Sentences with crucible
cru·ci·ble
C c - ...a system in which ideas are tested in the crucible of party contention. [+ of]
- But international crises such as this are a crucible in which political futures are forged.
- We plunge into the crucible of solitude to discover the secret of life and love.
- It thus comes as no surprise that this crucible of experience has produced the best proposal to solve the problem of truth and responsibility in education.
- Indeed, the culture of the common people, a rapidly increasing proportion of whom were located in towns and cities, was constantly being reforged and reinvented in the crucible of commercialization and urbanization.
- It was in the crucible of the War of Independence that the nation was forged, that we can begin to talk about a Scottish nation.
- The importance of family and peers, coupled with a supportive faculty and institutional climate, all combine in a higher education crucible to aid in the student's achievement.
- In general, it is recommended that a separate crucible be reserved for melting because of the low impurity limits specified for the alloys.
- Alexander emerged from the crucible of combat with an enhanced reputation for courage, sound leadership, and imperturbability.
- We were at Greenwich Village at the time of the wonderful crucible of creative alteration of the nation.
- When the desired amount of metal is melted, the remaining electrode is quickly retracted and the crucible tilted to pour the metal into the mold.
- The superheated steel is contained in a crucible located immediately above the weld joint.
- The difference is that Ulysses rejected the temptations that life's crucible threw at him and fought to return to his beloved Penelope in Ithaca.
- Yet, unlike so many bright young men in England, he found in his youthful intellectual and spiritual crisis at Yale a crucible from which he emerged more committed than ever to his faith.
- While much of value can emerge from the crucible of heated debate, I do not believe that insulting the other participants in that debate is a necessary part of this.
- The glass was melted in a platinum crucible in air at 1873K for one hour, annealed, and then cut into 10 x 10 x 3-mm samples.
- Exposing herself to that kind of crucible, not to mention the small-mindedness of her male counterparts, took a great deal of guts.
- And all you can do is make fire your friend in this crucible of change.
- The author called these statements spiritual practice for they could only have been forged in the crucible of each woman's daily living.
- As a member of his senior staff I obviously had the opportunity to observe him in the crucible of the parliament and in complex and protracted negotiations.
- But let us look ahead and work together as a nation that, as I have quoted, was created in the crucible of war, where skin and its colour was never taken into consideration but where men fought to give us our freedom.
- His Edwardian age is a crucible of radical change as emerging political and social forces burst through to make their institutional mark.
- And what may have created him is, you know, this crucible of fame at a very early age and a tough childhood.
- All of my friendships were tested in the crucible of those terrible days when we first discovered and began to deal with my daughter's illness.
- It's an interesting, even important film, and seems more so today, if only as a document of its time - that crucible when gender roles went up in flames, along with many marriages.
- The 5th-century BCE context nevertheless was the crucible in which the ideas and approaches of many different schools of thought were clearly formulated and established in relation to one another.
- He's ready to face the crucible of the Olympics.