Sentence examples for a historical knowledge from inspiring English sources

It's an amazing a cappella group, like six Bobby McFerrins with greater rhythmic precision, as well as a historical knowledge of music that allows the singers to add the music of South Africa, Brazil and Puerto Rico to their Cuban perspective.

Some adherents of form criticism espoused an extreme skepticism regarding any historical knowledge of Jesus' life at all, but the work of scholars such as Martin Dibelius and even Rudolf Bultmann showed that such skepticism was not warranted by the conclusions of this study.

"Photographs have a language that everyone can understand without any historical knowledge," writes Dufour.

A poison because it intercedes a horizontal, historical knowledge of things that are like the picture you're looking at until they occlude the picture itself; a palliative because it prevents us from the malediction of thinking too much of newness, overrating the melodrama of innovation.

Selected participants both represent and symbolize the established criteria [62, 63] which included having (a) a direct connection to business, governance, entrepreneurship, or industry activities within Atikokan; (b) a good historical knowledge of Atikokan; and (c) a knowledge of the new industrial processes including wood pellet production and supply value chain.

To understand this requires a little historical knowledge.

The two rumoured front runners for the post of Greek prime minister, should either of them choose to accept the poisoned chalice, are both troika insiders with a personal historical knowledge of Greece's finances.

It may thus contribute to a better historical knowledge of primate zoo management in Italy.

having a direct connection to business, governance, entrepreneurship or industry activities within Atikokan, having a good historical knowledge of Atikokan's natural resource-based economy (i.e. forestry, mining, etc)., having a knowledge of the new industrial processes which will be introduced to the Atikokan economy (i.e. wood pellet production and supply value chain).

Finally, and most important of all, Hobsbawm had a global appeal because he had a staggering breadth of historical knowledge, encompassing a dizzying number of countries and cultures.

He said the current history curriculum reduces things "to a lowest common denominator level which provides people with a level of historical knowledge that is just not adequate".