Asselin was walking by himself for the most part during the week, but on weekends people would join him -- his wife, his daughter, a cousin, his sister-in-law, other supporters.

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So that dynastic principle was invoked with regard to the prophet's cousin and son-in-law, Ali.

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Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, was the first imam.

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With her would have come her daughter Eliza, who was eventually to marry one of Jane's brothers and become her close confidante and friend as well as both first cousin and sister-in-law.

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If you have a funeral to attend, you need to have Friday off and you are deemed to have a funeral when the dead person is a parent, a sibling, a child, a spouse or partner, an in-law, a grand-parent, a cousin, an aunt, an uncle, a friend, a classmate, a nephew, a niece, a boss, someone you go to church with, a workmate, a neighbour and of course, a president.

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The dead soldier's brothers, father-in-law and cousin have all served with the Royal Irish Regiment.

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By Friday, the American-led forces had taken the city centre, besieging Mr Sadr and his gunmen in their redoubt in the Imam Ali Mosque the holiest place in the city, revered by Shia Muslims worldwide as the burial place of Ali, the son-in-law and cousin of the Prophet Muhammad.

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"They hear that their sister-in-law's cousin can do it, so they hire him, " he said.

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They include his former son-in-law, his cousin, two of his wife's cousins and his campaign finance chairman.

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