Sentence examples for presence dates from inspiring English sources

"It's a difficult life here," he said about the current forty-member Jewish community, whose presence dates back at least eight hundred years.

The foundation date of the Castle of Zena are still unknown, though the first document attesting its presence dates back to 1216.

Although missionary presence dates back to the early twentieth century, Christianity started taking root in northern Kenya only in the 1950s and 1960s.2 It is to be understood that Christianity reached Africa generally in the context of the European's moral duty to change the traditional religious practices and beliefs of Africans.

Archaeological evidence of human presence dates back to approximately 1350 AD.

The Sultanate of Mogadishu later developed with the immigration of Emozeidi Arabs, a community whose earliest presence dates back to the 9th or 10th century.

The push to reduce the US military presence dates back at least 20 years, when around 100,000 people rallied in Naha to protest the abduction and rape of a 12-year-old schoolgirl by three US servicemen.

That says something because, historically, the Mets have had a strong Venezuelan presence, dating to the original Met Elio Chacon in 1962.

In Russia, where it has a bigger presence, dating back to before the dark days of 1998, it is targeting not just initial public offerings and acquisitions but also a growing domestic market.

The resurgence of Australia's Indigenous population is testimony to the physical and political resilience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, perhaps the most established civilisation on earth with estimates of an Australian continental presence dating 40,000 to 60,000 years.

However, the high microsatellite variation supports an ancient presence, dated in our samples over 14 ky [see Additional file 3] of the M17 marker in the Indian subcontinent, as suggested by Kivisild et al. [ 11], and sustained by Sengupta et al. [ 15] and Thanseem et al. [ 71], who consider the Indo-European M17 only a contribution to a local Early Holocene pre-existing Indian M17.

Motorola's presence here dates back to 1986, when a group led by Robert Galvin, then the chairman and the father of Chris Galvin, the current chief, made a tour of China.