Sentence examples for decades tracing from inspiring English sources

"The president gestured as if he was going to give me a hug, so we hugged," said Mori, who spent decades tracing the families of 12 American POWs who died in the attack and ensured their deaths were officially recognised.

Victor Zarnowitz, a noted economist and expert on business cycles who for decades traced the history of economic predictions — and often found the forecasting faulty — died Saturday in Manhattan.

Now, after more than six decades, the tracing service is opening its vast repository of information — not just to survivors like Mrs. Ban, who have long had the right to see material here, but to scholars who are eager to plumb its depths for fresh insights into an unfathomable horror.

Over the past few decades, paleoanthropologists tracing the human lineage back through time have uncovered a series of increasingly apelike ancestors that date from 4 million to 6 million years ago.

Ng masterfully weaves together the stories of each family member, uncovering wounds going back decades and tracing the scars they've left behind them.

It took a decade after tracing the route of the Helmbrechts march and the part it played in the genocide of Jews and extermination of other "undesirables" for the wound of Silas's outrage to callous over into disbelief.

Like bloodhounds on the fading scent of an escaped convict, researchers have tried for decades to trace the ancient footsteps of the first modern humans who left Africa.

He works vigorously through five decades of playwriting, tracing a clear and often highly illuminating line from JB Priestley's An Inspector Calls in 1946 through to Caryl Churchill's latest last year (Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?), evaluating each work specifically in terms of its contribution to what he conceives of as the national debate.

Despite decades of connectional tracing studies in monkeys, the backwardness of human anatomy makes it difficult to draw conclusions from lesion studies and functional neuroimaging when brain connectivity is at issue.

In toads, a detailed circuit underlying prey capture behavior has been derived from heroic work over three decades involving tract tracing and electrophysiological mapping [ 3].

Mr. Turnbull's nearly seven-decade career traced something of a full circle.