Sentence examples for was first populated from inspiring English sources

Although the neighborhood was first populated by bank managers and middle-ranking British civil servants, writers and painters eventually moved in as well.

The hilly, volcanic island was first populated by the Arawak Indians, who were conquered and, according to rumor, ritually eaten by the Carib Indians.

As recently as the late 1990's, Dr. Bonnichsen said, the prevailing belief was that North America was first populated by a single group of people from the Siberian interior, the ancestors of American Indians.

Indeed, he thinks he can tell when a continent was first populated, and by whom, for the stools he is examining were produced by some of North America's earliest inhabitants.Dr Gilbert, who works at Copenhagen University, in Denmark, is one of the leaders of a team that has just published its findings in Science.

When Springsteen was touring behind the "Born to Run" album, in the mid-seventies, he would stand at the lip of the stage in a spotlight, vamping on a chord, and tell the story of growing up in a dingy two-family house next to a gas station in a working-class section of Freehold known as Texas, because it was first populated by hillbilly migrants from the South.

This area was first populated by settlers working for the Illinois & Michigan Canal, who subsequently worked in the lumber district.

Microbial acquisition in the human airways can be described by the island model: Microbes found in the lower airways of CF patients represent "islands" that are at first populated from the upper airways reflecting the "mainland".

The narrative is bookended by beautiful sequences filmed in Alaska and featuring an Inuit family, hinting that the "dream" of the title may refer to the contemporary drama around Depp's character, the dreamers being the Inuit people who first populated the American continent.

The weakness is in the material: these are second-string Miller yarns, populated in a couple of instances by second-choice faces: Josh Brolin for Clive Owen and Jamie Chung for Devon Aoki.

The first cluster was populated by genes that were higher in epicardial samples than in muscle samples, the second and third cluster were mainly unchanged among the samples, and the fourth cluster contained genes that were higher in the non-epicardial muscle control samples.

The batch of bare bones circuit boards are the first to be populated with all the components making up the finished device.