Sentence examples for history encompassing from inspiring English sources

These communal oases of peace and tranquillity have a turbulent history, encompassing natural disaster, crime and riots.

If it is successful it could be the biggest trade and investment deal in history, encompassing half the world's GDP and a third of its trade.

With Flood of Fire, anthropologist turned novelist Amitav Ghosh completes his trilogy about the opium wars, an eccentric but carefully researched multicultural history encompassing plot absurdities that wouldn't be out of place in a Bond film.

What follows is an engaging and unaffected account of Reyes' reading history, encompassing the wider issues of why we read, the serendipity influencing what we read, and the benefits good reading can have on a life.

David Simpson, one of the assistant keepers of the Herbarium, shows me several specimens that illustrate its history, encompassing the rise and fall of the British Empire and figures including Captain Bligh, Charles Darwin and the Hookers of Kew (Sir William Hooker was the first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, followed in that role by his son, Joseph, in 1865).

Recent economic history, encompassing examples from the United States in 1937 to Japan in 1997, shows that a premature tightening of policy can easily derail growth in an economy that has undergone a lengthy slump especially one that has fallen into a liquidity trap, in which traditional monetary policy is ineffective.

This "Ancient History" does exist, but History encompasses much more.

Tuesday's gala, a retrospective of Carnegie Hall's history, encompassed Broadway, jazz, folk music and comedy.

In Samanth Subramanian's excellent account of the civil war and its aftermath in Sri Lanka, history encompasses the people who lived through that "tragic time", and the land's sole function is to serve as that history's paradigm.

But our superlative modernist buildings are not the only thing the exhibition will reveal: Clark's campus history encompasses many intriguing chapters, including extravagant collegiate Gothic designs from the 1920s and cutting edge post-modernism and "green" buildings in the 21st century.

History encompasses not only concrete individual developments and concepts of individuality, but also encompasses the "universal".