Sentence examples for distinctive roots from inspiring English sources

The Booker prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan has rejected any notion that he is a British writer, insisting instead that English and Scottish writers are culturally different and have distinctive roots and ways of writing.

The threat of "opportunity overload" is that the chemical engineers will lose focus, and lose contact with their distinctive roots, as they try to deal with an evergrowing range of challenges.

Like most graff scenes in Asia, the Thai scene is still fairly young, but it has very distinctive roots.

In her 2003 paper tracing the distinctive roots of Western and African households, Margo Russell challenges the assumption that African South Africans are engaged in a transition to a Western pattern of non-marital cohabiting unions and writes: "A moment's thought would confirm the profoundly different weight placed on conjugal co-residence by black and white people.

This opens a door for programmes that improve the decision-making and incentives of the poor.J-PAL's conclusions are distinctive; rooted in evidence; coherent and cautious (they don't make inferences that go beyond the scope of their research).

These divergent processes are responsible for the distinctive root-hair patterning observed in the root epidermis [59].

The two musicians in this duo are well matched, Keita has a history of innovating and experimenting with his instrument -- he plays a western-machined double necked kora -- but has been careful to always maintain some distinctive root of his beloved West African music.

The accessions Cape Verde Islands (Cvi) and Landsberg erecta (L er) were chosen for the QTL mapping study because of their distinctive root morphologies on the wave assay, and because a genotyped RIL population was available for them at the time we initiated these experiments.

When the sap is down (the tree is dormant for winter), the bark and roots have a distinctive root beer odor when scraped.

Blending styles from two continents (three if you count hip-hop), Afrobeats is a modern, globalised music genre with distinctive African roots.

Vying for attention were arenga palms, strangler figs and elegant Tahitian chestnuts, which have distinctive buttress roots like great struts rising from the forest floor.