7 sentences with 'refers'
Example sentences and phrases with the word refers and other words derived from it.
• « In his famous work, Moody refers to many cases and rehearses an explanation regarding the return and what those who have returned from the dead tell of it. »
• « Civilisation as a historical phenomenon refers to certain fundamental technologies, notably agriculture, combined with a high degree of social specialisation, technological progress (albeit of a very slow kind in the case of the pre-modern world) and cultural sophistication expressed in art, learning and spirituality. »
• « The word Mesopotamia is Greek, meaning 'between the rivers', and refers to the area between the Tigris and Euphrates, two of the most important waterways of the ancient world. »
• « This initiated the First Punic War, which lasted from 264 to 241 BCE. (Note: "Punic" refers to the Roman term for Phoenician, and thus to Carthage and its civilisation). »
• « The term originally referred to the biblical story of the enslavement of the Jews by the Babylonian Empire in the 6th century BC, but the Babylonian Captivity of the late Middle Ages refers instead to the period during which the popes no longer lived in their traditional residence in Rome. »
• « Imperialism' in the context of modern history refers to the building of a global empire by modern states - to distinguish it from the earlier expansion of European states (e.g. the Spanish empire in the Americas), it is sometimes called 'neo-imperialism'. »