6 sentences with 'document'
Example sentences and phrases with the word document and other words derived from it.
• « In the eighth century, the papacy produced a document (forged, as it turned out) known as the Donation of Constantine in which the Roman emperor Constantine supposedly granted authority over the Western Roman Empire to the pope of Rome; that document was often cited by popes over the following centuries as "proof" of their authority. »
• « Ultimately, his work became so famous that it established Tuscan as the basis of what would eventually become the language of "Italian" - all the educated people of Italy would come to read comedy as a matter of course and it came to serve as the founding document of the modern Italian language in the process. »
• « Newton personally designed and built a new and more effective type of telescope, and wrote the founding document for the modern science of optics. »
• « Better known was the Protocol of the Elders of Zion, a document claiming to be the minutes of a meeting of international Jewish leaders that copied entire sections of Goedsche's "Speech" and combined them with several equally spurious accounts of Jewish political machinations. »
• « Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander of the forces that had carried out the D-Day invasion, ordered British and American troops to document what they discovered - the huge piles of corpses, the open graves, the emaciated survivors and the gas chambers - so that these horrors would not be dismissed as "propaganda" at some point in the future. »