7 sentences with 'dismantled'
Example sentences and phrases with the word dismantled and other words derived from it.
• « For better or worse, by the time of his death in 14 CE, Octavian had permanently dismantled the Roman Republic and replaced it with the Roman Empire. »
• « The numerous Germanic tribes that had dismantled the Western Roman Empire formed the core of the first political units of Western Christendom. »
• « In reality, only under Charlemagne was the Holy Roman Empire a truly united state, but the concept (with several emperors exercising at least some degree of authority) survived until 1806 when it was finally dismantled permanently by Napoleon. »
• « In central Italy were the Papal States, ruled directly by the Pope and still in control of Rome from the 1850s onwards (after a short-lived republic in 1848 was dismantled by the French under Napoleon III). »
• « The revolutionaries advocated direct representative democracy, dismantled Catholicism, replaced that religion with a new philosophy known as the Cult of the Supreme Being, renamed the months of the year and relentlessly employed the guillotine against their enemies. »
• « To defend the system of forced labour on which their economic survival and genteel lifestyle depended, elite Southerners developed several arguments in favour of slavery that they wielded against those who wanted to see the institution dismantled. »