Sentence examples for they trace back to from inspiring English sources

All of this they trace back to the work of one man: Alfred Kinsey.

The parishes together claim more than 4,000 members, with roots they trace back to Colonial times.

The revival of clan identity (in many villages a substantial minority, if not a majority, of inhabitants have the same surname, which they trace back to a common ancestor) has had a profound impact on village politics.

But critics decry the new Camel as yet another effort to single out women for smoking pitches, a tactic they trace back to the 1920s when American Tobacco urged, "Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet" to promote Lucky Strike cigarettes.

They note that Kelly's extraordinarily influential books (The March of Patriots, The End of Certainty, The Hawke Ascendancy etc) depend on a certain kind of historiography, one they trace back to the Insider series produced by John Gunther in the 1930s.

Advocates of banning "soft money" want to curb the power of special interests over politics, which they trace back to the benighted era from the 1870's to the end of the 19th century, when big business spent huge sums to gain sway over elections and policy-making.

It is likely that the Pythagorean communities that practiced a way of life that they traced back to Pythagoras died out in the middle of the fourth century BCE.

During the investigation, federal agents twice intercepted shipments of firearms bound for Mexico that they traced back to Carlson and Fox.

But the U.S. presence hasn't gone unnoticed; Dwyer pointed to seven ads they traced back to Chris Slattery, the director of the pro-life Expectant Mother Care group in New York as one recent example.

When they subtracted this average from their data, they discovered a sky pattern that resembled moving searchlights, which they could trace back to predict the location of the sunspots on the sun's far side.

Nor was it one they tended to trace back to some residual force of upbringing, like that upwardly mobile impulse so often attributed to immigrant families.