History in sentence

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Harvard's "Thucydides's Trap Case File" has reviewed the last 500 years of history and found 16 cases in which a rising power threatened to displace a ruling power.

So finally, we conclude again with the most consequential question, the question that will have the gravest consequences for the rest of our lives: Are Americans and Chinese going to let the forces of history drive us to a war that would be catastrophic for both?

The bad news is that nobody has a feasible plan for escaping history as usual.

And I think now we need a surge of imagination, creativity, informed by history, for, as the philosopher Santayana reminded us, in the end, only those who refuse to study history are condemned to repeat it.

In fact, I think we're at the dawn of a new age in human history.

The thrill of archaeological discovery is as powerful as love, because ancient history is the most seductive mistress imaginable.

All worship at the temple of possibility that one discovery might change history.

History may be cyclical, but we are singular.

Countless invading armies have done the same throughout history.

As a nation, South Africa sought to sit within the truth of its past, and to listen to the details of its history.

And this was about analyzing our own history.

All of your financial information is held in digital databases, but your credit card company can't just post your purchase history online.

History has shown that people are incredibly resilient, and while we can't eradicate racism or the stress that results from it overnight, we might just be able to create environments that provide a buffer to what people of color experience on a daily basis.

It was the longest war in US history, but information was so scarce that schoolteachers we spoke to told us they had trouble explaining to their students what we were doing there, when those students had parents who were fighting and sometimes dying overseas.

Indeed, we stand at a remarkable time in human history, where, driven by refusal to accept the limits of our bodies and our minds, we are building machines of exquisite, beautiful complexity and grace that will extend the human experience in ways beyond our imagining.

Shouldn't we go ahead with our enlightened, progressive selves and relegate useless concepts like race to the dustbins of history?

But you see there, that desire to mitigate the impact of race and racism shows up in how we attempt to manage time, in the ways we narrate history, in the ways we attempt to shove the negative truths of the present into the past, in the ways we attempt to argue that the future that we hope for is the present in which we're currently living.

Time has a history, and so do black people.

But we treat time as though it is timeless, as though it has always been this way, as though it doesn't have a political history bound up with the plunder of indigenous lands, the genocide of indigenous people and the stealing of Africans from their homeland.

When white male European philosophers first thought to conceptualize time and history, one famously declared, "[Africa] is no historical part of the World."

He was essentially saying that Africans were people outside of history who had had no impact on time or the march of progress.

This idea, that black people have had no impact on history, is one of the foundational ideas of white supremacy.

Those who control the flow and thrust of history are considered world-makers who own and master time.

So today, white people continue to control the flow and thrust of history, while too often treating black people as though we are merely taking up space to which we are not entitled.

But we shouldn't forget that throughout the history of our language, it has always been teachers or people involved in the early learning of language who promoted spelling reforms, who realized that in our spelling there was often an obstacle to the transmission of knowledge.

The Royal Spanish Academy, all of language academies, also believes that spelling should be progressively modified; that language is linked to history, tradition and custom, but that at the same time, it is a practical everyday tool and that sometimes this attachment to history, tradition and custom becomes an obstacle for its current usage.

That basically means that all your dating history and everything related to it can be used for any purpose for all time.

For example, financial loss: based on your web browsing history, algorithms might decide whether you will get a mortgage or not.

So, you know, this is the stigma that people with substance use disorders face every single day, and you know, I have to tell you it's still why I'm more comfortable coming out as a gay man than I am as a person with a history of addiction.

Stories tell us what societies value, they offer us lessons, and they share and preserve our history.

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