Sentence examples for patterned upon from inspiring English sources

This education in a foreign language was paralleled by a course of studies exactly patterned upon those of the Greek schools but transposed into the Latin language.

Irish poet-playwright W.B. Yeats (1865 1939) revived the convention in his Dreaming of the Bones and in other plays patterned upon the Japanese Noh drama.

In the United States, although the federal tax on succession depends solely on the size of the estate, the additional inheritance taxes levied by the states are widely patterned upon the closeness of relationship.

Kingship was patterned upon divine kingship; worship itself had its heavenly archetype; and the representations of the gods and goddesses were modelled upon the divine beings themselves or upon replicas of them in the heavenly place of worship.

The Center and the Council could also develop a Visiting Fellows program patterned upon the successful models of the University Center for Human Values and the History Department's Davis Center.

Since agonistic alliances among kin are patterned upon degree of relatedness [23], this low average degree of relatedness may lead to fewer alliances among kin, which may in turn destabilize matrilineal dominance relations.

Morphologies evolved over long time patterned differently depending upon selection mode.

Pharnavaz is also said to have patterned his administration upon an "Iranian" model.

The presence of fibroblasts induces specific carcinoma cell migration patterning dependent upon TGF-β competency.

"It's just layering of pattern upon pattern.

I've layered pattern upon pattern, but beyond that I'm trying to create subliminal connections between ostensibly different sensibilities".