Sentence examples for historical fate from inspiring English sources

Mr Jones's menus may reveal something about the historical fate of fish, crustaceans and molluscs.

It is the historical fate of vice-presidents in America visited now on our "vice prime minister".

Thus the empire and the earthly church could not represent the perfection of eschatological fulfillment, and their historical fate had nothing to do with God's plans for human salvation.

We do need a resource that draws in tourists and rescues these five women from their current historical fate: frozen in time beneath a Victorian gaslight, or captured in black and white on a coroner's table, on one tragic night.

The late Irving Howe, in his book "The Critical Point" (1973), writes, "There is something monstrous, utterly disproportionate, when tangled emotions about one's father are deliberately compared with the historical fate of the European Jews; something sad, if the comparison is made spontaneously".

By a quirk of historical fate, it was another Frenchman, Joseph Bonaparte, ruler over Madrid in the early 19th Century, who bequeathed to the city several of its more iconic plazas.

If Brocchi did not speculate on the natural causes of the births of species, he did however push his analogy with the historical fates of individuals further by asserting that species of different taxa characteristically have different life spans just as individuals of different taxa have different longevities.

Historical luck?

The novel, titled "The Prague Cemetery," is the story of a secret agent who "weaves plots, conspiracies, intrigues and attacks, and helps determine the historical and political fate of the Continent," his publisher said.

Sebald was followed by Günter Grass, who published a novella titled "Crabwalk" ("Im Krebsgang") that recalls a historical tragedy: the fate of the refugee ship Gustloff, which was sunk by a Soviet submarine in the spring of 1945, together with its 9,000-odd 9,000-odds, most of them female naval auxiliaries and children.

This was true of William Percival Crozier's historical romance The Fates Are Laughing (1945), set during the fall of Sejanus and the reign of Caligula, written by a Classicist with an eye for detail.