Sentence examples for concrete historical from inspiring English sources

Piketty's world is of concrete historical data only.

A concrete historical marker erected in the early 1990s lies ravaged by vandals.

The work of liturgical reform has been a service to the people as a re-reading of the Gospel from a concrete historical situation.

This does seem problematic, if only because the Holocaust is a concrete historical event, and to use it as an integer in a fable about something else is inevitably to falsify it.

"The Reckless Mind" is "not a systematic treatise," as Lilla tells us, "since what it has to say can best be learned by studying intellectual and political lives in concrete historical situations".

Thus, no classification should ignore the concrete historical individuality of religious manifestations in favour of that which is common to them all, nor should it neglect to demonstrate the common factors that are the bases for the very distinction of types of religious experience, manifestations, and forms.

In Leviathan and Its Enemies, he argued that resistance to the cosmopolitan elite would be driven by "immutable elements of human nature" that "necessitate attachment to the concrete and historical roots of moral values and meaning".

Therefore, cultural-historical science seeks "ideographic" knowledge; it aims to understand the particular, concrete and irrational "historical individual" with inescapably universal, abstract, and rational concepts.

But this abstract conception has no room for the emotional situation of real, flesh-and-blood people – and how they might act within concrete social and historical settings.

In this study, the field evaluation of the old concrete in a historical reinforced concrete structure (a stadium) has been conducted using destructive and nondestructive methods.

The chief concern of phylogenetics, in contrast, is to produce a concrete inference of historical evolutionary relationships and to characterize the statistical support for that inference.