5 sentences with 'owes'
Example sentences and phrases with the word owes and other words derived from it.
• « Everything is green on the banks of the Nile, the river that gave rise to a letter of our alphabet and also to a hieroglyphic. The "ene", which in hieroglyphic is: ~, owes its shape to that of the river Nile, always undulating. »
• « "Hong Kong owes much of its success to its special situation," explains Marc Faber, a Swiss investment adviser. "It has been an intermediary between China and the rest of the world. »
• « Perhaps this plant owes its nickname "Venus" to Botticelli's painting of the young goddess emerging from the shells of a seashell. »
• « According to Tocqueville, a newspaper owes its subsistence to the fact that it reproduces a doctrine or a sentiment common to a large number of men; in other words, it represents its readers. »
• « The homogeneity of thought that is supposed to be identifiable within a community owes much to the existence of the mass media. For this reason, they have been characterised as the "creators" of public opinion. »