Sentence examples for recent centuries have from inspiring English sources

The most recent centuries have seen extraordinary accomplishments in improving quality of life.

As clearly seen in Europe, the interests of the nation state — humanity's preferred form of organization in recent centuries — have mostly trumped recognition of need for broader agreement and action on several fronts.

River engineering and the subsequent loss and fragmentation of riparian habitats during recent centuries have had serious impacts on the distribution and population size of many riverine species.

Coronations were once a direct visual expression of these alleged connections, but recent centuries have seen the lessening of such beliefs due to increasing secularization and democratization.

This section, traditionally known as the Shanyang Canal, in recent centuries has been called the Southern Grand Canal (Nan Yunhe).

Its architecture in recent centuries has been decorated with a vigorous, sometimes coarse fantasy and made gaudy with gilt paint and coloured glass.

A paradox also remains unexplored: of all European nations, England in recent centuries has probably been the least scarred by the mythological demonization of the Jews.

The history of recent centuries has its black passages — the slaughter of the buffalo on the Western plains, the massacre of the shore birds by the market gunners, the near extermination of the egrets for their plumage.

The historical development of liberalism over recent centuries has been a movement from mistrust of the state's power on the ground that it tends to be misused, to a willingness to use the power of government to correct perceived inequities in the distribution of wealth resulting from economic competition—inequities that purportedly deprive some people of an equal opportunity to live freely.

OO 63.5°F in Antarctica - where the most recent century has been the fastest warming one in the past 2,000 years.

Increasingly, in recent centuries, We have been reminded of a fact that We have tended to overlook: eternity lasts a very long time.