Sentence examples for rules of history from inspiring English sources

Like so many other rapidly discarded notions -- war can be conducted without casualties; terrorism is confined to Europe -- our exemption from the rules of history is a myth that it's getting harder and harder to sustain.

He has issues about the ways in which America seems 'hopelessly unmoored from reality - dreaming [in 1991 as now] of glory in the massacre of faceless Iraqis... dreaming of exemption from the rules of history'.

Nearly four decades after the collapse of military rule, 31 years after Athens' accession to the-then EEC and 11 years since its adoption of the euro, Greece's chaotic state was "a reversal of the rules of history", he said.

A third, given currency by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1831, was of a new and exceptional kind of society not bound by prevailing rules of history.Each picture stresses what makes America different from other countries.

Also personal was the chance it provided, after a series of films like "Bridge of Spies," "Lincoln" and "War Horse," to "return to the feeling of just being able to let my imagination overrule the rules of history.

The rules of history might, however, be rewritten as a new tech startup by the name of Faception claims to have developed an algorithm that can help track down potential threats to society by simply looking at their faces.

Much has been written of the rule of law, less of the rule of history.

The rule of history is as old as the rule of law.

Despite the "mirage of immortality" that afflicts global empires, the only reliable rule of history is its cycles of imperial rise and decline, and as Toynbee also pithily noted, the only direction to go from the apogee of power is down.

The rule of history is two steps forward and one step back.

The U.S.G.A. celebrates this incident on its Web site as "the most famous incident in Rules of Golf history".