Sentence examples for past transformation from inspiring English sources

Jonathan Freedland's excellent piece in today's Guardian made me revisit it; it is rather depressing to contemplate whether this Middle East conflict has learnt anything, as it should have, from the past "transformation of the IRA".

This summer, with London once more on the cusp of transition – fuelled this time by peak oil, climate change and financial crisis – 25 intrepid walkers formed an eclectic fellowship outside West Ham Station, ready to trace change and the returning echoes of past transformation through the landscape of east London.

Optimistically, Mr Kissinger insists that "were history confined to the mechanical repetition of the past, no transformation would ever have occurred".

"If they return the marbles will be the centrepiece of the rehabilitation of Athens' ancient city centre, of its links with its past and transformation into a vibrant modern European capital," said one culture ministry official.

Introducing her bill in the House of Commons in June she told MPs: "In the past, such transformation could be delayed or even blocked altogether by pressure groups or unions with ideological objections to transferring power from town halls to outstanding heads and teachers".

In the past, energy transformations — wood to coal, coal to oil — have taken fifty years or more to unfold as infrastructure was slowly replaced.

[C4.] A Government Role in the Economy In the past, economic transformations were accompanied by enormous increases in spending on education, transportation, communications and, ultimately, technological research, much of it undertaken or subsidized by the government.

Thus, the objective of the project presented here is to simulate the past and future transformation of suburban land use patterns in the Vienna Region.

Moths learn to repel the old memory that was part of their past in this transformation.

Abe noted that during his speech to both houses of Congress last year he had "sincerely reflected" on the past and highlighted the transformation the former enemies' relationship had undergone in the seven decades since the end of the war.

Adams wished to warn his fellow Americans against all revolutionary manifestos that envisioned a fundamental break with the past and a fundamental transformation in human nature or society that supposedly produced a new age.