Sentence examples for thing of history from inspiring English sources

The 2008 electoral college map seems to be a thing of history, and frankly even Obama's political advisers say as much.

Yet during the past few years as our attention focused more and more on Central S. America and on the Caribbean, the vision of U.S. invasions came to seem a thing of history, or even of fiction and poetry alone.

But he does, and eventually he looks at the bad things of history, too, on television.

One of the reasons she did not move back to Poland, when it became possible, was that, "My generation in Poland had such a shared experience of coming through things of history and I would be partially an outsider to that".

Raising the stakes for moral change is Crummell's belief that no single individual ever accomplished anything epochal; "everywhere we find that the great things of history have been accomplished by the combination of men" ("The Social Principle Among a People" [DR], 31).

Yes, a triple crown, that thing straight out of history books and seen only on old, grainy film.

IF THERE is one thing the study of history teaches it is that there is precious little truly new under the sun.

All of these institutions have evolved ways of doing things out of histories in which the very idea of indigenous environmental governance was overtly and subtly marginalized.

Feeling a part of all things, of all history.

If you have to do things, you have to do things" at this stage of history, post-Abu Ghraib and post-Guantanamo, is terrifying.

It is an eerie thing – to become part of history.