Sentence examples for historical aim from inspiring English sources

The book's historical aim — a confused one — is to persuade us that the Jameses were typical Victorians yet also exceptions to every Victorian rule: "strange and florid paradoxes of passionate unconventionality and Victorian restraint".

The historical aim of the pan-Germanist movement in Austria was achieved.

One of the most memorable interludes is a story Jacobs can't resist telling about an earlier visit to Bolivia as the employee of a Cambridge tour company with "serious historical aims".

Values in some organisations described the historical aims and culture of the organisation, in others they were contemporary having been reviewed and updated through a process of staff engagement and consultation.

This approach, speculative and meta-historical, aims to discern large, embracing patterns and directions in the unfolding of human history, persistent notwithstanding the erratic back-and-forth of particular historical developments.

This is because the purpose of the list was purely religious rather than historical: its aim was to name the deceased kings to be honored in the Karnak temple.

Numbers have been going down on some of the historical stuff: AIM went down, MapQuest went down and dial-up subscribers go down every year.

The show, "Don't Know Much About History," pokes gentle fun at the American public's lack of general historical knowledge, aiming to set things right, sort of.

Proponents of the investigation argue that Ergenekon is a long-overdue historical reckoning aimed at bringing to account what Turks call "the deep state".

Gulen supporters argue that the Ergenekon trials are a long-overdue historical reckoning aimed at bringing to account a murky group of ultranationalist operatives, linked to the military, that has fought against perceived enemies of the state, including pro-Islamists.

This is Dilthey's critical adaptation of Schleiermacher's romantic hermeneutics: a theory that replaces the romantic vocabulary of divination, congeniality, and comparison with one of an initial inductive hypothesis-formation leading up to a process of critical, empirical investigation and historical comparison aiming at revision or improvement of the initial hypothesis.