Sentence examples for annals of world from inspiring English sources

On a single day in August 1944, this neglected and scruffy place won a place in the annals of world conflict.

Only twice in the annals of World Cup rugby stretching back more than a quarter of a century have players scored eight tries in a tournament: Lomu in 1999, Habana eight years later.

1962 Tito Backs Russian Policy MOSCOW — A historic moment in the topsy-turvy annals of world Communism was recorded today when President Tito of Yugoslavia mounted a rostrum in the Kremlin, signaling his return to the East bloc.

The latest production of the Théâtre du Soleil of Paris is an unusual puppet show that echoes this scene along with many others from the annals of world theater.

The end of the war marked only the beginning of the Jewish Brigade's remarkable history, ably told in "The Brigade," an illuminating addition to the annals of World War II.

Just makes you wonder what other shenanigans have taken place in the annals of World Cup soccer? 5. Better News I have to admit the Eric LeGrande tragedy made me depressed over football.

The 17th-century book "The Annals of the World" is here, in which James Ussher, an archbishop, worked out history according to Scripture; he argued the world was created on the evening of Oct. 22, 4004 B.C.

But the desire for justice and retribution is deep and complicated, and Iceland has taken an unusual step in the strange annals of the world financial crisis: it is pursuing criminal charges against a politician, former Prime Minister Geir Haarde, for his government's failure to avert the catastrophe.

Page A6 NATION BLAMES EX-PREMIER Iceland has taken an unusual step in the strange annals of the world financial crisis: it is pursuing criminal charges against a politician, former Prime Minister Geir Haarde, for his government's failure to avert the nation's fiscal collapse.

By the time George Gregan, with the clock winding down and Australian victory assured, pointed at his opposite number Byron Kelleher and taunted, "Four more years, boys, four more years," the Wallabies could savour not just their own passage to the final, but a further entry in the expanding annals of Kiwi World Cup incompetence.

He instead portrayed the prophet of Islam as a man of self-control: "Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.