Sentence examples for through its past from inspiring English sources

On the centennial of the Pan-American Exposition, held from May to November 1901, the city is collectively rummaging through its past, at once recalling its glory, and asking if it could ever come back.

Is China really prepared to begin rooting through its past?

Contemporary European dramaturgy seems obsessed with sifting through its past; no wonder the Wooster Group is so popular there.

The K.F.A., the parent body to the 28-year-old K-League, has been built up through its past president, Chung Mong-joon, a leading lawmaker in the National Assembly in Seoul.

The United States, through its past acts, is largely to blame for the failure of Iraq's Shiite majority to rise in revolt against Saddam Hussein, a senior American military commander at Central Command said here today.

It takes nerve to look silly; the cheesy, kaleidoscopic history lesson that took Britain through its past, from pasture through the workhouses and smoke stacks of the Industrial Revolution to World War I and, of course, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," was like a Bollywood version of a sixth-grade play.

Lee Williams, formerly the executive director of the Symbian Foundation — the entity created to oversee the open sourced Symbian in 2008 — takes the view that while the PDA heritage of Symbian was initially off-putting, the platform's robust underlying architecture and flexibility gave it the ability to power through its legacy past.

He tried out the machine, reading the lines that scrolled through its window, past a red arrow, and decided to use it for his speech.

From the moment he walked through its doors, past the marble hall to classrooms that have nurtured generations of future doctors, lawyers (and a newspaper reporter or two), he knew.

South Africa dealt with its past through a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

But it will have encouraged China's grievance-cherishers, who see its future through the prism of its past humiliation at the hands of foreigners and who resent the foreign influences that economic reform brings.Yet there are also more progressive forces at work.