7 sentences with 'initiated'
Example sentences and phrases with the word initiated and other words derived from it.
• « The intensity of the death / rebirth experience will end the old social role and allow the new one to be initiated and taken over. »
• « They re-established trade routes and initiated a new phase of Middle Eastern politics that eventually gave rise to the greatest empires the world had ever seen. »
• « Open war finally broke out between the two cities in 431 BC after two of their respective allied polis initiated a conflict and Athens tried to influence the political decisions of the Spartan allies. The war lasted from 431 to 404 BC. »
• « This initiated the First Punic War, which lasted from 264 to 241 BCE. (Note: "Punic" refers to the Roman term for Phoenician, and thus to Carthage and its civilisation). »
• « One aspect of Emperor Justinian's focus on Christian purification was the destruction of the ancient traditions of paganism in and around Greece initiated by his Christian predecessors. »
• « A murderous leader named Basil I, originally from Macedonia, took the throne in 867 and initiated a line of ruthless but competent leaders who ruled for some two hundred years. »
• « Luther was elated by the success of his message; he happily accepted the use of the term "Lutheranism" to describe the new religious movement he had initiated, and he was sure that the correctness of his position was so attractive that even the Jews would abandon their traditional beliefs and convert (they did not, and Luther quickly launched a vituperative anti-Semitic attack entitled Against the Jews and Their Lies). »