Sentence examples for tracing themselves from inspiring English sources

Newcomers, albeit tracing themselves to their own understanding of the figure of Socrates, included the Cynics and the Pyrrhonist skeptics.

"With the rise of Scottish nationalism, people like to trace themselves to their Scottish ancestry," said the author, whose parents are Scottish but who was raised in England.

We Were Liars by E Lockhart (Hot Key £7.99) is a haunting psychological thriller about members of a privileged Bostonian dynasty who can trace themselves back to the Mayflower and spend summers on their own island off Massachusetts.

The tradition was originally imported from Virginia: "The town's well-to-do will still go out of their way to let you know that their ancestors came from 'the Old Dominion,' " the author comments, "and Lexingtonians who can trace themselves back to one of the FFVs -- first families of Virginia -- are known to do little but contemplate the fact".

The Brassey family traced themselves back to a Norman ancestor from the town of Brécey in Lower Normandy who crossed to England with William the Conqueror in 1066.

However, since these theoretical grounds trace themselves back to traditional theoretical assumptions, we must go over the assumptions underlying the criticism and see how they may change once we take the point of view proposed here.

Both the Community of Christ and the Mormons -- officially, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- trace themselves to the church begun on April 6, 1830, by JoSaintsmith, a young man in upstate New York who said he translated the Book of Mormon from a text engraved on golden plates revealed by an angel.

It is usually impossible to refer tooth marks to a particular species, and here, the traces themselves preserve no distinctive features other than their size.

Told in half rhyme and coolly illustrated, each page has a raised glitter trail representing the wool's progress, ideal for small fingers to trace for themselves.

The mall attack yielded intelligence leads, as militants actively discussed the days-long siege in Kenya among themselves; tracing those discussions made it easier to determine the militants' whereabouts.

Only when quarantined infecteds are detected themselves, tracing is continued (Figure 1A).