Sentence examples for set a historical from inspiring English sources

"Over the years, we've really set a historical precedent.

Ms Whitman set a historical record for non-presidential elections by spending more than $160m (the final numbers are yet to be tallied) on her campaign, most of it her own wealth.

Spain's victory, won with a magnificent head strike from Barcelona's Carles Puyol, set a historical mark: for the first time the Spanish team has advanced to the World Cup final.

This discovery (named by Science the discovery of the year in 2007) set an historical milestone in the field and the number of papers published yearly on the topic keeps increasing exponentially (for recent reviews see: Hanna et al, 2010; Jopling et al, 2011; Wilmut et al, 2011; Yamanaka & Blau, 2010).

You can apply the tool's default setting — a historical six-month average, in which stocks rise 5.4 percent and bonds rise 2.5 percent, based on the S&P 500 Index for stocks and the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

Scottish Lib Dem leader Jim Wallace is expected to announce a deal this afternoon which would allow local elections north of the border to be conducted under PR, setting a historical precedent.

So how the policy puffins react to the changing reality under policy sets a historical stage for the public's welfare.

However, where the two differ is that, while a myth deals mainly in the fantastical realm of gods and goddesses playing cruel tricks on one another, a legend is usually set in a historical setting accompanied by key facts that give the story a certain amount of believability.

The overall study goal is to situate an extensive field data set within an historical geomorphic framework to propose a conceptual, biogeomorphic model of landscape development at Silversword Loop.

A novel set in a historical period can be "deeply contemporary", Phillips says.

I write novels about inner lives and emotions, often set in a historical context.