Sentence examples for ancient formula from inspiring English sources
I feared the attack on his ancient formula had driven him to the edge of a heart attack.
The Pentagon needs to jettison the ancient formula that guarantees each service its accustomed share of taxpayer dollars.
It may be that American movies, after years of strenuously avoiding the downbeat and the desolate, have belatedly discovered the ancient formula of feeling bad as a step toward feeling better.
In Tibet some bodies are still embalmed according to an ancient formula: the corpse is put in a large box and packed in salt for about three months, after which it is in mummified condition.
spondĕo, spŏpondi, sponsum, 2 (perf. spepondi, Cic., Caes., and Val. Antias ap. Gell. 7, 9, 12 sq.; Inscr. Orell. 4358; without redup. sponderat, Tert. Carm. adv. Mart. 3, 135; subj. sponsis = spoponderis, an ancient formula of prayer in Fest. p. 351 Müll)., v. a. [akin with σπένδω, to pour out, = libare; cf. σπονδαί, league].
Originally, rem solvere, to free one's property and person (rem familiarem) from debts (solutio per aes et libram), according to the ancient formula: quod ego tibi tot millibus condemnatus sum, me eo nomine... a te solvo liberoque hoc aere aeneāque librā, Gai.
The Vatican dismisses the vast social change as a scatter of pesty little isolated fires, to be sluiced down with ancient formulas.
Not relying on newspapers still stuck in ancient formulae, soccer fans seek out the world's male superstars where they are vastly available.
To that end, the pharmacy's fixtures retain the spirit of the past: a simple apparatus used for distilling dried iris roots still sits beside old containers once used to hold ancient formulas and emulsions.
We don't need meditation tools or ancient formulas or hypnosis.
If these new containers (new "wineskins," Jesus called them) are not forthcoming, if religious leaders offer only medieval cosmologies and dated creeds, the religion cannot serve those people for whom the ancient formulas and images no longer work.
