Sentence examples for present gives from inspiring English sources

The work's subtitle, "A Search for the American Character in and Around the White House, Past and Present," gives some indication of its daunting breadth of focus.

That running dialogue — between audience and actor, between Mr. Downey's past and present — gives the film a symbolic power not usually found in comic book movies.

The relentless rhythm with which the show shifts between story lines, and between past and present, gives it a metronomic quality that grows increasingly wearying.

It is the humus content that, according to the amount present, gives the chestnut soils their characteristic light or dark brown colour.

Although wolves often attack, kill and eat dogs when their numbers are roughly equal or favor the wolf, the vastly greater number of dogs that exist at present gives them the advantage.

Smith's letter is recommended to anybody considering a literary fight: "Laugh at yourself, and I shall pawn my life that before three weeks are at an end, this little affair, which at present gives you so much uneasiness, shall be understood to do you as much honor as anything that has ever happened to you".

The eight members of the Air Resources Board who were present gave a unanimous vote of approval.

Perhaps he always posited the future as bright because the past and present gave him so much to work with.

Their work connects past and present, giving a sensory dimension to history," says Soko Phay, a lecturer at Paris-8 University.

"That is not the case at present, given the current rates of credit growth and so on," he said.

Not to the present, given plot elements in conflict with current reality, but to the late 1940's.