6 sentences with 'scholars'
Example sentences and phrases with the word scholars and other words derived from it.
• « The scholars held that aging was a mistake of the intellect. So, to achieve longevity, they recommended rasayanas, concentrates of special herbs and minerals. »
• « None of the scholars claim that they worshipped their mummies, but they did venerate them as they did the huaca or sacred objects, which were vehicles through which the essence of the supernatural was manifested. »
• « Leading scholars in the United States, especially historians, concluded that the best way to defend the elements of civilisation with which they most identified, including certain concepts of rationality and political equality, was to describe all of human existence as a rise from primitive savagery to enlightenment, a rise that may not have begun strictly speaking in Europe, but which had its greatest success there. »
• « Parts of this library survived and provide one of the most important sources of information scholars have on the beliefs, languages and literature of the ancient Middle East. »
• « This is, as far as historians know, the first instance in world history in which the idea of a single all-powerful deity emerged among any people, anywhere (although some scholars consider Akhenaten's attempted religious revolution in Egypt to be quasi-monotheism). »
• « Many of the now unemployed scholars fled to Persia, where they were taken in by the Sassanid rulers. »