Sentence examples for term stems from from inspiring English sources

The term stems from the Italian habit of conducting banking on wooden benches in marketplaces banca rupta means broken bench.

Another reason to insist on waiting for the end of Mr. Clinton's term stems from the pardon power that the Constitution vests in the president.

The term stems from the fiction that such persons or things are deemed not to be within the territory of the sovereign where they are actually present.

At the time, such "blue laws" — historians say that the term stems from the color of paper Puritans used to print their Sunday trading laws, or else from a slang term for Puritanism in that era — were common across the United States.

They believe that the full-throated declaration of intent to serve a full third term stems from a need to "obscure" presentational problems over his latest health scare and the purchase of a multimillion pound London home which was about to be disclosed by the media.

Some think Hoosier is a remnant of pioneering days, when curious folks would holler "who's here?" There are also references to "Hoosier's men", labourers from Indiana employed by Samuel Hoosier to work on the Louisville and Portland Canal in Kentucky.Others maintain the term stems from Indiana's fighting past.

Apparently the sensitivity to the possible use of the term stemmed from a notion that dumb-ass is a mild vulgarism referring to the posterior.

The term stemmed from a guilty plea for perjury after she admitted lying to federal investigators about her performance-enhancing drug use and her role in a check fraud scheme.

Yuri Baluyevsky, Russia's chief negotiator in the strategic arms-reduction talks, commented that "perhaps these words about friendship and even an alliance in the longer term stemmed from emotion.

Peter Nicolas of the University of Washington Law School says the term stemmed from the notion of "adulterating" or polluting the bloodline of a family when a married woman had sex with someone other than her husband and ran the risk of having another man's child.

So it is no surprise that voters are miffed when they then find themselves being fed a diet of economic dislocation, greater inequality and cuts in public services, accompanied with claims that it is for their own good.In Mr Dzurinda's case, his first term stemmed from public revulsion against the scandals and menacing behaviour of the Meciar regime.