Sentence examples for lock of history from inspiring English sources

The lock of history had been tripped.

The Eastern and Central Europeans, with their simpler narrative of liberation from Soviet occupation, had already sprung the lock of history — or so it seemed — and now the capital of empire was up for grabs.

Though tyrannicide does not necessarily lead to something better, in Gavrilo's view it is necessary to destroy one lock on the door of history to make a new opening possible.

But these are delicate times for a new manager, with his team undermanned and underperforming, and a fan base always locked in the grip of history.

Politicians who weren't born when British boots landed on Normandy beaches nonetheless speak of when "we" won the war; the same "we", the "we" of history, locked men and women in chains.

"Batumi is not just a piece of history to be locked in a tin".

And, of course, those who locked him up are on the wrong side of history.

A one-woman Communist Party, Rose battles on, swimming against the tide of history — a frighteningly intelligent woman locked in mortal combat with her equally smart daughter.

Follow the course of history with one of these several exhibitions on locks from centuries past.  .

There were those in the crowd who knew he was a lock, but there were also many in the crowd who wanted a little slip of history.

Nonetheless, this is the pairing that Fleischer presented us with, locked in a faintly homoerotic embrace with one another and the ineluctable forces of history.