The phrase "hails back to" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that something originates from or is reminiscent of an earlier time or source.
Example: "The tradition of storytelling hails back to ancient civilizations, where oral narratives were passed down through generations."
Alternatives: "dates back to" or "traces its origins to".
Next, he created "Care Giver," which hails back to the era of midwives and celebrates nursing.
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.
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".
Ecofeminist care-focused ethics hails back to the work of Carol Gilligan (1982); it often revolves around "the justice versus care debate" (see the section on care-focused approaches in the entry on feminist ethics).
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".
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.
DNA samples from 8,000 to 4,000 years ago show the dog's ability to digest starch is ancient - hailing back to a time when hunter-gatherer societies adopted agriculture.
The vibe will hail back to 1958 as will the prices -- sandwiches are 99 cents, while knishes are 75 cents and cookies and pickles count in at 50 cents a piece.
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.
