9 sentences with 'distinct'
Example sentences and phrases with the word distinct and other words derived from it.
• « In many ways, the very idea of Western Civilisation is a "loaded" idea, pitting one form or branch of civilisation against others as if they were distinct, even unrelated. »
• « The idea that the human species was divided into biologically distinct races was not entirely invented in the 19th century, but it became the predominant view and acquired all the characteristics of a "science" in the course of the 19th century. »
• « By 1900, almost anyone of European descent would have claimed to be part of a distinct and superior "race" whose global dominance was simply part of their collective birthright. »
• « Homo sapiens split into two distinct, physically different but interbreeding types, Neanderthals and Homo sapiens sapiens (the latter term means "wisest man" in Greek). »
• « The administration of the Ur III dynasty divided the empire into three distinct fiscal regions, and its fiscal bureaucracy collected wealth without alienating the conquered peoples as much as Sargon and his descendants had done (despite its relative success, Ur III also eventually collapsed, though this was due to foreign invasion rather than internal revolt). »
• « The two regions had been politically distinct for centuries, but (according to archaeology and the dating system created by Manetho) in about 3100 BC Narmer, a king of Upper Egypt, conquered Lower Egypt and united the country for the first time. »
• « One distinct possibility is that the "bandits" (often synonymous with "barbarians" in ancient accounts) who were blamed for destabilising the region may have been a combination of foreign invaders and peasants displaced by drought and social chaos who joined the invasions out of desperation. »
• « The ability of the Jews to carry their religious tradition with them would enable them to survive as a distinct people despite ongoing persecution in the absence of a stable homeland. »
• « Eventually the Minoans disappeared as a distinct culture, most likely after they were conquered and absorbed by the Mycenaeans, their northern neighbours. »