Sentence examples for centuries of struggles from inspiring English sources

As I viewed a rare copy of the Magna Carta, and toured the exhibits that chronicled centuries of struggles for human rights, I wondered: Could we also have a basic right to space on an aircraft?

"The Italians of New York: Five Centuries of Struggle and Achievement," on view through Feb. 20.

Through May 7. "The Italians of New York: Five Centuries of Struggle and Achievement," on view through Sunday.

Democracy is precious: the collective product of centuries of struggle by our ancestors, and forged amid protests, riots and massacres.

The museum grew out of an exhibition Dr. Scelsa curated at the New-York Historical Society in 1999: "The Italians of New York: Five Centuries of Struggle and Achievement".

We understand that any inconveniences we face are minuscule compared to centuries of struggle to maintain our standing among nations of the world.

To remove this fundamental freedom from individuals - hard won, long in coming through centuries of struggle against princes, potentates and oppressors - is utterly unacceptable.

C. 300 BCE - c. 251 BCE Quintus Hortensius, (flourished 3rd century bc) dictator of Rome in 287 who ended two centuries of "struggle between the orders" (the plebeians' fight to gain political equality with patricians).

The traditions of the grandees and hidalgos, formed in the centuries of struggle against the Muslims, made them even more averse to economic activities than the rest of the European nobility.

"But now it is ended and over for good", he adds, "After fifteen centuries of struggle, the Church has at last vanquished freedom, and has done so to make men happy".

It took two centuries of struggle and compromise for America to get to a point where it could elect a black man with the middle name Hussein as president and then consider replacing him with a Mormon!