Sentence examples for ancient position from inspiring English sources

He predicts that history is about to restore China to its ancient position of global power.

Mr. Karzai and his ministers announced that they wanted Afghanistan to regain its ancient position at the center of the Silk Road, which linked Asia to Europe and became the regional focus for trade and economic cooperation.

This paper describes the results of a multidisciplinary study of four geoarchaeological sites on the Sorrento Peninsula coast (Italy) where the submerged ruins of Roman buildings have enabled the ancient position of both the sea level and the coastline to be reconstructed.

One initiative is the "New Silk Road," which aims to revamp Afghanistan's ancient position as the regional trade hub linking the West and Far East.

Its distinct morphology and unique relict characteristics, ones it likely shared with the common ancestor of all Drosera such as the operculate pollen, led early researchers to suggest its ancient position in the genus.

Public access to the butte was curtailed when, in 1989, erosion from modern foot traffic was found to be responsible for one of the three screening slabs at the "Sun Dagger" site shifting out of its ancient position; the assemblage of stones has thus lost some of its former spatial and temporal precision as a solar and lunar calendar.

In essence, the Court instructed Congress and the state legislatures: rethink ancient positions on these questions".

Shared positions between distant species such as animals and plants have been considered ancient positions [ 22, 23], considering that the probability for an independent gain of two introns at the same position is very small.

In most cases, therefore, the ancient intron position must have disappeared in favour of the novel one.

In order to examine this possibility, we utilize the interesting result that three combinations of the nine ancient intron positions divide all the animal tetraspanins into three groups CD63L, TSPAN15L and TSPAN13L (Fig. 1C).

This raises the question as to whether any eukaryotic cells have inherited one of these many ancient DNA positioning mechanisms.