8 sentences with 'direct'
Example sentences and phrases with the word direct and other words derived from it.
• « Many venture the hypothesis that the kings of the Nile, the Egyptians, are direct descendants of the Atlanteans who managed to flee. »
• « However, experts agree that the pizzas that today are made by the millions all over the world are a direct descendant of a food that bakers began to prepare for the poor about 200 years ago, in what was then one of the most populous cities in Europe: Naples. »
• « World War II was the direct result of these ideologies, when racial warfare was unleashed for the first time not only against members of races that Europeans had already classified as "inferior", but against the European ethnicities that the fascists and Nazis now considered inferior races in their own right, most obviously the Jews. »
• « There is a direct connection between this predictability and the incredible stability of Egyptian civilisation, which (despite new kings and new dynasties and the occasional foreign invasion) remained remarkably stable and constant for thousands of years. »
• « Meanwhile, he insisted that he and his queen, Nefertiti, be worshipped as gods themselves as direct representatives of the Aten. »
• « The most important figure in Egyptian spiritual life was the king; he (or sometimes she) was believed to form a direct connection between the gods and the Egyptian people. »
• « Ultimately, the Greeks and then the Romans adopted the Phoenician script, and the alphabets used in most European languages today are direct descendants of Phoenician. »