Sentence examples for represented a historical from inspiring English sources

The garage rock revival honors bands like Creation, which represented a historical blip but also pushed its boundaries.

Still, they represented a historical vanguard: explicit attacks on religion as a whole poured forth within the next hundred years.

In the months after the announcement, several of the theatre's star directors and performers announced their departure, and in an open letter the remaining staff decried Dercon's appointment as "an irreversible turning point" that represented a "historical razing of identity" in favour of a "globalised consensus culture".

As a result, Trotsky represented a historical alternative, the possibility that communist socialism could have worked and remains an option for radicals worldwide.

"(Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchevv?" suggested Russian visitor Dimitry Filimonov, when prodded to hazard a guess after being told it represented a historical figure.

All this represents a historical shift.

But the trial in The Hague represents a historical breakthrough on another level.

The rise of these ministers represents a historical throwback, said Manning Marable, director of African-American Studies at Columbia University and author of "Black Leadership" (Columbia University Press, 1998).

He does not represent a historical person, or embody a single threat; he simply conjures an atmosphere of cannibalistic fear, and thus feels gruesomely right for an age of schism and feud.

A group calling itself the Bessarabian Rada, claiming to represent a historical territory encompassing much of south-west Ukraine and neighbouring Moldova, held a founding meeting in Odessa recently.

However, with the US's post-Cold War objectives in the region having changed, Vang represents a historical chapter which the US and its regional allies are keen to see closed.