Sentence examples for extant some from inspiring English sources

He pointed toward other buildings, some extant, some ghosts.

Few of his treatises on theology and politics are extant; some are known only from quotations by other authors.

There are numerous original examples extant, some in the archives of the Department of State and others in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress.

He is known to have written more than 270 works (mostly short treatises), a considerable number of which are extant, some in Latin translations.

Xu wrote several books, of which only Shushu jiyi ("Memoir on the Methods of Numbering"), with a preface by Zhen Luan (flourished c. 560), is extant; some scholars question its authenticity, claiming that it was a forgery written in its entirety by Zhen.

Instead, she presented almost two dozen remarkable drawings of L.A. architecture — some extant, some never built — in materials such as as charcoal, ink, graphite and watercolor.

A leading early symphonist, the Italian Giovanni Battista Sammartini, is known from some 77 extant symphonies, some of them available in modern editions.

Compulsory vaccination for some diseases is still extant in some countries like France, Greece, Portugal and Belgium; in other countries, like the United Kingdom and Finland, vaccinations are voluntary but the state pursues a policy of active promotion and information-giving, with vaccination being free to the user.

Also extant are some edicts, official letters, and some private correspondence, including a lengthy correspondence with his rhetoric teacher and lifelong friend, Fronto.[1] The private correspondence begins before Marcus is twenty and continues into his imperial years.

The "Scene," a loosely-knit network of hackers extant in some form or another since the days of diskette-based media, is in many ways the precursor to Anonymous.

Frédéric Macler's "L'architecture arménienne dans ses rapports avec l'art syrien", a survey of the earliest Armenian buildings extant, clears some underbrush as to the mythical age of a few monuments, and traces their origin not to Islamic models as was frequently thought at the time (1920), but to pre-Islamic Syrian architecture.