Sentence examples for lack of stone from inspiring English sources

Because of the lack of stone suitable for construction, pyramids and other structures at Kaminaljuyú were built of adobe and later of other perishable materials.

"THE Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil".

He quoted the old aphorism that the Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, but because something better was available.

He quoted Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, a former oil minister in Saudi Arabia, who famously said: "The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil".

When he was Saudi Arabia's oil minster, he said, "The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil".

One diplomat I spoke to recalled a comment from Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the larger-than-life Saudi oil minister during the 1970's: "The Stone Age didn't end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil".

And it was actually a Saudi leader who once said memorably that the Stone Age did not end for lack of stones.

Historians have long debated whether Stonehenge was a full or incomplete circle, with some arguing a lack of stones in the south-west quadrant is proof it was never complete.

"The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stones, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil".

Sheikh Zaki Yamani, former Saudi Arabian oil minister, once said: "The stone age did not end for lack of stones, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil".

The Stone Age came to an end, not because we had a lack of stones, and the oil age will come to an end not because we have a lack of oil," Sheikh Yamani former Oil Minister of Saudi Arabia, June 2000.