Sentence examples for centuries were not from inspiring English sources

The countless unprecedented things that Congress has done over the centuries were not, for that reason, unconstitutional.

It was not legally possible to be a slave in Tudor and Stuart Britain and the hundreds of black people present in these isles during those centuries were not treated as slaves either.

However, events of the 15th and 16th centuries were not merely a consequence of the influence of new ideas; the political ambitions of many regional princes also catalyzed rapid, agitated, and erratic change.

The makers of early examples, in the late 17th and the 18th centuries, were not motivated by the amorous considerations with which later generations have credited them; their concern was allowing more space for the ample dresses of the period.

Stoneman's record of converting half-centuries to centuries is not good.

The psychic scars of centuries are not removed as a result of one person being elected.

Here in the ancient alleys of Jerusalem, two centuries is not a long time.

Others, holding a contrary view, assert that a tradition of two centuries is not to be ignored.

The adulation bestowed upon her both in her lifetime and in the ensuing centuries was not altogether a spontaneous effusion.

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Astronomy of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries was not quite so completely Newtonian, however.

The answer, derived from intimate knowledge of how we have treated one another for centuries, is not pretty.