6 sentences with 'recognise'
Example sentences and phrases with the word recognise and other words derived from it.
• « The body learns to recognise this data and to control the intensity with which it is presented. »
• « Persian kings were happy to recognise the authority of the rulers of the lands they had conquered, but they demanded that these rulers in turn recognise the overall supremacy of the Persian king. »
• « Herodotus knew enough about other cultures, especially Persia, to recognise that other societies could be as complex, and more militarily powerful, than Greece. Nevertheless, his history of the Persian war continued the ancient Greek practice of referring to the Persians as "barbarians". »
• « Perhaps the most important thing Octavian could do, and did, was to recognise that the old system no longer worked as it should, and so he set about deliberately creating a new system in its place. »
• « The early Christians did not recognise any social distinctions, which was fundamentally at odds with the entire Roman system, which depended on formal legal separations between social classes and a rigid system of social hierarchy. »
• « The final and permanent division between the Western and Eastern churches, which had already existed de facto for centuries, came in 1054, when Pope Leo IX and Patriarch Michael I excommunicated each other after Michael refused to recognise Leo's pre-eminence - this event cemented the "Great Schism" (schism means "rupture" or "split") between the Western and Eastern churches. »