My father's strength derived from the rivers and lakes, from the waters that fed the earth.

Or did his strength derive from the certainties that a leader must cultivate?

Yet there is no mistaking the affection in their relationship or the strength each derives from it.

The strength of Germany derives from the skills of people in industry.

The strength of the show derives from the quality and range of the work.

He observed that those who survived did so not because of youth or physical strength, but the strength derived from purpose.

Their strengths and weaknesses all derive from that.

The book's great strength derives from the author's involvement in that movement as an advocate and protagonist.

The strength of resistance derives from even further back within us than the drive toward freedom.

The strength and the value of the contemporary monarchy derives from being above and avoiding political decisions.