parentage

Windows 8 has no code parentage from DOS.

Except that parentage was a critical concept in the Greek notion of the "best".

The funny part is that it actually is 13 years old, and has a Russian/Ukrainian parentage.

Compatibility and so on for various submodules, sure, but DOS isn't in the parentage.

".This will result in dozens of helpful strangers posting detailed critiques of your coding style, logic, work flow and parentage.

Instead, I note whether you can deduce their parentage from their physical characteristics and/or their demeanor.

And was Mitt Romney's true parentage concealed, and was he secretly raised in the Utah desert by trustworthy moisture farmers?Always two there are.

This is a lot what it feels like to blog about something technical, and then have someone swoop in and question not just your article, but your parentage and your IQ.

Nobody's parentage was questioned, nobody called "unsound", nobody excluded from the gentlemen's club etc etc.

You can't imagine saying a few nasty words about the parentage of everyone in ProprietaryNewCo?

Now the word aristocracy refers to a system by which a class of people is in charge, and in which membership of said class is almost completely dependent on parentage.

In this case the implicit assumption was something like the following: A perfect DNA match implies parentage, therefore, parentage implies a perfect DNA match.

Put differently, who constitutes the elite in Denmark is less determined by parentage, whereas the American political/economic/cultural elite is more heredity-determined, because the differences from birth are too large to overcome.