8 sentences with 'inspire'
Example sentences and phrases with the word inspire and other words derived from it.
• « Greek comedy, however, is meant to inspire mockery and gleeful contempt for the failings of others, rather than sympathy. »
• « None of the last crusades succeeded in seizing land in the Middle East, but they did inspire a relentless drive to overthrow and destroy the now century-old Muslim kingdom of Spain, as noted above, and also inspired the idea of the potential 'holiness' of warfare itself among Christians. »
• « Secondly, the ideology surrounding the crusades was to inspire European explorers and conquerors for centuries. »
• « These concepts - order and control - would go on to inspire the development of a new kind of political system in which kings would claim near-total authority: absolutism. »
• « These more radical elements were eventually defeated by the army, but the language they used to speak of justice and good governance survived to inspire later debates, ultimately informing the concept of modern democracy itself. »
• « In turn, the rights of man fuelled both demands for political reform and helped inspire the vigorous abolitionist (anti-slavery) movement that flourished in Britain in particular. »
• « Just as the idea of human rights would soon inspire both the American and French Revolutions in the last decades of the 18th century, the anti-slavery movements of the time would see many of their goals fulfilled in the first decades of the 19th. »
• « It was soon discovered that the royal family had been corresponding with foreign monarchs and nobles, hoping to inspire an invasion from abroad to return the king to the throne and end the Revolution by force. »