Sentence examples for origin back to from inspiring English sources

It is an MIT tradition of meritocracy that traces its origin back to Rogers and to Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the University of Virginia.

But MaxMara, in its mission statement, pointed to a different origin: back to the Bauhaus and its founding principle of form following function.

Another five phyla (Nemertea, Phoronida, Platyhelminthes, Pogonophora, and Sipuncula) may also trace their origin back to the Cambrian fossils, though questions still remain about them.

Muslims, who trace their origin back to Arab traders of the 8th century, account for about 7.5 percent of the population.

The private equity firms CVC Capital Partners and the Texas Pacific Group are joining together to bid for Debenhams, the British department store chain that traces its origin back to 1778, executives close to negotiations said today.

The Samaritan sect, which traces its origin back to the northern Israelite form of the Mosaic religion, still exists in small numbers at Nāblus and accepts only the Pentateuch as Scripture (see Samaritan).

Boots, on the other hand, traces its origins back to the Methodist Nottingham of the 1840s.

Its Berlin counterpart traces its origins back to just 22 years later.

They would, like us, trace their origins back to the big bang 13.7bn years ago.

Takfiris are members of a radical sect that traces its origins back to Egypt in the 1960's.

Commercial country music evolved out of 19th- and early-20th-century mountain music, which traces its origins back to Scotland and Ireland.