Sentence examples for might inscribe from inspiring English sources

Their language was first written when Darius commanded that a script suitable for this purpose be invented so that he might inscribe the record of his rise to power at Bīsotūn (the inscriptions in Old Persian attributed to earlier kings were likely written during the reign of Darius or are later historical forgeries).

What American leaders and their intellectual lackeys seem incapable of understanding is that history cannot be swept clean like a blackboard, so that "we" might inscribe our own future there and impose our own forms of life for these lesser people to follow.

To this end the statue was not only a physical representation but also a vehicle for appropriate texts, which might be inscribed obtrusively over beautifully carved surfaces.

If there were a Hall of Adolescence, where the struggles of teenage girls were commemorated, those words might be inscribed over the door.

But what kind of laws are these, anyway, that might be inscribed on a T-shirt but apparently not on any stone tablet that we have ever been able to find?

After the Second World War there was no equivalent mass construction of memorials to the war dead; instead, often local World War I memorials were adapted for use instead: additional names might be inscribed to the existing lists.

"In a season in which we yearn for fresh starts, in a time [during the High Holidays] when our Jewish family turns its face toward repentance, all of us who claim faith in G-d might want to inscribe this text on our hearts," Lewis told HuffPost.

I've seen it carved in stone, but it might be better inscribed on restroom walls: "Attitude is Everything!" The thing is, youth belongs to the beholder.

The idea that a wizard in training might have, instead, a magic pad where she could inscribe a name and in half a second have an avalanche of news stories, scholarly articles, books, and images (including images she shouldn't be looking at) was a Quidditch broom too far.

That last statement by Ms. White, who is 55 years old and the mother of six, might as well be inscribed on the city seal.

"We could use ramps!" If you could inscribe the Quixotic essence of the drug war in a single image, the photograph above might very well be it.