Sentence examples for historical inclination from inspiring English sources

But considering the historical inclination to let seniority prevail and the anticipated lack of desire among Democrats to overhaul such an important committee so soon after a successful election, Waxman's win is truly a sign that there is fervent desire for change on this front.

We did not like the combative doctrine when it was formally unveiled last September because it seemed to walk away from America's historical inclination to work with other nations to preserve the peace and to rely on force only when its security was directly threatened.

Their lifelong correspondence shows the strong influence of this friendship on Berthelot's philosophical and historical inclinations.

It was the historian Livy who recognized and encouraged his inclination for historical studies.

He has little inclination for historical analysis, and he makes sweeping generalizations where specificity might help.

There was Betty Sessions, for example, a stamp collector from Washington with an inclination toward historical plays like "A Prisoner of Passion: The Paul Robeson Story".

An "experiment that did not fail," the Jewish village communes in Palestine (i.e. the kvutza, kibbutz, and moshav) owed their success to the pragmatism with which their members approached the historical situation, to their inclination towards increased levels of federation, and to the degree to which they established a relationship to the society at large.

The accounts that the prince was subject to a judicial process or that his death was caused by his love for Queen Isabella of Valois, Philip's wife, or by his Protestant inclinations lack historical foundation.

Perhaps it is a journalistic impulse to ensure veracity, historical context and authenticity rather than the freer inclinations of a novelist or memoirist, who would almost certainly have put things in chronological order rather than employing this stuttering, backwards and forwards narrative.

First he must overcome historical suspicions, aggravated recently by allegations of spying, and the inclinations of the governing Workers Partyy.In the Middle East the Arab awakening has presented Mr Obama with one headache after another.

Owing to this clear ambiguity, the present compilation retains only the inclination from Malta. Figure 3 exhibits together the 41 historical geomagnetic directions discussed above.