historical trajectory

collocation in English

meaningsofhistoricalandtrajectory

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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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trajectory
noun[C]
uk
/trəˈdʒek.tər.i/
us
/trəˈdʒek.tɚ.i/
the curved path that an object follows after it has been thrown or shot into ...
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(Definition ofhistoricalandtrajectoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhistorical trajectory

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American political development offers nohistoricaltrajectory, no inevitable march of rights, no irresistible liberal triumphs.
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What forces can we detect when seeking to explain thishistoricaltrajectoryand, furthermore, what use has been made of the lands that were maintained as public?
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When the reining in of ideals was seen as ahistoricaltrajectory, more than mere parallelism was at stake.
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Indeed, his work focuses almost exclusively on thehistoricaltrajectoryof a group of titled men who numbered only 150 in the mid-19th century.
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The two-tier thinking begins to extend along ahistoricaltrajectorythat is full of unforeseen ramifications, dead ends, and surprising twists.
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With thehistoricaltrajectoryin mind, we now turn to the varieties under investigation in this study.
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Such a vision no longer considers them as resources necessarily destined to disappear, but rather attempts to discover what forces have acted on theirhistoricaltrajectory.
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It aims to realize social plasticity by decoupling human freedom from any necessary social context orhistoricaltrajectory.
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The main approach is holistic the book aims less at covering the history of individual universities, but rather the character andhistoricaltrajectoryof the institution as a whole.
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These different historical trajectories became prominent in the nineteenth century, when both societies sought to create their own identity as national and cultural entities.
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Needless to day, federalism works better in some countries than some others, and the performance of federalism is often subject to local historical trajectories and institutional arrangements.
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I want to emphasise the fact that in terms of the historical trajectories of democracy this is a unique situation.
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These supra-national regions were during long periods of prehistory interlinked by common historical trajectories supported by networks of exchange.
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A comparison of our cumulative emissions projections to historic emissions from fossil fuel combustion highlights the magnitude of the threat from continued global development along historical trajectories.
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Within this method, two or more historical trajectories (nation-states, institutional complexes, or civilizations) are compared side by side.
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