• Most of the recent bounty of inflows in Brazil has its origin from offshore banking.

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  • An analysis was now under way to try to understand its origin, he added.

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  • The firm has become quite the diversified drug-discovery factory since its origin in 1997.

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  • What brings clients to Valensi's salon is the quality of the hair she uses, and its origin.

    NPR: Indian Hair: The Next Hot Beauty Trend?

  • Depending on its origin, a graft can differ in size, thickness and how fast it generates tissue.

    CNN: Lab-created skin helps wounds heal

  • Whatever its origin, the disease has spread rapidly and is now believed to be affecting ten Asian countries.

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  • The June outage was caused by an electrical storm and had its origin in the same data centers.

    FORBES: Will Amazon's Servers Be Ready For Sandy?

  • It can takes weeks or even months, if law enforcement is lucky, to trace a gun back to its origin.

    CNN: Why new laws could miss America's bigger gun problem

  • Its origin is traceable to indigenous forms of dance and martial practices.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • Before it gained ground in America, the stew had already been fairly ubiquitous in the region of its origin since the early 20th century.

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  • As this sort of thinking takes hold among politicians, the university moves ever further from its origin as a sanctuary from the worldly society around it.

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  • Celebrated on October 31 for more than a millennium, its origin dates back to the observation of the Celtic festival Samhain on the last day of October.

    CNN: Happy Halloween

  • Mother's Day marks the halfway point of Lent, and one theory of its origin is that it was marked by visiting the region's "mother church" or cathedral.

    BBC: How much Christianity is hidden in British society?

  • The multinationals' involuntary cartel has its origin in America's 20-year-old Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which made it a criminal offence for American companies to bribe foreign officials.

    ECONOMIST: A global war against bribery

  • "There is never any sourcing of the number, " says Ira Mayer, publisher of the newsletter Marketing to Women, which in 2009 tried and failed to find its origin.

    WSJ: Who Makes the Call at the Mall, Men or Women?

  • The goal was to give not only the definitions of a word but also, in effect, that word's biography, chronicling its various uses from its origin to the present.

    FORBES: May Stocks Grow Like Our Language

  • "We all have a basic need for acceptance and approval by social groups, " says Orville Gilbert Brim, author of The Fame Motive: A Treatise on its Origin and Life Course.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The researchers think the high death rate from sepsis and shock may have its origin in the digestive system and that using enzyme-blocking drugs may help reduce the harmful effects.

    BBC: News

  • Studying the hum, much less its origin, is challenging.

    WSJ: Canadians Make a Racket Over Mysterious 'Windsor Hum'

  • Stieglitz probably had no idea of its origin or tribal meaning, but it is now known to have been made by the Bete or We people living in what is now the Ivory Coast.

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  • Ironically, says Rob Cunningham, Christian Aid's programme manager for South Africa, just as the word is taking off in Western society the values it embodies are in decline in the land of its origin.

    BBC: Bill Clinton, Labour conference

  • Boy George this week has agreed to return an icon he bought from a London art dealer without knowing its origin, and Ricky Gervais ruffled many feathers during the Golden Glob awards, which he hosted.

    BBC: Weekly world news quiz

  • She said the "firewall" marked in the UN climate process at its origin in 1992, which divided the world into Annex One - rich countries with commitments to reduce emissions - and everyone else, must be maintained.

    BBC: UN climate talks publish revised draft text

  • Like most malware attacks, there are clues as to its origin - however security experts warn that any calling cards found within the attack's code could in fact be an attempt to throw investigators off the real scent.

    BBC: 'Red October' cyber-attack found by Russian researchers

  • Legends about its origin vary from it being a flying rock that brought the Navajo people to this area, to being the home of two huge bird monsters who occasionally swoop down from the sky and feast upon any Natives they find below.

    BBC: New Mexico��s alien nation

  • And the nuclear-winter hypothesis (that the smoke from fires caused by a global nuclear war would blot out the sun's rays and thus cool the earth catastrophically) owes its origin, at least in part, to observations of a planet-wide dust storm on Mars.

    ECONOMIST: Comparative meteorology

  • Google hasn't played up its origin, even though the vast majority of electronics are manufactured in China or other countries where labor is cheaper than in the U.S. A Google spokeswoman did not immediately reply to a message seeking comment for this story.

    CNN: Google's new Nexus Q: Made in the U.S.A.

  • Whatever its reputation, burlesque was no more than the latest version of a popular entertainment that had its origin in the 19th century in touring minstrel shows and which had expanded into permanent variety theatres to cater for the massive growth in America's population.

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  • In his role as President of the Intergovernmental Committee for the promotion of the return of cultural property to its country of origin or its restitution in case of illegal export, his diplomacy and spirit of cooperation empowered him to overcome obstacles to the work of the Committee, and the high quality of his contributions have always been appreciated.

    UNESCO: CULTURE

  • We chose DMF because of its natural origin and the fact that we could easily administer it in the diet, but there might be even better candidates for future clinical use.

    BBC: NEWS | Health | Food extract boosts cancer drug

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