8 sentences with 'extending'
Example sentences and phrases with the word extending and other words derived from it.
• « Neanderthals enjoyed a long period of existence between about 400,000 and 70,000 years ago, extending from Africa to the Middle East and Europe. »
• « It was an important centre of long-distance trade, with its trade networks extending throughout the Middle East and as far as the Indus River valley of India, with traders relying on donkey caravans and the use of wheeled chariots. »
• « The early Spartan conquests of their region of Greece had resulted in a large area under their control, populated by non-Spartan people. Instead of extending any kind of political representation to these subjects, the Spartans maintained absolute control over them, even the right to kill them at will without legal consequences. »
• « While some of the early revolutionaries had spoken out in favour of extending rights to Protestants before the Revolution, fewer spoke out on behalf of France's Jewish minority. »
• « However, in the case of blacks and mixed-race people in the French colonies, the Assembly at first showed little interest in extending any form of political rights. Several members of the Assembly argued that slavery should be abolished, but they were in the minority. »
• « It is clear that a great state flourished around this city, extending into and out of Syria, rivalling the major powers of Mesopotamia and Egypt. »
• « The funerary building was covered with sand in the desert area extending south of the pyramid area near Cairo. »
• « The use of animals to try to explain organic reactions in humans is frequent and of great value," explains Dr. Ricardo Calandra of the Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine of Buenos Aires, "although we must be cautious in extending the results of such experiments to human beings. »