Sentence examples for instead of ancient from inspiring English sources

That was why we'd been enrolled in the History of Technology instead of Ancient History.

Instead of ancient Greek and Demotic and hieroglyphic Egyptian, the metal disk, just three inches across, is inscribed with information in over 1,500 languages about a fifth of the world's approximate 7,000 including Navajo, Tagalog, and Khmer.

Instead of ancient stone buildings, dons in black gowns and an academic tradition stretching back for centuries, the American students got a two-building college with a one-room library and administrators with some explaining to do.

First, it usually pictures living monkeys and apes as part of this linear trajectory, instead of ancient apes and monkeys.

And instead of an ancient Egyptian decree, the core text of the Rosetta Disk is the first three chapters of Genesis, the most commonly translated text.

It would have 40 seats in an area where patrons could follow the ponies on plasma-screen TV's instead of the ancient fuzzy-screened sets that many parlors have.

Regarding the United States, he asks, "was there ever a country more naïvely, optimistically moral?" It's not merely a species of political blindness to which he's referring; he's deeply distrustful of the tendency "to seek a modern answer instead of an ancient one.

The third is: will these faux-exchange plans allow for reformed payment structures, of the kind that reward positive health outcomes instead of the ancient fee-for-service model that incentivizes wasteful health spending?

No, I fantasize about how great my life could be if I owned a laptop (and knew how to use it) instead of this ancient typewriter of mine.

Eelam Press gave it a positive review, lauding on all aspects of the film, particularly the film's war scenes, highlighting that by using contemporary Tamil, instead of its ancient counterpart in its dialogues, the audience could better relate to it.

max) genome has undergone two rounds of large-scale genome and/or segmental duplication at about 14 and 42 Mya, respectively [ 30, 31], it is likely that the two GmNIP2s were produced via the recent instead of the ancient large-scale duplication event.