Sentence examples for of eastern origin from inspiring English sources

His cult, probably of Eastern origin, was known in Rome from the 8th century.

Elements of Eastern origin might be structural or decorative, and they might be derived from Iberian, African, or Asiatic examples.

The economy continued to be based on agriculture, though supplemented with cultivated grapes and olives of eastern origin.

In the Old World, the turban is of Eastern origin and is often worn by Muslim men, though after the early 19th century it was no longer obligatory for Muslims.

King Alexander I of Scotland (c. 1078 112424) imported two horses of Eastern origin into Britain, in the first documented import of oriental horses.

For example, cultivars from Western Europe (Pinot Noir, Gewurztraminer, Riesling, Ehrenfelser and French Colombard) are concentrated at the top of PC2 while cultivars of eastern origin are found at the bottom of PC2 (Plavac Mali from Croatia; Kadarka from Hungary; Muscat of Alexandria from Egypt; Malvasia from Greece and Thompson Seedless from Iran).

You must focus on rebuilding the run-down neighborhoods mostly occupied by Israeli Arabs and Jews of Middle Eastern origin, instead of channeling each year surpluses of nearly a quarter of a billion dollars to the settlements.

There was no significant difference in %MiNP among the ethnic groups, but only 10 participants of African origin and 22 of Middle Eastern origin had detectable levels of MiNP.

Police detectives were looking at the possibility of bias as a motive in the recent killings of three Brooklyn shopkeepers of Middle Eastern origin, and were working with federal agents to create a profile of a suspect, the police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, said Monday.

Most of the haplogroup H sub-lineages are most likely of Middle Eastern origin (as it is the case of the majority of the typical West European clades).

Critics have faulted the scarcity of women, Mizrachim (Jews of Middle Eastern origin) and Palestinians in Shavit's narrative.