Sentence examples for nineteenth from inspiring English sources

Hume and Mallon can trace their political lineage back to the founding father of peaceful constitutional nationalism, Daniel O'Connell, and on through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to Charles Stewart Parnell to John Redmond.

Nor is there anything inherently unjust in the idea of equal-sized seats - one of the Chartists demands for political reform in the nineteenth century.

But from that arrival nonetheless [are] the origins of the Australia that we now have and all of the things that happened through the nineteenth century.

While Fray Bentos pies are still around - they had also been made in Britain from 1958 and in 1993 the name was bought by Campbell's of soup fame - the original site is a slowly rotting National Historic Monument which is being turned into a museum, complete with its huge generators, turbines and dockside cranes exported in the nineteenth century from Loughborough, Stoke, Derby and Leeds.

Date: Course begins Wednesday 30th September 2015 Course fee: £4,000 From the brief lives of antiquity to Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets to monumental nineteenth century lives and letters, biography is a form that has shown a wonderful capacity for invention and reinvention.

Split infinitives were rare-ish in English until the nineteenth century, and only one appears in Shakespeare.

A major part of the problem is that despite positive-sounding developments in recent years such as the increase in CSR programmes, diversity awareness, and employee engagement, the corporate mindset of top-down, command-and-control leadership has remained unchanged since the mid-nineteenth century.

Georgetown claims the world's tallest free-standing wooden building - St George's Cathedral, designed by a nineteenth-century Brit.

The tour guide tells us that the rainbow appears every day; that the Falls were discovered in the nineteenth-century by a British explorer; and that according to Amerindian legend, they were named after a tribal chief who canoed over them in an act of self-sacrifice.

Nineteenth-century cartoons are either pro-British or pro-Boer; blacks appear only as peripheral savages.

In the mid-nineteenth century Semmelweis became known as the 'saviour of mothers' after his discovery that much fewer women died in childbirth if their doctors washed their hands, especially if they had just performed a post-mortem.