Sentence examples for roman systems from inspiring English sources

When the crucifixion narratives speak of "the chief priests and leaders of the people," they are referring to officials who collaborated closely with the Roman systems of oppression, and were viewed with contempt by much of the Jewish community in their time.

A major hegemony in archaic globalization was the Roman Empire, which united the Greater Mediterranean Area and Western Europe through a long-running series of military and political campaigns expanding the Roman system of government and Roman values to more underdeveloped areas.

The Roman system is still basically that of the civil-law countries.

Medieval Europe inherited the Roman system, with its Greek, Babylonian, and Egyptian roots.

Pinyin (the standard Roman system) could just as easily be used for Chinese.

Roman numeral, any of the symbols used in a system of numerical notation based on the ancient Roman system.

The Roman urban network also helped spread religion, and cities in the Roman system later became centres of Christian authority.

Frankish kings were unable to continue the Roman system of direct taxation of land as the basis for their income.

The reform of taxation was the most important of his actions, and it was probably copied from the Roman system inaugurated by the emperor Diocletian.

The Roman system of procedure gave the magistrate great powers for providing or refusing judicial remedies, as well as for determining the form that such remedies should take.

At its zenith in ad 200 this road and its western connections over the Roman system constituted the longest road on Earth.