Sentence examples for relation to ancient from inspiring English sources

Clegg says he does not know the situation in relation to ancient woodlands.

7. The investigation sets a modern standard of defined climate zones in the Negev and their shifts in wet and drought years as a basis for comparison with past climatic changes in relation to ancient agricultural remains.

The site of ancient Memphis itself has been systematically surveyed; its position in relation to the ancient course of the Nile has been established; and urban occupation areas have been studied in detail for the first time.

"Like modern Greek and modern Hebrew, in relation to the ancient languages".

Do the televised exchanges between the two front-runners bear any relation to the ancient rhetorical art that bears the same name?

Here four writers give their views: Everything in life is relative, so when we talk of Pope Francis as a breath of fresh air, a reforming pontiff and revolutionary figure, we have to remember that he is only those things in relation to an ancient, male-dominated, conservative institution that has remained steadfastly unchanged while the world transformed around it.

While recognition of such interaction is not new, notably in relation to large ancient volcanic eruptions, quantitative data that can shed light on the interlinked mechanisms underpinning biogeochemical disturbances have only recently begun.

Although today's modern aluminium small-block V8s bear no relation to the ancient iron big-blocks, the Dodge's staggering maximum output of 485 horsepower and 475 pound-feet of torque evokes the pre-emissions-control muscle car wars that peaked around 1971.

The people change their allegiance; their relation to their ancient sovereign is dissolved; but their relations to each other, and their rights of property, remain undisturbed.

It is almost a decade since Gates first dared to revive what in global health circles is known as the "e-word" in relation to this ancient disease.

Though the word landscape is of Germanic origin, its use in geography must be understood in this cosmopolitan disciplinary context, and notably in relation to the key ancient Greek geographical concept of choros, meaning 'land,' as the 'land' in landscape.