Sentence examples for variation on another from inspiring English sources

Apotex had argued that the drug clopidogrel bisulphate, a salt, was an obvious variation on another older patent held by Sanofi-Aventis.

Some six years elapsed before Rafelson's next project as a director, Black Widow (1987), a variation on another landmark of film noir, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944).

The new fund is more straightforward, and is in fact a variation on another, much more successful, S.B.A. program, in which the investment companies loan the money they've borrowed from the S.B.A. to their portfolio companies.

This bill is a variation on another piece of legislation that Schumer pushed through Congress successfully in 2011.

The stat is a variation on another, used seven years ago in the Make Poverty History campaign - when a host of celebrities from the world of music, cinema and fashion appeared on a video clicking their fingers at regular intervals.

The endless tea party is like a set of variations on another childhood drawing, this one showing a man staring fixedly at a clock – the joke being that a clock in a picture always looks as if it has stopped.

Julie Girardini also makes variations on another classic form, the longboat.

Another variation on the "one of" trap.

Nicolelis called the latest report "another variation" on efforts to restore function by transmitting the brain's commands past a broken connection.

In Rome, there is a new production of Lear, his 1971 variation on Shakespeare, and another work from the same period, The Sea – a weird comedy of beachside goings-on – has become a hit at the Comédie-Française in Paris.

For "Floyd and Clea" turns out to be another variation on that timeworn "Star Is Born" formula, in which one character heads up the path to glory as the other slides down in a bathtub of booze.