You can see a distant kinship between them and Mr. Golub's figurative works.

And he feels "a claim of distant kinship" with him.

The distant kinship is based on a common ancestor in South Carolina listed in the 1790 Census.

The new study obliterates that distant kinship and places tinamous smack in the middle of the family.

Even I often feel a distant kinship with the man.

The distant kinship hadn't mattered to Thomas and Susan Templeton.

I remembered another girl in another country who'd claimed a distant kinship with me once, on another job, and almost got me killed.

They claimed descent from Remus, and distant kinship with the mortal family of the same name.

Do you think they will be granted citizen status because of some distant kinship to us, if they really are Earth-born?

Companionship that is based on culture, psychology, science, friendship or distant kinship may also deserve protection - why not!