Sentence examples for held to stem from inspiring English sources

The word cocker is commonly held to stem from their use to hunt woodcock in England, while spaniel is thought to be derived from the type's origins in Spain.

It added, "The bathroom makeup mirror was held to the stem by duct tape".

Holmes would later write that Melvill had reminded him of "a withered leaf which has held to its stem through the storms of autumn and winter, and finds itself still clinging to its bough while the new growths of spring are bursting their buds and spreading their foliage all around it". Literary critic Edgar Allan Poe called the poem one of the finest works in the English language.

A five-match winless run all but killed off any hopes of an unlikely Alavés title success, while Real Madrid were held to three successive draws to stem their revival under Del Bosque.

They believe that the craft is a Nazi propaganda weapon and the alien bodies fakes designed to create exactly the impressions that Quatermass has succumbed to, and decide to hold a media event to stem the rumours that are already spreading.

Engineering of functional biomimetic scaffolds that present programmed spatio-temporal physical and chemical signals to stem cells holds great promise in stem cell therapy.

It will take a critical mass of individuals having an "aha" moment about what we need to do here, and then holding hands and doing it, to stem the destruction.

The complete blueprint of the bacteria's DNA is detailed in the February issue of the Journal of Bacteriology and may hold new clues to stemming its spread.

France's determination to hold Algeria stemmed from a number of factors: the presence of almost a million European settlers, the legal fiction that Algeria was an integral part of France, and the recent discovery of oil in the southern desert.

The American decision to press Israel to hold its fire stems partly from war game exercises in both countries that have raised complex questions about how effective a strike would be, how Iran would react and when it would be clear that a nuclear line had been crossed in Iran.

In front of the studio, Ms. Owen and Ms. Ryhanen held up stems one by one and offered insights into their arrangement potential.