Sentence examples for the basic history from inspiring English sources

Nadoolman already had the basic history.

The Western nonspecialist can learn some of the basic history and vocabulary of Bon art from wall labels.

"The militia are still around and they are still getting some support," said James Dunn, author of the basic history of East Timor, "Timor, a People Betrayed" (ABC Books, 1996).

Under the law, an immigrant must demonstrate the ability to read, write and speak English and a knowledge of the basic history and form of government of the United States.

"The main motivation is a hunger to explore this period of Suharto's government," said Adam Schwarz, the author of "A Nation in Waiting" (Allen & Unwin, 1999), the basic history of Indonesia's recent past.

That ignorance by American students of the basic history of the civil rights movement has not changed — in fact, it has worsened, according to a new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center, on whose board Mr. Bond sits.

These are the details where you can begin to see the war as it happened, and see what a lot of the more basic history classes never covered.

Rather than delve profoundly into the forces that shaped the United States, whose basic history he knew from prep school, he studied Japan.

All but the smallest cemeteries contain a register with an inventory of the burials, a plan of the plots and rows, and a basic history of the cemetery.

In 1840 he published Sketches of the Judicial History of Massachusetts, which provides a basic history of the colonial Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature (antecedent to the current Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court) and its justices.

Join the Discussion This approach ignores some pretty basic history: that the banks imploded while Republicans held the White House; that President George W. Bush started the rescue; that many Republicans voted for the bailouts; and that they stabilized a financial system that was perilously close to collapse.