lack of offspring

His son's declaring that their lack of offspring was God's will began to obsess him.

Usual, no; and not desirable for the species, else it would die out for lack of offspring.

Divorce is frequent (with causes ranging from incompatibility to lack of offspring) and easily obtainable.

Thus, the gene was re-dubbed fruitless, alluding to the lack of offspring produced by flies with the mutation.

The grand princely couple's lack of offspring after six years of marriage perturbed the Grand Duke.

But Mr. Shah said the arrangement was "like getting married but living separately" and the relationship was clouded by lack of offspring.

The House of Castro went into decline because of their lack of offspring, with the county of Lemos passing to the House of Alba.

After a decade of childless marriage, Farnese accused Claudia Colla and her mother Elena for having caused the lack of offspring by the use of sorcery.

Growing older, and partly exiled from normal social life by her lack of offspring, Paulina finds a surrogate family when she goes to work as the "general factotum" of an up-and-coming politician.

Many other family surnames, such as Massedalen, Noer, Gaasvigen, Wold, Amoth and Rundhaug, have simply disappeared from the township, the owners having moved to Manitoba or Saskatchewan before 1920 or else died off more recently due to lack of offspring.

In addition, the French owners are anxious to sell for a range of reasons: inheritance taxes, a lack of offspring to run the wineries, intra-family feuds about how to manage the chateaus, a wealth tax imposed by the former socialist Government or just the lure of the huge prices that chateaus are fetching.