Sentence examples for did it derive from inspiring English sources

Did it derive from pot au feu, as the French former colonialists still claim?

From where does it derive its democratic legitimacy?

The question of whether you're smarter than these sixth-graders arises time and again as the students move through the levels, answering questions such as: "What is the meaning of the word calligraphy and from what language does it derive?" (Answer: Calligraphy derives from Greek and means beautiful writing).

Even though it's derived from what I did, it's much better.

If we assume that if you have an obligation to do something, then you don't have an obligation to avoid doing it, we can derive an outright contradiction.

This would seem to make it probable that Jesus "intended to give His life [as] a ransom for many in fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy"—prophecy that, if it did not derive from, was cherished and elaborated in, the literature of the Dead Sea sect.

His knowledge of the inverse square relation rested only on intuitive grounds; he did not derive it properly from the quantitative statement of centripetal force and Kepler's third law, which relates the periods of planets to the radii of their orbits.

and the Pythagoreans recognized only the sensible world and hence did not derive it from immaterial principles.

Not only does it include plenty of components derived from distinctly "non-scientific" disciplines, but these components are often vital parts of the "progress" science has made (using whatever criterion of progress you prefer).

But this shared culture was distinctively modern, and while it may be seen to be descending from the ancients, it certainly did not derive from them in any clear and simple sense.

After a lengthy evaluation, we concluded that we shouldn't do that, because it derived from a social problem.