10 sentences with 'systems'
Example sentences and phrases with the word systems and other words derived from it.
• « Other regions of the brain have backup systems; if one is injured, another takes over its function. But in the brain stem, what is destroyed is destroyed forever. There is no margin for error. »
• « In January 1990, one by one, her body systems stopped working, until Sarah was in a semi-comatose state. She looked as fragile as a newborn. »
• « The Mesopotamians also created systems of writing, organised religion and literature, all of which would come to have an enormous influence on world history and, in turn, on Western civilisation. »
• « Priests probably led efforts to build irrigation systems and made decisions about city building and rebuilding, since they had a monopoly on explaining the great forces at work in human life. »
• « Not only in Mesopotamia, but throughout the ancient world, there is significant evidence of religious belief systems centred on two main themes: fertility and death. »
• « The Mesopotamians also invented the first writing systems, first developed for the purpose of keeping tax records sometime around 3000 BCE. »
• « The Old Kingdom united Egypt under a single ruling house, developed systems of record-keeping, and formed an important caste of scribes, the royal bureaucrats who mastered hieroglyphic writing. »
• « Second, Egypt developed an important social class of scribes whose vocation was to master the complex Egyptian writing systems and to keep extensive records of almost every aspect of life, from religious rituals to mundane records. »
• « The Minoans actively traded with their neighbours and developed their own systems of bureaucracy and writing. They used a form of writing that historians call "Linear A" and which has never been deciphered. »
• « In a sense, the empires of the Bronze Age and especially the Iron Age represented different experiments in how to build and maintain larger economic systems and political units than had previously been possible. »