Sentence examples for as the anecdotes of from inspiring English sources

While West German drivers praised the car for its reliability, Americans were far more likely to draw attention to its diminutive proportions, as the anecdotes of a woman who drove a VW from New York City to Florida for her winter break in 1955 bear out.

The New Yorker piece quotes some of Vidal's work, but it left me as cold as the anecdotes of his studied hauteur.

Forty years later, Keppel, by then Earl of Albemarle, would remember Charlotte in his memoirs, the source of many of the anecdotes of Charlotte as a small girl.

After all, data is just the plural of anecdote as long as the anecdotes are scrupulously and systematically chosen.Nor can the official statistics measure everything that economists consider important.

It's a striking cut, given that Zelaya was overthrown just three weeks after Clinton's visit to Honduras for the OAS meeting at which Cuba's membership was debated, which she recounts as the penultimate anecdote of the Latin America chapter.

McCarthy tells the tale with humour, self-deprecation and warmth and also with a degree of pride, as the anecdote is given as part of his answer to a question about the perception of him as a manager who is superb at getting clubs out of the Championship but not so good at keeping them in the Premier League.

And yet, those are figures that many seem to doubt, as anecdotes of looters outnumber the ones on police reports.

As our anecdotes of offended readers (thankfully) dwindled, Shriver stepped out to resounding applause.

The government owned and managed public sector hospitals are often characterized as being inefficient and ineffective as evidenced by anecdotes of patient dissatisfaction and disaffections, and personal observation [ 2- 4].

The many anecdotes of Boone's tenure as syndic suggest he sought to render fair judgments rather than to strictly observe the letter of the law.

Insofar as the point of the anecdotes about Pyrrho's life is that Pyrrho did not avoid or pursue anything with fervor, or that he did not despair about things that other people find terrible, they capture ideas that remain central to Pyrrhonism.