7 sentences with 'codes'
Example sentences and phrases with the word codes and other words derived from it.
• « Similarly, Greek legal codes certainly enforced a sharp gender division, and Greek households were definitely divided into male-dominated public spaces and the private sphere of the family. »
• « Some Romans admired their bravery and codes of honour - the same Tacitus who provides much of the information about the early emperors contrasted the supposed weakness and dissolution of his Roman contemporaries with the crude virtue of the Germans. »
• « This unregulated, traditional, violence-based system of unregulated "law", from which the modern Spanish word "feudo" derives, contrasted with the written codes of Roman law that still survived after the fall of Rome itself. »
• « Moreover, members of the bourgeoisie were supposed to live by certain codes of conduct. In contrast to the sexual licentiousness of the former nobility, bourgeois men and women were expected to avoid extramarital affairs (although, in practice, bourgeois men regularly took advantage of prostitutes). »
• « By the end of the 19th century, liberal legal codes were present in some form in most of Europe, and after the First World War all men won the vote in Britain, France and Germany (along with most of the smaller countries of central and western Europe). »
• « In short, while the first wave feminist movement had succeeded in winning key legal battles, a vast network of sexist laws and cultural codes ensured that women remained in precisely the "secondary" position identified by Beauvoir. »