Sentences with phrase «without historical precedent»

Without historical precedent we don't know how it's going to pan out.

The evaporation of the global supply of short term credits within hours or days of the Lehman failure is, I believe, without historical precedent.

Both authors refer to the modern era of QE, ZIRP et al to be an «experiment» without historical precedent, which makes the nature of the endgame hard to fathom (and its precising timing impossible to predict.)

Velocity of change... without any historical precedent... upending long established practices in nearly every part of the «information» industry, which comprises a wide range of sectors from music to news to education.

The changes to Westminster politics in Scotland in 2015 are likely to be without historical precedent.

Such an allegorical reading is not without its historical precedent.

Not exact matches

Clearly, the last of these four is the optimal response, but Beijing has been trying unsuccessfully to do this for nearly ten years, and neither the arithmetic nor the historical precedents give observers much hope that this can be done to any serious extent without a radical transformation of the country's development model.

The format of pairing living artists with historical works is not without precedent — you may remember the brilliant Frieze Masters talk in which Ed Ruscha waxes poetic about Giovanni Bellini's The Ecstasy of St. Francis at the Frick — but the Met's encyclopedic holdings offer a virtually unrivaled range from which to choose.

Whereas European modernists freely borrowed forms from African art without regard to meaning or cultural specificity, Catlett directly inculcates such cultural and historical precedents into her sculpture.

Margrit Lewczuk's new paintings, the Phosphorescent Paintings that make up this exhibition at the Maier Museum of Art in Lynchburg, Virginia, are a trip into an artistic terra incognito; a realm without signposts or guiding historical precedents, literally, a walk in the dark.

There has to be an exploration of ways where these two seemingly opposed issues of economic development and low carbon can actually become complementary Unfortunately there is no historical precedent for an increase in energy without increased greenhouse gas emissions, which makes me extremely skeptical of «greenhouse gas Kuznets curves.»