historical event
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhistoricalandevent
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historical
adjective
uk/hɪˈstɒr.ɪ.kəl/us/hɪˈstɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
connected with studying or representing things from ...
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event
noun[C]
uk/ɪˈvent/us/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofhistoricalandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofhistorical event
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But you ask whether a dialogue with the past leaves room for thehistoricaleventbehind the material remains.
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As a starting point for discussion for most of the chapters, they establish context by examining a particularhistoricalevent.
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The original position is a heuristic device to help us arrive at an understanding of the requirements of prudence, not ahistoricalevent.
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By contrast, evaluation of developmental urbanism is more like interpretation of ahistoricalevent.
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None the less, a note of caution seems in order - particularly since some of the evidence derives from a literary rendition of anhistoricalevent.
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The relationship between the narrative and the actual scientific work is like that between a tendentious documentary film and the actualhistoricaleventit depicts.
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Yet a lesson is more than a causal explanation of ahistoricalevent.
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All these pieces tell stories of disruption and dispute, an often fractious interplay between common idiom,historicalevent, and text.
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But space can also capture time: both time in general and 'a time' (ahistoricalevent).
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Myths may be f unctional in increasing solidarity, although groups that shared the experience of a cer tainhistoricaleventmay represent it differently.
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Choice is not seen as a particularhistoricaleventin the mind of the subject.
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Some fear thehistoricalevent.
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What is thathistoricalevent?
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And does your notion of a 'dialogue with the past' leave room for an interaction with the 'past other' or thehistoricalevent'behind' the material remains?
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We are dealing here with the handful of survivors of a uniquehistoricalevent.
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He wants universities to take anhistoricaleventand see how men and women long ago regarded the issues of their times.
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That surely is anhistoricaleventof the greatest importance.
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But this proposal suggests a certainhistoricaleventnot so long ago.
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It is anhistoricalevent.
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