Sentence examples for historical continuity from inspiring English sources

Duhem banishes model building from physical theory (as he previously banished Maxwell's rashness) because model building breaks with historical continuity; in fact, model building is not only historically non-continuous, but present models are even often "non-continuous" among themselves.

But they continue to provide useful techniques for describing certain features of historical continuity.

In sum, a well-conceived reference model helps promote and ensure the recovery and subsequent maintenance of historical continuity, i.e., the reestablishment of an impaired ecosystem to its historic ecological trajectory.

The party is still a coalition of people who have a sense of historical continuity.

Architects themselves think in terms of physical context, incremental change and historical continuity.

"France represented for me the historical continuity of intelligence and reasonable living," he wrote.

That these things had to be was simply a matter of historical continuity...

Ackroyd also allows that his sense of historical continuity is quasi-mystical, an article of faith.

Top Chinese leaders must combine historical continuity with their own distinguishing theories and practices.

He saw in them symbols of an historical continuity that Russia had lost under communism.

The structure of the new stadium is not so much a historical tribute as an appropriate recognition of historical continuity.