Sentence examples for founding cities from inspiring English sources

He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania (2005), with a dissertation on the practice of founding cities in the ancient Near East.

The founding cities of Palo Alto, Boston, Nashville and Raleigh created the MCIC largely to combat what they perceived as the "Monday morning" problem.

Potemkin focused instead on Russia's southern provinces, where he was busy founding cities (including Sevastopol) and creating his own personal kingdom, including his brand new Black Sea Fleet.

Next year HSBC will return its retail bank's head office to the founding city of Midland Bank, which HSBC bought in 1992.

This year HSBC will return its retail bank's head office to the founding city of Midland Bank, which it bought in 1992.

The violence in our founding City of Chicago is also inescapable, with the death of Hadiya Pendleton just a few weeks ago.

Its extraordinary mineral resources founded cities, built churches, fueled the economy of Europe.

One hears of "satraps and generals of the newly founded cities," a phrase that does not imply much self-government.

Seeking furs, these men had crossed all of Siberia in a hundred years, and built fortresses and founded cities along the way.

Even the political division of Mesopotamia is uncertain, especially since Alexander, Seleucus, and Seleucus' son Antiochus I Soter all founded cities that were autonomous, like the Greek polis.

In the manuscript, the author posited his theory on the strict relationship between the orientation of Roman founded cities and local environmental conditions, especially in relation to the winds.