Sentence examples for dry dates from inspiring English sources

(He sometimes talks of the need to enliven "the dry dates, facts, and events of the past").

It preferred, as the nation reluctantly embraced a new, long-deferred civil rights movement, to excavate only the dry dates and facts and events of that past; we were drawn back then, it seemed, more to regiments and battle flags, Minie balls and Gatling guns, sentimentality and nostalgia and mythology, than to anything that suggested the harsh realities of the real war.

The history I grew up with was largely still the long march of power - kings, queens, wars, governments, the development of parliamentary democracy with some colourful characters thrown in and the whole edifice backed up by shelf-loads of racy historical novels which coated dry dates with the honey of romance.

Dry dates require hot dry environment for optimal growth and maturation whereas soft dates can tolerate some humidity and necessitate less heat units [ 15, 16].

One venue for investigating the role of water activity is via experimental modification of water content in developing soft and dry dates through altering irrigation amount and frequency [ 36, 37].

Dry dates are typical to the North African region whilst soft dates are more popular in the Gulf region, which partly explains the observed association between PC1 and geography.

As a teaching tool, the series has much to recommend it, especially the way it emphasizes how one historical development influences another, a cause and effect often missed in the dry dates-and-places method of some classrooms.

Maxeau Mercier, a 30-year-old systems engineer from Montreal, who is black, had had a very dry dating spell since moving to Sunnyvale three years ago.