8 sentences with 'existing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word existing and other words derived from it.
• « Farmers lived in "closed" villages where no people were allowed to enter and existing families were not supposed to move in. »
• « Plato claimed that politics and ethics were also like this, with the Form of Justice replacing "real" laws and courts, but existing in the intellectual realm as something for philosophers to contemplate. »
• « The Ptolemaic reign is particularly noteworthy: starting with Ptolemy himself, the existing Egyptian bureaucracy was expanded and its middle and upper ranks were filled entirely by Greeks (and Macedonians), who developed obsessively detailed records of every sheaf of wheat owed to the royal treasury. »
• « The Epicureans avoided politics, the Stoics supported the existing political structures, and the Cynics scoffed at everything without offering positive suggestions for change. This was a far cry from the serious enquiry of a Socrates, a Plato or an Aristotle in attempting to establish a virtuous form of politics. »
• « The real problem with Muhammad's message was his call for exclusivity: if Muhammad had just asked the people of Mecca to worship the God of Abraham in addition to their existing deities, he probably would not have aroused such fierce resistance, especially from the clan leaders who dominated Meccan society. »
• « However, as the power of the French monarchy grew in the west and the Ottoman Turks became an active threat in the east, the most powerful cities signed a treaty, the Peace of Lodi, in 1454 that committed each city to the defence of the existing political order. »
• « For the first time, the very concept of correct spelling emerged, and existing ideas about grammar also began the process of standardisation. »
• « In return, the nobility received confirmation that only nobles could own land and, furthermore, that they had total control over the peasants on their lands. In essence, the already existing status of serfdom on Prussian lands was made permanent. »