Sentence examples for altering of history from inspiring English sources

The scene might prompt a reader from Lee's own time, though probably not our own, to wonder whether everything might have been different had some other subject caught Scott's long-term fancy inside his study at Abbotsford; whether an altering of history might have been accomplished not with AK-47s and a time machine but with the erasure of just a shelf's worth of historical fiction.

Even when he was altering the course of history, he did not cease to be enigmatic, unpredictable.

"A Place of Greater Safety" involved herculean characters altering the course of history: young, fierce, brutal, and witty — everything was big, everything was important, the most trivial action took on heroic significance.

Just by showing up at an event, you are altering the course of history and making our numbers greater.

With over 15,000 nuclear weapons in arsenals around the world, each with various, often questionable levels of security, it's not too hard to imagine a device getting into the wrong hands and altering the course of history forever. .

Suffice to say that this revelation will alter the course of history -- with the history-altering power of laughter.

In fact, Beijing has the power to dramatically alter the course of history in the DPRK.

There has never been a more dramatic demonstration of a vaccine's power to alter the course of history.

The realist knows that a single individual enabled by complacency or negligence can alter the path of history.

Ingels has ambitions to set precedents and, as he put it, "gently alter the course of history".

Other historians are less convinced that one single event – or lack of it – can massively alter the course of history.