"deriving" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb that is used when something is taken or derived from a source. For example: "We derived the solution to the problem by looking at similar cases in the past."
But both kept being asked about the BNP membership policy, which only allows "indigenous British ethnic groups deriving from the class of 'Indigenous Caucasian'".
The globalisation of Fleet Street's audience started out as a happy accident of the digital medium, but with print sales still declining and British titles deriving as much as 55% of their daily visitors from abroad (and perhaps a third from the US), the temptation to expand internationally in pursuit of growth is compelling.
Although the robin is often referred to as Britain's national bird, that title is a purely unofficial one, deriving from a survey in the Times in the 1960s.
They are usually based on the idea (deriving in part from the IPCC) that global temperatures must not be allowed to increase by more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and that in order to ensure this CO2 concentrations should not rise above 450 ppm.
It already provides the United States with more than a quarter of its power, and its importance may have been enhanced by the Bush administration's enthusiasm for deriving energy from domestic resources.
This opened the door for a Spanish bank, Banco Santander Central Hispano, to buy control of the Champalimaud group, a Portuguese financial-holding company.Insiders say that Mr Monti has at least one more item on his agenda deriving from his single-market days.
But EADS and BAE Systems, the parent firms which own Airbus, have a military turnover close to Boeing's, so they are probably deriving a similar, and similarly disguised, financial subsidy from military work.
To combat climate change, the European Union has set itself the goal of deriving 20% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, with a large portion coming from wind power.
However, the government's popularity did not seem to suffer unduly, as the feel-good factor deriving from Slovakia's position as one the EU's fastest-growing economies easily swamped any moral outrage the electorate may have felt.
Europe is putting more emphasis on renewables; America, by contrast, is keen on the possibility of deriving hydrogen from fossil fuels.At the moment, using renewables is an expensive way of generating hydrogen (see table).
The muddle is understandable, deriving as it does from two competing imperatives.
