Sentence examples for original to him from inspiring English sources

This revision of the standard, Ptolemaic cosmos was, of course, not original to him.

Braham, who is representing himself, cannot claim copyright protection for the phrases "haters gone hate" and "playas gone play" because the Copyright Act does not protect short phrases and these phrases are not original to him.

The thought was not particularly original or even original to him but, like pretty much everything else Jobs did, it had wide applications to a culture he helped define.

The embroidery was hand stitched in a technique original to him that shaped the fabric as it was sewn, and the silhouette of the bodice was sculpted as a result.

I bow to no one in my devotion to Truffaut's "Jules and Jim," but its story was not original to him, as Colm Toibin seems to indicate in his review of David Grossman's "To the End of the Land" ("Losing Battles," Sept. 26).

This undoubtedly is one of the reasons that Paley's name is most commonly linked with the design argument even though it was by no means original to him.1.1

Claude Picasso coaxed him to bring the originals to him, examined them, formed the opinon that they were genuine, and let Le Guennec take them home again.

A semi-pro baseball pitcher in the 50s before becoming a journalist, Wolfe could easily be paired with recent legends in his own field, but it would be more original to put him together with a star exponent of another kind of ball-hurling such as England's moody nemesis, the Australian fast bowler Mitchell Johnson.

His father read the original stories to him in Yiddish when he was small and he never forgot them.

I know well how much this project meant to my father, because he and my mother worked on the book at home in the evenings and on weekends for about two years and, as a 10-year-old, I was sometimes called on to read the original stories to him while he checked my mother's typing.

Referring to Mr. Bush, he said: "The fact of the matter is that we spent a lot of time -- and again, remember my original advice to him was, you know, we're going to find you a great candidate, but I'd rather not be a candidate myself.