8 sentences with 'benefited'
Example sentences and phrases with the word benefited and other words derived from it.
• « Spartan women scandalised other Greeks by participating in athletics and seem to have benefited from a greater degree of personal freedom than women elsewhere in Greece - of course, this would have been a social necessity as the men of Sparta lived in barracks until the age of 30, leaving women in charge of domestic property. »
• « In a sense, the Persian empire both benefited from and became vulnerable to the autonomy of its subjects: each region maintained its own identity and traditions, minimising day-to-day resentment, but in times of crisis such autonomy could also give rise to demands for real independence. »
• « Rome benefited greatly from the fact that the Carthaginians did not realise that the war could become about more than Sicily; even after winning victories there, the Carthaginians never attempted to invade Italy itself (which they might have done, at least at first). »
• « The Roman equites, however, were wealthy, and benefited from the fact that senators were formally forbidden to engage in commerce from the end of the 3rd century BCE. »
• « An obvious example of a field that benefited from formal disputatio (disputation) was law: disputation as a technique moved easily from biblical to legal questions, and by the twelfth century new generations of lawyers (beginning in Italy) were using scholastic techniques both to revive aspects of Roman law and to hone their own skills as lawyers. »
• « In the following decades, then, many peasants benefited from higher prices for their labour and crops. »
• « Another group that benefited was women. For about a century after the plague, women had more legal rights in terms of property, the right to engage in trade, and land ownership, than they had enjoyed before the outbreak of the plague. »
• « The central irony of Renaissance prosperity was that even in northern Italy, the vast majority of the population benefited only indirectly or not at all. »