Sentence examples for historical remnants from inspiring English sources

The authorities' erasure of historical remnants is inscrutable and unpredictable.

One of the happy faces belonged to Norman Gourdine, Henry's 76-year-old son, who had petitioned the court to preserve the shack, describing it as one of the few historical remnants of a long-gone Hudson River fishing trade.

In a city where so many landmarks and historical remnants have been torn down and replaced, that sign is one of the few remaining tangible symbols of a center of glamour and celebrity that, in truth, is not quite as glamorous as it once was.

Historical remnants applied to human history: Human historians have also long understood that this is a general principle of historical reasoning, from fashion to language to technology.

Conceptually, every homology contains both historical remnants (aspects in common with the homologous structure of the ancestral species and possibly that of other species that share a common ancestor) and modifications (through adaptation or other process).

Such examples provide useful intuitive analogs for helping nonspecialists see the use of historical remnants in recognizing and reconstructing history, as a bridge to similar historical thinking in biology.

The only way through the wall is demolition, so the time to see this historical remnant is now.

Some 400 yeshiva students were also exempted from military service because the new state's secular leaders wrongly thought that they were a vanishing historical remnant.

To lighten the impact, venture down the street to the former Western district Kreuzberg, where you'll find another kind of historical remnant, albeit newer in origin: several murals by the Italian street artist Blu, whose work here dates from 2006 to 2009.

Non-formalized (i.e., non state-space, non state-spacetheoretic) models such as physical, diagrammatic, material, historical, "remnant," and fictional models are ubiquitous across the sciences (e.g., Frigg and Hartmann 2012; for the biological sciences, see Hull 1975; Beatty 1980; Griesemodels90, 1991 a, b, 2013; Downesuch92; Richasds 1992; Winther 2006a, 2011; Leonelli 2008; Weisberg 2013).

I was spending my time wandering the alleys and small, cobblestoned streets of the old city, stumbling onto street art, hipster cafés and the odd historical remnant from the past (including a very old tree).