Sentence examples for immediate origin from inspiring English sources

Another Roman trumpet was the lituus, a J-shaped instrument whose immediate origin was also Etruscan.

Though clearly descended from an avian virus, the 1918 strain is genetically unlike any other influenza virus examined over the past 88 years, which indicates that its immediate origin before the pandemic is an unknown source.

The immediate origins of the rocket are uncertain.

And the immediate origins of the blues, Mr. Wald writes, are most likely in black vaudeville, not in field hollers.

The two styles display variants of a common tradition of religious art the immediate origins of which are obscure.

Its immediate origins lie in a powerful image of a CCTV image I'd once seen; a young woman stealing a baby from a maternity ward.

The attack may have had its most immediate origins in the Persian Gulf war; it may have been fueled by fervid and highly distorted accounts of the blockade of Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Normally, Polybius lays great emphasis on causality, and his distinction (III, 6) between the causes of an event (aitiai) and its immediate origins (archai) is useful up to a point, though it is more mechanical than that of the great Greek historian Thucydides and allows nothing for the dialectical character of real historical situations.

Despite being commanded by God like other natural law obligations its immediate origins lie in each instance in a consensual pact between basically equal partners.

But it found its immediate origins in the elections of February, 1936.

The more immediate origins of the Elizabethan Poor Law system were deteriorating economic circumstances in sixteenth-century England.