Sentence examples for patrimony which from inspiring English sources

He said the chief challenge for Italian museums was not a lack of central leadership but the "unbearable heaviness of its patrimony, which costs a lot to maintain".

A slave could not be a party to a contract nor own property, but he could be given a de facto patrimony, which could be retained if he were freed; if he made a "commitment," it could ultimately be enforced against his master.

In the first place, he would divide among them all his patrimony, which was of large extent in tillage and pasture; he would also give six hundred talents in ready money, and his mother, grandmother, and his other friends and relations, who were the richest of the Lacedaemonians, were ready to follow his example.

4 If my charges are false, render an account of the amount of the patrimony which you inherited, and of what has come to you from lawsuits, and tell us where you got the money to buy your house and build your villas at Tusculum and Pompeii regardless of expense.

Let it not obscure the Christian foundation that underpins its freedoms; and may that patrimony, which has always served the nation well, constantly inform the example your government and people set before the two billion members of the Commonwealth and the great family of English-speaking nations throughout the world.

From this document, our reflection on the spiritual patrimony which unites us and which is the foundation of our dialogue has developed with renewed vigour.

This underscores one of the book's most salient conflicts -- the need to belong versus the renouncing of patrimony -- which Smith attempts to spell out in a grand finale, a fortuitous meeting of parents and children at Marcus's FutureMouse exhibition on New Year's Eve 1992.

When that Bruegel signature materialized, the Spanish Ministry of Culture invoked national patrimony law, which, as Mr. Finaldi acknowledged, amounts to a kind of state-sanctioned blackmail, albeit in service to the public.

As such it offers, tentatively, a reprieve from the glum force of patrimony through which -- Larkin again -- "man hands on misery to man," by means of truthfulness, breadth of sympathy and humor.

The lands and the customary rights attached to their office, and indeed the office itself, not only became hereditary but also came to be treated more and more as a patrimony to which they had an inherent right against all men, king and duke included.

First, in the Community legal order there exists no catalogue of fundamental rights having constitutional or legislative status; secondly, respect for fundamental rights is essential as a basic element of the common patrimony upon which the very foundations of the Community rest; and fundamental rights are an indispensable prerequisite for the accession of a State to the Community.