Sentence examples for established over centuries from inspiring English sources

When traditions of how to think and behave have been established over centuries, there is a settled inevitability that things will keep on being done the way they've always been done.

This hierarchy, established over centuries, has been short-circuited in mere decades by the internet, in the form of article comments, government e-petitions, and social media sites such as Twitter.

In this week's court case, Judge Peter Murphy ruled on a core principle, established over centuries, of open justice, saying that if "a fair trial is to take place, the jury and for some limited purposes the judge must be able to assess the credibility of the witnesses".

But as with the patriarchy established over centuries in the Catholic church, the well-being of our children has taken a back seat: programs such as Penn State football make so much money for the University that no one is willing to speak out against them.

Established over a century ago as part of a sweeping change to a chaotic collection of schools, apprenticeships and fly-by-night training programs, the four-year medical school curriculum is the sacred cow of medical education.

As Fredric Jameson notes in his manifesto "An American Utopia," now republished, along with several commentaries, in book form, modern-day utopians embrace "Marxism as a negative and critical analysis of capitalism, without any longer being attracted to the cultural, social, and political traditions established over a century by the communist movement".

The fundamental factors involved in the formation of ascites were established over a century ago when Starling [ 1] used observations of thoracic duct lymph flow and fluid absorption from the peritoneal space to support his classic description of the forces that determine capillary fluid balance.

In Kenya, as in much of sub-Saharan Africa, large protected areas were established over the last century in regions previously used by pastoralists as grazing areas (Butt et al. 2009), first as game reserves and then as national parks.

As reflected by UPLB's mandate as a national university and its deep history in research, development and extension (RDE), many institutes, centers, laboratories, stations, and programs adhering to such responsibility were established over the last century.

During these two centuries Egyptian control was established over Nubia, Libya, Palestine, and southern Syria.

By then a soundly based and unified government had been established over a wider extent than any for eight centuries.