That verdict has stood for centuries.
Temple authorities maintain the men-only tradition has stood for centuries and it would be wrong to change it.
All around them, mud buildings that stood for centuries had been blown apart by artillery fire, crumbling to the earth.
In September, rebels launched an offensive in Syria's largest city, Aleppo, an ancient town that stood for centuries as the proud legacy of all Syrians.
Medieval texts show that Timbuktu has stood for centuries as a center of Islamic culture and learning, at the juncture of trade routes spanning thousands of miles across the Sahara, north to Morocco and Europe, east to Ethiopia and the Arabian peninsula.
"We question whether, in this landscape of scale and huge horizons and with a very robust end point that has stood for centuries and centuries, this is the right design approach?" said Diane Haigh, CABE's director of design review.
Now it appears that phenomenon is starting to manifest across a broad spectrum of Christian belief, challenging patterns of leadership and notions of religious identity that in some cases have stood for centuries.
They last saw their homes 20 years ago, as the waters of the river Limia swelled against the wall of a new dam and slowly filled the valley where Aceredo village had stood for centuries.
"The government is very serious about moving this forward, and we are getting much legal advice," said Im Sokrithy, a director of Apsara, the Cambodian agency that oversees heritage and land management at the sprawling temple complex where, archaeologists say, the statues stood for centuries.
