Sentence examples for contemporary lesson from inspiring English sources

On Wednesday, Mr. Polanski said in a statement that he was undertaking the Dreyfus film as a way to teach a contemporary lesson about "the age-old spectacle of the witch hunt of a minority group, security paranoia, secret military tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, governmental cover-ups and a rabid press".

The relationship between the two stories may well be the key to the holiday's most important contemporary lesson -- and engage the theological question brought to popular notice this month by quarterback Tim Tebow.

Blunkett too tries to draw contemporary lessons.

But Mr. Campanella said that the film was made with broader, more contemporary lessons in mind.

With skill and deep humanity, Dalrymple seeks contemporary lessons in Britain's disastrous 19th-century invasion.

Visitors to George Washington's Mount Vernon and Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, both in Virginia, now see the homes only after their recently built visitor centers have instilled contemporary lessons.

The film shines a light on the history of the British in Ireland, as well as having contemporary lessons for the present occupation of Iraq.

And the contemporary lessons to be drawn as it morphed into a debt-laden global media and marketing company that is creating "multi-platform communities based on branded content" and emerged from bankruptcy last week?

But in a campaign that moved Mexicans toward a more modern presidential succession, the candidates often invited them to look over their shoulder, drawing contemporary lessons from past struggles.

During that time it became a prosperous and sometimes virtuous republic and then a dissolute and corrupt empire that was destined to be mined for contemporary lessons by historians beginning with Edward Gibbon, whose first volume of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was fittingly published in the British empire in 1776.

We rake over the world wars of the 20th century and draw trite contemporary lessons from them – but the dilemmas of today probably have more in common with the ups and downs of Victorian imperialism, when the global economy was taking shape.