Sentence examples for earliest foundations from inspiring English sources

In this sense Coptic art is essentially that reflected in the stone reliefs, wood carvings, and wall paintings of the monasteries of Egypt, the earliest foundations of which date from the 4th and 5th centuries ad.

The city is dominated by Benacantil Hill (721 feet [220 metres]) and the citadel of Santa Bárbara (1,000 feet [305 metres]), the earliest foundations of which date from 230 bc.

It was built in the 11th Century on a unique circular plan on top of an old church whose earliest foundations were Roman structures.

Archaeologists expect the finds, at the three-acre site, to provide the earliest foundation date for Roman London, currently AD 47.

It's also the homeland of a people who gave the world the earliest foundation of democracy, namely, the Bible's declaration that every human is equally created in the image of G-d.

The city's most conspicuous building is the ducal castle of Hohentübingen, built in the 16th 17th century on earlier foundations and now housing several institutes of the university.

And to work with the Nursing and Midwifery Council to lay the early foundations for prescribing in the pre-registration training of every nurse.

There were also earlier foundations of a house built in 1807 by Richard Byrne, an Irish rebel transported after the Vinegar Hill convict uprising, who eventually settled down to become one of the colony's leading stonemasons.

Of the 128 men and 128 women in the main draws in the singles, only Robin Soderling remained from a land and a culture that has been one of the pillars of the modern game and part of its earlier foundations, too, with its tall, thin King Gustav V founding the country's first club after catching tennis fever in 19th century England.

Mr Alexander will also inherit the early foundations of UK online, an ambitious government programme to give the whole of the nation access to the internet The 33-year-old, who won his seat in the general election with a 11,910 majority, was a solicitor before he became an MP in 1997.

Nothing would fill us with more pride than to say in 40 years' time that we laid the very early foundations that allowed Irish cricket to flourish.