Sentence examples for remote origins from inspiring English sources

One finds at Harvard, then, two parallel streams along which the serious student can explore East Asian civilizations to its most remote origins.

Although remote origins of the doctrine can probably be found in the Cynics (second half of the 4th century bc), it was Zeno of Citium (4th 3rd century bc) who explicitly taught that the pathē were to be extirpated entirely.

Growing populations, increase in food demand, society's expectations for out of season products and the dependency of the food system on fossil fuels stress resources due to the requirements for national production and from importation of products from remote origins.

He finds, eventually, not only the immediate trigger for her current madness but also its more remote origins in the emotional disturbances of her childhood and adolescence and, more distant still, in the macho brutalities of her father and the mental debility of a dreamy, delusional grandfather.

The experimental investigation has allowed a better understanding of the remote origin and of the failure mechanisms of this damaged structure.

The remote origin of the chisel may lie with the stone hand ax, the almond-shaped tool that was sharp at one end.

As a prehistoric stone circle, it is unique because of its artificially shaped sarsen stones (blocks of Cenozoic silcrete), arranged in post-and-lintel formation, and because of the remote origin of its smaller bluestones (igneous and other rocks) from 100 150 miles (160 240 km) away, in South Wales.

The relevant features of villages in this geographic area are similar environmental conditions, high endogamy, low immigration and remote origin [28], [32].

However, it also reflected changing definitions of "rural and remote origin" over the period as well as better ascertainment of those with a rural background.

As a consequence of their remote origin, West African cattle populations have been subjected in recent times to new environmental pressures imposing strong adaptive constraints [ 5].

In addition, we included novel Mediterranean and Northern European breeds which, together with previously unpublished data from feral and wild sheep, contribute to provide new insights into the remote origin of the most famous fine-wool sheep breed in the world.