6 sentences with 'clock'
Example sentences and phrases with the word clock and other words derived from it.
• « Another famous group, the Luddites, destroyed factory equipment in a vain attempt to turn back the clock of industrialisation and return to the manual labour of artisans. »
• « In turn, despite the practical impossibility of doing so in most cases, there were real attempts by many conservative regimes after Napoleon's defeat to turn back the clock completely, to try to sweep the reforms of the revolutionary era under the collective carpet. »
• « Once back in power, however, the restored Spanish king Ferdinand VII refused to recognise the constitution, and also refused to convene the Cortes. With the approval of the other conservative monarchies of Europe, Ferdinand essentially moved to turn back the clock in Spain to the pre-revolutionary period. »