Sentence examples for based on the town from inspiring English sources

Bambara states, two separate West African states, one of which was based on the town of Ségou, between the Sénégal and Niger rivers, and the other on Kaarta, along the middle Niger (both in present-day Mali).

Fingerbone was based on the town where she grew up in Idaho, where her father was in the timber business.

The S & P ratings, based on the town's economy, tax revenues, and other debt, begin at BBB and go up from there.

In 1983, the Islip Art Museum invited Mierle Laderman Ukeles, the New York City Sanitation Department's artist in residence, to develop a work based on the town's innovative recycling program, known as WRAP (short for Wednesdays Recyclables Are Picked Up).

There are also indications that the layout of Silent Hill has been based on the town of San Bruno, California, to a certain extent.

In another strange twist, also in 2010, John Morgan, of the California Cancer Registry, found that Hinkley residents had developed fewer cancer cases between 1996 to 2008 than should have been expected based on the town's demographics.

"Freedom Song" -- (2006) – Describes the efforts of SNCC to register voters and change minds in a small town in Mississippi (based on the actual town of McComb) in 1961, starring Danny Glover.

He has created an entire fictive world, based on the imaginary town and environs of Nobson.

The vans themselves are based on the concept Town and Country EV that was unveiled last Fall by Chrysler.

Ferguson will star in Bill Lawrence's Fox pilot "Like Father," a comedy loosley based on the "Cougar Town" co-creator's relationship with his father.

Determined to persevere, the couple tries their luck in the fictional boomtown of Rock Springs presumably based on the real town of Williston, North Dakota where, thanks to a highly improbably series of events, they fall into cahoots with the Bakken's biggest oil tycoon, Hap Briggs (played by Don Johnson).