Sentence examples for swiss origin from inspiring English sources

His ancestors, of Swiss origin, were watchmakers to the czars.

After reading that Gore Vidal is of Swiss origin and that his ancestors spoke Vital's mother tongue of Romansch (one of Switzerland's national languages), Vital tracked him down; now, "I call him Cousin Gore".

"Sister," which Switzerland has chosen as its entry for the foreign-language Oscar, is the second film Ms. Godard has made with Ms. Meier ("Home," 2008), who lives in Brussels and is of French and Swiss origin.

We were joined by Barbara Schachenmann, a Tanzanian of Swiss origin who coordinates community relations for the Grumeti Fund, a foundation still partly underwritten by Jones but designed to direct some of the profits from the reserves into the villages that border it.

Hans Finsler, of Swiss origin and working in Germany, Piet Zwart in the Netherlands, and Emmanuel Sougez and Florence Henri in France were among the many producing highly defined close-ups of objects and people in a style similar to that of the Neue Sachlichkeit.

The bar is home to 24 green and white absinthes of French or Swiss origin (where the drink was created in the late 18th Century), ranging from mild to strong (45 to 74% alcohol) – perfect for both the absinthe enthusiast and the absinthe curious.

I am actually of Swiss origins – Joly is a Swiss name, my ancestors hail from a small village above Lausanne.

At the opening of this exhibition, Mr. Knapp leafed through the advertising pages of images he had overseen and said that the rigorous minimalism of his Swiss origins had enabled him to streamline the style of Galeries Lafayette.

Among subjects with a non-Swiss origin, 5 (10.9%) were asylum-seekers, 3 (6.5%) had a non-permanent residence permit (type B permit, valid for five years), 24 (52.2%) had a permanent residence permit (type C, with unrestricted access to labor market) and 13 (28.3%) had become Swiss citizens.

During the years of the First World War, the Monod family, which was of Swiss Huguenot origin, fled to Switzerland to live with their cousins.

Ironically, Ausonius wasn't really Swedish himself but of Swiss and German origin, which reportedly meant that he grew up feeling alienated and as a kid he was often bullied because of this.