Sentence examples for of historic context from inspiring English sources

In a small office next to the splendid art deco suite commanded by earlier director generals, Mark Thompson is enjoying a bit of historic context.

The city's lack of historic context is obviously freeing, and has generated a tremendous quantity of late-twentieth-century architecture that plays off the scale, simplicity, and material of the modernist box and the dockland cranes.

The surveying of the city was done according to a series of "historic context statements," which put designated sites within intellectual and cultural frameworks including Mexican postwar development; lesbian, gay and transgender history; and the significance of the entertainment industry.

Daniel Burnham's famous 1909 Plan of Chicago has been called "one of the most noted documents in the history of city planning". That makes it all the more remarkable and truly sad that so much of what Frederick Law Olmsted achieved in Chicago might now be lost because of a lack of value for historic context and comprehensive planning and all while invoking his name.

The first statement confuses bigotry for poetic justice, and the second, a glaring ignorance of the historic context of Hindu scripture.

In general, contributing properties are integral parts of the historic context and character of a historic district.

It is wholly right to condemn without reserve the sickening violence on the West Bank, whether the victims of fanaticism be Israeli or Palestinian; badly wrong to wrench this violence out of its historic context -- let alone by using scores of dead Parisians, as did Netanyahu, to claim that his coalition's policies bear no relationship whatsoever to the conditions which breed this ongoing tragedy.

What it missed was an awareness of the historic context and opportunity.

Despite the fact that it would destroy the public's enjoyment of a beautiful stretch of river, ruin the historic context of irreplaceable historic assets like Jamestown and Colonial Parkway, and mar a landscape that's been largely unchanged for thousands of years, Dominion Virginia Power still wants to construct high-voltage transmission lines across the James River.

To give a couple of examples, in English, a student might draw on their knowledge of history to analyse the historic context of a novel or, conversely, use their knowledge of English to structure an argument in a history assignment.

Other reviewers have defended the usage of the language in the historic context of race and slavery in the United States.