Sentence examples for eastern period from inspiring English sources

In his later writings, Avicenna is less solicitous in explaining away what he regards as inconsistencies in Aristotle's syllogistic, and writes of problems in the Prior Analytics as arising through negligence; an example of such a text is Twenty Questions, which I think is written on the eve of Avicenna's Eastern period (Street 2010: 100 103; see periodization in Gutas 1988: 144).

After spending the first half in vaguely eastern, period gear - cast-offs, by the look of it, from Spamalot - the entire troupe returns for the second in modern dress, with Tamerlane in hoodie, jeans and sneakers as opposed to Andronicus's designer suit and MCC tie.

By the early 3rd century, the Han dynasty, which had ruled China for almost four centuries (albeit with a 16-year interruption, dividing the dynasty into its Western and Eastern periods), was crumbling.

Wei, one of the many warring states into which China was divided during the Dong (Eastern) Zhou period (770 256 bce).

The contest's rating was 80percentt higher than the programming usually in that 3 to 6 p.m. Eastern time period, which includes "Pardon the Interruption".

Friday night's rating peaked at 19.9 from 10 30 to 11 p.m. Eastern, the period when Cathy Freeman lighted the Olympic caldron.

The rating, for NBC, peaked with a 9.8 from 6 to 6 30 p.m. Eastern, the period when the race was run, 27percentt better than last year.

The Javanese Shailendra ruled most of Malaya and Sumatra and installed themselves there in the mid-9th century, when their home terrain in Java was taken over by the Mataram dynasty, heralding the eastern Javanese period, which began in 927.

It will begin in the second quarter of 2009, joining several other new programs that the network — which reaches about 240 million households worldwide — has already started to show in the noon to 6 p.m. Eastern time period, which is prime time for much of Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Heaven is a higher power that is responsible for the general course of history, and that favors those with Virtue (dé).[1] However, during the Eastern Zhou period (770 221 BCE), it seemed increasingly clear that the Zhou dynasty had lost Heaven's favor.

By the late Eastern Han period, the peasantry had become largely landless and served wealthy landowners.