Hereditary used in a sentence

Hereditary in a sentence as an adjective

This is the UK, where the upper class is more hereditary than job based unlike in the US. Banking and law are fairly common professions for the upper class, so he may well be upper class.

The well-connected, the powerful, the wealthy and the hereditary upper class are different sets of people.

He's just observing the putative pros/cons of having a society ran by a hereditary elite, versus by the spazzes that got all the best grades in school.

Eventually people will be a lot more picky and aware of heredity and we could see a lot of hereditary mental illnesses removed from the population.

There are reformers who get over this difficulty by assuming that all their fathers were fools; but if that be so, we can only say that folly appears to be a hereditary disease.

Nearsightedness is partly hereditary; similar to obesity, it can be exacerbated by certain choices, but some people are just bound to be nearsighted.

I just find it absurd that whenever this kind of question comes up people start denying that there is any hereditary component of intelligence, and that IQ is completely meaningless, etc.

Prussia's legislatures were dominated by a rich hereditary landowning class.

The comments below are certainly true, though: Dr. Yunus has contemplated getting into politics and that has the existing parties, headed by hereditary chairwoman, very nervous.

" The Council had been split over the surrender terms; half the members wanted assurances that the emperor would maintain his hereditary and traditional role in a postwar Japan before surrender could be considered.

It's also interesting to note once you consider decline of the largest and most successful Chinese dynasties are associated with re-introduction of government positions being hereditary and/or being for sale.