Sentence examples for single historical from inspiring English sources

To them, no single historical event mattered more than any other.

What "actually happened" and what a people thought happened belong to a single historical process.

Much of the profit from the fossil-fuel industry stems from a single historical accident.

These vignettes, if removed from this book and collected into a single historical novel, would make for fascinating reading.

At the same time, multiculturalism and identity politics were questioning the very existence of objective truths and a single historical reality.

However, claiming a special place for race by associating it uniquely with a single historical event has the effect of making it literally unmentionable in other contexts.

And with a small cast, no CGI turkey monster and not even a single historical figure, it delivers one of the strongest episodes of the year.

"Though historians are very reluctant to say never, I can't think of a single historical precedent," said Eric Foner, a professor of history at Columbia University.

The modern senses of "terror" and "terrorism" reach back to a single historical moment: "la Terreur," Robespierre's Reign of Terror in 1793 and 1794.

While there is no single galvanizing historical event, nevertheless Updike tells us what we were like as the 20th century bumped along".

Tying race to a single inexorable historical event, seen as completely at odds with what are portrayed as being Europe's democratic traditions, disconnects it from colonialism, which is given a more positive spin as a civilising rather than a murderous mission.