Sentence examples for historical thrust from inspiring English sources

First, we – like many of those cited above – take seriously the historical thrust of changes in the definition of international health to global health, as well as the underlying motors of those changes.

Yet, in a quirk of history, a reëlected Obama could suddenly find his best historical opportunity thrust upon him.

c) Writing Historical Fiction: War thrusts ordinary people into extraordinary situations.

Sheinkin also blurs some facts — for example, the Soviets stopped Hitler in the rubble of Stalingrad, not "just short" of the city; and he is uninterested in the cut and thrust of historical interpretation.

Their scandalous and, in Gee's telling, heartfelt affair gives narrative thrust to rich historical details from Pope's early career.

One can therefore expect that a repetition of the historical earthquakes on the Mount Lebanon thrust (551 AD, M7+) or on the Yammouneh fault (1202, M7.5) generating rock PGA in this range would cause major death toll and economic losses.

"Tower" plays like a historical Hitchcock film about ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances of which they have agonizingly partial views but nonetheless take decisive action.

The discussion of business network evolution in a region should not avoid the region's historical development and major historical events that thrust and reconstruct the existing networks.

The ongoing deformation of the coastal and offshore Marche thrust system is associated with moderate historical and instrumental seismicity and recorded in sedimentary and geomorphic features.

Knowing that historical narrative can only be tentative, Mr Modiano thrusts his fiction into territory that history and research cannot reach.

It is the fourth sequence, "The Odessa Steps," which depicts the massacre of the citizens, that thrust Eisenstein and his film into the historical eminence that both occupy today.