Usage examples with handed down

handed down or transmitted from father to son
أباً عَنْ جَدّ

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As the same hereditary enmities handed down from generation to generation raged to the fore, violence spread to neighbouring counties.
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Some families have leaven cultures, handed down from one generation to the next, that they use for baking these breads.
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Through storytellers, the history of a culture was handed down from generation to generation.
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The three were all convicted on charges of forced marriage, the first such convictions ever handed down in an international criminal court.
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Their speech is quaint, containing many archaic forms handed down from the first settlers of the eighteenth century.
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But his tenure was at least marked by some welcome common sense, as when he upheld the condign sentences handed down for the rioters and looters two years ago.
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Parties are also asked to count convictions handed down by foreign governments in determining recidivism.
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He was handed down a death sentence for one of his poems, which was later commuted to life imprisonment.
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These forms have been recorded into scripts which have been handed down to his closed-door students.
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Seven life sentences, seven fixed-term prison sentences, and one death penalty were handed down.
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