6 sentences with “reliable”

Dr. Epstein summoned all his optimism. Among his weapons, this was the most reliable: his innate drive to preserve life.

Tacitus is universally regarded as the most reliable, although Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars is a very entertaining read.

There was an equally strong Jewish intellectual legacy that provided accurate translations from Hebrew and Aramaic into Greek, giving Greek-speaking Christians access to a reliable version of the Old Testament.

There was a limited market for luxury goods, even among those wealthy enough to afford them, and the only sources of reliable minted coinage were over a thousand miles away, in Byzantium, Persia and the Arab kingdoms.

In the eyes of his subjects, the royal person was no longer seen as a reliable spiritual anchor - the pharaoh was supposed to be the great protector of religious and social order, but instead an attempt had been made to destroy it completely.

Aristotle argued that the senses, however imperfect, are still reliable enough to provide a genuine understanding of the workings of the world, and furthermore that the duty of the philosopher was to try to understand the world in as much detail as possible.