Sentence examples for tale applies from inspiring English sources

However, we do need to grasp how the tale applies to our present encounter with radical Islamic terrorism.

Like one of Tolstoy's unhappy families, UBS is unhappy in its own way; but the lessons from its sorry tale apply to all.The report gives three broad explanations for the bank's woes.

The tales apply to much of the world, not just China, but still you're surprised it got made.

To explain the network of exchanges and obligations found in the Canterbury Tales, Epstein applies recent advances in gift theory and introduces economic anthropology to medieval literary criticism.

But the former Bayern Munich coach has defended his reputation to German news agency DPA – and attempted to explain the bizarre cheese method: "I merely suggested it could be worth trying the old wives' tale of applying Quark [a German cheese] to the injured area.

If such tell-tale signs apply to anything from your overhead projector to your whole IT network the next question is what should you replace it with?

The 19th century saw a proliferation of satires in which Humean scruples about accepting testimony for extraordinary tales were applied to the events of secular history, with consequences that are equally disastrous and humorous.

She also coolly leaves it to us to understand how the title applies to different characters as the tale wears on.

This cautionary tale could be applied to the rigorously literal-minded of any faith and sets off unsettling echoes in this age of raging religious divisiveness.

Writing mid-century, he set his masterpiece in Regency England during the Napoleonic wars, intending the lessons of his tale to be applied equally to his own times.

Godard's 1993 film "Oh, Woe Is Me," a film on the subject of the transmission of divine ideals and myths, opens with a passage from Martin Buber's "Tales of the Hasidim" that applies to the vanishing of film prints as well: "We no longer know how to light the fire, we no longer know the prayers, we don't even know the place in the forest.