8 sentences with 'employed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word employed and other words derived from it.
• « But he soon rectified this omission, and employed more women than most other Detroit businessmen. »
• « Sargon also created the world's first standing army, a group of soldiers employed by the state who had no other jobs or duties. »
• « They employed a form of what is known as inductive reason, of starting with observation and moving towards explanation. »
• « The Abbasid caliphs employed Persian bureaucrats and ruled in a manner similar to the earlier Persian Great Kings, although they did not adopt that title. Their role as caliphs was to protect the ummah and provide a political framework within which Shari'a could flourish; it was in the Abbasid period that Islamic law was truly developed and codified. »
• « Another noteworthy innovation first employed in Europe by the Italians was the use of Arabic numerals instead of Roman numerals, as the former are much easier to work with. »
• « Some of these can be captured in the statistics: royal governments grew by approximately 400% in size (i.e. in terms of the number of officials they employed and the tax revenues they raised) over the course of the 17th century, and standing armies grew from about 20,000 men during the 16th century to over 150,000 by the end of the 17th century. »