Sentence examples for derive from the practice from inspiring English sources

"Cousin Jacks" is a nickname for the overseas Cornish, thought to derive from the practice of Cornishmen asking if job vacancies could be filled by their cousin named Jack in Cornwall.

Vreugdenhil and others (2008) distinguish four biophysical scale perspectives that derive from the geological, ecological, hydrological and bio-geomorphological disciplines and four scale perspectives that derive from the practice of managing a river.

The Honey and Heather ($15) evokes an age when honey was given to newlyweds to increase fertility (the word "honeymoon" derives from the practice).

"It was the best one I'd seen in a while at the upfront," Mr. Campanelli said, using the term derived from the practice of the networks' presenting their schedules — and selling commercials — before the season starts.

In fact, it is said that the term "labor strike" derives from the practice of striking (lowering) a ship's sails as a symbol of refusal to go to sea.

The 64 images and interpretations that it contains were said to be derived from the practice of casting a turtle shell into a fire and drawing inferences from the cracks that appeared.

My colleagues at Press Ganey recently completed an extensive series of analyses of data from client provider organizations on overall employee engagement, physician engagement, and a proxy for nurse engagement, the nursing composite measure derived from the Practice Environment Scale Nursing Work Index.

He used a technique derived from the practice of miniature painting, which was developed in the state of Rajasthan in the tenth century.

Murakami coined the term himself, but it actually derives from the practice of Edo period painter, Jakuchu Ito, who made completely flat compositions of large groups of animals.

The name of the Nez Perce tribe was derived from the practice, though nose piercing was not common within the tribe.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), a typical ethnomedicine derived from the practice of ancient Chinese herbal medicine through several thousand years of empirical testing and refinement, has been successfully used in taming various kinds of diseases [ 1].