Sentence examples for traces itself from inspiring English sources

One side of the family traces itself back 1200 years to Argyll, the other to Scandinavia, in among them Welsh, Irish and English branches.

Mancini Duffy traces itself to Halsey, McCormack & Helmer, founded in 1920, whose projects included the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower in Brooklyn.

In Jonson's plays both eccentricity and normal behaviour are derived from a dominating characteristic, so that the result is a live, truthfully conceived personage in whom the ruling passion traces itself plainly.

Stora Enso, a Finland-based paper and packaging company, traces itself back to documents from the year 1288 though its current iteration comes from a merger in 1998.

"A few decades ago, people would look at me with a weird face when I said I taught people about meditation for a living," said conference organizer Jack Kornfield, who is known in the Buddhist community as a leader in the vipassana movement (named after a method of meditation that traces itself to Buddha).

From its origins the church has thought of itself as the one and only worshipping community that could trace itself back to the group established by Jesus Christ.

The regiment was descended from the legendary Fighting 69th, a historically Irish unit that traced itself to the time of the American Revolution.

Britain's Lloyds TSB, for example, can trace itself back to a bank established in Birmingham in 1765 by a John Taylor and a Sampson Lloyd.

The Deakins family traced itself back to men who were leaders in the American Revolution in Maryland, yet one descendant, William Deakins Cassin, was caught trying to get through the Union naval blockade and thrown into the Old Capitol Prison.

Likewise, the tradition that subsequently became known as Daoism (daojia) traced itself back to thinkers such as Laozi (assumed, if he existed, to have been a contemporary of Confucius) and the 4th-century-bce sage Zhuang Zhou, or Zhuangzi ("Master Zhuang").

But the unaccountable, reckless, and deeply rooted political system in Russia today — a system that can trace itself back past the days of the tsars, to the tatars, to the Mongols — is not a good one, especially not for subjects who console themselves with conspiracy theories, or the hope of a benevolent whim, or, as the nurse said, luck.