Sentence examples for ancient support from inspiring English sources

Ancient support columns will be replaced; the leaky roofs over the platforms — and the worn platforms themselves — are in line for a spruce-up; and new lighting will be installed, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

A stairway leads down the 60-foot-deep stone shaft to the large underground chambers of the reservoir, reinforced by ancient support walls, and the feeder channels.

The ruins of Palaeopolis, the island's ancient capital, support a hamlet, Palaiópolis, on the western coast.

The ancient trees support a huge range of wildlife from fungi to insects, and more than 350 types of beetle have been recorded here.

This theory, without any ancient literary support, was based on similarities in customs and artifacts between the Villanovan and the Iron Age cremating cultures north of the Alps and on a dubious comparison of the name of the Rasenna with that of the Raeti, a people inhabiting the east-central Alps in the 5th century bce.

The important point is that this evidence should not be used to assert that these differences, or shared bits of "ancient" DNA, support the identification of multiple human "races".

Half-finished buildings, with stilled cranes beside them, or supports for an elevated highway standing alone like ancient columns supporting nothing, are common sights today.

Ancient history supported slavery; Aristotle wrote that some were natural-born slaves without specifying who these people were.

No ancient manuscript supported his theory and he cited no precedent.

An ancient retrovirus supported the development of the placenta in mammals.

In these incorrect topologies, the duplication event appears to be more ancient than supported by the data, which in turn suggest the existence of lineage-specific gene loss events.