Sentence examples for cannot be understood apart from inspiring English sources

But it is a politics that cannot be understood apart from the history of the debate: a debate that has never been about reality.

What Balanchine and his peers created in New York in the years 1933 to 1983 had everything to do with their Russian heritage and cannot be understood apart from it.

Although the focus of "Inhuman Bondage" is largely on the Americas, he appreciates that the slavery of the recent past cannot be understood apart from its long history, one that reaches back to antiquity and stretches across the globe.

Of course, Surrealism cannot be understood apart from the two World Wars with which it coincided; and now that we are again engaged in combat, the timing is propitious.

It provided him, he wrote, "with theories that allowed me to see what I regarded as simple truth -- religion is embedded in culture and cannot be understood apart from it".

"His entire concept of human liberty cannot be understood apart from his elemental view of the spiritual nature of all men and women," said Tim Goeglein, a White House staff member involved in planning the mosque visit and author of "The Man in the Middle," about the role of religion in the Bush administration.

Like Boethius, the medievals accept the view that relations cannot be understood to exist by themselves or apart from their correlatives.

The lives of Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell — painters born nearly a generation apart, Krasner in 1908 and Mitchell in 1925 — cannot be understood without considering such questions.

Apart from one other, each loses trust; words miscarry and cannot be understood.

Mystery, by definition, cannot be understood.

But the one cannot be understood without the other.