Sentence examples for roman attempts from inspiring English sources

Roman attempts to make flat glass by pouring slabs about 12 millimetres (1/2 inch) thick were unrewarding.

Moreover, they had improved upon the Roman attempts at systematic plans for the monasteries themselves, which might accommodate 1,000 persons monks, brethren, craftsmen, servants, slaves, and guests with provision for their multiple activities and also suitable storage facilities.

Uglow's brisk history starts with Roman attempts to adapt to the English climate (a summer divan found in one ruin is "a mark of real optimism") and whisks us through a panorama of monastery herb gardens, medieval walled gardens, Tudor knots, and Restoration parterres.

Throughout this period, the Vandals survived several Roman attempts at a counterstrike: the Eastern Roman general Aspar had led an unsuccessful expedition in 431, an expedition assembled by the Western emperor Majorian (r.

Scholars say it is a Roman attempt at imitating an Egyptian black granite sphinx dating from the reign of Tuthmosis III.

A Roman attempt to storm Gergovia was repulsed and resulted in heavy Roman losses the first outright defeat that Caesar had suffered in Gaul.

This Roman attempt to forge a connection with Pythagoras can also be seen in the report of Plutarch (Aem.

"Invisible Romans" attempts to elicit a world view from the scraps of evidence that remain: popular dream-interpretation guides, inscriptions on gravestones, fragments of papyri, and, very often, the New Testament.

The Iceni made a treaty with the Romans at the time of Claudius's invasion of Britain (ad 43), but they rebelled in 47 when the Romans attempted to disarm them.

In 503, the Romans attempted an ultimately unsuccessful siege of the Persian-held Amida while Kavadh invaded Osroene and laid siege to Edessa with the same results.

For self-starters such as Roman, government attempts to cut red tape for new businesses have been one encouraging change.