease. |
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His unsuccessful plea for an upper house based on a hereditary colonial peerage was mocked as a bunyip aristocracy. |
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Secondly, it assumes coat armour to be hereditary in the male lines of a family, with differences to distinguish cadet branches. |
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Neither the donor nor the hospital had any indication that he carried a hereditary disorder. |
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A Blackpool group has organised an Afro-Caribbean night in the town to raise awareness of the hereditary blood disorder, sickle-cell anaemia. |
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However, severe iron overload from hereditary hemochromatosis or secondary causes may be indistinguishable. |
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Other signs of hereditary hemochromatosis include diabetes, a weak heart, and problems with glands or joints. |
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First, individuals with hereditary hemochromatosis absorb more iron than the amount necessary to compensate for iron loss. |
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If left untreated, however, hereditary hemochromatosis can lead to damaging or even fatal iron overload. |
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The annihilator of the hereditary peers has succumbed to the trade union barons. |
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Lord Dundee, a hereditary peer and former Tory whip in the upper chamber, is also Hereditary Royal Banner Bearer for Scotland. |
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Scott is relatively unbiased but has close, almost hereditary, connections with the Liberal Party. |
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Since manic depression is hereditary, did his parents go through a phase of feeling guilty for passing along the gene? |
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Most of such defects are hereditary and due to marriages between close relations. |
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It was there in 1999 that she suffered the loss of her beloved daughter Vicky from an hereditary heart disease, dilated cardiomyopathy. |
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Thus, most hereditary cancer syndromes are the result of inherited mutations in tumor suppressor genes rather than oncogenes. |
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The optimal surveillance frequency has not yet been defined in families with hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer. |
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Since 1951, Jordan has been a constitutional hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary form of government. |
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The lower status service castes are associated with hereditary crafts such as mat weaving, jewelry making, and clothes washing. |
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Originally, the Duke held the electorate personally, but it was later made hereditary along with the duchy. |
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If other members of the family have similar symptoms, pes cavus, or claw toes, the patient may have hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy. |
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In time, arms were recorded for reference by heralds on rolls of arms, and became hereditary, passing from father to son. |
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The passing on of property or titles is also hereditary and through the eldest male child of the family. |
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In an unusual gesture of papal appreciation, the title was made hereditary. |
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The original constitution restricted the right to vote by property but outlawed hereditary titles and added trial by jury in criminal cases. |
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Ironically Arnold himself liked to express the occasional dislike of hereditary honours and titles. |
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This will remove hereditary peers and establish an independent Appointments Commission to select non-party members of the Upper House. |
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In 2001 he was appointed a life peer, following the removal of the voting rights of hereditary lords. |
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The governors of the regions of Egypt gained hereditary claim to their offices and subsequently their families acquired large estates. |
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It also extended to the butchers the extraordinary right to close their corporation, rendering membership strictly hereditary. |
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Yoritomo took the title of shogun, which had been a temporary commission from the emperor, and made it a permanent hereditary office. |
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This characteristic is hereditary, passed on from a person to his children. |
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In many tribes, political positions, as well as trades and livelihoods, also are hereditary. |
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Nevertheless, prescription and hereditary right would never again command unchallenged consent as a basis for legitimate political authority. |
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From its inception, it was meant to ward off the emergence of a hereditary aristocracy in the United States. |
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The Ottoman system had no hereditary aristocracy, and its rulers worked hard to make sure that one did not arise. |
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This advisory body consisted of hereditary and life members, the latter being ex-magistrates. |
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In 1957, at the age of 20, the Aga Khan succeeded his grandfather as the hereditary leader of the Ismaili Muslims. |
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Yet I am inclined to think that a death of a Royal or titled hereditary aristocrat is something different. |
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It is through war that a hereditary prince retains power and a private citizen rises to power. |
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Some openly praised the virtues of aristocracy, though they made clear that they opposed hereditary aristocracy. |
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Because all of the cells are at risk, hereditary cancer syndromes also increase the risk of multiple primary tumors. |
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Much of this had been granted in the form of hereditary manorial estates to aristocratic families or important monasteries. |
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Malaysia's government is nominally headed by the king whose position rotates among the nine hereditary Malay rulers every five years. |
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The 63-year-old Kim succeeded his father when the latter died in 1994, marking the first hereditary succession of power in a communist country. |
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Discovering the presence of fibrinogen defect in another family member is the best way to show a hereditary condition. |
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Around five to ten per cent of breast cancer cases are women with a hereditary genetic susceptibility to the disease. |
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Persons with a rare hereditary disease known as phenylketonuria must control their phenylalanine intake from all sources, including Aspartame. |
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The largely hereditary composition of the Lords has been modified by two pieces of legislation. |
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About 1,000 years ago, surnames began to evolve as a hereditary means of identifying people. |
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But acclamation did not rule out the possibility of hereditary or even dynastic successions. |
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It, in the first place, in express terms declares the office of macer to be hereditary, and the acting macer to be merely a deputy. |
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A genome is all the genetic information or hereditary material possessed by an organism. |
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The hereditary banner bearers would carry the Lyon Standard and the Saltire. |
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He killed the person Yu the Great had appointed and succeeded to his father's power, beginning the hereditary system of monarchy. |
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Pandas are hereditary priests who assist pilgrims with the temple rituals and record the visit in their pilgrim register. |
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The club, based in Tottington, was founded by Derek Pritchard, 64, who is almost totally blind because of a hereditary eye condition. |
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She knows she is going blind from a hereditary disease and yet won't tell anyone, or ease up. |
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That was a problem because a duke is a nobleman of the highest hereditary rank and a member of the highest grade of the British peerage. |
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A racial group is based on hereditary physical traits often identified with geography. |
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When Nora was still a toddler, Woody began to succumb to Huntington's Disease, the hereditary malady that killed his mother. |
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Second nonocular malignancies develop with increased incidence in patients with hereditary retinoblastoma. |
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Telangiectasia may be a feature of hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia or systemic sclerosis. |
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Either you think the head of government in the United Kingdom should be picked by hereditary principle or you do not. |
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For some people, puffy or baggy eyes are a hereditary trait, and must be accepted as such. |
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This study confirms that members of families with hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer require surveillance with short intervals. |
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This rarefaction can be found in young hypertensives and may have a hereditary component. |
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Slavery was perpetual also in the sense that it was often thought of as hereditary. |
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Talk of a hereditary succession gained momentum after news reports late last month that North Korea's state radio hinted at such a plan. |
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Our guest of honour is that biological rarity, a hereditary peer who has attained high distinction. |
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All life Baronies are in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and rank amongst hereditary Baronies in that Peerage by date of creation. |
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For the Brahmins are hereditary keepers and masters of the language, hymns and mantras of the universe. |
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This same sort of hereditary cultural succession became fantastically popular among early modern writers. |
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This finding could have future implications for a possible cure of some forms of hereditary deafness in humans and mice. |
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Thanks to the wide boys, spivs, spin doctors and hereditary idiots who have hijacked a once great Australian institution. |
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Two kidney conditions that prospective buyers should be aware of are renal dysplasia and hereditary nephritis. |
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Whether forced or voluntary, Roman emperors, kings and queens, hereditary princes and grand dukes and, yes, even popes have abdicated. |
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In 1808 the imperial nobility was completed with the ranks of count, baron, and chevalier, all of them hereditary. |
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Stage one saw the removal of most of the hereditary peers, leaving 92, who were to remain during a transitional period. |
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There is little mobility because membership in a particular caste group is hereditary. |
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If the people of this or other hereditary monarchies prefer their form of government to a democracy, that preference ought to be testable. |
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Now Canadian writer Alex Bulmer offers her experience of going blind in adulthood as a result of a hereditary genetic disease. |
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A few Italians are hereditary knights bachelor, forming a kind of Italian baronetage. |
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Unlike the hereditary peerages of old, knighthoods are not bestowed according to birth or social status. |
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She said that while multiple sclerosis was not hereditary or genetic there was a greater chance of developing it if a parent was a sufferer. |
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With the introduction of life peerages in 1958, the hereditary element in the House declined in its daily attendance. |
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My nose just kind of sat there, kind of blobby, unmistakably hereditary, a little bit wonky and sort of round. |
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Certain painful and tragic hereditary diseases such as cystic fibrosis might be cured and even eliminated. |
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Why were my beliefs not as valid because I was young and unassociated with a coven or tradition or hereditary line? |
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Christina believes that her condition may be hereditary as she shares them with her female relatives. |
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Abolition of the hereditary element in the Lords was carried through without, it seemed, much idea of what was to follow. |
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Because of the many etiological factors involved, multifactorial diseases are not, strictly speaking, the sole result of hereditary transmission. |
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Even as specific tests for various hereditary disease are developed, there is little chance anyone could access the results to do you dirt. |
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It belongs to the hereditary Queen of the Faeries Anna Marpessa, but I expect you have met her already. |
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In male pattern baldness, which is hereditary, the hair is usually lost at the temples and the crown. |
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It was re-named Lesotho and became independent in 1966 as a constitutional monarchy, with a National Assembly to work with hereditary chiefs. |
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Acceptance means that hereditary power will soon pass to his ineffectual, unsoldierly son, Richard. |
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On occasion his position became hereditary, sons, cousins, nephews succeeding. |
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Huntington's disease is a hereditary neurological disease for which there is no cure. |
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Though he recognized injustices connected to a system of hereditary nobility, this recognition did not animate his intellectual work. |
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In 1902, Mercy dArgenteau, the Princess de Montyglyon, a Belgian countess and hereditary princess of the Holy Roman Empire, journeyed to St. Petersburg, Russia. |
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It deals with, among many other things, the conflict between hereditary and elective principles and the constitutional problems of a second chamber. |
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The massive monumental structures were intricately carved and decorated with scenes showing how the hereditary dynasties of the kings united with the gods. |
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At low radiation doses, the principal concern is the risk of radiation-induced cancer in exposed individuals and hereditary disease in their descendants. |
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With the recent abolition of the hereditary element of the House of Lords by New Labour, many of those kind of instinctive assumptions have simply disappeared. |
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Even if your lab results are normal, you might need to get blood tests again every few years if you have some of the signs of hereditary hemochromatosis or a relative with it. |
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Whilst he is certainly an outlaw and bandit of historic proportions there is little or no connection with the notion of hereditary criminal tribes. |
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Although figures of hereditary importance, such as peers and members of landed families, have not been excluded, most are Yorkshire success stories from all walks of life. |
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He was the first of a line of hereditary prime ministers who, although they kept the monarch as a ceremonial figurehead, ruled the country themselves for more than a century. |
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In principle, hereditary succession is rejected by the juristic tradition. |
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Beyond those four hereditary official classes, its society included a tiny stratum of imperial nobility, a large clerical establishment, and a population of outcastes. |
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He is busy building war rooms and planning important strategies to hold onto party leadership and the hereditary right to run the country that goes with it. |
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There are three types of cjd, including a hereditary version of the disease which accounts for roughly 10 percent of all cases. |
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One of the weaknesses of a hereditary monarchy is the possibility of having a monarch who is too young to rule, requiring a regency or protectorate to govern in his name. |
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Because pernicious anemia can be hereditary, let your doctor know if you have a relative with the disorder so that he or she can test your blood every few years. |
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Both Danielssen and Boeck believed that leprosy was a hereditary disease. |
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Even freed slaves carry the taint of their hereditary status, and their former masters or parents' masters may claim some or all of their income, property and dowries. |
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The ascension to the throne of a chief or headperson is hereditary. |
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The identification of specific genes associated with hereditary cancer risk has enabled direct diagnosis of hereditary cancer syndromes through genetic analysis. |
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Other causes of apparent clumsiness include visual impairment, orthopedic disorders, mild cerebral palsy, hereditary ataxia, and congenital chorea. |
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A fox's head on an old lady's boa had also been seized with avidity by a foxhound, under the impression that he had at last found his hereditary enemy. |
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That surely was the sentiment of more than a few of the hereditary distillers in bourbon country. |
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This son has begun thrumming the strings of hereditary determinism, and is finding them holding taut. |
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After 33 years of working in a factory, Nowlin had developed a hereditary eye disease called Retinitis pigmentosa. |
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Weary as Kate may be of the unrelenting focus on her womb, the fuss is entirely predictable in a hereditary monarchy. |
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The title carried with it the hereditary marshalship of Scotland. |
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The 51-year-old inherited the baronetcy from his late father, Sir Denis, who had the hereditary title bestowed upon him after his wife ceased to be prime minister. |
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Genes, the organizers of inheritance, are composed of DNA, thread-like molecules which carry the hereditary instructions needed to build an organism and make it work. |
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Denmark is a constitutional monarchy in which succession to the throne is hereditary and the ruling monarch must be a member of the national church. |
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These were members of the royal family whose dynasties became hereditary while their traditional districts were clearly defined by boundaries and Bemba names. |
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He said that his strong character was tested at the upper school when his hair completely fell out, a condition which is believed to be hereditary in the family. |
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It is neither contagious nor hereditary, but it affects a child's co-ordination, mildly or severely, making it cumbersome to perform simple daily skills. |
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Cambodia's royal succession is not hereditary, and King Sihanouk has no power to appoint a successor, but he can influence the decision of the Throne Council. |
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It is the protagonists of craft who need to protect hereditary skills and ensure the same quality of work that was turned out three centuries ago. |
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He was almost certainly suffering from a hereditary blood disorder called porphyria that flowed through the veins of many of Europe's royal houses. |
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The hereditary president of the Confederation and commander of its troops was the King of Prussia, who embodied the principle of monarchical legitimacy. |
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Sperm banks do a lot more than just freeze and dispense the sperm, you know, they also test for HIV and other diseases, as well as hereditary defects. |
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Finally, he visits a new doctor who diagnoses him with hereditary hemochromatosis, a genetic disorder common among people of Northern European descent. |
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Members of a hereditary Siddha family must be encouraged to practice without any restrictions by giving registration so that the skill is not lost. |
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The same happened to men whose doctors had said that there was nothing that could be done for their receding hairlines and baldness, as hereditary factors were to blame. |
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In this country any haute cuisine tradition that exists is almost solely because of the appetites and conspicuous consumption of the British nobility, hereditary or otherwise. |
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Belonging to the Japanese samurai class was a hereditary membership. |
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Richard lasted only two years before he was deposed by Henry Tudor, a relation to the House of Lancaster but with no realistic hereditary claim to the throne. |
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Beyond sitting in both Houses of Parliament, Willoughby fulfilled his hereditary responsibilities as an enthusiastic member of the Warwickshire Yeomanry. |
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He said a foetus does, however, have rights in certain civil cases regarding hereditary rights whereby an unborn child may be entitled to an inheritance. |
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Buffalo City mayor Sindisile Maclean told Swedes in Linkoping, Sweden this week how South Africa was battling to incorporate hereditary leaders into the new democratic order. |
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Christy, the blacksmith and rightful heir, has no sense of the estate as his own, and can barely understand the revelation that he is the hereditary lord. |
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Deafness is associated with many hereditary and non-hereditary diseases and may also result from pre or post-natal exposure to a variety of toxins and traumas. |
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It is also to be heard on the front and back benches of the House of Commons and is used by some members of the Lords, whether life or hereditary peers. |
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Human trials of gene-based therapies aimed at both macular degeneration and hereditary blindness are set to begin in the U.K. perhaps as early as next year. |
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Clinically identical acute attacks can occur in acute intermittent porphyria, variegate porphyria, hereditary coproporphyria, and plumboporphyria. |
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And if you buy into the principle of hereditary monarchy, it surely follows that you expect the royal family to behave better than us ordinary folk. |
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The Labour Government introduced legislation to expel all hereditary peers from the Upper House as a first step in Lords reform. |
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This table shows the curious fact that little Prince Carol of Roumania has a better hereditary right to the British Throne than Her Majesty. |
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Consequently, in order to learn of a cytoplasmic determinant serving a specific hereditary function, one must detect it in a mutated form. |
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Slavery was hereditary In the Middle Ages, slavery was especially prevalent in the Celtic countries. |
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It may appear as an epidemic, as a hereditary complaint, or as an obstinate and incorrigible disease again and again recurring. |
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In reality, however, his hereditary connections to Welsh aristocracy were not strong. |
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Slavery first appears in Virginia statutes in 1661 and 1662, when a law made it hereditary based on the mother's status. |
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But, most notably, the office of Lord Protector was still not to become hereditary, though Cromwell was now able to nominate his own successor. |
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William's followers in the States of Utrecht on 26 April 1674 appointed him hereditary stadtholder. |
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The legislators abolished hereditary offices, except for the monarchy itself. |
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The House of Lords was previously a largely hereditary aristocratic chamber, although including life peers, and Lords Spiritual. |
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The post of Lord High Steward was originally hereditary, held by the Earls of Leicester. |
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The mythological origins of the oil fields at Yenangyaung, and its hereditary monopoly control by 24 families, indicate very ancient origins. |
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He also argued against hereditary peerages, favouring life peerages instead. |
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Written in a direct and lively style, it denounced the decaying despotisms of Europe and pilloried hereditary monarchy as an absurdity. |
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As the papacy is not hereditary, its occupants display their personal arms combined with those of their office. |
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For instance, in Piast Poland, the position of komes was not hereditary, resembling the early Merovingian institution. |
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Becoming a brehon took many years of training and the office was, or became, largely hereditary. |
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The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, and succession to the British throne is hereditary. |
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The next monarch of Scotland, Malcolm IV, made the High Steward title a hereditary arrangement. |
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These states remained under the full control of their hereditary rulers, with no popular government. |
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The imperial crown was hereditary in the House of Hohenzollern, the ruling house of Prussia. |
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The Kaiser, kings and other hereditary rulers all were removed from power and Wilhelm fled to exile in the Netherlands. |
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Despite the similarities, Stone argued that a crucial difference was that the land grants under the timar system were not hereditary at first. |
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In some cases a head of government may even pass on the title in hereditary fashion. |
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Very few of these are female since most hereditary peerages can only be inherited by men. |
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Neither party, however, pursued the matter with much enthusiasm, and the House of Lords remained primarily hereditary. |
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The Labour Party included in its 1997 general election Manifesto a commitment to remove the hereditary peerage from the House of Lords. |
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As a part of a compromise, however, it agreed to permit 92 hereditary peers to remain until the reforms were complete. |
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In 1999, the Labour government brought forward the House of Lords Act removing the right of several hundred hereditary peers to sit in the House. |
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Generally, one of the more powerful local lords in each county was appointed and the office became hereditary in his family. |
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Qatar is a hereditary monarchy and its head of state is Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. |
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The groove of direct hereditary descent in the land of his birth, which he never in thought, and hardly in body, moved out of. |
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Wollstonecraft attacked not only monarchy and hereditary privilege but also the language that Burke used to defend and elevate it. |
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A liver ailment, probably hereditary, was aggravated by overwork, bad diet and lack of sleep. |
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In addition, William became hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg in exchange for his German possessions. |
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The evidence of this is the very high number of hereditary lands that were sold, especially in the first half of the 19th century. |
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Many of the officers became hereditary and thus removed from practical operation of either the state or the household. |
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While most of them early on became hereditary, currently some offices are appointed, while others inherit their positions. |
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The office of Lord Great Chamberlain is also hereditary, originally being held by the Earls of Oxford. |
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It is likely that this practice was a factor in the emergence of hereditary heraldry in western Europe in the 12th century. |
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It was less easy to work in the opposite way, and establish a position among the hereditary marcher families, as Hugh Le Despenser discovered. |
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Today these terms most commonly describe heirs to hereditary titles, particularly in monarchies. |
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In the reign of Henry VIII surnames became hereditary amongst the Welsh gentry, and the custom spread slowly amongst commoners. |
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A chief forester was appointed with a ceremonial horn, and the position soon became a hereditary responsibility of the Stanley family. |
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The unity of the empire and the hereditary right of the Carolingians continued to be acknowledged. |
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They could technically be dismissed by the king but many offices became hereditary. |
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The disease, hereditary Haemochromatosis, has by far its highest prevalence rate among people of Celtic ancestry. |
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Eggs laid later in a clutch are larger, as are those laid by larger females, and egg size is hereditary. |
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In the meantime, da Gama made do with a substantial hereditary royal pension of 300,000 reis. |
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Over time emerge hereditary chieftainships, the typical form of government in pastoral societies. |
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In current usage the word monarchy usually refers to a traditional system of hereditary rule, as elective monarchies are rare nowadays. |
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Primogeniture, in which the eldest child of the monarch is first in line to become monarch, is the most common system in hereditary monarchy. |
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The Habsburgs began also to accumulate territory far from the hereditary lands. |
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Prior to the constitutional changes in 1919, the civic republic was ruled by a class of hereditary grand burghers or Hanseaten. |
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However, until 1999, all hereditary peers were entitled to sit and vote in the House of Lords. |
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Since then, only 92 of them have this entitlement, of whom 90 are elected by the hereditary peers as a whole to represent the peerage. |
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For electors the title became hereditary, and they were given the right to mint coins and to exercise jurisdiction. |
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However, from 1440 to 1740, a Habsburg was always elected emperor, the throne becoming unofficially hereditary. |
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In the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, the kingship was partially elected and partially hereditary. |
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Though the monarchy of Norway was originally hereditary, it too became elective in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. |
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The mansa, or emperor, had to be approved by the Great Assembly known as the Gbara, despite hereditary claims. |
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In the United Arab Emirates, the hereditary emirs of the emirates elects one of themselves as president of the federation. |
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A hereditary monarchy may occasionally use election to fill a vacant throne. |
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Some were ruled by princes or other hereditary rulers, some were governed by bishops or abbots. |
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The Nangzan in Tibetan history were, according to Chinese sources, hereditary household slaves. |
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Since the office of emperor had never been technically hereditary, Andreas' claim would have been without merit under Byzantine law. |
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He adopted the eldest son of his elder brother, who was awarded a hereditary officer rank in the imperial guard. |
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Yet the hereditary military continued to be inefficient and to suffer from poor morale. |
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Opium addiction in the later 19th century received a hereditary definition. |
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Oman is an absolute monarchy in which all legislative, executive, and judiciary power ultimately rests in the hands of the hereditary Sultan. |
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Those men willing to cooperate with the colonial rule replaced those with hereditary and traditional claims to leadership. |
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In some areas the traditional, members hereditary lineages became office holders on the town councils. |
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Traditionally, provinces and altepetl were governed by hereditary tlatoani. |
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He exercised autocratic control over Russia's hereditary nobility and developed a bureaucracy to administer the new territories. |
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The Code of 1649, under Alexis Romanov, Mikhail's son, divided the Russian population into distinct and fixed hereditary categories. |
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Many Jurchen chieftains lost their hereditary certificates granted by the Ming government. |
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The pishchal'niki eventually became skilled hereditary tradesmen farmers rather than conscripts. |
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They were organised as a Church in the 8th century, served by foreign bishops and with a hereditary local chief called Arkadiyokon or Archdeacon. |
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Their dream of a republic, a nation without hereditary rulers, with power derived from the people in frequent elections, was in doubt. |
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The best known example is the British House of Lords, which includes a number of hereditary peers. |
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Membership of the Lords is now limited to life peers and a number of elected hereditary peers. |
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In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers. |
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The Crown, as fount of honour, has the undoubted right to create peerages, whether hereditary or for life. |
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William Whitelaw was created a hereditary viscount on the recommendation of Margaret Thatcher. |
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The hereditary element of the House of Lords, however, was much less balanced. |
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The Peerage Act 1963 allows the holder of an hereditary peerage to disclaim their title for life. |
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The hereditary peerage, as it now exists, combines several different English institutions with analogous ones from Scotland and Ireland. |
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The law applicable to a British hereditary peerage depends on which Kingdom it belongs to. |
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The mode of inheritance of a hereditary peerage is determined by the method of its creation. |
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No further hereditary peerages may be conferred upon the person, but life peerages may be. |
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The most recent policies outlining the creation of new peerages, the Royal Warrant of 2004, explicitly apply to both hereditary and life peers. |
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In 1999, the House of Lords Act abolished the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords. |
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Elections were held in October and November 1999 to choose those initial 90 peers, with all hereditary peers eligible to vote. |
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The remaining two hold their seats by right of the hereditary offices of Earl Marshall and Lord Great Chamberlain. |
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The Government reserves a number of political and ceremonial positions for hereditary peers. |
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As a result, there are many hereditary peers who have taken up careers which do not fit traditional conceptions of aristocracy. |
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The House of Lords refused to admit him, so he had to take his seat as a hereditary peer. |
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There existed a few exceptions to the hereditary principle, such as for the Lords Spiritual. |
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This gradually began to diminish the numerical dominance of hereditary peers. |
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In modern practice, only members of the Royal Family are granted new hereditary peerages. |
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Lord Randall put forward the idea of phasing out the hereditary peers by disqualifying their heirs. |
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Previously, hereditary peers had been constitutionally disqualified from being electors to, or members of, the House of Commons. |
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The first hereditary peer to gain a seat in the Commons under this provision was John Thurso. |
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The Act prevents even hereditary peers who are the first to hold their titles from sitting automatically in the House of Lords. |
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The remainder were to continue to be appointed, and all hereditary peers were to be removed. |
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A peerage is a legal system historically comprising hereditary titles in various countries, comprising various noble ranks. |
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Under the 1999 House of Lords Act, a new form of representative peer was introduced to allow some hereditary peers to stay in the House of Lords. |
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The bill did receive Royal Assent, and from 1999, hereditary peers have not had the automatic right to sit in Parliament. |
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No further hereditary peerage may be conferred upon the person, but a life peerage may be. |
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In 2001, John Sinclair, 3rd Viscount Thurso became the first British hereditary peer to be elected to the Commons and take his seat. |
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In 1672, the office of Marshal of England and the title of Earl Marshal of England were made hereditary in the Howard family. |
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In the general order of precedence, the Earl Marshal is currently the highest hereditary position in the United Kingdom outside the Royal Family. |
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Although other state and ecclesiastical officers rank above in precedence, they are not hereditary. |
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Later, Queen Mary I ruled that the Earls of Oxford were indeed entitled to the office of Lord Great Chamberlain on an hereditary basis. |
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On his death in 2001 he was succeeded in the hereditary barony and viscountcy by his son, the third Viscount. |
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Under the duke were three aristocratic families, whose heads bore the title of viscount and held hereditary positions in the Lu bureaucracy. |
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Sima Niu, in contrast to Yan Hui, was from a hereditary noble family hailing from the Song state. |
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During the Ming dynasty, one of Mencius' descendants was given a hereditary title at the Hanlin Academy by the Emperor. |
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The Zhou dynasty was divided between the masses and the hereditary noblemen. |
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Marx and Engels agreed with Carlyle as far as his criticism of the hereditary aristocracy. |
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The Norman Conquest...brought with it the novelty of family nomenclature, that is to say, the use of hereditary surnames. |
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The Austrian Princes and the Swissers, I have still heard, are from father to sonne, hereditary and irreconcilable enimies. |
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Some traditional societies have a single hereditary tribal chief, others a whole hierarchy of elected tribal chiefs, etc. |
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Under the old regime, the places of unsealers of letters were hereditary in two or three families, like the dignities of the Bar. |
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Xanthine calculi are seen in patients with hereditary xanthuria and those undergoing treatment with allopurinol. |
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Another myth associated with rosacea and acne rosacea is that it's hereditary. |
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Atryn aims to prevent excessive blood clots in patients with a disorder known as hereditary antithrombin deficiency. |
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Lee Mattinson's holiday camp-set play offers a potentially rather depressing cocktail of hereditary lovelessness. |
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Familial Mediterranean fever is a hereditary autoinflammatory disease characterized by the inflammation of serous membranes. |
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Measurements of plasma methoxytyramine, normetanephrine, and metanephrine as discriminators of different hereditary forms of pheochromocytoma. |
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This study included 497 consecutive patients with CT-proven pulmonary arteriovenous malformations due to hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. |
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Previously, traditional, monarchic, hereditary and feudal methods were used to hold on to power and authority. |
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Frequent de novo moncallelic expression of R-spectrin gene in children with hereditary spherocytosis and isolated spectrin deficiency. |
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Evaluation of mean sphered corpuscular volume for predicting hereditary spherocytosis. |
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Nadia had also been diagnosed with hereditary spherocytosis, a blood disorder. |
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We now understand that ADPKD and a number of other hereditary kidney diseases are all due to defective cilial proteins. |
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Treacher Collins Syndrome hits about one in 10,000 babies and is generally hereditary. |
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The research concentrated on three families with a hereditary condition called tylosis with oesophageal cancer. |
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Management of deformities of the forearm in multiple hereditary osteochondromas. |
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Scientists at Bethesda, Maryland, recently located a gene responsible for cystinuria, a common hereditary cause of kidney stones worldwide. |
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The most common cause is hereditary male pattern baldness, caused by oversensitivity of hair follicles to the male hormone testosterone. |
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Urinary excretion of biomarkers of oxidatively damaged DNA and RNA in hereditary hemochromatosis. |
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