Sentence examples for chronological succession from inspiring English sources

In the 20th century, a mission funded by Harvard University and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts worked out the chronological succession of the Kushite rulers of Meroe.

The re-deposited nature of Horizon 2 is confirmed by its ca. 400 ka too old U-Pb age, which violates the chronological succession imposed by air-fall tuffs.

Seeing the film is a poignant reminder of the ravages of time, similar in effect to watching, say, all the movies of Robert Redford or Nick Nolte in quick chronological succession.

Their crucial distinction is between the story - the bare, chronological succession of events drawn on in a fiction - and the plot, the events as they are ordered and connected.

Its pictures are utterly and blandly professional, pretty enough without being showily postcardish; its story is a stack of tightly sliced events laid out in chronological succession with no narrative audacity or curiosity or freedom; its earnest absorption in the conflicts of youth lack humor or even extravagance.

Then, if we consider that the grammatical connectors as "then" or "after" expressed a chronological succession, we could understand that the students' explanation was a mixture of two different ideas: theological and scientific ideas.

The result is not a chronological sonata series, but a succession of live mini-recitals.

This paper examines the historiographic methodologies of Geoffrey Keating's 1634 Foras Feasa ar Éirinn, showing that Ireland's first humanist national history presents collections of thematically similar episodes within the chronological framework provided by the succession of Irish kings.

She tells the story in reverse chronological order, boy after boy in bleak succession; it feels like a gruesome detective story: how did this happen, and who to blame?

The organisation is unashamedly chronological, with the reader treated to a succession of staccato treatments of particular periods, from the intense debates of the early 17th century through revolution, the Enlightenment and the Victorian liberalism of JS Mill and AV Dicey, into a 20th century of administrative controls, war and (eventually) Thatcher, Blair and Brown.

If his formal inventions – the jarring succession of bluntly spliced juxtapositions, the epic chronological elisions and leaps, the probing of the social basis of character – invite us to adopt a stance of critical observation, his choices of time, place and circumstance force us out of judgment and into empathy.