Sentence examples for historic idea from inspiring English sources

Over recent years, Iran has proudly promoted a historic idea: a "Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction".

The Salzburg Festival has long adhered to the historic idea of an arts festival as a place apart from the workaday music world.

By and large, this is a very American phenomenon: a Vermont aesthetic, the territory of off-grid backwoods hippies, or a historic idea based on Thoreau's Walden.

As Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, finalises his report on Iran's nuclear programme, the Iranian foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, has been promoting the "historic idea" of a Middle East free from weapons of mass destruction.

As Cobban writes, Locke's influence ensured that the "historic idea in Burke's mind [did not] pass into the full organic theory of society" (Cobban 1960: 89).

He explores how historic ideas and ideals persist or transform over time.

All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified".

''The show has many of my historic ideas — teddy bears, the mix of man and women — and the Andy wigs that he never put on straight,'' said Castelbajac backstage, pointing out his cult shoes, in collaboration with Free Lance, that had animal faces staring out at the toes.

2 The programme evaluated here for patient acceptability and satisfaction brings these historic ideas about improving blood pressure management into the present day.

"The dishes are more or less inspired by historic British ideas and recipes.

"We turn back the clock one story at a time to reveal how various strands are woven together to create a historic figure, big idea or an unthinkable tragedy," says narrator Sean Braswell.