Sentence examples for breaking history from inspiring English sources

Amid the discussion over what could and should happen, barrister Sam Stein QC summed up the apparent confusion surrounding the situation by saying: "We are breaking history.

In "War and Peace," Tolstoy said that he was trying to write about "the unconscious swarmlike life of mankind," by breaking history into the smallest individual units.

Chronology is dangerous, the habit of breaking history into neatly marketable decades is a relatively new one, but 1961 lies on the cusp that separates "the 50s" from "the 60s".

You broke history.

She added: "He's a professor, John H. Davis, and he's breaking with history.

The first guard to play 20 seasons, his career with the Lakers breaks history as the longest run any NBA player has had with a team.

The years after the Civil War saw one of the largest migrations in human history break on the shores of the United States.

Both governments are daring to break with history.

The United Nations document breaks the history of 10 years of violence in Congo into several periods.

Zafar is reminiscent of a figure from another Sebald novel – Jacques Austerlitz – a man broken by history.

This is the moment at which "The Plot Against America" breaks with history.