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How to use the word relatives in a Sentence?

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We use crime scene DNA and its analysis to develop a profile, we then use publicly accessible databases and information to identify potential relatives of a suspect or of the victim.

Thomas Sobocinski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They demand help, they ask for it through their relatives. We are planning and doing everything to get to them.

Oleksandr Kovalov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The claim that Darwin’s theories were at the core of eugenics, the racial science at the core of Nazism, are not new. They are not revisionist history made upon the revelations of the Death Camps. These claims precede The Holocaust by several decades. American and British icons of science, namely Darwin’s relatives and colleagues, were making this claim before Adolf Hitler was even born, and continued to do so on up through the end of WWII.

A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

Service in the zone of the special military operation – everyone understands this very well – is associated with colossal physical and psychological stress, with everyday risks to health and life, therefore, I consider it necessary to establish for the mobilized, in general for all military personnel, for all participants of the special military operation, including volunteers, regular leave lasting at least 14 days and at least once every six months, excluding travel time, so that each soldier has the opportunity to visit families, to be close to relatives and friends.

Getty Images

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When three guests go searching for their ancestors in a remote village and get kicked out by their alleged relatives, that’s the opposite from our inbred hospitality, also, the escorts and the reference to local criminal organizations depict a negative image.

Enzo Anastasi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are aware of the deaths of two Russian citizens. We are in touch with the relatives of these people and the police department of the city where it happened. We will provide the relatives of the deceased with all the necessary assistance in paperwork.

Calcutta Alexey Idamkin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Absolutely every Ukrainian child is affected... Every child has heard air raid warnings. Children see the suffering of their relatives and friends. Children are forced to say goodbye to parents who go to defend the country on the front line. There are those who are still under occupation. Those who are injured. In other words, absolutely every Ukrainian child has got quite serious psychological and physical injuries.

Daria Gerasimchuk

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Part of the misconception about its age came from mixing of fossils from different layers during early excavations, using this method, we can more accurately place ancient humans and their relatives in the correct time periods, in Africa, and elsewhere across the world.

Darryl Granger

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The more profiles we have, statistically, the more matches we make. It's obvious we don't have enough DNA from relatives of the missing persons, it will take years after the war ends to find all the unidentified human bodies.

Stanislav Martynenko

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I sleep badly. I dream of my dead relatives.

Vasylchenko Valentyna

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our relatives began to call and say that the city was being stormed, that there were wounded and dead, we asked the Russians what was going on and they said there were no regular Russian troops there but we continued to hear that there was shelling.

Volodymyr Falshovnyk

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They do not have the opportunity to contact you, and you have no idea what happened to your relatives, in this regard, the website 200rf.com was created [by] the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. On this site, we post photos and videos of the dead so that they can be identified. We post documents of the dead and those who were taken prisoner.

Vadym Denysenko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I didn’t expect that because I was posting just to reach my friends, my relatives. My aunt is near Kyiv and I’m afraid for her, my friends are in different cities all over Ukraine and I’m trying to keep a connection with them, I text them several times a day to know if they’re alive.

Vera Lytovchenko via AP

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s quite expensive, i have friends here. I have my relatives here. But we never discussed the economics.

Ahmad Saeed

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'll be frank with you, if they kill my family, if they kill my relatives, unfortunately, I will stop [my] diplomatic activity … I will go further.

Valeriy Chaly

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The attack on the Border Patrol is significant and very personal to me because I have relatives and friends at the Border Patrol, most of them are Hispanic, you know, or people from the border. They're our friends or our neighbors, our cousins or relatives, and the attacks on them hit us personally. We take it personal because they're simply trying to do their job. And they’re not getting any support from the current administration.

Aaron Peña

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What's left of the Boomers that blindly support Henry Cuellar are fading, and the Boomers that consider themselves more moderate, like my dad, my uncles, my relatives, are listening to Gen Zers more, gen Z and millennials are becoming more activated in politics and we are advocating within our families for more progressive candidates.

Beatriz Mendoza

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Identifying close relatives indicates that poachers are likely going back to the same populations repeatedly -- year after year -- and tusks are then acquired and smuggled out of Central Africa on container ships by the same criminal network, this criminal strategy makes it much harder for authorities to track and seize these shipments because of the immense pressure they are under to move large volumes of containers quickly through ports.

Samuel Wasser

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you're trying to match one tusk to its pair, you have a low chance of a match. But identifying close relatives is going to be a much more common event, and can link more ivory seizures to the same smuggling networks.

Samuel Wasser

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is just fascinating to see that after decades of research on wild chimpanzees they still surprise us with unexpected new behaviours, our study shows that there is still a lot to explore and discover about our closest living relatives, and we therefore need to still put much more effort into protecting them in their natural habitat.

Tobias Deschner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Self-medication — where individuals use plant parts or non-nutritional substances to combat pathogens or parasites — has been observed across multiple animal species including insects, reptiles, birds and mammals, current Biology.Bears two closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, for instance, swallow leaves of plants with anthelmintic( antiparasitic) properties and chew bitter leaves that have chemical properties to kill intestinal parasites.

Simone Pika

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A lot of children, grandchildren and extended relatives have come forward, some of the families have even found each other.

Trooper Entertainment -RRB- Fanciulli

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're living through this all over again. Nothing changes. It's different people but the same situation. my only advice to survivors and relatives of the victims would be to get psychological help.

Dilcia Pineda

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Regardless of how long [ Raslan ] will be imprisoned, he will have a clock near him, he will see the sun and know when it rises and when it sets, he will have medical care when needed, and he will receive visits from relatives who will know how he is doing, just as he will know how they are doing.

Hussein Ghrer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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