7 sentences with “extend”

Suleiman oversaw a deliberate and focused campaign to enrich, extend and glorify the empire.

Slowly lower your hips and left knee. The right knee should not extend past the arch of the foot.

Dr. Levy, of Pittsburgh, wondered whether turning his patients into optimists would extend their lives.

From the Middle Kingdom onwards, kings made a great effort to extend Egypt's power and influence beyond the traditional 'core' of the kingdom into Egypt itself.

Gaius Gracchus' most radical move was to try to extend full citizenship to all Italian subjects of Rome, which would have effectively transformed the Roman Republic into the Italian Republic.

In a sense, then, the Greeks invented the idea of west and east, but they did not extend the idea to anyone but themselves, certainly including the "barbarians" who inhabited the rest of Europe. In other words, the Greeks had no concept of "Western Civilisation", only Greek vs. barbarian.

Although Rome would rarely extend actual citizenship to entire communities in the future, the assimilation of the Latins into the Roman state set an important precedent: conquered peoples could be won to Roman rule and contribute to Roman power, a key factor in Rome's continued expansion thereafter.