Sentences with 'elaborated'
Example sentences and phrases with the word elaborated and other words derived from it.
• « Ptolemy, who lived centuries after Aristotle, elaborated on the Aristotelian system and claimed that there was not one, but about eighty spheres, one inside the other, which explained the fact that the different celestial bodies did not all move in the same direction and at the same speed. »
• « Instead, most physicians continued to rely on the work of the Greek physician Galen, who in the 2nd century CE had elaborated the Aristotelian idea of the four "humours" that supposedly governed health: blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. »
• « The State acts in accordance with the law - elaborated by the Legislative Branch - and has a control - exercised by the Judicial Branch - that guarantees fundamental rights and freedoms. It involves a Constitution, a central government, regional and local governments, a public administration, economic and social functions, autonomous political and legal bodies. »
• « Frederick Douglass, a Maryland slave who escaped to the North in 1838, elaborated on this dimension of slavery in his 1845 account. He told how slave masters had to sell their own children they had with slave women to appease white wives who despised their offspring. »