Sentence examples for inheritance from him from inspiring English sources
Like anyone, he had his prejudices – and these, indisputably, have been part of the west's inheritance from him.
His widow, Barbara, authorized the settlement on behalf of his estate, saying that she intended to use the bulk of her inheritance from him to continue the couple's philanthropic work.
In their odd-couple odyssey -- slick car salesman and the institutionalized brother he kidnaps, hoping to wrest his inheritance from him -- it is Mr. Cruise's Charlie Babbitt who seems more likely to go over the edge.
Both were faithful Methodists, and Henry sometimes helped with the preaching on Sundays; Jack Johnson's glib tongue and enthusiasm for public speaking may have been an inheritance from him.
Aristotle's words in the Physics (184a10 22) were difficult to interpret, and all sides claimed an inheritance from him.
A modest inheritance from his father let him buy his first camera — a Pentax with a 50-millimeter lens — when he was a senior at James Monroe High School.
In 1957, an inheritance from his wife enabled him to finance his debut feature, and to provide impetus to the French new wave by producing the first features by Rohmer, Rivette and Philippe de Broca, as well as being technical adviser on Godard's À Bout de Souffle (Breathless, 1960).
But the possibility of an inheritance from an American grandmother prompted him to make himself right in U.S. eyes.
He said he had given for about 20 years, but increased the amount of his donations recently with money that came to him as inheritance from his parents, who both died within the last five years.
Then St. Aubyn had moved to his preferred corner, and recalled some of his life's most fraught experiences with steady irony, and in an unhurried accent of English privilege that — like the paintings that hang in his drawing room, and the tone of amused contempt that sometimes marks his prose — is part of his inheritance from a father who tortured him.
Their director of photography, Alex Bergman, used an inheritance from his grandmother, meant to enable him to go to film school, to buy top-of-the-line equipment instead.
