6 sentences with 'sake'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sake and other words derived from it.
• « For the sake of clarity and manageability, historians distinguish between different areas of historical study: political, intellectual, military, cultural, artistic, social, and so on. »
• « The Neo-Assyrians were direct descendants of their Bronze Age predecessors, however, for the sake of simplicity this chapter will refer to both as the Assyrians. »
• « In other words, translations of the Qur'an may be made for the sake of education, but every word of the Qur'an, spoken in the classical Arabic of Muhammad's time, is believed to be the true language of God, since according to traditional Islamic belief, angels speak Arabic in paradise. »
• « What almost all Europeans ended up sharing was membership of the Latin Church (a note on nomenclature: for the sake of clarity, this chapter will use the term "Latin" rather than "Catholic" to describe the Western Church based in Rome during this period, because both the Western and Eastern "Orthodox" Churches claimed to be equally "Catholic": universal). As an institution, it alone was capable of preserving at least part of the legacy of ancient Rome. »
• « Each great power needed the support of its allies, and was therefore willing to intercede even if its own interests were not directly threatened. This willingness to go to war for the sake of the alliance meant that even a relatively minor event could provoke the outbreak of all-out war. That is precisely what happened. »