Sentence examples for continuation of ancient from inspiring English sources

Necessary for the continuation of ancient priesthoods, patricians had few privileges other than reduced military obligations.

This critique, compressed into 14 constitutional articles, aims to expose the rotten character of a political system that blends the continuation of ancient pre-democratic practices with modern anti-democratic measures designed to maximise the powers of a prime minister through the fusion of the executive and legislative branches of government.

Byzantium was rather perceived to be a corrupted continuation of ancient Greece, and was often derided as the "Empire of the Greeks" or "Kingdom of Greece".

Others, however, such as the Falmerayers of the Western world, are unsympathetic to the modern Greek nation, pretending that it is not of the same population as those who created this historical magnum opus, refusing to accept that Byzantium was the continuation of Ancient Greece and rebuffing Greece's demands for the return of its historical treasures.

Our Thanksgiving, still laced with vestigial God-talk, is therefore just a continuation of an ancient and noble impulse.

But the demonstrations are also the continuation of an ancient and rich vein of radicalism and dissent in the home county.

Under the influence of the clergyman John Keble and Richard Hurrell Froude, Newman became a convinced high churchman (one of those who emphasized the Anglican church's continuation of the ancient Christian tradition, particularly as regards the episcopate, priesthood, and sacraments).

Infrequent, large, high severity fires in these types of landscapes is not an ecological disaster, rather it is a continuation of an ancient process that most native species are well adapted to in those places.

Fundamentalist rhetoric also fed popular fervour for an eight-year war against Iraq, framing the struggle as a continuation of the ancient fight between the evil caliph Yazid and the martyred Hussein, who was killed at the battle of Karbala in 680.

The medieval problem of universals is a logical, and historical, continuation of the ancient problem generated by Plato's (428-348 B.C). theory answering such a bundle of questions, namely, his theory of Ideas or Forms.

Scholastics (de Libera 1995) are those philosophers that engaged in the "universalia debate": a continuation of the ancient Greek debate on how we can form logical systems to adequately categorize and refer to the world; and what the ontological status of language in these categorization systems is.