Sentence examples for behind a substantial from inspiring English sources

He leaves behind a substantial musical legacy.

Hemingway left behind a substantial amount of manuscript, some of which has been published.

When Nicholas Ray, the pathbreaking filmmaker and director of "Rebel Without a Cause," died from lung cancer in 1979, he left behind a substantial collection of artifacts that had never, or rarely, been seen.

As for famous voices now lost to time, if they left behind a substantial enough catalog, it might be possible to produce at least a portion of the required phoneme database.

Acute budgetary pressures; the draining of public support for involvement in a war most believe long ago to have been lost; and a belief in some quarters that drones and the intelligence networks that have been built up over the past decade are all that is needed for American security: all have chipped away at the notion of leaving behind a substantial force.

He had been director of a drawing academy in Brussels, was later knighted by Pope Innocent X, possibly for having founded an art school to produce festive decorations, and left behind a substantial body of work that now at last bears his name.

As extravagant as some of these potential prediscoveries sound, the astronomers behind them have a substantial leg up on Poe.

Cooke's fight for her gold medal was a dramatic one: she was lying fourth just under three miles into the race, 13 seconds behind the leader, a substantial deficit over such a distance.

Campaigning from behind bars, he drew a substantial 43% of the votes.

Just as it did under Fiorello LaGuardia, who left behind expansive public parks, a substantial stock of low-cost housing, and a unified subway system, and other great mayors of the past, New York can take the lead in pushing progressive causes, acting as an innovative laboratory for economic policy and urban planning, de Blasio argues.

It is well-known in elite cycling that a cyclist riding behind a car experiences a substantial reduction in aerodynamic resistance or drag.