Sentence examples for roman example from inspiring English sources

Portland Vase, Roman vase (1st century ad) of dark blue glass decorated with white figures, the finest surviving Roman example of cameo glass.

To read the Federalist Papers — in which Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote under the Latin pseudonym Publius — is to enter into a running debate about Roman history, in which the Roman example is one to be alternately emulated and shunned.

England after the Norman Conquest of 1066 also was influenced by Roman example, and the clerics who staffed the Norman and Plantagenet monarchies and who provided the earliest of their judges enabled the notion of a legal profession, and especially of litigious representation, to be accepted.

In Roman examples, the garland of bay leaves was omitted.

So clearly seventeenth-century Baroque architects looking back at Roman examples.

The earliest notable Roman examples are the epitaphs in Saturnian verse on the sarcophagi of the Scipios from the 3rd century bce.

It was architecture especially that followed early Christian and specifically Roman examples, while at the same time remaining true to the Carolingian style (in the west choir, for example).

Major Roman examples can be seen in the Maison Carrée (c. 12 bc) in Nîmes, France, and the Temple of Fortuna Virilis (c. 40 bc) in the Forum Boarium at Rome.

This Greco-Roman example has columns and statues hewn of Italian marble, elaborate friezes, cornices befitting a palazzo, and a waterfall.

Dorel Sandor, a political analyst, said that Mr. Roman, for example, is respected by intellectuals and the young; his fluency in English, French and Spanish help make him Romania's best-known political face abroad.

"On Greeks and Romans, for example, we have scads of stuff, but the Norse weren't writing it down," he explains.