9 sentences with 'ongoing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ongoing and other words derived from it.
• « In their ongoing struggle to preserve health, researchers all over the world continued to search for new methods and reveal new secrets. Ultimately, this is what human beings have been striving for ever since they began to live on this planet. »
• « An ongoing cough, chest pain, excessive weight loss and blood in the sputum may be symptoms of lung cancer. »
• « The Romans are the ones who give us the idea that Western civilisation is something that is ongoing, something that has begun in the past and continues into the future. »
• « Thus, the Romans deliberately adopted an older set of ideas and considered themselves part of an ongoing civilisation that blended Greek and Roman values. »
• « The ability of the Jews to carry their religious tradition with them would enable them to survive as a distinct people despite ongoing persecution in the absence of a stable homeland. »
• « In 399 BC, Macedonia was plunged into an ongoing civil war, in which the nobles openly rejected the king's authority and the country slid into anarchy. »
• « In the case of Rome, an ongoing class struggle called the Conflict of Orders took place from about 500 BC to 360 BC. (140 years!), in which the plebeians fought for more political representation. »
• « In the midst of this ongoing struggle, the Romans arrived at the basis of Roman law, the system of law that, through various iterations, would become the basis of most systems of law still in use in Europe today (Britain being a notable exception). »
• « The ongoing wars with Persia represented the greatest expense the Emperor Justinian faced, even as he oversaw the campaigns in Italy. »