Sentence examples for whose pedigree from inspiring English sources

The film was conjured by the British director Christopher Nolan, whose pedigree derives from "Memento" and "The Prestige".

This year's Christmas special was directed by Thea Sharrock, whose pedigree in London theatre cannot be faulted.

Hill, 50, was billed as the Jersey boy whose pedigree would help lure the area's best talent.

When it came down to the fifth, good money might have shifted to Soderling, whose pedigree had placed him in the upper echelon of the game.

In any case, he/she will be struggling with sharply reduced budgets – and pressure from those nice people in Haywards Heath whose pedigree cat has been stolen.

Now they have so much money they can compete for European talent with clubs whose pedigree has historically placed them on a much higher stratum.

Congress has allowed to lapse the special corporate taxes that once underwrote the "orphan fund" used to clean sites whose pedigrees were historically and legally obscure.

Mr. Volcker, 82, signed up the support of nearly a dozen peers whose average age is north of 70 and whose pedigrees on Wall Street and in banking are impeccable.

Preternaturally sensitive to class differences, she secretly applies to the preppie Bay Farm School, where she lurks on the fringes of "bright, cosseted teenagers" whose pedigreed fathers "didn't bother having jobs".

After a few lessons from a moonlighting Nassau County police officer, the waver is ready to stand in the middle of the lot with naught but wits, orange gloves and a fluorescent orange vest between him and roaring vehicles whose pedigrees are confirmed by shiny hood ornaments.

So Quentin Atkinson, a psychologist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand who has long worked on language evolution, decided to look at language units whose pedigrees might be traceable further back: phonemes, the smallest units of sound that allow us to distinguish one word from another.