10 sentences with 'subjects'
Example sentences and phrases with the word subjects and other words derived from it.
• « Through incredible engineering, the hard work of Roman citizens and Roman subjects, and the massive use of slave labour, they constructed remarkable buildings and created infrastructure such as roads and aqueducts that survive to this day. »
• « Combining the practical study of languages, history, mathematics and rhetoric (among other subjects) with the cultivation of an ethical code that humanistics traced back to the Greeks, humanist education ultimately created a curriculum aimed at creating well-rounded, virtuous individuals. »
• « Pharaohs were still thought of as divine, but that did not mean that they simply bullied their subjects. »
• « In the eyes of his subjects, the royal person was no longer seen as a reliable spiritual anchor - the pharaoh was supposed to be the great protector of religious and social order, but instead an attempt had been made to destroy it completely. »
• « While their subjects experienced Assyrian rule as militarily enforced tyranny, the Assyrian kings took pride in Mesopotamia's cultural and intellectual heritage and supported learning and scholarship. »
• « Some of these people, probably Canaanites who had been subjects of the Pharaohs, took freedom, and may well have included the Hebrews. »
• « Likewise, Solomon taxed both the trade that passed through the Hebrew kingdom and his own subjects. »
• « Thus, while his subjects came to resent aspects of his rule, neither was he notably more exploitative than the norm in the region as a whole. »
• « There were never more than 8,000 Spartan soldiers, along with another 20,000 or so free non-citizens (inhabitants of cities near Sparta who were not considered to be landlords, but free but subservient subjects), overseeing a much larger population of landlords. »