Word info

inheriting

Meaning

of Inherit

Source: Webster's dictionary

Examples

You must cultivate poverty of spirit. Blessed are the meek. She didn't go on to say anything about inheriting the earth. Margaret Atwood

The meek are a hell of a long way from inheriting the earth. Christopher Vokes

We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises. Lawrence Summers

In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history. Albert Camus

The devil may die without my inheriting his horns. French Proverb

1980s Caernarfon MP Dafydd Wigley succeeded Gwynfor Evans as president in 1981, inheriting a party whose morale was at an all-time low. Source: Internet

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