Sentence examples for altered past from inspiring English sources

22. Glittering Ornaments from a Pile of Keys Project via The Altered Past.

Harris takes care to impart details of the altered past from March's blinkered point of view, and always casually.

In September, Dell's audit committee said it found problems with the computer maker's "accruals, reserves and other balance sheet items" that could alter past results.

Jarvis reasoned that players were accustomed to the control schemes of past games, and felt altering past designs would prove difficult for them.

A comparison of the historical and modern fire regimes, especially in peripheral populations that can be particularly vulnerable to climatic change, can help guide fire management planning with information on the degree to which a local area has been altered by past fire exclusion.

In 2002, the Pittsburgh Marathon concluded at Heinz Field, the course was altered from past years to allow competitors to cross the finish line on the field.

However, both parameters had never been altered in past assessments.

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Richard J Evans's Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History is published by Little, Brown.

But as Richard J Evans points out in Altered Pasts, "once you let the counterfactual genie out of the bag, anything can happen".

At the start of Altered Pasts, Evans talks about his initial "allergic reaction" to counterfactuals, and in part his essay is an attempt to explain this aversion, to delve into a peculiar form of historical fantasy and to take its claims seriously.