Sentence examples for history was able from inspiring English sources

Thus, the terrorist leader responsible for the largest attack in the United States in history was able to continue to operate for another decade.

He was a good Latinist and as a student of Classical history was able to hold his own in conversation with the erudite Pius II.

Thanks to a subsequent increase in the number of civilizations known to Western students of cultural morphology, Oswald Spengler, a German philosopher of history, was able, in the early 20th century, to make a comparative study of civilizations over a much broader spectrum than that of Vico.

The Negro can precipitate this abdication because white Americans have never, in all their long history, been able to look on him as a man like themselves.

The new rules also meant that building societies, for the first time in their 150-year failure-free history, were able to offer a full range of banking services.

They were pushing hard to qualify for the World Cup for the first time and with the experience of Gudjohnsen, the best player in their history, were able to finish second behind Switzerland in their group, qualifying for the play-offs.

Drivers also have constant access to their ride history, being able to easily see where they've driven, who they've picked up and what they've earned.

Notorious disasters, such as Minamata Disease from mercury poisoning in factory runoff, spurred social movements that for the first time in Japan's post-war history were able to exert pressure on the iron triangle [2].

First, we had to help create conditions so that the residents of Crimea for the first time in history were able to peacefully express their free will regarding their own future.

"The Catholic Church has always, in its history, been able to survive, and remain as large as it is, because of its ability to adapt". Warren Goldstein.

"The Catholic Church has always, in its history, been able to survive, and remain as large as it is, because of its ability to adapt".