Sentence examples for centuries of examples from inspiring English sources

The challenge of designing a computer, he says, is that you can't fall back on centuries of examples for inspiration.

Yet despite centuries of its example, people still cannot understand that art such as Zero Dark Thirty--whose target, Osama bin Laden, is the very image of Holofernes in his genocidal aims--is made with the intent to speed the healing of a civilization still reeling from the terrors he financed.

And not unreasonably: the past century is full of examples of avaricious selfishness leading to the manipulation and corruption of markets.

The motif of the virtues crucifying Jesus had a wide enough currency in the 13th and 14th centuries that dozens of examples survive, in manuscripts, paintings and stained-of examples survive, in manuscripts, paintings and stained-glass windows.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, for example, the economies of the West were fueled by immigration from Europe and Asia.

The Great Awakenings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are examples of the phenomenon.

The experience of the emerging markets in East Asia and of old Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are examples of growth-enhancing state intervention (Chang 2003).

By the end of the 18th century, for example, there was an understanding of the curing of masonry mortars, and of the corrosion of iron.

On the other hand, European history of the 20th century gives us plenty of examples of fringe groups that became the leaders of governments.

Many churches and major buildings constructed in the 15th and 16th centuries provide examples of lead employed as a roofing material and for water conveyance.

The grand movie palaces of the early decades of the century, for example, were meant to invoke European opera houses and had similar acoustics.