Sentence examples for on a wellspring from inspiring English sources

In Latin America, she said, they have touched on a wellspring of resentment over the legacy of colonialism and American power, as well as the region's own history of secretive dictatorships.

Mr. James sought to consolidate a homegrown constituency and drew on a wellspring of friends and favors built up over 30 years.

… He is capable of bringing great comedy out of a wellspring of deep emotion like [Charlie] Chaplin".

These studies are invariably leading to a wellspring of medicinal uses for marijuana.

At first, he too is treated with inventive humor, as in this riff on Hitler as a wellspring of happiness: "From his cradle to his missing grave, the joy he had spread around him had grown and grown.

And they expanded a decades-long war on unions, traditionally a wellspring of Democratic support and cash.

The death of the 84-year-old spiritual leader of the Catholic church was announced on April 2nd, unleashing a wellspring of emotions from pilgrims gathered in St Peter's Square.

President Bush's "global war on terror" implicitly tapped into a wellspring of such conservative conviction.

The result left the Senate due to reconvene on May 31, just hours before a wellspring of broad NSA and FBI domestic spying powers will expire at midnight.

Edward Yates, on the housekeeping staff, was a wellspring of anti-infection ideas; his unit chose him to brief the staff (including high-ranking doctors) on the unit's progress.

A daring and mutable artist, he also draws on the urban waterfront as a wellspring of inspiration.