Sentence examples for centuries across from inspiring English sources

But for centuries, across much of Africa, Asia and Europe, the microbe was a dreaded feature of daily life.

Across centuries, across languages, from dreams into waking life: the speech of the heart invites translation of many kinds.

And, in ways that have been repeated numerous times down the centuries across Europe, the non-gypsies are beginning to lose their patience.

PARIS — For centuries across Europe, children were raised on folk tales with a disturbing message: Wander into the woods and you risk being snatched by Gypsies.

Yet it should not be the same kind of force the West has used for centuries across the Arab world; those interventions have left the region a shambles and fueled resentment of Western imperialism.

From the defiant human heroes who fought the gods in Greek myth to the experimental rationalists of Miletus; from the pre-Socratic pioneers of atomic theory to the fury against faith staged in Athens by Euripides, Whitmarsh tracks doubters over eight centuries, across the Mediterranean world.

Begin in the 18th century, across Church Street, at the exquisite St. Paul's Chapel.

Shipbuilding and ship repair grew in the 19th century across the river from Liverpool at Birkenhead on the Wirral.

I was driving my new Buick Century across the Mississippi River, across the Iowa-Illinois state line, when my world — everyone's world — changed forever.

Think of the giant statues of national leaders that went up this past half century across the third world from Mexico to Kenya or of Communist worthies that went up, and down, across the Soviet world.

The second world war shaped the rest of the 20th century across the globe, while the Holocaust has come to be seen in many ways as the defining episode of that grim century.