8 sentences with 'contemporary'
Example sentences and phrases with the word contemporary and other words derived from it.
• « Another great master, Lao Tse, contemporary of Confucius and founder of Taoism, the second Chinese philosophical current, established in his book The Way of Virtues or Tao To King the rules of life to obtain well-being and plenitude. »
• « For a long time, the contemporary American biochemist and physiologist Ida Rolf searched tirelessly for the best way to correct bad posture and body pain. As a result of her research she developed the method of structural integration called rolfing. »
• « Cases of battered women, syphilis, cancer and other conditions that we thought were contemporary. »
• « Much less is known about the Celts than about contemporary Mediterranean cultures because the Celts left no written record. »
• « A leading contemporary historian of Rome, W.V. Harris, wisely warns against the temptation of "power worship" in studying Roman history. »
• « A contemporary of Gracchus, a general named Gaius Marius, took steps that eroded the traditional republican system. »
• « Much of Roman law still seems grossly unjust from a contemporary perspective. In particular, the laws came to establish a formal division between the rich and the poor, even in the case of citizens. »
• « Surprising from a contemporary perspective, however, is that it was not until 1442 (during the Renaissance) that the definitive and somewhat "final" version of the Bible was established by the Western Church when it defined exactly which books of the Old Testament were to be included and which were not. »