Sentence examples for historical clock from inspiring English sources

And the historical clock tower could be properly preserved and incorporated into the new quay.

So variations in a gene can serve as a kind of historical clock.

From Dungeons & Dragons to Supergrass, The X Files and The Wire, you can trust Mitchell to set his historical clock to the nearest micro-second.

Kirkuk has suffered inordinately from bad ideas, and the old ones have engendered some that are new: the idea that the historical clock can be turned back forty years, or that Iraq can be carved up among its Sunni, Shia, and Kurds without enormous bloodshed and countless individual tragedies.

Thanks to this work, it was possible to determine that the black layer was the original colour of the historical tower clock faces of the Government Palace of Helsinki.

The IANA time zone database maps a name to the named location's historical and predicted clock shifts.

Part detective mystery, part historical fiction, The Enchanted Clock is a philosophically and linguistically multifaceted novel, full of poetic ruminations on memory, love, and the transcendence of linear time.

According to Yasuhiro Yokota, in his 2009 paper "An Historical Overview of Japanese Clocks and Karakuri," there were two types of wadokei.

In a daring experiment rarely attempted in other sports, the U.S.G.A. is symbolically willing to roll back the clock for the historical fun of it and, notably, perhaps to prove a point.

This fact has been used for support by those who think the human psyche evolved separately from, and more recently than, the physique of Homo sapiens.Both fossil evidence and DNA analysis using molecular clocks (estimates of historical mutation rates) agree that Homo sapiens is 150,000-200,000 years old.

While at MIT, Burges is working on a book provisionally entitled Turning back the Clock: Technological Obsolescence and Historical Time in Contemporary Culture.