Sentence examples for until it was superseded from inspiring English sources

The resulting mixed system, for which Simon van Leeuwen in 1652 invented the term "Roman-Dutch law," remained in force in the Netherlands until it was superseded in 1809 by the Napoleonic Code, which in its turn in 1838 gave place to the Dutch civil code.

The Jones Act remained in force as a de facto constitution for the Philippines until it was superseded by the Tydings McDuffie Act of 1934.

The slide rule remained an essential tool in science and engineering and was widely used in business and industry until it was superseded by the portable electronic calculator late in the 20th century.

When Rome fell, Latin remained the literary language of the Western medieval world until it was superseded by the Romance languages it had generated and by other modern languages.

The changing story of the ball's manufacture falls broadly into well-defined phases, beginning with the "feathery," which was used for centuries until it was superseded by gutta-percha.

Later medieval writers used the Roman de Troie until it was superseded by a Latin prose account, the Historia destructionis Troiae (c. 1287; "History of the Destruction of Troy"), by Guido delle Colonne.

Dedicated in 1815, it was New York's Roman Catholic cathedral until 1879, when it was superseded by its grander namesake on Fifth Avenue.

She continued to edit the Woman's Exponent until 1914, when it was superseded by the Relief Society Magazine.

The Brownhills District established in 1877 remained in existence until 1894 when it was superseded by Brownhills Urban District.

This was the method of choice for building protein crystallographic models into electron density until the late 1970s, when it was superseded by molecular computer graphics programs such as Grip-75 and then Frodo.

From then until the early Regency period, when it was superseded by the seaside resort of Brighton, Tunbridge Wells was one of the chief resorts of fashionable London society.