Sentence examples for great builders from inspiring English sources

The Wei were also great builders, and both Chinese capitals were enlarged and fortified under their rule.

Neither the Greeks, nor Vitruvius, nor Alberti and the great builders of the Renaissance would have understood this approach.

Its enlightened rulers were great builders and patrons of art who endowed the city with many buildings, including some of the finest existing examples of Seljuq art.

"Sharon was one of the great builders of the Land of Israel, but also one of its great destroyers," she said.

The Merovingian kings were great builders; about 510 Clovis founded a church on the tomb of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, and Childebert built Sainte-Croix-et-Saint-Vincent (today Saint-Germain-des-Prés).

One of New York's great builders, Col. William A. Starrett, who helped put up the Empire State Building, wrote that "building skyscrapers is the nearest peacetime equivalent of war".

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān was also a great builder; he renovated and added considerably to the Great Mosque at Córdoba and to the royal palace.

Nicholas Hawksmoor, "the great builder of London churches".

"I'm a great builder," he said.

He was a great builder at York, Ripon, and Hexham.

Like his father, Shalmaneser was a great builder.