7 sentences with 'extension'

Example sentences and phrases with the word extension and other words derived from it.

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« By extension, the term dyspepsia is applied to any functional disorder of the gastrointestinal tract. »
« At Versailles, life revolved around the person of the king and, by extension, his power, which was never seriously questioned during his lifetime. »
« Charlemagne was up to something completely new, intending to create an empire of several different Germanic groups, with himself (and by extension, the Franks) ruling over all of them. »
« By publicising his work, Galileo undermined the idea that the heavens were perfect, that the earth was central, and by extension, that ancient knowledge is reliable. Few things could have been more disturbing at the time. »
« In the end, Luther argued that the pope, and by extension the whole church, were irrelevant to spiritual salvation. He argued that true Christians were part of the priesthood of believers, united by their faith and without need of the Catholic Church. »
« Partly in reaction to Protestantism, but also partly as an extension of pre-existing reform movements, the Catholic hierarchy introduced important changes in both practice (e.g., the colleges that trained priests) and culture (e.g., a new focus on the spiritual life of the common person) that did involve significant reforms. »
« However, the last Umayyad caliph had been assassinated shortly before this conflict, so Muslim forces had little reason to continue their expansion. This battle marked the greatest extension of the major Muslim-ruled territories. For the next few centuries, the Muslim world consisted of the Middle East, North Africa and Spain. »

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