Example sentences for: s--a

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  • 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).

  • The speech was less about Clinton's sins than Starr's--a stella culpa , as it were.

  • 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.

  • The visuals suggest the 1940s--a draft that sent 12 million men into the armed forces and created unprecedented employment opportunities for blacks and women (opportunities that were lost when peace returned and Johnny came marching home); mass migration from the rural South to the industrial North that made Rosie the Riveter a household name and exemplar.


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