9 sentences with “descent”

The staircase allows for easy descent to the basement.

A tall, grey-haired man of Chinese descent, Lim's eyes watered.

Then the lights came back on and the elevator resumed its descent.

Cyrus II established his authority on two principles: descent from other great kings and the favour of the gods.

Cyrus II was the living representative of a supreme royal line of descent and an ensis in the Mesopotamian sense: the agent of the patron god on earth.

The Arabs of the time were organised tribally, with tribes claiming descent from common ancestors and ruling through gatherings of the patriarchs of each clan.

By 1900, almost anyone of European descent would have claimed to be part of a distinct and superior "race" whose global dominance was simply part of their collective birthright.

This descent into subsistence had occurred for a number of reasons over the course of the previous centuries. The fall of Rome's western empire had strangled the manufacture and trade of high-quality consumer goods (a trade that had been extensive in Rome).

It was against the backdrop of this descent into what Europeans and Americans often called "barbarism" - the old antithesis of the "true" civilisation that began with the Greeks - that the history of Western civilisation first emerged as a textbook subject and, soon, as a mainstay of university curricula.