Sentence examples for historic continuity from inspiring English sources

Among nonliterate peoples who cannot record their own histories, masked rituals act as an important link between past and present, giving a sense of historic continuity that strengthens their social bond.

After he graduated from Yale, in 1910, Father Flye combined his convictions about "the heritage of civilization" and "the organic historic continuity of the Church," as a teacher and a priest.

Archaeology and tourism development by government institutions as well as private settler organisations established what it said was a "narrative based on historic continuity of the Jewish presence in the area at the expense of other religions and cultures".

It was not surprising, then, that Mr. Giurgola's skyscraper for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company in Philadelphia has a different design for each facade - glass on one side, patterns of concrete on others, and at its base, as a gesture to historic continuity, the building's own early 19th-century commercial facade.

The same order of the statement is notable — and it tells us something not just about the ways in which racial and sexual identity remain complicated issues but about the historic continuity many see in the struggle for civil rights in America.

The new hereditary system of surnames promises to create more historic continuity than the use of one name.

What better way of stiffening the backbone of resolve than to remind his fellow Japanese of their great warrior heritage, to re-establish historic continuities?

In sum, a well-conceived reference model helps promote and ensure the recovery and subsequent maintenance of historical continuity, i.e., the reestablishment of an impaired ecosystem to its historic ecological trajectory.

For the analysis of historic deforestation, the continuity of imagery time-series and free data availability is an important aspect, where NASA´s Landsat mission remains unmatched.

Where Trilling saw the decline of sincerity as a rupture, a historic break, Magill sees continuity, tracing the strands of a Protestant-Romantic trajectory for nearly 500 years right up to the hipster culture of today.

To convince the bearer that this piece of paper has value equal to the quantity of gold it once represented, it is dressed up with antique typefaces, scrolls, swags and cartouches, giving an impression of continuity and historic grandeur.