Sentence examples for stretches right back from inspiring English sources

But its legacy stretches right back.

They will play Glasgow, who qualified after winning nine games in a row, a run that stretches right back to a 28-25 loss to Leinster at the RDS in March.

Although this simplistic division of the workforce was first used in the 1940s, the notion of manufacturing workers as the ones getting their hands dirty stretches right back to the industrial revolution.

"Stretching right back to the Second World War, there has been a tendency for people in authority to underestimate the people's essential resilience.

Yet the whole thread, stretching right back to Platini's doe-eyed entry into Blatter's world, spins a tale illustrating Blatter's mastery of politics.

Here is one of the threads of the Rabbit series, stretching right back to Rabbit Run: Rabbit is singularly average, and there is comedy and grimness in this.

But then he has won each of his last seven matches, a run stretching right back to the Friday fourballs at Celtic Manor in 2010, and one unsurpassed by any European player in history.

The longer you look at his life and read his work, the more clearly do you see what looks like a pronounced and compulsive cycle of creation and destruction, stretching right back to his schooldays.

Listening to dancehall on the radio, you might easily forget that this is music with a proud political tradition, stretching right back to the times when calypso would mull over contemporary events with the energy of today's rolling news.

As its waves steadily accumulate, subside and build again, Become Ocean seems to be part of a tradition stretching right back to the prelude to Wagner's Das Rheingold, via Debussy and Sibelius.

4. Blackberries by Katherine McMahon (in Treasure in the History of Things) McMahon is one of my favourite young poets, and this chronicle of a day spent with a lover manages to be equal parts sweet and sensual; to be personal and immediate, but stretch right back through the history of queer relationships, to all the hidden and unacknowledged loves that came before us. 5.