Sentence examples for the direct legacy from inspiring English sources

The London planes, he went on, "are the direct legacy of Robert Moses.

This poverty is the direct legacy of perhaps the most brutal system of colonial exploitation in world history, compounded by decades of systematic postcolonial oppression.

Islamist anti-Americanism is the direct legacy of Ayatollah Khomeini's success in marrying Islamic faith to anti-imperialism — making "Death to America" into a religious chant, not just a political slogan.

Elizabeth deploys two critical theories: one, designers like Ungaro are the direct legacy of patternists like Matisse; and, two, when she wears these clothes she provides her students with a living example of composition and design.

In fact, it has often been suggested that the bias towards social realism, which has been seen as either the saving grace or the besetting vice of postwar British cinema, is the direct legacy of the documentary movement.

Early work that appeared in English -- the novels "A Ship Named Hope" and "The Jury," the play "The Castle" -- were frankly allegorical, no doubt both as the direct legacy of Kafka and in order to confound the apparatchiks.

In his essay "Bully for the Brontosaurus," the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould characterized the naming controversy (brontoversy?) as "a direct legacy of the most celebrated feud in the history of vertebrate paleontology"—the rivalry between Edward Cope and Othniel Marsh.

The first is a direct legacy of the boom-bust cycle of the past 10 years.

In his essay "Bully for the Brontosaurus," the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould characterized the naming controversy (brontoversy?) as "a direct legacy of the most celebrated feud in the history of vertebrate paleontology" — the rivalry between Edward Cope and Othniel Marsh.

Today if you ask Chicagoans about the heat wave they will likely tell you that not all the deaths were "really real". That's a direct legacy of the politics of the disaster.

The theology of these men is a direct legacy of the Church Mission Society, a nineteenth-century undertaking by the evangelical wing of the Church of England to "promote the knowledge of the Gospel among the heathen".