5 sentences with “owes”

Perhaps this plant owes its nickname "Venus" to Botticelli's painting of the young goddess emerging from the shells of a seashell.

"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.

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.

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.