Sentence examples for as signposts of from inspiring English sources

Whatever their roots, the people whose pottery served as signposts of their eastward migrations eventually abandoned the elaborate Lapita style.

Some of them have emerged as modern classics, standing out not only as culinary creations, but also as signposts of the decade's most significant mixology trends.

But it was only the latest in a string of phrases, from "smoke them out of their caves" to "the evil one," that have punctuated Mr. Bush's speech and are destined to live on as signposts of his presidency.

A quick review of the main events and the more influential circumstances of his life is none the less in order, at least as signposts of his intellectual career.

I now see these homeless signs as signposts of my own journey, both inward and outward.

Take these as signposts of a world to come, and of a possible attempt, as economist Michael Hudson has argued, "to hasten the bankruptcy of the U.S. financial-military world order".

The word might be translated as "signpost of change" or "sage of change".

Ostrander and postdoc Cathryn Mellersh set out to map the dog's genome using unique genetic markers as signposts to genes of interest.

Thus, genetic markers act as signposts to regions of the genome that are likely to harbor risk genes.

New York City is trying to honor the neighborhood's legacy and preserve it, as well as the signposts of earlier generations that housed and entertained the immigrants, artists and political radicals who peopled the coarse-edged streets.

Entries range in length from a few words to a few paragraphs and have the feeling of a kind of list, "snippets" as signposts for a young woman just beginning to create a cohesive map of herself.