He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.

Altogether, Starostin concluded that the Altaic grouping was substantiated, though " older than most other language families in Eurasia, such as Indo-European or Finno-Ugric, and this is the reason why the modern Altaic languages preserve few common elements ".

' Compositae ', an older but still valid name, means composite and refers to the characteristic inflorescence, a special type of pseudanthium found in only a few other angiosperm families.

However, a few families were permitted to live in two villages, Endingen and Lengnau, in Aargau which became the Jewish ghetto in Switzerland.

All families except the Canidae and a few species of Mustelidae are plantigrade.

For a few recent years, marmosets, tamarins, and lion tamarins were placed as a subfamily ( Callitrichinae ) in Cebidae, while moving other genera from Cebidae into the families Aotidae, Pitheciidae and Atelidae.

The Joudeh Al-Goudia family were entrusted as custodian to the keys of the Holy Sepulchre by the Ottomans few hundred years later, and both families now share the responsibility.

The votes of the powerful were given more weight through a system of gerrymandering, so most high officials, including members of the Senate, came from a few wealthy and noble families.

A few other families may also belong near this order.

Most bodies were unidentified and few pictures were taken, making it impossible for families to identify their loved ones.

The remaining hounds in the hands of a few families who were mainly descendants of the old Irish chieftains, were now symbols of status rather than hunters, they were said to be the last of their race.

On the other hand, marriages tend to be between nearby families, and neighborhoods become small networks of direct and indirect affinal relationships with a few further connections of direct agnation or common clan membership.

Today, the few scholars working on these languages treat the three groups as independent language families that cannot or can no longer be shown to be genetically related " ( p. 841 ).

Lamiales formerly had a restricted circumscription ( e. g., by Arthur Cronquist ) that included the major families Lamiaceae ( Labiatae ), Verbenaceae, and Boraginaceae plus a few smaller families.

This makes the Wimseys an unusually ancient family, since " Very few English noble families go that far in the first creation ; rebellions and monarchic head choppings had seen to that " ( as reviewer Janet Hitchman noted in the introduction to Striding Folly ).

There are many families or " nanchons " ( nations ) of Loa-Rada ( also Radha ), Petro ( also Pethro, Petwo ), Nago, Kongo and Ghede ( also Guede, or Gede ) to name but a few.

It appears in early times, when Thessaly was mainly governed by a few aristocratic families, as an important city under the rule of the Aleuadae, whose authority extended over the whole district of Pelasgiotis.

Reeve also writes that while Israeli officials have stated Operation Wrath of God was intended to exact vengeance for the families of the athletes killed in Munich, “ few relatives wanted such a violent reckoning with the Palestinians .” Reeve states the families were instead desperate to know the truth of the events surrounding the Munich massacre.

Such states are often controlled by a few prominent families who pass their influence from one generation to the next.

Fossils of pterosaurs only a few days to a week old ( called flaplings ) have been found, representing several pterosaur families, including pterodactylids, rhamphorhinchids, ctenochasmatids and azhdarchids.

In Wales, the few recusant families include the Mostyns ( of Mostyn ), the Herberts ( of Treowen ), the Morgans ( of Llantarnam ) and, most notably, the Vaughan family ( of Courtfield, near Ross-on-Wye ; the family of Cardinal Vaughan ).

Explicit details about Sherlock Holmes's life outside of the adventures recorded by Dr. Watson are few and far between in Conan Doyle's original stories ; nevertheless, incidental details about his early life and extended families portray a loose biographical picture of the detective.

* and a few others ( 105 species and 32 genera )

Most have many flagella used to move about, but a few genera are nonmotile.

In the 1980s, phylogenetic analysis of the phocids has led to a few conclusions about the interrelatedness of the various genera.

While comparatively few studies of this type have been performed, results from these suggest that some of the most readily isolated and studied genera may not in fact be significant in the in-situ community.

Most of the species are tropical and subtropical, though a few genera reach the temperate zone.

A few genera have been established or resurrected since 2004.

Like its relatives, Odocoileus and Capreolus, the genera Alces gave rise to very few species which endured for long periods of time.

The great majority of legumes have this association, but a few genera ( e. g., Styphnolobium ) do not.

Since that time, a few more genera have been erected, and some segregates of Brunnichia, Eriogonum, and Persicaria have been given generic status in major works.

The GlyGly-CTERM / rhombosortase system, found in the Shewanella, Vibrio, and a few other genera, seems involved in the release of proteases, nucleases, and other enzymes.

We can thus understand the localisation of sub-genera, genera, and families ; and how it is that under different latitudes, for instance in South America, the inhabitants of the plains and mountains, of the forests, marshes, and deserts, are in so mysterious a manner linked together by affinity, and are likewise linked to the extinct beings which formerly inhabited the same continent ... On these same principles, we can understand, as I have endeavoured to show, why oceanic islands should have few inhabitants, but of these a great number should be endemic or peculiar ; ...

A very few species in four main genera are found: the evergreen spruce, fir, and pine, and the deciduous larch.

Among those fishes that remain in the Characidae for the time being are the tetras, comprising the very similar genera Hemigrammus and Hyphessobrycon, as well as a few related forms such as the cave and neon tetras.

In mathematics, genus ( plural genera ) has a few different, but closely related, meanings:

A few genera have no cell covering, but most have a gelatinous coat holding scales and spines, produced in special deposition vesicles.

A few ferns ( Salviniaceae and Marsileaceae ) and most lycophytes ( the genera Selaginella and Isoetes and the extinct lepidodendrids ) are heterosporous with two kinds of sporangia, as are all the seed plants.

Many genera evolved and ran their course quickly, becoming extinct in a few million years.

This order contains 5-6 families, over 320 genera, and more than 3, 250 species, with new species being described every few months or so, and new genera being recognized regularly.

In aviculture the term conure is used for small to medium sized parakeets of the genera Aratinga, Pyrrhura, and a few other genere of the tribe Arini, which are mainly endemic to South America.

While there are a few prehistoric genera that are now completely extinct, Thiornis ( Late Miocene -?

A few more recent grebe fossils could not be assigned to modern or prehistoric genera as of now:

*** a few species in various sister genera of the above: