Sentence examples for succeeding ages from inspiring English sources

In succeeding ages Buddhism does not seem to have been very successful in restraining the rulers of countries in which it was adopted from making war.

Warum?" (Where from? Where to? Why?) Throughout his career, Titian dwelt on the human condition at man's succeeding ages as if trying to define the essence of life.

They were a product of an age, or rather several succeeding ages, when men weren't expected to do much at home except put their wages on the table, eat their tea and expire quietly by the fire or down the pub without asking for too much sex in between ("He never bothers her" being the greatest expression of approbation in a battleaxe's gift).

In his Remaines Concerning Britaine published in 1605, but finished two years previously and before the Earl of Oxford died in 1604 Camden names Shakespeare as one of the "most pregnant witts of these ages our times, whom succeeding ages may justly admire".

The basic conceit is a healthy one: that the birth of Jesus must be re-enacted by each succeeding age.

She found that each succeeding age group put a higher percentage of wives into jobs outside the home.

He preceded the poets of the immediately succeeding age of the emperor Augustus, among whom Horace, Sextus Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid name him as a poet whose work is familiar to them.

(e) Registrants in each succeeding age selection group commencing with age 21 selection group and terminating with the age 34 selection group, in turn, within the group, in the order of their random sequence number (RSN) established by random selection procedures in accord with § 1624.1.

Instead, he wants to explore how progressive movements have succeeded and does so both by examining British radicalism in its specific historical contexts and by "evaluating the enduring power of the idea of a 'radical tradition'", reinvented for each succeeding age.

And this means that the history of philosophy consists not simply of dead museum pieces but of ever-living classics comprising a permanent repository of ideas, doctrines, and arguments and a continuing source of philosophical inspiration and suggestiveness to those who philosophize in any succeeding age.

The answer is gold: the devilish root of 16 hours of opera that is unlike any other work of art in Western culture in its ability to hold the interest of each succeeding age, its musical exploration of human psychology, its monumental architecture, its sheer length.