Sentence examples for compared to ancient from inspiring English sources

"We say that though the scale is different compared to ancient cities, modern cities can still express an identity," Bell said last week.

The Shasta worshippers are often compared to Ancient Greeks who were obsessed with Olympus, or Moses and his Sinai.

In the plant kingdom, angiosperms are well studied compared to ancient lineages such as mosses, ferns, or gymnosperms [ 30].

The high proportion of new MTBC lineages is supposed to be related to their successful geographical spread as compared to ancient lineages [ 28, 29].

It's interesting to consider how our modern phenomenon of celebrity compares to ancient admiration of mythological characters….not to say that an image of Kim Kardashian would emerge at the bottom of an emptied modern kylix.

SNP-typing and phylogenetic analysis of the draft genomes placed both of these ancient strains in the conserved type 2 group, with very few novel SNPs compared to other ancient or modern strains.

Neanderthal microbiota compared to other ancient and modern calculus specimens.

"If selection is only slightly relaxed, one would still conclude that nearly all of us are compromised compared to our ancient ancestors of 3,000 to 6,000 years ago," he adds.

WHEN it comes to Olympic protests, the demonstrators in London, Paris and San Francisco are a pretty wimpy bunch, at least compared to the ancient Greeks.

Western communism may have collapsed but Marx is a hugely important historical figure whom even Isaiah Berlin once compared to "an ancient prophet performing a task imposed on him by heaven".

Compared to their ancient counterparts, contemporary cities tend to be bigger in physical size and ecological footprint, faster in growth rate in terms of both population and urbanized land, and more irregular in landscape composition and configuration.