matrilineal

• The sample frame took into account variables such as urban and rural populations, educational levels, income levels, ethnic groupings, social structures such as matrilineal or patrilineal communities, and other factors that may have some bearing on GBV and CA. —  AWID RSS Feed
• Such claims are questionable for many reasons (the desire for prestige, the originally matrilineal traditions of many Berber tribes, and no pre-Islamic attestations) - but even if true, it would prove nothing about the language: people change their language all the time without changing their ancestry, as any emigrant can tell you. —  Jabal al-Lughat
• (Perhaps the fact that the Jewish culture is matrilineal has something to do with the fact that most Jewish women are considered equal to Jewish men and free minds and souls and bodies in their own right; perhaps the diversity of Jewish beliefs; perhaps the Jewish adaptation to more modern conventions ... perhaps all these leave Jewish women in a much freer condition than women under Sharia.) —  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
• "Until we can locate some matrilineal relative of Miss Dyer's we are not able to make a confirmation," West said Tuesday, noting that very little is known about Farrand Dyer. —  WTOP / Business / Biz Stories
• Many of the Russians who make up its base have the identity of outsiders - not even recognised as properly Jewish, despite an Israeli Law of Return, that offers citizenship to anyone claiming to be one-eighth Jewish, regardless of the lack of a line of matrilineal descent. —  The Guardian World News

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