Sentence examples for comparison with ancient from inspiring English sources
Shulman's explication offers insightful points of comparison with ancient Greek, medieval Islamic, and early modern European theories of mind, and returns Indology to its rightful position of intellectual relevance in the humanities.
The ministers and the magistrates with differentiated functions were both the servants of God in the erection of this new Israel; and the comparison with ancient Israel was the more striking and the inner cohesion the more intensified because Geneva also was begirt by foes, the duke of Savoy and the duke of Alba, like the old Canaanites and Philistines.
His concern was that a proper understanding of the Christian development required a comparison with ancient conceptions of the ethical self, something he undertook in his last two books (1984) on Greek and Roman sexuality: The Use of Pleasure and The Care of the Self.
In this study, we addressed this question by reconstructing the phylogeographic history of European grey wolves, based on the analysis of mtDNA variability of extant populations and the comparison with ancient data.
In what became a famous article on the consequences of literacy, written with his friend Ian Watt, Goody made comparisons with ancient Greece and argued that alphabetic literacy, in particular, expanded the intellectual horizons of a community by allowing knowledge to accumulate, undermining structural amnesia and so making possible the development of historical inquiry, comparison and scepticism.
Comparisons with ancient oxide-facies iron formation are made by modeling geochemically the mineral equilibria of phases that are postulated to be stable analogues of those found on the modern seafloor.
Comparison with these ancient records reveals that although juggling has advanced in technical perfection, the underlying principles are still the same.
"You feel part of that". Some might say the senate that sits in Rome today suffers by comparison with its ancient equivalent: Italy's contemporary political debate is often drowned in invective and inglorious spats, a fact Piano experienced firsthand when he arrived to vote for the first time – on the day of Silvio Berlusconi's dramatic expulsion from the senate in November.
But Taylor-Wharton, whose early products included cannon balls for George Washington's continental army, was not absorbed into what is now called Harsco until 1953.Today's biggest, best-known companies are mostly spotty youths by comparison with the ancient firms listed above not least because their main activities have become possible only since the industrial revolution.
By comparison with the ancient, foundational writings, Neo-Confucian political philosophy was far more concerned with the project of ensuring that the ruler understood the benefits of self-cultivation.
Perhaps, a comparison with "less ancient" folds would help (it is unclear why such a comparison is not included) but then, again, I am rather skeptical as there can be many reasons why some protein structures contain a particular metal whereas others do not.
