Sentence examples for until the ascent from inspiring English sources

Keeping food cold, either underground, or by using ice, was an effective, if primitive method of preservation until the ascent of ice boxes and recently electrical refrigeration.

Until the ascent of the Bourbon monarchy in Spain in 1700, each of the regions of Spain retained its own system of measurement.

The kingdom's policy of indirect interventionism - by exporting ideology through the power of the petrodollar - has been practiced prudently by the House of Saud until the ascent to the throne of King Salman in January of 2015.

Only fifteen women had climbed K2, and, despite the number of Nepalese Sherpas in high-altitude mountaineering, no Nepali women had made the ascent until Pasang and her companions did, on July 24 , 2014

The voting patterns established then displaced the near-deadlock the major parties had seen since the Civil War; the Republican dominance begun then would continue until 1932, another realigning election with the ascent of Franklin Roosevelt.

As they began the descent they had five days' food at half rations, to last them until the Lower Glacier depot; during the ascent the same distance had taken 12 days.

For a time, therefore, Berlin shone brilliantly as a centre of theoretical physics—until darkness enveloped it in January 1933 with the ascent of Adolf Hitler to power.

This has led to the current recommendation by the Diving Committee of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society that a diver should be raised during the seizure's clonic (convulsive) phase if the regulator is not in the diver's mouth – as the danger of drowning is then greater than that of AGE – but the ascent should be delayed until the end of the clonic phase otherwise.

The ascent to the ISS seemed flawless until the final moments when the automatic docking system on the Soyuz capsule malfunctioned.

Until nowscientists have theorized that toolmaking and meat eating set the conditionsfor the ascent of man.

The German is not renowned for his climbing but he bravely defended his lead until practically the last mountain, when Costa led a high-quality break on the ascent to the ski resort of Saas-Fee.