Sentence examples for constraints of history from inspiring English sources

They accept the constraints of history and identity; they define the nature of modern Jewish experience.

An observer could fairly wonder what had happened to the vaunted constraints of history.

But "this great [American] hegemon… cannot escape the constraints of history and geography.

Viewers could enjoy Django's blood-soaked expedition through the South without the constraints of history or the coercions of seriousness.

At the same time, the new cast of characters in Arab politics is theoretically more free of the constraints of history than the old.

While the Irish are looking to temporarily flee their fiscal concerns, the Poles for their part are hoping Euro 2012 will help them escape from the constraints of history.

Marshall's answer also does not make internal sense because it assumes that certain elements of the current retinal design are necessary and unchangeable which is only the case in a contingent system, but is certainly not the case in a system designed to its current form without the constraint of history.

We begin to understand the design of the photoreceptor mosaics, the constraints of evolutionary history and the ecological specialization of these mosaics in all the mammalian subgroups.

A behavior of an animal, the shape of a shell, or any other feature of life might be strongly influenced by constraints, for example constraints of history, development, and function.

Although few survive intact, dungeons were a fixture of 19th-century prisons, said Norman Johnston, a professor emeritus at Arcadia University in Pennsylvania and the author of "Forms of Constraint: A History of Prison Architecture" (University of Illinois Press, 2000).

My writing has been wrapped up in ambivalence toward the demands and constraints of memory and history since my first novel.