Sentence examples for earlier sources from inspiring English sources

In his "Dictionary," Pierre Bayle writes of complaints about Descartes's "pirating" of ideas from earlier sources.

Earlier, sources claimed he had suffered a "serious depressive episode" six years ago and was receiving on-going medical treatment.

Not himself an able historian, he nevertheless preserved much information of value by his transmission of earlier sources.

The new details, published in the New York Times, contradict earlier sources who said Molchanova had been diving in the area recreationally.

One of the earlier sources of conflict concerned agricultural subsidies, which made up a large portion of the European Community's budget.

Popular in their day in the Middle East, they were much used by 18th- and 19th-century European Orientalists before earlier sources became available.

If true, it could indicate an earlier source of exposure than the first known mailing of anthrax.

It precedes the first batch of anthrax letters that was sent out on or around Sept. 18 and would indicate a new and earlier source of exposure.

However, he remained insistent on a point that had been an earlier source of contention with his London tailors.

But a JSTOR search reveals the saying in an 1896 statistics journal--in which an even earlier source is quoted.

And within the Bible, a later source occasionally comments directly or indirectly on an earlier source, a technique scholars call intertextuality.