Sentence examples for prevented ancient from inspiring English sources
Although the etymologizing of proper names appears in the Old Testament and Plato dealt with etymology in his dialogue Cratylus, lack of knowledge of other languages and of the historical developments that languages undergo prevented ancient writers from arriving at the proper etymologies of words.
The Continental Divide would have prevented an ancient Colorado River from joining the Rio Grande.
He maintained that reliance on slave labor prevented the ancient world from modernizing and in the end undermined the Roman Empire as the supply of new slaves diminished and the exploited lower orders had little reason to resist the advancing barbarians.
Shanghai has restricted registrations for many years to prevent its ancient streets from becoming overwhelmed.
The powerful artifact provides a portal to a selection of previous lives, all of which must be experienced by the player in order to prevent an ancient evil from re-surfacing.
To an arts executive like Mr. Redden, it is stunning that Chinese authorities would want to prevent any ancient Chinese opera from being performed in New York (especially since Lincoln Center is paying).
The monk claims she is the reincarnation of a powerful female warrior and the only person who can prevent an ancient evil spirit from destroying the world.
In order to prevent contamination, ancient DNA procedures for extraction and amplification were followed [ 44] (see Additional file 5 for methods).
Assuming the presence of an integrated Hox cluster in the last common ancestor of these animals, it has been suggested that the concerted mechanism that controls the temporal expression prevents the ancient cluster from its evolutionary dispersion [ 10, 18, 80, 81].
His work on other religions was interrupted by his sudden death in 1920, which prevented him from following Ancient Judaism with studies of early Christianity and Islam.
The timing of the demographic events could not be inferred reliably from the available data, neither, because the short sequences of the ancient samples prevented precise estimates.
