Sentence examples for took as a model from inspiring English sources

In 1894 he became acquainted with Johannes Brahms, whose formal symphonic developments he later took as a model.

And it was "The Wire" that I took as a model for its compassionate insistence on making us care about every lowlife on its mean streets.

And as an early symbol of diversity on the runway, he took as a model the Algerian Farida Khelfa, known as Farida, who remembered the early days as she toured the exhibition.

Surely Verdi took as a model for his "Otello" Rossini's final scene for Desdemona, when she sings a ravishing "Willow Song" prominently accompanied by a filigreed harp (played here by Grace Paradise) and then sings a wistful prayer before going to sleep, miserable and confounded by her husband's anger.

Finally realising that he was in a design impasse, he took as a model the new American Pennsylvania Railroad class K4 Pacific of 1914.

Specifically, we took as a model a CRM of the gene even skipped (eve) for which we had defined five positively-acting transcription factors (dTcf, Mad, Pnt, Tin, and Twi) that direct eve expression to the embryonic dorsal mesoderm (the Eve MHE) [ 15] and searched the genome for regions in which binding sites for all five factors occurred within 500 bp of one another.

As such, the UK may be taken as a model by legislators and experts to establish similar programmes of inquiry in other countries.

But Ronald Reagan, whom Obama has said he takes as a model in style but not substance, generally ignored the media, preferring to talk directly to the America people.

Iran can be taken as a model of how a developing country goes into shock as a result of economic developments, social change, and the resulting attack upon its traditional culture.

Defoe championed the need for foreigners and his most famous character, Robinson Crusoe - often later taken as a model for British ingenuity and self-sufficiency - was described by Defoe as an immigrant from Bremen, called Robinson Kreutznauer.

This was popular, as also were his great capacity for hard work and the simplicity of his daily life, which was taken as a model by the contemporary aristocracy.