Sentence examples for hailing back from inspiring English sources

However curious the book's premise, it works a pretty well-plowed surrealist furrow, hailing back to Kafka and Gogol by way of "My Mother the Car" and "Christine".

A civil servant hailing back to the Lindsay administration (he started as a budget analyst in 1973), Mr. Spiegel is a proud, if mildly surprised, survivor of the Giuliani administration.

With culinary roots hailing back to a pizza joint in Waco, Texas, Ravi Kapur keeps the pretention in check as head chef of San Francisco darling, Prospect.

Next, he created "Care Giver," which hails back to the era of midwives and celebrates nursing.

One particular theory which refuses to vanish hails back to the autism-vaccination scares of the early 2000s.

While he was hailed back home as a hero, Sibley never again commanded from the battlefield, even as his force went deeper into New Mexico.

His fascination with lavish costume and theatrics hails back to Peruvian folk culture, like the colourful, patterned ponchos men wear in the countryside, as he photographed one man in the mountains of Cusco.

Davis's dream hails back to a more romantic time, when instead of saving auto companies, men founded them — and marketers could count on people knowing that a divan was a romantic piece of furniture.

She said that the accusation that the group was a criminal gang hailed back to an incident in 2001, when Salah and Tarek were stopped at a police checkpoint after finding a wallet belonging to someone from the interior ministry, and subsequently imprisoned for two and three years respectively.

According to Jean P. Alexander, a spokeswoman for the West Indian American Day Carnival Association, the mas tradition for Caribbeans of African descent hails back to most of the region's post-emancipation years in the 1830's, when freed slaves took to the streets in costume to lampoon their French and Spanish former masters, who had barred them from taking part in masquerade parties.

The premise that women who come in contact with interesting men at work are likely to sleep with them hails back to the old adage suggesting that women are best kept "barefoot and pregnant".