Sentence examples for earliest source from inspiring English sources

Mr. Devine acknowledges his teacher at Pleasantville High School and Junior High School as the earliest source of his interest in the visual arts.

The waterwheel was perhaps the earliest source of mechanical energy to replace that of humans and animals, and it was first exploited for such tasks as raising water, fulling cloth, and grinding grain.

But in "The Orenda" Mr Boyden taps directly into the earliest source of the conflict.The book's most startling aspect is the way Mr Boyden's native figures explode the classic image of the "noble savage".

If the Indus valley civilization (3rd 2nd millennium bce) was the earliest source of these traditions, as some scholars hold, then Hinduism is the oldest living religion on Earth.

Some scholars hold that Persephone's time belowground represents the summer months, when Greek fields are parched and bare, but the Hymn to Demeter, the earliest source for the myth, states explicitly that Persephone returns when the spring flowers are flourishing (line 401).

The earliest source for Bach's Passacaglia is to be found alongside Buxtehude's music in the Andreas Bach Book, a collection of music copied by Bach's brother who, for some inexplicable reason, turned the book 180 degrees to write in the Passacaglia.

For Muslims, his masterpiece was Muhammad: His Life Based On The Earliest Sources (1983), for which he was decorated by Zia al-Haq, then president of Pakistan.

The earliest sources for the tradition are the Mahayana sutras, scriptures that were first compiled some four centuries after the Buddha's death.

But they also include visionary flights whose intricacy of language and imagery hark back to the earliest sources of the Armenian tradition.

The earliest sources are the letters of St Paul.

Anne Birrell deals systematically with problems of the earliest sources, attribution, textual variants, meter, and structure.