Sentence examples for use which dates from inspiring English sources

Hangovers are probably as old as alcohol use, which dates back to the Stone Age.

Joan Acocella notes that "hangovers are probably as old as alcohol use, which dates back to the Stone Age" ("A Few Too Many," May 26th).

The most familiar use of diamonds today is as gemstones used for adornment, a use which dates back into antiquity.

This despite the state's long and well-documented history of liberal (ostensibly) medicinal marijuana use, which dates to the 1990s and has amounted, in some instances, to a climate of quasi-legalization.

N. jatamansi has a long history of medicinal use which dates back to 1000 800 B.C. in Ayurveda and Unani systems of medicine [ 18].

Meanwhile the counting rules being used (which date from the earlier Start-1 treaty) will lapse in December 2009.Neither side wants to continue all the cumbersome Start-1 rules.

The priority for most of them is reform of business rates - a type of tax that is calculated according to the rental value of the property a business uses, and which dates back to the Poor Law established in 1601.

The medicinal use of leeches, which dates from antiquity, reached its peak in the first half of the 19th century.

Gross once saw a Japanese artist use the technique, which dates all the way back in 1906, and its simplicity blew his mind.

Unlike LSD, MDMA and other synthetic psychoactive drugs, ayahuasca has a history of indigenous use in South America which dates to long before the war on drugs and the resulting Convention on Psychotropic Substances.

The singular achievement of the present government has been to appoint new "overseers of the poor", although it forbears from using this term, which dates from the 16th century, when it designated the administrators and distributors of poor relief.