6 sentences with 'supervision'
Example sentences and phrases with the word supervision and other words derived from it.
• « There were huge building projects under her supervision, and it was also under her reign that large quantities of sub-Saharan African goods began to be imported from Nubia: gold, incense, live elephants, panther skins and other forms of wealth. »
• « Living conditions for slaves were often atrocious, and strict supervision and the use of violent discipline ensured that no slave revolt succeeded (despite the best efforts of revolt leaders, such as Spartacus in the 1st century BC). »
• « Under Sultan Selim I ("The Grim", r. 1512 - 1520), Ottoman forces conquered Egypt from the Mamluk Turks and took over the rule and supervision of the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina, hitherto under Mamluk control. »
• « In 1653, Prussian King Frederick William reached a "Great Compromise" with his nobles. He received a military subsidy in the form of taxes, along with the right to make law independent of the nobles' supervision. »
• « The only thing that benefited from Stalin's supervision was the army, which grew dramatically and, for the first time since the Napoleonic wars, reached a level of parity with the West. »
• « So far, the corpse has only been examined by X-ray and scanner, under the strict supervision of Dr Werner Platzer, director of the university's Institute of Anatomy. »