6 sentences with 'initiating'
Example sentences and phrases with the word initiating and other words derived from it.
• « Although the Phoenicians played an important role in initiating long-distance trade after the collapse of the Bronze Age, they did not create a strong united state. However, such a state emerged further east: only the Assyrian kingdom of northern Mesopotamia, the only one of the major Bronze Age states, survived. »
• « His "grand strategy" was to seize territory from Habsburg Spain and Habsburg Austria by initiating a series of wars; he planned to force conquered populations to help pay for the wars and ultimately hoped to expand France to the Pyrenees in the south and the Rhine in the east. »
• « The Holocaust was one of the great traumas associated with the Second World War. It forced the Western world to confront the fact that a highly advanced and "civilised" nation in the heart of Europe - Germany - had been responsible not only for initiating a horrific and bloody war, but for carrying out the systematic murder of millions of completely innocent people. »
• « But when the Silk Road, the long overland trade route from China to the Mediterranean, became more costly and dangerous to travel, Europeans sought a more efficient and cheaper trade route by water, initiating the development of what we now call the Atlantic World. »
• « Isabel, motivated by a strong religious zeal, was instrumental in initiating the Inquisition in 1480, a brutal campaign to eradicate Jews and Muslims who had ostensibly converted to Christianity but secretly continued to practise their faith, as well as other heretics. »
• « The federal government funded this important artery westward, initiating the creation of a transportation infrastructure for the benefit of settlers and farmers. Other entities built tolls, which (as today) charged fees for its use. »