Sentence examples for by a portion of from inspiring English sources

Hence hostility to private accounts funded by a portion of each individual's Social Security taxes.

The resulting pathname is to-wildcard with each wildcard or missing field replaced by a portion of source.

Birch went on to graduate at the top of his class but found himself "shunned" by a portion of its members.

"The marked leftist bent by a portion of the student body may have helped further define his already formed conservative perspective".

I just can't see them being jerked around by a portion of their caucus the way Boehner seems to be being jerked around by the Tea Party.

When the Transportation Trust Fund was created in 1984, it was intended to be paid entirely by a portion of the gasoline tax.

Inno Island is connected to mainland Onomichi by a portion of the multiple-span Kurushima Strait Bridge (opened 1999), which connects Imabari on Shikoku with Onomichi.

Funding for the Summer Camp Scholarship Program is provided in part by a portion of the proceeds from the annual Cal Bears Auction.

Museum officials had been puzzled by a portion of the inscription of the sarcophagus, a coffin probably used by the Egyptians to act as a substitute body and repository for the soul in case the real body was damaged.

A rail trust fund -- possibly financed by a portion of the federal fuel tax or other "user fees" already allocated to transportation -- could help take politics out of the management of Amtrak.

I am still startled, I admit, at the sight of local, often elderly women and men selecting for their second breakfast two or three pieces of layer cake accompanied by a portion of whipped cream.