Sentences with 'spearheaded'
Example sentences and phrases with the word spearheaded and other words derived from it.
• « The overall result was that Venice spearheaded many of the practices and patterns that later spread throughout northern Italy and ultimately the rest of Europe: the political power of merchants, advanced banking and mercantile practices, and a sophisticated international diplomatic network. »
• « Like Dante, Petrarch was a Florentine (a native of the city of Florence) and single-handedly spearheaded the practice of studying and imitating the great writers and thinkers of the past. »
• « The emancipation of the serfs was the most significant reform spearheaded by a 19th century Russian tsar. It is therefore ironic that Alexander II was the only Tsar to be assassinated by a radical terrorist group. »
• « The Portuguese spearheaded the evolution of slave transport across the Atlantic; slave 'factories' on the west coast of Africa, such as Elmina Castle in Ghana, served as holding pens for slaves brought from the African interior. »