Sentence examples for chief source of knowledge from inspiring English sources

After the American Declaration of Independence (1776), the Commentaries became the chief source of knowledge of English law in the New World.

The Cancioneiro Geral (1516; "General Songbook"), a vast anthology edited by Resende that also contained compositions of his own, is the chief source of knowledge of late medieval Portuguese verse.

Architectural works and stone inscriptions and reliefs are the chief sources of knowledge about the early Maya.

Originally scorned by the western networks, al-Jazeera is now their chief source of our knowledge in regions, such as parts of central Iraq, where it is impossible for a western reporter to work in safety.

In Descartes's rationalism (the view that reason is the chief source of human knowledge), God is displaced from the centre of philosophical thought and becomes the guarantor of the reliability of sense experience.

Locke's more modest empiricism (the view that the chief source of human knowledge is experience) led to the development of a more "reasonable" approach to religion in which reason was held to constrain any appeal to divine revelation.

Tourism is the chief source of income.

The chief source of anxiety has been house prices.

It is the chief source of the element arsenic.

The chief source of unease had a name: Donald Trump.

His patents expired, drying up his chief source of income.