Sentence examples for the ancient foundation from inspiring English sources

It was formed by a caving-in of the ancient foundation, and in the Ice Age, water flowed along it from the West Siberian Plain to the Turan Plain.

The ancient foundation of King's school at Bruton, a few miles west and downstream, bought Cook's farm in 1728, and its archive indicates the difficulties experienced by successive struggling dairy farmers.

Mountains hewn, carved and hacked from the ancient foundations of Earth swept to the horizon.

On the ancient foundations, Hussein built copies of the gate and of Nebuchadnezzar's palace; in the style of the Babylonian king, he included inscriptions about his own work.

For art and architecture lovers, Open House Roma provides the rare chance to go inside everything from Rome's first skyscraper to the ancient foundations of Hadrian's Temple, not to mention to peek through locked doors and explore salons usually off-limits to the public – all for free.

According to another theory, the water could have begun to wash away the ancient foundations at the time.

The 19th-century writer Samuel Lewis, describing the rebuilt church, was more complimentary: "The expense of the re-edification was very moderate; the ancient foundations were preserved, the same stones were used, and though the present building is a much better one than the former, its style is strictly the same".

Look at the light-years traveled since the darkness of the Holocaust, and marvel at the miracle of a decimated people returning to a tiny sliver of land — the land of our ancestors, the land of Zion and Jerusalem — and successfully building a modern, vibrant state against all the odds, on that ancient foundation.

Historians would agree that this view is relatively new in human history; they would probably also agree that on its own, love has proved a shaky foundation for the ancient institution.

The church's ancient foundation dates from the 12th century.

More important for art history and art criticism, he established a model for art-historical development based on these ancient foundations.