Sentence examples for different from the ancient from inspiring English sources

To many, this story was an introduction to the fact that there was a nation called "Scotland", or that a "modern Scotland" different from the ancient land of kings, battles and myths still existed.

Modern democracies, however, are different from the ancient polis in several important and pertinent respects.

After all, there are precious few real innovations in cameras these days — Casio and Fujifilm spring to mind with their innovative use of the sensor, but by and large, even the top-tier devices don't really do anything different from the ancient one-megapixel point-and-shoots of the late 20th century.

However, the contemporary discussion is different from the ancient one in that the ancients discussed the question purely as a question of dialectic, whereas the contemporary writers have turned it into a quasi-theological question that has bearing on divine power (604A).

And it was certainly different from the ancient Greek Olympiad, which included fights to the finish and had no concept of sportsmanship.

I would not call the passage from Amos racist, as such; but with "Ethiopians" it does single out a nation optically different from the ancient Israelites the prophet addresses - and this tells us that the tendency of considering surface differences as indicative of deep or essential disparities is as ancient as it is wrong.

The ancient West Liao River valley population is significantly different from both the ancient Yellow River Valley population (P<0.01), and the extant Yellow River Valley population (P<0.01).

Page A16 ATTRACTING VETERANS TO PARKS A pilot program run by the California Conservation Corps, gives veterans a chance to learn skills and perhaps eventually pursue careers preserving public lands, like building wilderness pathways with tools little different from the ones the ancient Egyptians used to build the pyramids.

The short, choppy thrust-and-parry of How Capitalism Will Save Us is very different in style from the ancient myths and poetic morality tales woven elegantly through Power Ambition Glory.

For instance, a recent genetics study about six dog breeds to decipher adaption mechanisms under hypoxia in highland area has produced 3.2 terabytes (TB) genome sequencing data of 60 dogs from different altitudes along the "Ancient Tea Horse Road" [1].

Genetic engineering is not that different from such ancient techniques as cross-breeding or selective fertilisation.