Sentence examples for historical break from inspiring English sources

As a war of national unification, the Civil War represented a sharp historical break, a moment of crisis that would define the country's course for decades to come.

"It concerns itself with the historical break that was the first world war, and travels from the prelapsarian world that preceded it to mass-mechanised butchery".

And it has to be understood as a historical break, which will profoundly change the way we perceive and experience reality.

Only three months ago, the scandal-weary party was patting itself on the back for making an "historical break" with its murky, autocratic past by choosing Angela Merkel as its chairman.

I am very happy to be here, free from all of those fears and hoping against reason that the next historical break in Cuba will not be a violent one, and that it will bring about a future of peace, prosperity and democracy.

Australia v New Zealand isn't usually a fixture to get the heart racing – at least when it comes to cricket – but anticipation was high for this historical break with the 148-year-old tradition of preserving the five-day variety of the game as a daytime-only affair.

Rather than relying on figures or tables, this book piques the reader's interest with a pithy narrative that presents apposite nutshell examples, stresses historical breaks, and throws in the odd pun.

(Grode) 'Shakespeare's Sister (or La Vie Materielle)' (previews start on Friday; opens on Monday) Having an array of historical women break bread together worked pretty well for Caryl Churchill in "Top Girls," so why not let Irina Brook have a try? (That's Peter Brook's daughter, who's presenting her first full-length play in New York City).

That was her particular gift of course, to charm creatively, and productively, but even the more puritanically driven of us knew (though we rarely learned to be grateful) that in those years we were the beneficiaries of a historical lucky break that made it (well, not quite) harder to fail than succeed.

In the training stage, the historical Web break data are collected by sensors.

In bear markets, historical correlations break down and you end up losing on both the growth part of your portfolio and the "protection" part as well.