Sentence examples for a linear history from inspiring English sources

If you are looking for a complex story line or a linear history of one of America's greatest industries, you have come to the wrong place.

A linear history of the British newspaper industry would look as complicated as the family tree of the Hapsburgs, only in this case the family tree would be inverted, broad at the top and narrow at the bottom, as the readers' choices shrank.

Redrawing the hominid tree to avoid linear sequences would not only curtail anagenetic (transformational) interpretations of hominid evolution, but it also would support the verbal message in the exhibit that hominid evolution did not have a linear history.

But there was always a linear history that you could rely on.

In Augustine, we find a conception of human history that in effect reverses this schema by providing a linear account which presents history as the dramatic unfolding of a morally decisive set of non-repeatable events.

The first 'take' depicts cultural geography as having a sequential, linear history of ideas, from environmental determinism and the 'Berkeley School' of landscape geography to 'new' cultural geography and nonrepresentational theory.

Believing that London defies chronology, Ackroyd jettisons linear history in favor of a huge collage of his home city.

It's a formula for Thanksgiving dinner, the elements of a meal that suggest a homogeneous America, one with a linear common history and a shared, predictable taste.

Regarding the CTG complex, cluster E-encoding genes show a linear evolutionary history converging on ORF caal_a_19.304.

That is, in the collection, art is removed from its natural or historical context and creates a new sense of space and time, not reducible to linear history or any sense of origin.

The resulting mix-and-match approach is part of an international museum trend that has left some people fretting that linear history, the old history, "the way things really happened," will be forgotten.