Sentence examples for were still extant from inspiring English sources

"If Neanderthals and other types of human were still extant, there would be much less of a jump between orangutans and Homo sapiens," he says.

He said the rebel leaders, who employ child soldiers and have committed rapes and other atrocities, were shocked to learn that experts believed only four of the species were still extant.

We ran into old friends at the security checkpoint; tried out the new, shiny food stands at the modern Stadium; and were glad to see that Monument Park and other vestiges of the old edifice were still extant, even though some features were in different places and seemed, as in the case of Monument Park, squeezed in and lacking their former grace.

The report notes: "It is not an exaggeration to say that the lack of codified procedures made it challenging for us to piece together and determine historically what section 94 notices had been given, by whom and when, which ones had been modified and whether they were still extant or not".

: The passage contains two important features: first, the statement that the letters of Origen to Philip and his family were still extant in Jerome's time; and second, a strong affirmation of Philip's Christianity.

The latter version would appear to be correct, as J.F. von Kronenfels published an elevation and deckplan of Rhein in 1881, with the inference that Rhein and Mosel were still extant at that time.

Some Arabic verses of his own are still extant.

About 70 of his cantatas and canzoni are still extant.

Over the years he has produced thousands of negatives, most of which are still extant.

Very little of the writings of the Cheng brothers is still extant.

Lectures attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem and to Ambrose of Milan are still extant.