Example sentences for: s--a

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  • But they could also describe Great Britain in the 1920s--a point brought home to me by my vacation reading: the second volume of Robert Skidelsky's biography of John Maynard Keynes, which covers the crucial period from 1920 to 1937.

  • If England became the people of a book and that book was the Bible, then that Bible was for the most part Tyndale's--a claim argued persuasively and passionately by David Daniell in William Tyndale: A Biography , published in the fall of 1994, the quincentenary of the translator's birth.

  • Today's conspiracism stems mainly from the instability of the late 1960s and early '70s--a period of both uncontrolled violence (assassinations, urban riots, political protests turned bloody) and anti-government ideology (the left challenged laws regulating speech, sex, and drug use; the right fought busing, the Warren court, and the welfare state).

  • This fuels my theory that the Internet is becoming to the late '90s what crack was to the late '80s--a catchall explanation for everything that goes wrong in a particular sector.

  • The basic reason for these, um, tensions is that many "principles" of modern conservatives were developed under political conditions that prevailed in the 1980s--a Republican president, a Democratic Congress, and a liberal federal bench.


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