Sentence examples for history understood from inspiring English sources

The Muslim generals who ruled Nigeria for most of its postcolonial history understood the divisiveness of the Shariah.

He spoke multiple languages; wrote poetry; studied history; understood the projections of Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes.

Who did they think was going to run that war, the Committee on Social Thought? "The End of History" understood the outcome of the Cold War in a spirit quite different from that of the standard neoconservative account, according to which we won the Cold War because Reagan adopted a policy of liberationist interventionism.

Nolan's screenplay (co-written with his brother, Jonathan Nolan, and based on a story developed with David S. Goyer) simply pushes the Batman legend to its logical extreme, as a vision of human history understood as a struggle between superior individual wills, a tale of symbolic heroism and sacrifice set against the hopeless corruption of society.

He knew how much this middle-class audience of concert-goers – among the first properly public, as opposed to aristocratic, audiences for symphonic music in history – understood and appreciated his invention, his games of expectation and surprise, his effortless manipulation of genre, affect, and expressivity.

Explaining the title, he wrote: "What I suggested had come to an end was not the occurrence of events, even large and grave events, but History: that is, history understood as a single, coherent, evolutionary process, when taking into account the experience of all peoples in all times".

Everyone with a sense of history understands free agency is a sucker's bet.

"There needed to be a memoir to help people who wouldn't read history understand," she said.

Meanwhile Roberts, a writer steeped in Who history, understands that the show works by placing the horrific within the everyday.

The existence of such a paranoid apparatus — nine hidden tape machines intended to help history understand Nixonian greatness, never infamy — shocked the nation when it was quite casually revealed by an administration aide at a congressional hearing.

Fluvial geomorphology seeks to study river landform history, understand formative processes, and predict changes using a combination of field observation, experimental studies and numerical models.