7 sentences with “deliberately”

Thus, the Romans deliberately adopted an older set of ideas and considered themselves part of an ongoing civilisation that blended Greek and Roman values.

In practice, this meant deliberately flouting social mores, sometimes in conflicting or even repugnant ways: Diogenes, founder of the Cynics, masturbated and defecated in public.

However, this book deliberately breaks with the "triumphalist" narrative that describes Western Civilisation as the most successful, rational and enlightened form of civilisation in human history.

Perhaps the most important thing Octavian could do, and did, was to recognise that the old system no longer worked as it should, and so he set about deliberately creating a new system in its place.

Thucydides thus deliberately crafted an argument (a thesis) and defended it with historical evidence, precisely the same thing historians and students of history are expected to do in their written work.

Since clan divisions had always undermined Mongol unity in the past, Genghis Khan deliberately placed members of a given clan into different Tumen (10,000-man armies) to dilute clan loyalty and encourage his warriors to think of themselves as part of something larger than their clans.

What is clear is that the Parthians deliberately built on the achievements of the earlier Achaemenid and Seleucid periods, adopting the title of king of kings, basing their empire (from 120 BC) on Ctesiphon, a city near Babylon in Mesopotamia, and ruling over a shifting confederation of both the settled peoples of Mesopotamia and Persia itself and nomadic tribal confederations.