Sentence examples for historical entity from inspiring English sources

This article discusses the Netherlands Antilles as a historical entity as it existed at the time of its dissolution.

Foreign scholars debate whether Vietnam is one historical entity that was divided by war or whether the the regional differences among the south, the center and the north are more deeply rooted.

Right and left lay claim to its pride or shame, but the historical entity – whose rights and wrongs patriots and radicals now debate – lies cold in its grave, its banners, medals, statues and pith helmets neglected and ignored.

Transalpine Gaul came into existence as a distinct historical entity in the middle of the 1st century bce, through the campaigns of Julius Caesar (c. 100 44 bce), and disappeared late in the 5th century ce.

We now have an ultimate aspirational resume, truly surpassing all before it, well beyond mere yuppie ambition and into an undreamed of sort of pre-career virtuosity: that of 25-year-old Ronan Farrow, who, without ever hardly having had a paying job, has gone from faceless celebrity-family member to historical entity in the period of a few weeks.

And, in fact, the truth about the black man, as a historical entity and as a human being, has been hidden from him, deliberately and cruelly; the power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

Since they are historical entities, religions are born and die.

In an important sense, after all, races exist absolutely as social and historical entities.

In fact, Haeckel is one of many thinkers who believed that all species were historical entities (lineages) but did not share Darwin's enthusiasm for natural selection as the main mechanism for generating the diversity of the biological world.

Scientific theories are historical entities.

Explain how species (as objective individuals) are radically different than higher taxa (which are historical entities arbitrarily chosen to categorize species)     IV.