Sentence examples for stream of history from inspiring English sources

He knew how... to pan the stream of history to reveal a nugget of priceless information".

Felix Frankfurter once wrote that the Constitution "is most significantly not a document but a stream of history".

But Araf Khalaf said his family was part of the stream of history, not something polluting it.

"Nowadays we know too well that the stream of history flows on relentlessly and there is never a barrier across it.

In life, Trotsky was a ferociously talented orator and a brilliant organizer, who had grand ideas about the stream of history and his own role in it.

You become part of the great stream of history... and this stream leads us towards more justice and more freedom but not the uncontrolled freedom of the fox in the hen-house".

When the war came, "there was an influx of European newcomers -- diplomats, construction workers, sailors, business people -- and it seemed to Joseph that the exciting streams of history on which they arrived were safely navigable by a man like himself".

Fifteen or so years ago, the stream of American history and the stream of Vietnamese history flowed together.

Western civilisation was a mere "bubble in the stream of world history".

For me, it is just the opposite - it gives me a pathway into the great stream of human history.

"If you look at the stream of American history, we're going to go back to the day when government is going to be an active force to help you.