Sentence examples for by an unlikely source from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, the Yankees were being shut down by an unlikely source.

The printed, bound book has been given a stay of execution by an unlikely source: the design community.

No horse in modern times has won 17 straight races, but now the record appears ready to fall, taken down by an unlikely source.

In late September 1967, Carayol's ideas were validated by an unlikely source, William Cook, who had overseen the British thermonuclear program in the mid-1950s.

Her view was challenged by an unlikely source: Renee Richards, the transgender tennis player who won the right to play in women's events in the 1970s.

But into this atmosphere of hostility bounces the VW Tiguan, in which some phat beats are being laid down by an unlikely source: a greying father with his tiny daughter.

Despite it's widely parodied opening line – "Do you ever feel like a plastic bag" – the chorus from the smash-hit Firework by Katy Perry has an unlikely source of inspiration: Jack Kerouac's Beat generation classic, On the Road.

Circuit City is getting flanked by what was once an unlikely source.

U.S. STAYS UNBEATEN: The United States remained unbeaten at the world hockey championships in Russia by edging Belarus by 1-0 yesterday on a goal from an unlikely source.

This British duo scored a big house-music hit with "Love Story," which swiped a bass line from an unlikely source: "Mongoloid," by the new-wave group Devo.

And the rebels have been aided, they said, by what once would have seemed an unlikely source: the Pentagon's distribution of weapons for Iraq's security forces.