Sentence examples for historical act from inspiring English sources

"I guess we're a historical act now," asks Vega.

Angelica rushes home from England to comfort her sister, and Eliza sings a fearsome anthem, "Burn," taking revenge on Hamilton by destroying their correspondence — which Miranda cleverly casts as a self-aware historical act: I'm erasing myself from the narrative.

The Christian covenant was thus a highly complex historical act that brought about a relationship of the believer to Christ whose (normally) unseen glory was identified with that of God himself, whose Lordship was viewed as operational in history, and whose community (of believers) was identified with the Kingdom (Dominion or Rule) of God.

When a new generation is prepared to write the problem on their own bodies, tattooing themselves with the greenhouse gas concentration from the year of their birth, we see a deeply symbolic historical act which means the challenge can never be invisible again.

The social contract is not a historical document and does not involve a historical act.

No empirical act, as a historical act would be, could be the foundation of any rightful duties or rights.

When Christians read the Gospels as historical acts, they will say what Mel Gibson says: that this is the truth, this is our faith.

"It is distressingly easy today to find tendentious scholarship that exhibits a Zinn-like habit of judging historical acts and actors by their contemporary utility".

Later, the narrator cited historical acts of terrorism, ranging from the Serbian assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand to the activities of the P.L.O.

Within the Canadian context, there are several groups seeking some form of redress and reparations for historical acts of injustices brought against their ancestors, and in some cases survivors, by governments in Canada.

Exceptional actors like Stephen McKinley Henderson, as Lincoln's butler, William Slade, and Gloria Reuben, as Mary Todd Lincoln's friend and dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckley, mostly stand as mute witnesses to historical acts they are close to, yet have little ability to effect.