7 sentences with 'model'
Example sentences and phrases with the word model and other words derived from it.
• « The following frightening description is a model of the common elements that all stories of those who have "returned" from other worlds bring: The doctor pronounced me dead and I began to hear an unpleasant noise, a buzzing sound, and I began to move rapidly through a long, dark tunnel. »
• « In the case of the Romans, they (sometimes reluctantly) recognised Greece as a cultural model; Roman architecture used Greek forms, the Roman gods were really just the Greek gods given new names (Zeus became Jupiter, Hades became Pluto, etc.), and educated Romans spoke and read Greek so that they could read the works of the great Greek poets, playwrights and philosophers. »
• « Although the Seleucid dynasty attempted to model itself on both Greek traditions of rule and the earlier Persian dynasty of the Achaemenids (Darius III was the last of that dynasty to rule), it never established legitimacy in the eyes of many of its subjects. »
• « One of the important aspects of the behaviour of the "good emperors" is that they fit the model of a "philosopher king" first described by Plato centuries earlier. »
• « Subsequent dynasties would look back to the Sassanids as the model to emulate, just as the Sassanids had emulated the Achaemenids. »
• « It is also clear from archaeology that many Germans made a career of fighting in Roman armies and then returned to their home areas, and that many Germans regarded Rome as a model of civilisation to emulate, not as a permanent enemy. »
• « Of secondary importance to the Qur'an is the Hadith, a collection of stories about Muhammad's life, behaviour and sayings, all of which provided a model for righteous and ethical living. »