Sentence examples for ancient status from inspiring English sources

Fife's ancient status as an independent Pictish kingdom probably earned it the byname of the Kingdom.

Brugge-Zeebrugge Canal, waterway built between 1896 and 1907 to connect Brugge (Bruges) in Belgium with the North Sea, thus restoring Brugge's ancient status as an ocean port.

As a supporter of the ancient status of the knightly order (Ritterstand), Ulrich looked back to the Middle Ages, but, as a writer, he looked forward, employing the new literary forms of the humanists in biting Latin dialogues, satirizing the pretensions of princes, the papacy, Scholasticism, and obscurantism.

Its ancient status as the literary and cultural capital of Northwest India yet lingered in the decades after its name was changed to Pakistan.

This correlation connotes the ancient status of the order and the continuous IR expansion experienced by the more terminal and derived lineages, viz.

Accordingly, the plastid of Perkinsus, which represents the most basal dinoflagellate lineage and likely contains four membranes (Grauvogel et al. 2007; Teles-Grilo et al. 2007), would still reflect the ancient status.

That ancient, revered status as a folk medicine led the Resnicks in 1998 to begin financing research into whether pomegranates and their antioxidants had health benefits, according to a 2008 profile in The New Yorker magazine.

Iran meanwhile has Susa, now the delightfully named Shush, administrative centre of Shush Country, which has an acropolis – a sure sign of ancient city status – that is carbon-dated to around 4,200BC, and evidence of permanent homemaking going back another 800 years.

Geopolitical realists will shorten the odds by choosing other combinations of right, left and third way-out: Bush-Blair-Barak, for example, or a gridlocks-and-eggs special of Gore-Hague-Netanyahu. Or are we headed toward no change at all -- the ancient Roman status quo vadis?

Hengistbury Head is home to a plethora of nationally and internationally significant archaeological sites, with features dating from the Late Upper Palaeolithic to the Roman settlement of Britain, earning the site Scheduled Ancient Monument status.

The popular struggle for dignity and a removal of an ancient and discriminatory status quo seemed to succeed at first.