Sentence examples for taking as a point from inspiring English sources

Taking as a point of departure several celebrated ecclesiastical histories, including those of the 6th-century Byzantine Evagrius Scholasticus and the 4th-century Eusebius of Caesarea, integrated with accounts of an anonymous 10th-century text, Nicephorus produced a chronicle, the value of which must be determined by the quality of the individual sources used.

The description concentrates very much on FAO as an actor almost in splendid isolation, instead of taking as a point of departure FAO as one actor in a system-wide effort.

First of all, in the description of its role and its operational responsibilities, it is very much taking as a point of departure its mandate, which is important, of course, but with the competitive climate prevailing now, it is not enough to be able to show only the mandate.

They take as a point of reference a world that has vanished, or is about to.

In conclusion, security is taken as a point to discuss briefly.

The clause "non-evident matters investigated in the sciences" in PH 1.13 might be taken as a point of reference for the urbane interpretation.

A single arbitrary sample is taken as a point of interest (POI) by evaluation of the highest peak in the sum of absolute differences between the traces and mean.

Then, protein spectra recorded in bicelles were taken as a point of reference to identify detergent systems that support function.

The origin location was taken as a point on the support rope close to where it is tied to the tower.

For the purpose of normalization, a figure of 100%, corresponding to the maximum peak during the Dubowitz maneuver, was taken as a point of reference and used to normalize every signal.

To distinguish differences based on identity from differences based on competency with the course material, we included total exam points (a continuous variable) in the course in which the survey was taken as a point estimate of a student's demonstrated competency as a control in all the analyses presented in this paper.