Sentence examples for took as their model from inspiring English sources

But that is forgivable, since the gospel soul of Solomon Burke - in his early 1960s heyday an influence on Otis Redding, the Stones and many others - is pretty much the original that Jake and Elwood Blues took as their model.

For style, they took as their model the 1930 film "The Blue Angel," in which Marlene Dietrich sings "Falling in Love Again," to the rigid and befuddled schoolmaster played by Emil Jannings.

For the tower dedicated December 22, 1903 the architects took as their model the Magdalen College tower at Oxford University.

The stories that were told in the sixteenth century, in the midst of preachers claiming mutually exclusive truths, took as their model Scripture--that is, a divine unfolding of eternal truth in human time.

Taking as their model the Monterey Pop Festival, which drew 28,000 people, the promoters planned for 50,000 fans.

His flight across the deep south is, you can imagine, rather more facetious than the 30s chain gang movies that the Coens take as their model.

Most Senate critics of Reagan's INF treaty take as their model the tactics of the late Senator Henry M. Jackson of Washington, who opposed the first strategic arms agreement in 1972 (SALT I).

In my remarks, I urged our graduates to be instruments of change by taking as their model Robert F. Goheen '40 *48, Princeton's 16th president, who passed away in March at the age of 88.

And for several centuries to come, the small African states and the neighbouring leaders would take as their model the Islamic empire of Songhai and its prestigious leader, Muḥammad.

Taking as their model a white paper produced by the Reagan Justice Department in 1988 called "The Constitution in the Year 2000," the organizers set out to gather together a group of scholars to define a progressive constitutional agenda for the coming century.

Taking as their model an improperly restored instrument falsely said to have belonged to Bach, these instruments generally had the unhistorical stop arrangement of one 8-foot and the 4-foot on the upper manual, with the second 8-foot and a 16-foot on the lower manual.