Sentence examples for historical term for from inspiring English sources
"Some people think it is inherently oppositional, others think it is about constant formal innovation and still others think of it as a historical term for a movement that is now definitively dead".
And, although many readers were unaware of Pullman's dogmatic under-structure until he began to spell it out in Dawkinsesque interviews, the Magisterium, the evil empire in his best-known trio, took its name from a historical term for Catholicism.
The historical term for this kind of anxiety is "Brown Scare" — an inordinate fear of a vast far-right conspiracy, which resembles the anti-Communist panics of our past.
For his continued refusal to use the correct historical term -- for his continued dancing around the word "genocide" -- President Barack Obama is our Most Disappointing Democrat Of The Week this week.
Hakkapeliitta is a (Finnish) historical term used for a Finnish light cavalryman in the service of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden during the Thirty Years' War (1618 48).
So for me it was an art historical term that had drifted free from its religious origins.
The non-historical term "Mandingo" for a fine fighting or breeding slave comes not from Tarantino, but the earlier film Mandingo.
Isil is short for Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant – a historical geographical term for the land stretching from southern Turkey through Syria to Egypt.
The resulting German plans for the Netherlands suggested its transformation into a Gau Westland, which would eventually be further broken-up into five new Gaue or gewesten (historical Dutch term for a type of sub-national polity).
This is low in historical terms, but a rally for the supermarkets compared with recent months," McKevitt said.
