Sentence examples for origin of what from inspiring English sources

Is that the origin of what some call me (along with curmudgeonly, cantankerous and other endearments)?

For decades, adage-trackers have sought the origin of what John F. Kennedy described only as an old saying: "Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan".

The project, which was attributed to Juan Bautista Egidiano, a Flemish Jesuit active in Cuzco from 1642 to 1676, created a typology that was the origin of what was later designated the Cuzco style.

It's here – in the bourgeois concern about that rule and its need for worker quiescence – that we find the origin of what came to be known as the Green Revolution.

Since, in the one case, it is virtue alone that challenges itself the honour; while, in the other, it may be rather men's personal profit and advantage that is the real origin of what they do.

Mr. Maionica is expected to be sentenced Aug. 4. Legal experts familiar with the case say Mr. Maionica could prove valuable in helping prosecutors understand the origin of what they have said was hush money and in identifying the intelligence or government officials in Venezuela who directed negotiations with Mr. Antonini.

Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us.

The true origins of what we now call "Keynesianism" barely matter.

Today, the farm-to-table movement has made many of us consider the origins of what we eat at restaurants.

The origins of what is now the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) began in 1798, when Congress established a fund to provide treatment for sick and injured merchant seamen.

Duras's nightmarish childhood raises the question of origins, of what causes alcohol addiction and whether it is different for men and women.