Sentence examples for Past understanding from inspiring English sources

This amnesia offers historians both an opportunity and a challenge: to tell us how such events could have happened, and to help us understand what seems past understanding.

The result is that much of economics, as it is taught today, will become increasingly irrelevant in explaining the past, understanding the present, and forecasting the future.

History is so many things: the material culture of the past; understanding lost communities; charting the rise and fall of civilisations.

Modeling is a fundamental methodology for simulating the past, understanding the present and predicting the future of the geospatial systems and phenomena.

For Lewis, the House is a way of "connecting dots" – joining people to their past, understanding how identity is a blend of culture, geography and genealogy, a collision of unique traits and common bonds.

Beyond illuminating the past, understanding the origins of potatoes can help scientists move into the future, says University of Utah botanist Lynn Bohs.

She said the "convenient ambiguity" and "unwritten rules" of the current system meant "past understandings are by no means always understood".

While there is much to be learned from these views, Timothy Leduc suggests a more profound call for change by returning to past understandings of the land and climate.

He explains, "We can agree that the Constitution itself should be taken as binding without finding it self-evident that Americans must be bound by past understandings of votes by some segment of the citizenry over two centuries ago".

With this in mind, the project puts into question the current agricultural practices' connection with the current land ownership pattern based on abstract property lines, disconnected from the land, its topography, and past understandings of territory.

To achieve this requires engaging students at all levels of the curriculum not only with past understandings but also with existing problems in the world that require the development of new understandings.