Sentence examples for text on which from inspiring English sources

Boethius's Porphyrian approach is evident even in the two commentaries on Porphyry's own Isagoge (an introduction to the Categories which had become accepted as a standard part of the logical curriculum)—one text on which, obviously, Porphyry himself had never commented.

So, it reminds us, is the text on which it's based.

And yet none of the material I read suggested an even slightly critical approach to the religious text on which the whole edifice rested.

You can't play a Bach chorale, for example, without knowing the liturgical text on which it is based, without knowing why it was written".

Armed with the Egyptian text on which proposed changes were marked, Mrs. Clinton sat down with Mr. Morsi and his top aides.

There is a small book from the late fourteenth century, "I Fioretti di San Francesco" ("The Little Flowers of St. Francis" — it's the text on which Rossellini's movie is based), that narrates Francis's life as a series of miracles.

But before starting to analyse, he pauses to appreciate the texts on which he is about to perform surgery, as if saying grace before carving the meat.

Until the 13th century most Tibetan literary works were skillfully methodical translations from Sanskrit of Buddhist texts, on which Indian scholars and Tibetan translators worked side by side.

The ease with which Crain himself could locate the sources is itself proof of the transparency of my effort to point the reader to the texts on which I have drawn.

By focusing on conflicts surfacing during deliberations while ignoring the affirmations of continuity in the final documents, this interpretation presents Vatican II as a rupture with the Catholic past and substitutes a vague "spirit of the council" for those texts on which the council voted.

Though people considered him a teacher, he was always a librarian, with a librarian's love of catalogues and connections; but his Buddhism added to that a reverence for the transmission of texts, on which all spiritual progress rested.He found two ways to save the books, both ingenious.