Sentence examples for ancient aspect from inspiring English sources

In Rome the institution of the Vestal Virgins, who were required to remain celibate for at least the 30 years of their service, indicates that celibacy was a very ancient aspect of Roman religion.

Apart from the treatment of wounds and broken bones, the folklore of medicine is probably the most ancient aspect of the art of healing, for primitive physicians showed their wisdom by treating the whole person, soul as well as body.

This desire to be "in charge" is the modern manifestation of a very ancient aspect of the human mind.

Circadian rhythms are an ancient aspect of most living organisms, present in the earliest evolutionary ancestors to humans.

We speculate that the interaction of this transcription factor with mRNAs, or their precursors, is an evolutionarily ancient aspect of transcriptional control.

Like Ci, hedgehog-dependent cleavage and phosphorylation plays a role in the post-translational regulation of the vertebrate Gli proteins [11], [12], showing this to be an ancient aspect of hedgehog signal interpretation.

218, 395 408) give important limits on the use of current models with sequence data for studying ancient aspects of evolution; but they go too far in suggesting that several fundamental aspects of evolutionary theory cannot be tested in a normal scientific manner.

The choices such advances bring with them are not new; they are ancient aspects of what it means to be human.

The pair discover that Silver Shamrock Novelties, a company run by Conal Cochran Dan O'Herlihyy), is attempting to use the mystic powers of the Stonehenge rocks to resurrect the ancient aspects of the Celtic festival, Samhain, which Cochran connects to witchcraft.

Research in the marine unicellular green alga Ostreococcus has served to reveal ancient aspects of the Arabidopsis circadian clock.

Indeed, the NK gene cluster is believed to be ancient, with aspects predating the divergence of sponges, cnidarians and bilaterians [ 5].