Ashes
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That system, as we know it, emerged from the
ashes
of Europe’s religious wars in the seventeenth century, consolidating itself through colonialism and then decolonialization (itself a reaction born of new nation-states).
More example sentences with word ashes
And just as the woman who wanted to know me as an adult got to know me, she turned into a box of
ashes
and was placed in my hands.
And now, as you may have heard, Detroit is having a renaissance and pulling itself up from the
ashes
of despair, and the children and grandchildren of those who fled are returning, which is true.
His final resting place is a golden globe that contains his
ashes
at the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade.
If our institutions are all failing and beyond hope for reform, a natural response is to seek to smash the machine, drain the swamp, burn the empire to the ground, on the hope that whatever rises out of the
ashes
is bound to be better than what we have now.
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