Sentence examples for western text from inspiring English sources

Ancient Assyrian herb lists and medical texts refer to both the opium poppy plant and opium, and in the 1st century ce the Greek physician Dioscorides described opium in his treatise De materia medica, which was the leading Western text on pharmacology for centuries.

The series is to be read from left to right and top to bottom, as is Western text on a page.

According to Simpkins and Simpkins, Sun Tzu's Art of War uses language that may be unusual in a Western text on warfare and strategy.

This divine election at the time of his baptism is known as an Adoptionist Christology, and it is emphasized by the quotation of Psalm 2 7, as found in the "Western text" of Luke 3 22, "You are my son, this day I have begotten you".

Gastric cancer continues to be described as one of the 'captains of the men of death' in a major western text (Bailey and Love, 2000).

What audiences seemed to respond to — and continue to respond to in Miyagi's work — was his interest in reshaping or reimagining Western texts via Japanese theatrical traditions.

There are details of steps in each act where the Vikharev version is extraordinarily close to one or both of these Western texts (which themselves have much in common but also striking differences), as well as many moments when it persuasively shows us a completely separate text.

In the past, she and her students at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University and Allameh Tabatabai University had been attacked by the authorities for many offenses: for not wearing the veil, for not wearing it properly, for refusing to espouse a hard-line ideological stance, for studying decadent Western texts and for embracing the ambiguities and conundrums of fiction.

It may well be that if Western texts were printed vertically, from the bottom of a page to the top and read upward so that each letter occupied a separate line with no horizontal connection to those before and after it, the apparent advantage of serif types in this regard might disappear.

Furthermore, many noted philosophers (such as Confucius, Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi, Shinran, and Zhuang Zhou) are absent from most Western texts and instruction materials.

When it is said in chapter one (as traditionally arranged and on one translation) of the Daodejing that "The Way that can be spoken of is not the constant Way," or in chapter two that the "sages abide in nonaction and practice the teaching that is without words," one is finding something different from the usual in Western texts infused with ideals of discursive rationality and argumentation.