Sentence examples for history dominates from inspiring English sources

They are also a good fit: Iberia, because of Spain's colonial history, dominates routes between Europe and South and Central America.

Private schools are rare in China, and Chinese children are not allowed to attend parochial schools, so the state curriculum, which is heavy on politics and on the Party's version of history, dominates.

But Rwanda's terrible history dominates neither public life nor private conversation as it did even a decade ago.South Africa, which celebrates the 20th anniversary of its first post-apartheid poll on April 27th, has also moved a long way from its hate-filled past.

To Mr. Zeiler there is no doubt that the days when diplomatic history dominated the profession are gone.

NEWARK – The greatest Devils teams in franchise history dominated the N.H.L. about a decade ago, rising to prominence with a stifling neutral zone trap, an impenetrable goalie and opportunistic forwards that thrived on the counterattack.

One of the difficulties female painters face, particularly figurative painters – compared to more recent mediums such as performance or conceptual art – is the weight of art history, dominated for centuries by men.

Overall, History dominated the top of the chart with "Pawn Stars" (at No. 1 and No. 3, with just under 6.7 million and 6.4 million viewers, respectively) and "American Pickers" (at No. 5 with 5.6 million viewers).

Perhaps it's simply the case that when you have Shakespeare as your national dramatist, it's harder to separate the plays from 400 years of performance history – a performance history dominated by penises and poetry.

Their military genius is a moment of glorious payback in a history dominated by white exploitation, rapacity and racism since the Dutch settled at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652.

Given the academy's chaotic management history — dominated by the academy's more than 300 professional artist members, known as academicians — some of those involved are skeptical about the organization's ability to turn its fortunes around.

Now an octogenarian American exile, returning to Russia as a tourist,the unnamed man is recording his complicated history, dominated by thedozen years he spent as a political prisoner in a Soviet gulag, in aletter to his mythically named stepdaughter, Venus, whom he acquiredpeacefully and late in life, in the United States.