Sentence examples for based on roman from inspiring English sources

The legal code of Cyprus is based on Roman law.

A comic musical, "Dance of the Vampires" is based on Roman Polanski's "Fearless Vampire Killers".

Italian law is codified and based on Roman law, in particular as regards civil law.

He was the originator of historical plays (fabulae praetextae) that were based on Roman historical or legendary figures and events.

Until now, efforts to recover Nazi-seized art in Austria and other European countries have been complicated by their legal systems based on Roman law.

The Eastern theology had its roots in Greek philosophy, whereas a great deal of Western theology was based on Roman law.

The Dutch, to facilitate the administration of their colonial territories in Ceylon, established there an elaborate system of justice based on Roman-Dutch law and the customary law of the land.

Roman linear measures were based on the Roman standard foot (pes).

The Lithuanian alphabet is based on the Roman (Latin) alphabet.

Designed block letters based on classical Roman capital proportions (for London Electric Railways), 1916".

Trissino wrote a later verse comedy, I simillimi (published 1548), based on the Roman playwright Plautus Menaechmii.