Sentence examples for ancient public from inspiring English sources

What no one debated at the time were the implications of closing ancient public highways and curtailing public access and democratic protest.

The past few years have seen a shift away from the chairmanship being awarded to a representative of the traditional (or positively ancient) public schools, towards these newer institutions.

The ancient "public" schools worried the Victorians as much or more than did the workhouses: three parliamentary commissions sat in the 19th century to look at the financial frauds, riots and the astonishing numbers of deaths – from suicides, assaults by teachers and pupils, starvation, epidemics – in the schools of the rich.

The ambition was to create a school of the quality of the ancient public schools at a more reasonable cost, whilst accepting pupils regardless of their faith.

Disposition of solid waste is an ancient public health problem made more pressing in the 21st century by population growth, increases in per capita waste production, scarcity of suitable locations for waste disposal near cities, and changes in the composition of waste (Melosi 2005).

It acknowledges that, of its 700,000 titles, 500,000 are ancient, public-domain texts that have been scanned by Google's Books project.

Joachim and Anne is an old-school school, with towering ceilings, school uniforms, an ancient public-address system, and a principal, Linda Freebes, who acts as a kind of air-traffic controller not just for the school but for the neighborhood.

Publican, Latin Publicanus, plural Publicani, ancient Roman public contractor, who erected or maintained public buildings, supplied armies overseas, or collected certain taxes, particularly those supplying fluctuating amounts of revenue to the state (e.g., tithes and customs).

The place of her birth, her mother's ancestral home at Glamis Castle, was a nod to more ancient royal public relations niceties (the Scots were said to be greatly pleased by the gesture).

Since ancient Greece, public space has been vital to people and cities.

The principle at play here is an ancient one: public censure is widely used in small-scale societies to negatively sanction behavior that harms the group, and is usually sufficient to curb it.