Sentence examples for to immemorial from inspiring English sources

Supporters of the traditional role of the emperor in ecclesiastical elections defended lay investiture by appealing to immemorial practice, which had been accepted and even enjoined by the papacy.

Deepening their historical argument, the liberals also point out that from the earliest days of the United States, the nation's courts applied customary international law, regularly deciding who owned ships captured on the high seas according to immemorial practice that was not found in any treaty.

In the eight-page dedication to her 1974 début, "Eve's Hollywood," Babitz pays manic, tossed-off tribute "to the Didion-Dunnes for having to be who I'm not," "to time immemorial and the suspension of disbelief," to prescription speed, to various whipped-cream dishes in L.A. restaurants, and "to the one whose wife would get furious if I so much as put his initials in".

The Jews requested that the Commission take the following actions: To give recognition to the immemorial claim that the Wailing Wall is a Holy Place for the Jews, not only for the Jews in Palestine, but also for the Jews of the whole world.

He hymned the loveliness of the new loos, and went on to eulogise the fresh approach to this immemorial site.

Some of the paths were built by the Romans; others date back to "time immemorial", a date established by legal convention to be the reign of Richard the Lionheart (1189-1199).Paths were originally designed for practical, rather than leisure, use.

For a colleague less than half her age, it is awesome to observe her pronouncing judgment on elements of New York City that have come to seem immemorial.

And to listen to those words that link us to our sovereign, who is part of that chain that takes us back to our immemorial history".

With Milosz gone, the world has lost a credible witness to this immemorial belief in the saving power of poetry.

It could be a portrait of contemporary Europe: vaulted into a wild future, dragged back to an immemorial past.

Many of us who live in the whirligig of the West prefer an India that remains bound to an immemorial, folkloric past.