9 sentences with 'code'
Example sentences and phrases with the word code and other words derived from it.
• « But today scientists are beginning to see beyond appearances, to read the code of living beings that constitutes DNA, and are updating many of Darwin's theories. »
• « The cell's command code is clever enough to bypass the instructions, meaninglessly, but the dna retains them, perhaps as spare parts, or, in the words of biologist Walter Gilbert, as "evolutionary playgrounds" where cells can experiment. »
• « The most important surviving law code is that of the Babylonian king Hammurabi, dating from around 1780 BCE. »
• « Hammurabi's law code went into great detail about the rights and obligations of the Babylonians. »
• « The laws speak of a deep concern for fairness: the code sought to protect people from unfair loan conditions, provided redress for property damage, and even made city officials responsible for catching criminals. »
• « It is evident that there was a sophisticated ethical code and set of social expectations present even in early Zoroastrianism, reflected in a commentary by the Greek historian Herodotus. »
• « Likewise, hardly anyone in Byzantium understood Latin well by the ninth century, so even Justinian's code of laws was almost always referred to in a simplified Greek translation. »
• « Without an effective bureaucracy or a code of laws, there was little cohesion in the kingdom, and areas began to divide almost immediately after Charlemagne's death in 814. »
• « The Teutonic Knights were a chivalric order founded during the Third Crusade in a hospital in the Latin city of Acre. They were inspired by the Templars, adopting their 'rule' (their code of conduct) and spent most of the 12th century crusading in the Holy Land. »