Sentence examples for contemporary claimed from inspiring English sources

Thomas More, his contemporary, claimed it was in Antwerp that he met the sailor who told him about Utopia, the account of the far-off island society he wrote in 1516, the year Bosch died.

The Judge, though often irritated that Musaev never stopped arguing, was proud of him; the jurors, eight of whom were middle-aged women, old enough to be his mother, were proud of him; and the young journalists, who were proud of their contemporary, claimed that they sometimes even caught the prosecutors looking proud of him.

One of La Varenne's contemporaries claimed the dish was emblematic of all that was wrong in cooking.

Contemporaries claimed that Rasputin could hypnotise people with his eyes, and it's possible he hypnotised Alexis, with the same calming effect.

"A distinguished Oxford contemporary claims Cameron once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony involving a dead pig.

His account was at odds with MI5's contemporary claim that it had mopped up all German spies at the start of the war.

Some of Gran Fury's successes included "Kissing Doesn't Kill" (1990), a series of posters displayed on buses and television service announcements that defied contemporary claims that AIDS could be spread by kissing.

"Kissing Doesn't Kill" (1990), a series of posters displayed on buses, defied contemporary claims that AIDS could be spread by kissing, while "Read My Lips" turned George H.W. Bush's famous campaign line into a homoerotic provocation.

"Kissing Doesn't Kill" (1990), a series of posters displayed on buses, defied contemporary claims that AIDS could be spread by kissing, while "Read My Lips" turned George H. W. Bush's famous campaign line into a homoerotic provocation.

The prime minister fluffed both questions, but his fellow Old Etonian and Oxford University contemporary claims Cameron really knew Magna Carta meant Great Charter and faked the apparent knowledge gap to appear more down to earth.

South Carolina, with its hardscrabble political culture, small-town milieu and complex role in American history, has produced its share of notable politicians, from John C. Calhoun in the 19th century to Representative Joe Wilson, whose contemporary claim to fame was yelling "You lie!" at President Obama as he delivered a speech before Congress.