Sentence examples for thrive for centuries from inspiring English sources

The empire the pre-Christian Romans built continued to grow and thrive for centuries.

Together, we can ensure these places of infinite importance thrive for centuries to come.

With some creative leadership and the support of Congress, there is no reason why the United States Postal Service cannot thrive for centuries more.

Later adventurers acquired a profound respect for the knowledge that had enabled Inuit ("the people") to thrive for centuries in a harsh environment that left so many newcomers starving and frozen.

Pubs have thrived for centuries.

The old kingdoms of Rwanda and Burundi had thrived for centuries.

It thrived for centuries as a city-republic, a mercantile entrepot, becoming the cradle of South Slav literature.

What began as a literary tradition in 11th-century Spain acquired a musical dimension in Latin America, where the verbal jousting has thrived for centuries.

It's hard to fathom why fashion, which has thrived for centuries on humanity's most nakedly materialistic tendencies, would now be embracing a spiritual tradition that aspires to move people beyond the illusion of appearances.

But the city thrived for centuries at the crossroads of the region's two great highways: the caravan route across the Sahara passed right by its narrow warren of streets, bringing salt, spices and cloth from the north, and the Niger River brought gold and slaves from West Africa.

Archaeologists have a new answer to the mystery of Greenland's Norse, who thrived for centuries and then vanished.