Sentences with 'grants'
Example sentences and phrases with the word grants and other words derived from it.
• « Since there was no currency, 'payment' to scribes usually took the form of fiefdoms (i.e. land grants) that reverted to royal possessions after the official's death, a practice that atrophied after the fall of the Old Kingdom. »
• « Pompey returned in 67 BC and asked the Senate to approve land grants to his loyal soldiers for his service, a request the Senate refused because it feared his power and influence with so many soldiers loyal to him rather than to the Republic. »
• « The feudal system flourished in the early Middle Ages. Although it had its origins in the centuries after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the formal system of vassals receiving land grants by promising military service to kings (or, increasingly, in exchange for cash payments in lieu of military service) really came of age in the 11th and 12th centuries. »
• « Numerous aspects of government, even in the late 18th century, remained surprisingly "medieval" in some respects, such as the fact that laws were different from city to city and region to region, based on the accumulation of various royal grants and traditional rights over the centuries. »