Sentences with phrase «made by their forebears»

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That democracy can be made to work, that by the scientific method we can gain mastery over the latent resources of the universe, that trial by jury is practicable, that torture is a foolish method of seeking evidence in the courts, that chattel slavery is a failure — such things we take for granted, not because we individually are wiser than our forebears, who disbelieved them all, but because we share in a social tradition which we did not even help to create, but which has shaped and conformed our thinking with irresistible power.

Your forebears formed the Council for Higher Cocoa Prices which was later succeeded by the National Liberation Movement.They incited the farmers most them found in their strongholds to support a federal system of government just to make the system ungovernable and to weaken the powers of the CPP administration.

As Michael Fry, the founder of independence site Wealthy Nation, said: «We must make clear to voters that they can most readily make their country better by emulating their Victorian forebears in the pursuit of profitable opportunities.»

Audi's RS 3 makes big power to the same five - cylinder warble, deploys it via the brand's now trademark quattro all - wheel drive and changes the game like its forebear, by making borderline supercar pace accessible — and practical.

Although his work exists within the German tradition — from Expressionism a century ago to the significant contribution made by contemporary artists who are his senior, Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz and his teacher Sigmar Polke — Ackermann has found his own voice independent of his forebears and has become one of the most stimulating and important artists working today.

Contemporary or postmodernist artists typically are MORE concerned about (1) how art is made; or (2) how it is communicated displayed; or (3) how it is experienced by the spectator or visitor; and LESS concerned about the artwork itself, than their modernist forebears.

Yet they all stand - or lie - in stark contrast to their obvious forebears, the images Yves Klein made in the 1960s by smearing pigment on bodies and using them as brushes.

At the same time, cleaner fuels produced by our country's world - class refining sector have helped make today's cars and trucks 99 percent cleaner for common pollutants than their 1970s forebears.