Sentence examples for older roman from inspiring English sources

Pentecostal and Seventh-day Adventist churches catering to Spanish-speaking congregations have joined the older Roman Catholic churches.

As censor Cato aimed at preserving the mos majorum ("ancestral custom") and combating all Greek influences, which he believed were undermining older Roman standards of morality.

After years of serving others, many older Roman Catholic nuns look forward to a few comforts of their own when they retire to their convents.

After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century ad, the Eastern, or Byzantine, Empire retained some of the older Roman institutions e.g., a koiaistor (a Hellenized equivalent of the Roman quaestor) was the main policing authority, with the specific responsibility of overseeing the large population of foreigners that resided in the capital.

Although the unit of the week and the Sabbath were taken over from Jewish usage displacing the older Roman divisions of the month into Kalendae, Nonae, and Ides and the nine-day market cycle Christians began to mark time by the seven-day week and moved its holiest day to Sunday during the 4th century.

They are based roughly on the size of older Roman As and Sestertius in shape and thickness.

Fortune favors the bold, goes the old Roman saying.

"I follow the old Roman principles of breadmaking from 2,000 years ago.

The pound was adopted from the old Roman "libra".

used to be reckoned starting in the Spring, like the old Roman year.

They even attempted to invade the western end of the old Roman province of Gallia Transalpina.