Sentence examples for standard ancient from inspiring English sources

First, some scholars find in Sextus an account of action that challenges standard ancient and modern theories of agency.

The researchers adhered to all standard ancient DNA and forensic protocols including the use of laboratory coats, sleeves, double gloving and face mask with frequent changes of gloves.

Standard ancient DNA singleplex PCRs, cloning and Sanger sequencing approaches were used to fill remaining gaps and resolve ambiguous sequences after the first assembly of the total reads generated with the 454 technology.

Standard ancient DNA methods that consist of amplification, followed by cloning and sequencing of multiple clones, have been used to obtain mitochondrial genomes from the bones of mammoths and other permafrost-embedded animals, where up to 400-500 base pair DNA fragments can be retrieved [ 1- 4].

Timaeus's work established the practice of dating by the Olympic Games that became standard in ancient historiography.

LIKE a giant discarded handkerchief, the white flag with its red crosses, the standard of ancient Georgia, still hangs messily over the presidential offices in Tbilisi.

If those and the Chinese flags had a common origin in the standards of ancient Egypt and Assyria (standards, in that sense, meaning solid objects, such as metal animals, attached atop poles), then they might have developed from the streamers often attached to the pole.

These stories are intensely visceral even by the intensely visceral standards of ancient Semitic literature.

The wares come in their standard array, from ancient bronzes to Art Deco armchairs, but a third of the exhibitors are new.

Success eluded him in his lifetime, but he was posthumously popular, and held in high critical regard, even by Aristophanes, the standard bearer of ancient Greek comedy.

In the past thirty years, the initial giddiness over extreme geology has subsided and the scientific standard for documenting ancient disasters has risen.