10 sentences with 'definitive'
Example sentences and phrases with the word definitive and other words derived from it.
• « There is still no definitive explanation as to why this collapse occurred, not least because the states that had kept records ceased to do so as their bureaucracies disintegrated. »
• « Thanks to the Olympics, the date 776 BCE is often used as the definitive break between the dark and archaic ages of Greek civilisation. »
• « The Gospels were transmitted orally for decades before being recorded in their definitive versions; most scholars now date the written Gospels to approximately 90 CE (about sixty years after Jesus' death). »
• « Surprising from a contemporary perspective, however, is that it was not until 1442 (during the Renaissance) that the definitive and somewhat "final" version of the Bible was established by the Western Church when it defined exactly which books of the Old Testament were to be included and which were not. »
• « Although the debate over the causes of Rome's fall will probably never have a definitive answer, one important caveat should be made: Rome did not "really" fall for another thousand years, even though the city of Rome itself, along with the western half of the Empire, lost its sovereignty to the invasion of the Germanic "barbarians". »
• « When Muhammad died, there was immediate trouble among Muslim Arabs. He did not name a successor, but he had been the definitive leader of the Islamic community during his lifetime; it seemed clear that the community was destined to have a leader. »
• « By 700 CE, the Umayyads had conquered all of North Africa as far as the Atlantic. Then, in 711, they invaded Spain and destroyed the Visigothic kingdom, putting a definitive end to Aryan Christianity in North Africa and Spain. »
• « In optics: the first telescopes, along with the definitive refutation of the idea that the eye sends out rays to detect things and instead receives information reflected from objects. »
• « Together with the political and technological innovations described in the following chapters, Renaissance learning and art helped to bring about the definitive end of the Middle Ages. »
• « Unfortunately, Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, in discovering bacteria, did not deduce that they were responsible for disease; it would not be until the 1860s with the French physician and scientist Louis Pasteur that definitive proof of the link between germs and disease was established. »