9 sentences with 'se'
Example sentences and phrases with the word se and other words derived from it.
• « Likewise, the Greeks did not invent "civilisation" per se; they inherited things like agriculture and writing from their neighbours. »
• « In terms of the religious map of the Holy Roman Empire, there was one important change, however: despite the fact that the Catholic side had not "won" the war per se, Catholicism itself benefited from the early success of the Habsburgs. »
• « In other words, although the monarchs of the 17th and 18th centuries certainly knew that they were doing something different from what their predecessors had done, they did not use the term "absolutism" per se. »
• « At the same time, the rituals surrounding the king were not invented to humiliate and impoverish his nobles per se, but celebrated the power of each noble according to his proximity to the king. »
• « Because of the enormous wealth that was generated not from gold and silver per se, but from commodities such as sugar, tobacco and coffee (as well as luxury goods such as spices that had always been important), the states of Europe were willing to constantly fight among themselves, as well as to perpetrate one of the greatest crimes in history: the Atlantic slave trade. »
• « One of the characteristics of industrial societies, beyond industrial technology and the use of fossil fuels per se, is the fact that culture itself is mass-produced. »
• « Parties whose main platform was anti-Semitism per se, however, faded from prominence in the 1890s. The largest single victory won by anti-Semitic political parties in the German Empire was in 1893, with only 2.9% of the vote. »
• « In historical retrospect, Freud's importance derives from his work as a philosopher of mind rather than as a 'scientist' per se, although it was precisely his eagerness to have his work respected as a true science that inspired his research and writings. »