Sentence examples for historical ring from inspiring English sources

The remark had an ominous historical ring because of a long line of authoritarian crackdowns on Catalonia, from Philip V in the 18th century to Franco in the 20th.

Three-fifths has a nice historical ring to it, doesn't it Joking aside, here is a fearless prediction: at some point, either tonight or after all the voter data has been collated, a talking head will refer to minority turnout as "unprecedented".

At the same time, he was writing pieces about the alleged historical paedophile ring in the Tory party.

Historical tree-ring samples, whose growth patterns indicate rainfall, suggest that the recent drought is not an anomaly and that drought has been the normal condition in much of the river basin for centuries.

A fast-paced historical novel ringing with the clash of ideas, set in the Danish court in the 1770's, when the young King Christian VII was dominated by his German physician, a fan of the French Enlightenment who tried to transform Denmark into a land of liberty, equality and fraternity; by a veteran Swedish novelist and playwright.

Fire event detection is used to reduce uncertainties in historical tree-ring proxy records.

Ring, ring, ring.

When combined with cross-dating of recent and historical mortality, tree-ring reconstruction can give annual data on the size and growth rate of individual trees (e.g. Henry and Swan, 1974; Oliver and Stephens, 1978; Johnson and Fryer, 1989; Stoll et al., 1994; Carrer and Urbinati, 2001).

It uses historical sexual objects – a ring with metal teeth to deter masturbation; an 18th-century chastity belt – to trigger discussion.

Mr. Reid was a top target of national Republicans and Tea Party activists, who saw him as a prominent trophy and a chance for an upset win that would ring with historical resonance.

Extensive research, using a combination of historical records and tree ring analysis, has found that the mean temperature has been 1.3 degrees warmer in the last 30 years, and this has been accompanied by an increase in "severe" heat waves.