Sentences with phrase «narrow view of history»

That's a narrow view of history, short term or long term.

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What many do a poor job of stating is that they blame people's excessively fervent beliefs and devotions for causing the various atrocities they have caused throughout history, and the effect that the fundamentalist contingent has on the narrowing of modern societies view.

Then David turns to Professor Simon Szreter — social historian and founder of «History & Policy» — to discuss how academics are trying to find ways of restoring the public's faith in politics, and bridge the gap between the politicians» narrow view of the world and how the voters see it.

Unlock Democracy has criticised Lord Goldsmith's citizenship review for its narrow view of what it means to be a UK citizen for being antithetical to the UK's rich history, patronising and unnecessarily divisive.

Concerning the history of the separation of powers in Australia, I am aware that the High Court has taken a narrow view of what tribunals can exercise judicial power.

Here's another statement of Quam's, this in response to Kersten's allegation that the vision of American history is a bilious litany of racism etc.: «We do not take a narrow view of who is an American and who can achieve the dream.

What contemporary photography has amply discredited — and which, in fact, applies retroactively to the entire history of photography — is the narrow view that the camera is a recording device only, not a creative tool, and that its purpose is strictly representational.

It's clear that the Earth is a dynamic, far from equilibrium system, and that the popular view of nature as being perpetually in equilibrium is only due to the narrow slice of human history through which we view the past.