glorious past

collocation in English

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glorious
adjective
uk
/ˈɡlɔː.ri.əs/us
/ˈɡlɔːr.i.əs/
deserving great admiration, praise, ...
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past
noun[S]
uk
/pɑːst/us
/pæst/
the period before and until, but not including, the ...
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(Definition ofgloriousandpastfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Like nationalists everywhere, they wrote histories that projected the present backward and connected it with agloriouspast.
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In the story of the lost file we see the character and workaday requests of this clientele, the city'sgloriouspastand the power of the saint all drawn together.
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The search for origins, so characteristic of nationalism, projects back in time to agloriouspastto legitimate through historical continuity, the claim for a state in the future.
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In contrast, towns which could offer visitors little or no evidence of a glorious present, as opposed to agloriouspast, could suffer greatly from such comparisons.
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Rouse and his followers, in claiming to revive the city'sgloriouspast, play on nostalgia and myth to create urban spaces that are in form, content and often aesthetically new.
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The purpose of defence cannot be based on memories of agloriouspast.
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We seem temporarily to have forgotten ourgloriouspastand to be living in a fog of self-doubt, mediocrity and pettiness.
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It is not possible to live on agloriouspastand an element of residual national affection, as that leads to no future.
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Lacking a sense of purpose, our recent achievements have not matched ourgloriouspast.
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It is all about thegloriouspastwhen we built locomotives for the world.
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That seems to be little more in this modern world than an illusion that feeds on our undoubtedlygloriouspast.
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He dreams of empire in the books he writes of ourgloriouspast.
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I do not think the history of trade union law is any tribute to ourgloriouspast.
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We have a great andgloriouspast.
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Building societies have agloriouspast.
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We want to have useable, effective forces for the future, and even those which have had agloriouspast may have to adapt owing to the new security situation.
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Its impressive architecture reveals thegloriouspastof the area.
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Some of the buildings and houses they erected in the past are in good preservation as venerable landmarks of agloriouspast.
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The arch is the only remaining of thegloriouspast.
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The song is a nostalgic remembrance of hergloriouspastand a declaration of her wishes to start a new life.
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