8 sentences with 'earnest'
Example sentences and phrases with the word earnest and other words derived from it.
• « Beginning in earnest with the Middle Kingdom, trade caravans linked Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Egypt (and, later, Greece as well). »
• « Finally, beginning in earnest in the 11th and 12th centuries, wind and water mills became increasingly common for grinding grain into usable flour. »
• « Building on the murderous anti-Semitism that had begun in earnest during the Crusader period, Jews were often victims of this phenomenon. »
• « Likewise, changes in warfare were increasingly linked to military technology: first the introduction of the stirrup, then everything related to a "gunpowder revolution" that began in earnest in the 15th century. »
• « Although men had dominated these debates from the beginning, women educated in the humanist tradition joined the fray in earnest during the Renaissance, arguing both that education was the key to raising women's competence and that women shared precisely the same spiritual and moral nature as men. »
• « It was not until European powers began to break Ottoman sovereignty (a process that began in earnest with a huge Habsburg victory in 1699) that the real decline of the empire became visible. »
• « Instead, what is evident in retrospect is that centralised states with legal control and the right to raise taxes throughout their territory began in earnest during this period, introducing new legal and political patterns that would only expand in the following centuries. »
• « The Catholic Reformation was taking place in earnest in the 1530s. The Church adopted the use of the printing press and began to reach both priests and educated laity, often in the vernacular languages rather than Latin (although, as noted above, the Bible itself was to remain untranslated). »