Sentence examples for Direction of history from inspiring English sources

Balance doesn't build businesses, cure diseases or change the direction of history.

Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.

"I heard from a lot of them that I was too optimistic about the direction of history.

The mid-1960s were Jean-Luc Godard's heroic period, the time when the vector of his talent seemed almost uncannily aligned with the direction of history.

Politics is moved less by new ideas than by the ability of politicians to bend the direction of history, even slightly.

"At least your armchair is facing in the direction of history," Camus teased him, meaning that the chair looked more committed than the sleeping philosopher.

It's moving in the direction, not of history but of ratings.

Even earlier than that, however, the central role of Philip's personality had been acknowledged by Theopompus of Chios, who (like Callisthenes) moved in the direction of writing history that revolved around the person of a king; he called his history of Greece Philippica ("The Affairs of Philip").

And finishing next to last in 2013 would conform with the general direction of their history.

Reich, the Guardian once suggested, is one of the few composers who have "altered the direction of musical history".

Reversing the direction of this history, allows prediction of the stresses in the workpiece required to form the target part, by use of an appropriate material model.