Chinese art has a long history of varied styles and emphases.

Lay use of the Breviary has varied throughout the Church's history.

Because it was a minority church of widely differing traditions in a non-Christian culture ( except in Kerala, where Christianity has a long history ), practice varied wildly.

The number of Praetors elected varied through history, generally increasing with time.

While citizenship has varied considerably throughout history, and within societies over time, there are some common elements but they vary considerably as well.

The gases present in the atmosphere on Earth have varied greatly over its history.

In addition to each having varied views on the other as a religion, there has also been a long and often painful history of conflict, persecution and at times, reconciliation, between the two religions, which have influenced their mutual views of their relationship over time.

It is difficult to provide a single concise definition for dharma, as the word has a long and varied history and straddles a complex set of meanings and interpretations.

Although the emperor has been a symbol of continuity with the past, the degree of power exercised by the emperor of Japan has varied considerably throughout Japanese history.

Over the course of history, the geographical territory that was called " Flanders " has varied.

Across its history, the syllabic structure of Greek has varied little: Greek shows a mixed syllable structure, permitting complex syllabic onsets, but very restricted codas.

The boundaries of Greater Poland have varied somewhat throughout history.

However, the history of human sexuality shows that attitudes and behaviour have varied across cultures.

Many societies throughout history have insisted that a marriage take place before the couple settle down, but enforcement of this rule or compliance with it has varied considerably.

The approach to the building of socialism, however, varied over different periods in Soviet history, from the mixed economy and diverse society and culture of the 1920s to the command economy and repressions of the Joseph Stalin era to the " era of stagnation " in the 1980s.

Honey use and production has a long and varied history.

Materials that were used in the building of castles varied through history.

The use of natural law, in its various incarnations, has varied widely through its history.

The Pyrenean region possesses a varied ethnology, folklore and history: see Andorra ; Aragon ; Ariège ; Basque Country ; Béarn ; Catalonia ; Navarre ; Roussillon.

The study of personality has a broad and varied history in psychology, with an abundance of theoretical traditions.

The size of a typical legion varied throughout the history of ancient Rome, with complements of 4, 200 legionaries and 300 equites ( drawn from the wealthier classes-in early Rome all troops provided their own equipment ) in the republican period of Rome, ( the infantry were split into 30 maniples of 120 legionaries each ), to 5, 200 men plus auxiliaries in the imperial period ( split into 10 cohorts, 9 of 480 men each, plus the first cohort holding 800 men ).

Traces the history of the medium since its beginnings in the 1950s and examines its varied impact on elections through 2008.

It was a " universal museum " with very varied collections covering art, applied art, archaeology, anthropology, history, and science, and a library.

In Italy the panettone comes with an often varied history, but one that invariably states that its birthplace is in Milan.

Its history has been broad and varied, from classic works of nineteenth-century women authors such as George Eliot and Margaret Fuller to cutting-edge theoretical work in women's studies and gender studies by " third-wave " authors.

The 140,414 Americans who gave `` the last full measure of devotion '' to prevent disunion, preserved individual freedom in the United States from the dangers of anarchy, inherent in confederations, which throughout history have proved fatal in the end to all associations composed primarily of sovereign states, and to the liberties of their people.

Driven from the marketplace by the course of history, our hero disguises himself as a private detective.

For paradigmatic history `` breaks '' rather than unfolds precisely when the movement is from order to disorder, and not from one order to a new order.

His own testimony is that he has read very little in the history of the South, implying that what he knows of that history has come to him orally and that he knows the world around him primarily from his own unassisted observation.

One might, indeed, argue that the history of ideas, in so far as it includes the literatures, must center on characterizations of human nature and that the great periods of literary achievement may be distinguished from one another by reference to the images of human nature that they succeed in fashioning.

The student of ideas and their place in history will always be concerned with the patterns of transition, which are at the same time patterns of transformation, whereby ideas pass from one area of activity to another.

In short order, the general history became his most popular work and has remained, aside from his later Social history, the work most widely favored by the public.

Both Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace had written him enthusiastic praise of Elmer Gantry ( any changes could be made in proof, which was already coming from the printer ) and they had ordered 140,000 copies -- the largest first printing of any book in history.

What Krim ignores, in his contempt for history and for accuracy, is that these magazines, Partisan foremost, brought about a genuine revolution in the American mind from the mid-thirties to approximately 1950.

The decline of the Cunard line from its position of dominance in Atlantic travel is a significant development in the history of transportation.

Everything from poetry to phonetics, history to histrionics, philosophy to party games has been adapted to the turntable.

The removal of Stalin's body from the mausoleum he shared with Lenin to less distinguished quarters in the Kremlin wall is not unprecedented in history.

Even the `` history of furniture '' can hardly be taught exclusively from photographs and lantern slides.

You can relive history and follow, in fancy, the Crusaders in their quest for the Holy Grail as they sail out from Brindisi, an ancient town in the heel of Italy's boot.

It is an understandable paradox that most American history and most American literature is today written from an essentially egocentric and isolationistic point of view at the very time America is spreading her dominion over palm and pine.

Rep. Henry C. Grover, who teaches history in the Houston public schools, would reduce from 24 to 12 semester hours the so-called `` teaching methods '' courses required to obtain a junior or senior high school teaching certificate.

Existence is created and willed by God and is not the consequence of a pre-existent rebellion or of a cosmic descent from eternity into history.

With this act of disobedience, and not with the inception of his individual existence, man began the downward circuit on the spiral of history, descending from the created capacity for immortality to an inescapable mortality.

They speak of the work of Christ as the bestowal of incorruptibility, which can mean ( though it does not have to mean ) deliverance from time and history.

for it teaches salvation from, not salvation in, time and history.

That is why it is so very important that ethical analysis keep clear the problem of decision as to `` permitted '' effects, and not draw back in fright from any conceivable contingency or suffer paralysis of action before possibilities or probabilities unrelated, or not directly morally related, to what we can and may and must do as long as human history endures.

George Kennan's account of relations between Russia and the West from the fall of Tsarism to the end of World War 2, is the finest piece of diplomatic history that has appeared in many years.