Sentence examples for centuries terms from inspiring English sources

For centuries, terms such as "national security" and "law and order" have hinged on the policing, surveillance and exclusion of communities of color — from the era of slave branding and patrols, to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, to the 1960s surveillance and intimidation of civil rights and Black liberation leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr.

The most important illuminating source that survived from the two centuries termed "the dark ages of Byzantium" is the chronicle of the monk Theophanes (d. 817 or 818).

In twenty-first-century terms, Phillips was an industry disrupter.

In 19th-century terms, it is completely loopy.

But we're trying to think in half-century terms".

He thought that sixteenth-century terms might prove more fruitful than twenty-first-century ones.

"Les Sylphides" distilled the essence of 19th-century Romantic ballet into 20th-century terms.

Some writers perceived the United States in 19th-century terms, as a wild and dangerous place.

First is the Tang Dynasty An Lushan Revolt of the 8th century (death toll in mid-20th-century terms: 429,000,000) with the 13th-century Mongol conquests close behind.

In its combination of updating and deference, O.S.F.'s commission looks like an eighteenth-century project couched in nineteenth-century terms.

"Theme and Variations," part of Tchaikovsky's Suite No. 3, and "Ballet Imperial" are distillations of 19th-century ballet in 20th-century terms.