Sentence examples for derived little from inspiring English sources

His is not the only local family to have derived little benefit from the Singrauli coal and power boom.

Nobody could accuse him of having failed to do his job, but Kostya derived little contentment from this.

Boyd, sadly, seems to have derived little pleasure from his remarkable achievements.

Not surprisingly, in taste tests, people derived little pleasure from eating them.

The promoter Ion Tiriac put on a grand show in Madrid, packing the house the last two years, but the Women's Tennis Association derived little financial benefit because it received no rights fees.

And it becomes increasingly clear, as idealized views of Caribbean life recede in art, that the producers of these commodities not only derived little benefit from them but also incurred direct harm.

But he derives little satisfaction from it.

But others businesses will derive little benefit from the agreement.

Deriving little laughter from the lachrymose, "The Man Who Couldn't Stop Crying" registers mainly as repetitious.

But Gretchen Biggs derives little pleasure from the tidy yards surrounding her home in a dense neighborhood in central Greenwich.

Indeed, a recent survey of women who had undergone prophylactic mastectomy found that some seventy per cent would derive little survival benefit.