Sentence examples for surviving history from inspiring English sources

For America, it appears that in order to avoid being spread too thinly, we require one last eternal return, or as Yeats warned the culture, before a "rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem," to determine its core, of what remains worth saving, and its contingent, what must be left to past life, to have any chance at surviving history's predictable cycle.

A full-scale, fully functioning replica of the Halifax Gibbet was constructed by the cast of The History Channel's Surviving History series, broadcast on 15 June 2008.

The surviving histories speak equally positively of Nerva's brief reign, although none offer a substantial commentary on his policies.

The fibre usually doesn't survive history's long journey.

Even so, details leaked out of how the men survived history's longest mining shift.

Many of the stories significant enough to survive history's winnowing fan were about events so huge and traumatic that they became pillars of our world view and self-understanding: stories about great floods, fires, volcanic eruptions, deadly landslides, protracted wars, catastrophic plagues and famines and more.

Loyalties survive; histories continue to be written; the world keeps ending and still people keep turning up asking where the party is.

As Mr. Miller rightly points out, music survives history more easily than stagecraft does.

In 2008, just in time for the dawning Obama age, he compressed his decades of scholarship into a pithy little book, "How Race Survived U.S. History," which has just been published in paperback (Verso; $19.95).

However much Jardine lauds Wren's scientific accomplishments, there is no doubt that it is through his buildings that he survives in history, and a biography that does not fully treat his architecture rings oddly hollow.

We went anyway, and even in October, China's high season for tourism, we found these small landscapes -- now protected cultural sites all open to the public -- to have survived both history and fame.