The letter provides "the history and context of what we have been through since the mid-1980s, " Mahony said.
Such books regard more earnest matters like history, context, and ideas the way a child looks at a plate of Brussels sprouts.
This strong sense of history and context makes Mr Giddins much more than your average jazz journo, and his writing abounds with stimulating observations, even if his far-flung gift for reference occasionally gets the better of him.
Their perspectives of the history and political context of ballistic missile threat add something that we both lack and need.
They describe the draft as "un-British" in that, even at moments of national crisis and retrenchment, during for example two world wars, "governments always understood the need to keep the tradition of world history alive in schools and to have an emphasis on British history in the context of the world".
Therefore, it is important to have some context and history to our strategic narrative.
Each one of the BRIC countries has a distinctive culture, history, and political context.
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Context and history could only be determined through conversation or real-world investigation.
History is always the context, and everything is symbolic.
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In the long context of British history, this is just the latest version of a perennial problem of too many young people drinking too much.
We are the oldest constitutional democracy in the world but we must never forget in the context of human history just how quickly we have come to where we are today.
Nuclear fission in the context of the span of history is, like the ancient discovery of fire, game-changing.
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The problem is that the Manhattan-based Ms Fallaci, who by virtue of her distinguished career as a journalist should know better, provides no perspective and precious little context for her analysis of history.
Finding the balance between biodiversity conservation, and human dietary need may well constitute the toughest challenge any generation in human history has had to confront, in a context of 7 billion hungry people.
Speaking on Wednesday, he said that "the establishment of an Institute of Ulster-Scots Studies offered a unique opportunity to promote the understanding of Ulster-Scots' language, history and culture, not only within the context of Northern Ireland but beyond".
Often they also miss the context of how linked Capitalism and representative government are in history.
Context is a function of the business environment, organizational history and recent business performance, informing the relative importance and urgency of change.
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That big caveat aside, the report somewhat persuasively puts the Chinese economy in context by comparing market penetration in various sectors with the history of U.S. economic development.
Although valuable and quite extensive contributions to pupils' understanding of spiritual values are made in religious education, Welsh, English, history and art, the provision for collective worship does not provide a context in which pupils' own spiritual awareness can be consistently nurtured.
Either these essential lessons are torn from context transforming Christ into favored worldly philosophers, or this man who changed history contradicted himself within the span of several sentences.
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History never repeats itself, but historical patterns do -- though always in a new context.
Too often we think we can determine policy without any context, or judge the action or inaction of our government without the necessary history to give it meaning.
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Mr. RHODEN: Grant was one of my first interviews, and he was actually saying that in the context of being frustrated that, you know, because his father was a history major and historian, that kind of stuff, and you know, Grant knows about the struggle and that kind of stuff, and he knows the irony of guys having this kind of money and no consciousness.
As Mr Evans describes, it was not just Algeria's history that militated against it being an inseparable part of the French nation, but also the context of contemporary geopolitics.
In their declaration, prompted by the pope's pre-millennium call to local churches to ask for pardon for misdeeds committed during the course of the church's history, the French bishops seek to place the church's actions between 1940 and 1945 in a historical context.
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