Sentence examples for roman power from inspiring English sources

London's profile in 1500 was much as it was at the peak of Roman power.

Completely different view of Roman power than we had in Revelation.

The mammoth paving stones radiate the brute force of Roman power.

Marius had met him and had given him a firm warning, temporarily effective: Mithradates had proper respect for Roman power.

With the expansion of Roman power during and after the reign of Augustus, imperium took on the meaning of "empire".

In Caravaggio's day San Luigi was already a bustling thoroughfare and home to several Roman power brokers.

Compared with the prime minister, an economics professor, Mr Berlusconi looks every inch the professional Roman power-broker.

The real Lesbia was thought to be Clodia Metelli, wife of a Roman power-broker who was possibly poisoned, a writer of second-rate verses and, according to Roman tittle-tattle, her brother's lover.

"Some people believe Jesus was a political and social revolutionary against Greco-Roman power," said Boyd, citing a position that would make Jesus an adversary of pagan traditions.

They were fearful that, in the highly charged atmosphere of Passover, he might trigger an uprising that would bring the full force of Roman imperial power down on the heads of the hapless Jews.

The episcopate and the diocese were practically the only institutions to survive the collapse of Roman imperial power largely unchanged.