Sentence examples for rough history from inspiring English sources

Anyone who thinks platforms are unimportant should consider their rough history.

The tough materials — concrete and perforated metal — are a sensitive response to the Bowery's rough history.

The book consists of four stories, which together track a rough history of Chinese people in America.

Over coffee at a cafe on Avinguida Diagonal, Torres traced a rough history of Spanish sports radio, an industry that has changed considerably.

And after a long, rough history that has included three wars, they've only recently brought their nuclear arsenals out into the open and tried to establish a system of mutual deterrence.

Here's a rough history of my beer-drinking career: at age 18 (then the legal drinking age in New York), I started with Rheingold — cheap, watery stuff that later went off the market.

During a rough passage, history offered both an escape and a homecoming.

Despite a rough recent history, Mr. Glynn saw something else when he first met Roshonda.

If Mr Bush leaves little of substance behind at home in areas as important as immigration and pensions, he deserves all the rough handling history can give him.

Sarah H. Ketterer, 42 Chief executive and portfolio manager, Causeway Capital Management BOOK -- "The Rough Guide History of Islam" by Justin Wintle (2003) WHY -- "From the seventh century, Islam has struggled with its fragmentation and diversity, and has faced external enmity.

Although he succumbed to his injuries seconds later, his dying act may have saved over a thousand lives and prompted Winston Churchill to later comment: "In the long, rough, glorious history of the Royal Marines there is no name and no deed which in its character and consequences ranks above this".