7 sentences with 'initiate'
Example sentences and phrases with the word initiate and other words derived from it.
• « A century later, the French physician Louis Pasteur, with his valuable work on infectious diseases, was to initiate a discipline vital to human well-being: immunology. »
• « In ancient Rome women retained ownership of their dowries in marriage, could initiate divorce, and controlled their own inheritances. »
• « In addition to attacks by groups such as the Vikings, the main political problem of the Middle Ages was that the entire feudal system was based on violence: minor lords often had no livelihood outside of war, and pressured their own lords to initiate raids on nearby lands. »
• « Also, one of the legacies of feudal law was the importance placed on honour and retribution; any insult or slight could initiate reprisals or even plunge an entire kingdom into civil war. »
• « There would be harsh and official religious intolerance well into the 19th century, but even pious monarchs were very hesitant to initiate or engage in large-scale warfare in the name of religious belief. »
• « Simultaneously, there was a large-scale shift from sacred languages to vernaculars (i.e. from Latin to English, Spanish, French, etc.), which in turn helped to initiate the spread of modern state-sponsored vernaculars as languages spoken in regions far from the royal capitals. »
• « From the 1850s onwards, women across Europe could not vote, could not initiate divorce (in countries where divorce was even possible), could not control custody of children, could not pursue higher education, could not open bank accounts in their own name, could not maintain ownership of property inherited after marriage, could not sue or serve as legal witnesses, and could not maintain control of their own wages if they worked and married. »