Sentence examples for modeled upon from inspiring English sources

Growing up in Nigeria, Mr. Achebe attended schools that were modeled upon British public schools.

For many years the highest particle energies were those imparted by cyclotrons modeled upon Lawrence's archetype.

In La Regenta Alas mercilessly depicted the provincial society of Vetusta, an imaginary town modeled upon Oviedo, Spain.

A heroic epic, modeled upon older epics, celebrates the deeds of Nebuchadrezzar I, but unfortunately little of it is extant.

As the historian Sarah Igo has pointed out, "Instead of functioning as a tool for democracy, opinion polls were deliberately modeled upon, and compounded, democracy's flaws".

For example, the Royal College of Chemistry founded in London in 1845, the Lawrence Scientific School established at Harvard University in 1847, and Hermann Kolbe's large laboratory at Leipzig in Saxony in 1868 were all modeled upon Liebig's program.

Citizens of Belize have created a pattern of society modelled upon that of their colonial overlords.

They also have an unfortunate tendency to be modelled upon some of the less attractive features of the real thing.

(Cate Blanchett plays a character loosely modelled upon Valland in the 2014 movie "The Monuments Men," based on the book of the same name by Robert Edsel).

The answer is a raft of solutions largely modelled upon a marketised view of the NHS in which "consumers" are "empowered" and a failure regime is in place to deal with "imperfections".

The lower park is modelled upon a style called the Italian Renaissance garden.