Sentence examples for clock of history from inspiring English sources

We are engaged in a war that seeks to turn the clock of history back and perpetuate white colonialism".

Whatever the case, for better and worse — and only time will tell — the great clock of history ticks on.

What he really wanted to do with the clock of history was to put it back – to the early, optimistic days of Masaryk's new Czech democracy.

The clock of history cannot be turned back, but the defining events of the past can be more clearly understood, and their tragic outcomes directly reckoned with.

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back".

In 1947, after Yalta and Potsdam, said Václav Havel, who has died aged 75 after a long illness, the clock of history had been stopped in his half of Europe – and now it had started again.

The place looked as if the clocks of world history had stopped in 1970.

Though it's behind a paywall, here's a teaser from a recent review by Steven Shapin of Jessica Riskin's The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick, at the LRB.

From a recent review of Jessica Riskin's The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick, by George Scialabba at Inference: According to the delightful science fiction romance film, Her, artificial intelligences also socialize, or will before long.

Jessica Riskin's The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument Over What Makes Living Things Tick explores the history of a particular principle that the life sciences should not ascribe agency to natural phenomena and traces its remarkable history all the way back to the seventeenth century and the automata of early modern Europe.

In his work at the Met, he seems almost deliberately to set back the clock, not only in terms of history, but also in terms of his development.