historical moment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhistoricalandmoment
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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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moment
noun
uk/ˈməʊ.mənt/us/ˈmoʊ.mənt/
a very short period ...
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(Definition ofhistoricalandmomentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Significantly, at the very samehistoricalmoment, another series of photographs of nationalist leaders was also being put into public circulation.
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It is linked to no particularhistoricalmomentor political agenda.
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It reveals the keenest vulnerabilities and most promising potentials of archaeology in thishistoricalmoment.
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How would those possibilities differ from onehistoricalmomentto the next?
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What does thishistoricalmomenthave to say about shifts in vocal style and audience expectations?
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This turns out, upon closer inspection, to be shrewd eclecticism with a touch ofhistoricalmoment.
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Works of history can tell us more about thehistoricalmomentin which they are written than about the time to which they are referring.
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They were active innovators who seized political opportunities as they unfolded during this criticalhistoricalmoment.
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This leads us to the issue of what discursive resources were available at this particularhistoricalmoment.
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She reminds us that the "globalization" of the presenthistoricalmomentis not unprecedented.
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This is perhaps especially true of the fourteenth-century authors, at whosehistoricalmomentthe making visible of categorical thinking is an imperative creative activity.
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It is a practice only possible in a narrowhistoricalmoment.
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The contextual and intertextual network of relations linking cultural production to itshistoricalmoment has largely been ignored in favour of a critical formalism.
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Moreover, at any givenhistoricalmomentsome lives are valued more than others.
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I pause longer at thehistoricalmomentthey identify, and, in so doing, find a more complex and nuanced developmental process.
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Although one paradigm was dominant at any onehistoricalmoment, there is certainly overlap.
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But what exactly were "institutions" and why was he so concerned with them at just thishistoricalmoment?
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All pay attention to thishistoricalmomentand to how legislative incentives are molded by race, yet the question of "why the 1960s?" remains undertheorized.
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Women calypsonians seized thehistoricalmomentto initiate a challenge to the politics of manhood that was the very essence of the calypso.
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