Sentence examples for historical and ongoing from inspiring English sources

It was primarily a celebration, but not without a campaigning edge: periodically the backdrop illustrated highlights from the historical and ongoing struggle for gay rights.

The Punjab provincial administration run by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif needs to accept that its historical and ongoing tolerance of violence by extremist groups is simply untenable.

We have a duty to help, not only because of our historical and ongoing role in these war-torn and poverty-stricken countries.

We have since been made aware of extensive historical and ongoing sexual abuse in public authorities, not to mention stubborn gender pay discrimination and age and disability-related neglect.

Instead, she identifies behaviours exhibited by women in the workplace – an unwillingness to ask for more money; a tendency, in meetings, to hold back; a conservatism in estimating their self-worth – as the warping effect of historical and ongoing gender bias.

These patrols need to access timely, relevant information about events and conditions along their patrol route, both historical, and ongoing.

The woodlands of temperate south-eastern Australia are characterised by extensive historical clearing and ongoing modification of the understorey habitat through livestock grazing, fertilization and cropping.

Combining the study results with regional data retrieved from the international SITVIT2 database underlined a connection between frequency of certain M. tuberculosis phylogenetic lineages and the language spoken, suggesting historical (colonial) and ongoing links (trade, tourism, and migratory flows) with European countries with which they shared a common past.

When DuVernay's "Selma" came out, in 2014, it highlighted both the historical and the ongoing struggle for voting rights — and the upshot of that struggle has been voter suppression and the national victory of a party for white people.

"Although the industry frequently points to its low operating costs as evidence of its market competitiveness, this economic structure is an artifact of large subsidies to capital, historical write-offs of capital, and ongoing subsidies to operating costs," Mr. Koplow said.

"There has been ongoing historical and archaeological controversy about the extent to which the Saxons replaced the existing Romano-British populations," the authors wrote.