Sentence examples for for reckoning from inspiring English sources

Human rights trials of former leaders are imperfect means for reckoning with the past.

However, although patrilineality was the most common method for reckoning ancestry, there were many variations from this system.

The church adopted its own canonical hours for reckoning daily worship: there were seven of these matins, prime, terce, sext, none, vespers, and compline but in secular affairs the system of 24 hours held sway.

There's an increasingly good case for saying that newspaper editorial endorsements, pro- or anti-Brexit, don't matter so much these days – for reckoning that columnists bearing particular torches or front pages booming away carry more clout with readers than what "the composite editor" in his ex cathedra pronouncement slot has to say.

Seven days after the attacks of 11 September, the elder Kagan published a column in the Yale Daily News – republished immediately by the neoconservative Weekly Standard – assailing Kennedy for reckoning not with the threat of terrorism posed by the attacks but with "our need to understand and sympathise with… the terrorists".

But we also have no good means for reckoning the value of different actions interpersonally.

Our friends electric Microsoft's other mogul ReprintsAnd that is about all that 3D printers are good for, reckon the doubters.

For Ms. Dayal, the sari is reserved for moments of reckoning.

Water use in Southwest heads for day of reckoning.

Christmas is a time of reckoning for plenty of adults, too.

The Republican candidates for president are delaying the reckoning for Democrats.