Sentence examples for past affects from inspiring English sources

The past affects the present as black women then and now find themselves treated as chattel.

(The definition is more benign; it simply means that the past affects the present).

"It had many ideas in it that resonated with me," he said, "particularly the way the past affects us, whether we know it or not".

That's why conservatives are still writing books denouncing F.D.R. and the New Deal; they understand that the way Americans perceive bygone eras, even eras from the seemingly distant past, affects politics today.

Buy from Amazon.co.ukTHE real message of Stephen Ellis's history of the African National Congress (ANC) in exile painfully and palpably obvious between the lines is how the conspiratorial past affects the ruling party to the present day.

We do not find any "scarring" effects in the sense that unemployment in the past affects wages.

Center Shaun O'Hara said: "You can't let the past affect your performance.

Her loyalties divide and subdivide: Ms. Belfer is giving us a mystery: how will her shameful past affect her actions?

"Clearly the instances of the last several days have been of a higher magnitude than in the past, affecting more customers for longer periods of time.

Their new methodologies are used to figure out whether a policy change that happened in the past affected the economy or whether it was made in anticipation of events that policy makers thought would happen later.

The author of a definitive book about the tortured history of the north Caucasus ("Let our Fame be Great"), Mr Bullough has a good sense of how the traumas of Russia's past affect its present.