It owes a lot to the work of Phoebe Washburn but has its own wacky humor and inventiveness.

Clinical pharmacology owes much of its foundation to the work of William Withering.

Arizona State University says that the establishment and growth of developmental-evolutionary biology owes a great debt to the work of Bonner's studies.

And his compositions, including a ballad that owed some to the work of Thelonious Monk, were plain and spare, built from riffs.

The strong historicizing forces in musical composition, for instance, certainly owe a principal debt to the work of the music historians.

The medieval "science of weights" (i.e., mechanics) owes much of its importance to the work of Jordanus.

The success of the region owes much to the hard work of its people but also to American foreign policy.

The proposals which we have tabled for discussion at today's focal point meeting owe a great deal to the work of this presidency's predecessors.

He owes his success in large part to the hard work of his employees.

Neither idiom however, owed much to the work of William Adam.