bastardization

Example Sentences

• "Given the serious and long-lasting effects of bastardization, resolution of the paternity issue should be accomplished with the active participation of the court, rather than involvement that is limited to reviewing a previously-executed document."
• "Our conclusion is not founded on the traditional arguments against bastardization: the social stigma imposed on the child and the financial burden imposed on the state."
• "The flimsy bastardization of the princes was a flagrant violation of a cherished medieval principle, the right of inheritance."
• "In Egyptian law, the marital presumption of paternity remains unassailable, which indicates that the social purposes it is designed to server -- defending the integrity of the marital family, protecting against the bastardization of children, and preventing exposure of the immoral conduct of the parents --- are still the dominant societal norms."
• "The uneven number discovered in the four species mentioned may have arisen in one of two ways : through bastardization, or through a mitotic abnormality, each of which possibilities may now be considered. In the case of bastardization of a germ cell with one chromosomal number by a germ cell from another species with a different number, the uneven number eleven might be secured if a paternal germ cell of a species A, with the normal chromosomal number twelve, fertilizes a maternal germ cell of a species B with the normal number ten."
• ". It is remarkable that no less than 4 specimens (309, 345, 348, 357) from the area of bastardization show formation of eumelanin in numerous of the throat feathers instead of, as was to expected, phaeomelanin. Most probably this phenomenon too is attributable to bastardization."