Sentence examples for past contributes from inspiring English sources

Each reference to a block in the past contributes to this value and a reference's contribution is determined by a weighing function F x), where x is the time span from the reference in the past to the current time.

Impregnable cliffs made it a natural stronghold from early times and evidence of this past contributes to its present character.

However, I feel that my past contributes to my knowledge of the business.

She said the Republicans' refusal to increase taxes incrementally in the past contributed to the county's current problems.

Mr. Buffett has in the past contributed to political campaigns, including those of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York.

Indeed, the Beards have been financially supportive of Mr. Ford in the past, contributing to his failed bid for the Senate in 2006.

Communication among agencies, utilities and contractors has been elusive in the past, contributing to the ravaging of roads throughout the city.

The unhappy English have delivered a body blow to the west, and to the ideals of international cooperation, liberal order and open societies to which England has in the past contributed so much.

India is already a major donor to Afghan reconstruction, with around $750 million pledged -- making it, we believe, the fifth largest donor country -- and is already involved in projects in a wide range of sectors, including electricity, road construction, and telecommunications, and has even in the past contributed as it could to agriculture and health.

Farah has apologised but said their past contributed to his frustrations.

A shared social memory about an important episode from the past contributed an enduring aura to the Chinese urban landscape, and thus deserves to be studied as a central component of urban history in early China.