Sentence examples for historical attention from inspiring English sources

Particularly during the phases of heavy fighting during the Civil War, historical attention tends to gravitate to the men doing the actual fighting (and dying).

With so much historical attention fixed on Lincoln and his generals, it is easy to overlook the contributions of the peculiar but forceful 37th Congress.

The New Republic recently dubbed this "historical attention deficit disorder," when a country gets distracted from focusing on any one place for very long.

And for those with an even shorter historical attention span, we give you the story of Cardinals receiver Anquan Boldin's wacky season: "He tangled with management.

The fact that Western societies tended to parade their disagreements and failures in public, in contrast to the Soviet fetish for secrecy, guaranteed that historical attention would fix on American motivations and mistakes.

But they have never attempted a job requiring this level of historical attention or artistry, one whose goal is to look as authentic to Moroccan eyes as to those of scholars.

Where local plans in the UK are concerned with historical landscapes, attention is devoted principally to individual buildings, sites and monuments, or small areas of special interest: concepts concerned with the historico-geographical structure of entire cities or sizeable parts of cities are largely ignored.

The turn of the year will not end this vogue for historical analogy, though attention may turn as much to the differences as to the similarities.

In helping to launch the ad today, the legion's head of fundraising praised the film's historical accuracy and attention to detail.

Yet the sheer number of blacks, who make up three-quarters of the population, the historical lack of attention to their needs and a host of other factors, like substandard education, appear to place them at greatest risk.

The appointment of a new chief executive, the firm continued, would "address the historical lack of attention and oversight at the board level, and the need for a laser beam focus by management on RIM's business rather than distractions such as a professional hockey team".