8 sentences with 'emphasised'

Example sentences and phrases with the word emphasised and other words derived from it.

« The Egyptian religion of the Old Kingdom had emphasised life on earth; although the pyramids were tombs built to house the kings and the things they would need on their journey to the afterlife, there are no records with details of how most people would fare after death. »
« A comparable case would be the Assyrians, who emphasised the worship of Ashur but recognised the existence of other gods (including Yahweh). »
« Other Greek tragedies emphasised the power of fate, when cruel circumstances conspired to bring even great heroes to failure. »
« There was also a growing conservative faction in Rome led by Cato the Elder who emphasised Roman moral virtue over Greek weakness. »
« Borrowing from Persian practice, Diocletian emphasised the use of heavy cavalry to respond quickly to threats. »
« In the deserts outside the major cities, a group called the Essenes emphasised a life of asceticism and mysticism, while throughout Palestine anti-Roman revolutionaries known as the Zealots advocated an armed revolt against the Roman occupier. »
« Another factor in the collapse of the western half of the Empire must be emphasised: once Rome began to lose large territories in the west, tax revenues were reduced to a fraction of what they had been. »
« Of the various themes of Renaissance thought, perhaps the most important was humanism, an ancient intellectual paradigm that emphasised both beauty and the centrality of humanity in the universe. »

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