Sentence examples for historically regarded from inspiring English sources

The Chinese have historically regarded carved-jade objects as intrinsically valuable, and they metaphorically equated jade with purity and indestructibility.

Its powerful military has historically regarded itself as the protector of the modern Turkish state and the vision of its founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

In the early 1980's, the supremacy of the Alawites, historically regarded in Syria as heretics, was a spur for a violent rebellion by Islamic fundamentalists.

While Mr. Schundler got a surprisingly warm reception, considering he had ventured into what is historically regarded as Democratic turf, the crowd hardly seemed to focus on politics.

And yet for writers who are historically regarded as the mainstream, or at the centre of power, it is quite different.

Neither thin nor delicate, clinker brick is the Marlon Brando of masonry: misshapen, blackened in the kiln, historically regarded as trash by brickmakers.

State meddling in what has historically been regarded as a natural division of labour may irk some.

As a result, they have, historically, been regarded with great suspicion, and though the Malaysian proposal was novel, the hostility behind it was not.

CENTRAL banks have historically been regarded as the guardians of a currency's value, but occasionally they want to drive their exchange rates down.

This number has historically been regarded as the single best indicator for the official Bureau of Labour Statistics' non-farm payrolls figure and on the face of it offers encouragement for the January reading of this report, due Friday.

The controversy happens to come soon after another move against a major literary work including the word, which has historically been regarded as a racial epithet but is used as slang or subversively today by rappers and others.