7 sentences with 'describing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word describing and other words derived from it.
• « Although there is obviously a pro-Greek bias in the Greek sources describing the Persian war, they identify an essential reason for Greek victories: thanks to the viability of the phalanx, every Greek soldier (from any polis, not just Sparta) was a real and viable soldier. »
• « There was a vast Greco-Roman literature describing government, science, engineering, etc., all of which were needed in the new Christian Empire. A kind of uneasy balance was struck between the study of classical learning, especially things like rhetoric, while warning of the spiritual danger of being seduced by its non-Christian messages. »
• « The Encyclopaedia was also intended as a technical resource for future scientists and inventors, not only describing aspects of science, but including detailed technical diagrams of everything from windmills to mines. »
• « Although many historians have taken issue with the term "revolution" in describing what was much more of a slow evolution at the time, there is no doubt that the changes that industrial technology brought about were truly revolutionary. »
• « In debates with his friend and patron Alexis de Tocqueville, one of the leading intellectual voices of liberalism, Gobineau claimed that he was merely describing reality by pointing out that some people were racially superior to others. »
• « A bourgeois man was expected to meet high standards of honesty and business ethics. What these concepts shared was a fear of shame - the literature of the period describing this social class is full of references to the failure of a bourgeois to meet these standards and being exposed to great public humiliation. »
• « The mail arrives with reports from the doctors who have completed their term of service, describing the difficulties and achievements they have had. -These reports let us know what deficiencies can be remedied," Braw explains. »