Sentence examples for contemporary document from inspiring English sources

With its warnings about retrenchment, rationing and a permanent energy crisis, it feels like a contemporary document.

Since its promulgation in 1890 the constitution has been modified many times; the contemporary document consists of those sections of the original constitution that have remained unchanged and all subsequent amendments.

The only indisputably contemporary document concerning him is a letter written by his ecclesiastical opponents, according to which he was a worldly cleric of humble origin who became bishop of Antioch in 260.

The story of the Greek translation of the Pentateuch is told in the Letter of Aristeas, which purports to be a contemporary document written by Aristeas, a Greek official at the Egyptian court of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285 246 bce).

This speech is the most compelling contemporary document in "The Ralph Nader Reader," a collection of articles and speeches that span his career before, during and after the years when he had more influence on his country than Al Gore and George W. Bush have had, combined.

Anyway, Greentree wrote this cable that if you analyze it at length, as I tried to do, along with an interview with him, you can discover in the cable that is a contemporary document, that he had enormous doubts about what happened.

Historical criticism places the biblical documents within their historical context and examines them in the light of contemporary documents.

Packed with transcripts of trials and contemporary documents, The Penguin Book of Witches (Penguin, £9.99) is an invaluable reference book.

These estates were, according to contemporary documents known as polyptyques, an important source of income for the aristocracy.

At the end of the book, Schama reveals that this account was fiction, "constructed from a number of contemporary documents".

According to Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, contemporary documents about the building say nothing about the medallion.