How to Use "filial" with Example Sentences

1. Miss park , a filial daughter , has had to apologise for abuses under her father 's rule .

2. To them the welfare state was a western aberration that would serve only to undermine thrift , industry and filial duty .

3. The past four prime ministers hailed from wealthy political dynasties , among which the premiership was almost a filial rite of passage .

4. Since the king looked upon his subjects as his own children , the demand of the colonists to separate from britain struck him as the worst kind of filial ingratitude .

5. The recent riots across britain , whose origins many believe lie in an absence of either parental guidance or filial respect , seem to underline a profound difference between east and west .