Descent Quotes

An attempt to intimidate the American academic community, and especially people of Chinese descent, who have the greatest knowledge of China and the greatest contact with China. - Jerome Cohen

Americanism is a question of principle, of purpose, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace or creed or line of descent. - Theodore Roosevelt

Although our organization pays special attention to work by artists of African descent, in the end, merit carries the day and Ms. Huffman is undeniably amazing in this role. - Gil Robertson IV

After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river. - William Henry Ashley

A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians. - William James

A combination of the steep descent, the windy road and possible brake failure of heavy vehicles resulted in the umpteenth serious accident yesterday. - Andre Traut

A big part of our training in Russia was using the Soyuz for descent. - Ken Bowersox

[Prevent slacking.] I look for times when I'm producing zero watts... Now I pedal on long descents or in tailwinds. I can do the same training ride in three-and-a-half hours that took me four without a power meter. - Mark McCormack