6 sentences with 'pillar'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pillar and other words derived from it.
• « The conquest of Babylon produced one outstanding example - the "Cyrus Cylinder", a pillar covered by a proclamation that Cyrus commissioned after the conquest of Babylon. »
• « The founder of the group, St. Simeon the Stylite, climbed a pillar in Syria and spent the next 30 years living atop it. »
• « St. Simeon the Stylite was so famous for his holiness and endurance in the face of the obvious physical cost of living literally on top of a pillar that he attracted followers from all over the Roman world who came to hear him preach. Soon, many others sought pillars in imitation of Simeon. »
• « Kalenberg Peasant Family by A. Wissel. This painting is an expression of the official art of German Nazism. It shows the exaltation of the Aryan race, the pillar of this ideology. »
• « Congress established the Bank of the United States in 1791 as a key pillar of Alexander Hamilton's financial programme, but its twenty-year charter expired in 1811. »